tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post399469739487122668..comments2024-03-28T08:06:43.198-04:00Comments on The Silicon Graybeard: Hard Choices SiGraybeardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-91618842906931881342013-04-18T22:35:38.172-04:002013-04-18T22:35:38.172-04:00@Anonymous New Englander:
I understand your reluct...@Anonymous New Englander:<br />I understand your reluctance to move and your resentment of those who deal starkly from outside. I had a similar reaction when Karl Denninger called for a hardline stance against Texas after the business with the TSA bill a few years ago. Texas is home. Some of my family have been here since the earliest days of the Republic. Our peoples' graves are here. For Texas, I would take arms against foreign invasion from any direction. More widely, the South is home, on both sides of my wife's family and my own. I would defend Albany Georgia as readily as Albany Texas. <br />However, as much as I respect the legislative process and the consent of the governed, the laws which Bloomberg's money is currently buying are not worthy of respect. Both their content and the process by which they became law display their contempt for us. They are Intolerable Acts in the truest sense of the words. They are of as much value as laws decriminalizing rape. The lawmakers who pass them deserve only contempt, though I won't heap the same scorn on folks like y'all who will not pull up deep roots. Having trampled the rights of their own sons and daughters, these "lawmakers" reputations ought to be trampled in turn. If we are all very lucky, that will be the worst of it.<br />A Readerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15288199981382663362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-70631204065422814082013-04-16T21:07:34.238-04:002013-04-16T21:07:34.238-04:00Thanks for your input.
I don't see it as an...Thanks for your input. <br /><br />I don't see it as an easy decision at all. Remington over in Ilion and Colt up your way are two of the oldest corporations in America. Heritage <i>means</i> something. My wife, BTW, comes from an area of Connecticut where her family has been since the 1600s. <br /><br />As we both say, there's a time to leave and a time to fight. If someone breaks into a detached garage do you take up arms or run away? What if they're in your living room? I think the idea of running is a tendency to want easy answers. <br /><br />As a country, we have had a tendency to accept hardship in order to move to wherever life seemed better, from the earliest settlers in your area to "go west, young man", to building the Hoover Dam and so on. It is hard to uproot and move, yet we often do it. <br /><br />For my part, a civil war may be coming, but I don't want to encourage it and I don't want to give up places like Colorado. At some point though, we are all likely to get backed into a corner beyond which we simply can't compromise further. We all need to determine just where that line is. <br /><br /> SiGraybeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-9633537741502734332013-04-16T14:06:11.549-04:002013-04-16T14:06:11.549-04:00I think this is the first post I've hit that a...I think this is the first post I've hit that addresses the fact that it is not so simple as the people living outside of these states would like it to be.<br />I'm a nearly lifelong Ct resident, my family has been on the same hill for generations, and before that...well Hartford wasn't named yet when they moved here, let's put it that way. Leaving would break my heart.<br />The thing is that pulling factories looks spectacular; but the message that is also being sent is that the factories do not support the legislative process. It is similar to the threat that 'if G.W. Bush is re-elected, I'll move to Canada' which was so very popular with liberals. Only they didn't have the balls to do it. The factories seem willing to, which is very exciting of course, but I don't think it will do anything to reduce the inflammatory behaviour. Furthermore, it sends the message that the people of those states are not worth the time. I have to admit, despite being a gun owner, my opinion of many of the gun owners outside of Ct has dropped recently. They seem to refuse to recognize that running away from the states they don't like is going to leave them with no where to run to. Colorado should be a warning. The country's demographic is not a friend of the tactic of going and playing in the shrinking corners. <br />I don't want to belong to a Red state or a Blue state; I want to belong to a USA state. Increasingly both sides have abandoned that idea. Deliberately segregating population is not a good idea. Nor will it play well for the gun owners. We already have a reputation as the scary 'Other', this re-enforces it. Now, it maybe that the gun owning population wants a Civil War. I'll agree that the dissolution, probably violently, of the USA is possible. But do we have to encourage it? <br />I'd much prefer to see companies refuse to sell to governments anything that it wasn't legal for the citizens of that state to own.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-81730744901579434122013-04-15T17:43:29.832-04:002013-04-15T17:43:29.832-04:00Interesting points. We have a decent gun industry...Interesting points. We have a decent gun industry here in Florida, and while we have some sanity in our gun laws, we're a long way from ideal. Still, it would be a better place for Remington to operate than New York. I'd think just not having income tax would have to be an improvement. <br /><br />The choice of stay or fight seems to be over for New York, as Itor comments. They've been been anti-liberty for a long time, they've just changed their flavor somewhat. Now that the Supreme court has refused to hear the case against the New York law, it underlines how desperately sane people need to get out of that state. <br /><br />SiGraybeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-76670437495414017082013-04-15T08:19:08.794-04:002013-04-15T08:19:08.794-04:00Purely from an economic standpoint, having product...Purely from an economic standpoint, having production facilities in a geographic location where the authorities have demonstrated an overt willingness to violate individual rights bodes poorly for the future. Moreover, you can be sure that down the road, when the present war of words and ideas becomes a war of blood and bullets, that those same authorities will insist that the manufacturers support those same authorities.<br /><br />FreeFor ought to bend every effort to persuade arms makers to move to FreeFor friendly areas now, so as to deny our enemies ready access to the weapons that will be used by totalitarian tyrants to coerce and kill us. One of the reasons that the Confederacy lost the War between the States was that they had little indigenous manufacturing capability, nor did they have much to offer in payment but bulky hard to transport agricultural commodities. (Lack of transportation infrastructure crippled them as well.) The more manufacturing capability we can deny to our enemies, the better for FreeFor in the long run. Let us force our future oppressors into having to deal with importing weapons and ammunition and paying in worthless dollars. Let them suffer the risks of shipping and transportation of high value cargoes across hostile territory.<br /><br />In short, there are moral, philosophical, and practical reasons why we should bend every effort to deny our enemies all the benefits of indigenous arms manufacture. Historianhttp://www.libertyhollow.weebly.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-73387484521041902662013-04-14T22:58:14.429-04:002013-04-14T22:58:14.429-04:00There is nothing there to fight for, the position ...There is nothing there to fight for, the position is overrun - surrounded by hostiles.<br /><br />Pack up. Move to a state that values your business and your customers. Let CT, NY et al become the socialist hellholes of the planners dreams.<br /><br />itorAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-45850385073726102692013-04-14T21:01:33.549-04:002013-04-14T21:01:33.549-04:00I don't see complexity at all; "the frien...I don't see complexity at all; "the friend of my enemy is my enemy" Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-81208969465698915022013-04-14T18:06:55.545-04:002013-04-14T18:06:55.545-04:00Complex issue, so not every manufacturer will make...Complex issue, so not every manufacturer will make the same decision. I understand some will stay behind and try to reverse bad legislation.<br />On the other hand, I recently closed accounts with even non-firearm businesses just because they are in New York. This is shaping up to be a war, folks.<br />Remington took $80,000,000 in government largesse to stay. They don't get a free pass from me.<br />III N TNAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-65889690081075591652013-04-14T17:35:08.876-04:002013-04-14T17:35:08.876-04:00Thanks for the clarification, David.
I was prob...Thanks for the clarification, David. <br /><br />I was probably predisposed to fall for that story, since I've heard it talked about as fact so many times. <br /><br />SiGraybeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-25320374980765616712013-04-14T17:13:35.734-04:002013-04-14T17:13:35.734-04:00Unfortunately, Beretta has NOT decided to leave MD...Unfortunately, Beretta has NOT decided to leave MD. That opposing view article is factually inaccurate. If you google beretta leaving MD, every reference you'll find points back to that article. Here's the video they take their assumption from.<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQomYRMcnVY<br /><br />The rep never says they are leaving. He only mentions it as a consideration, and a vague one at that. He gets all lawyer-y when asked about transportation under the law. Last official word from Beretta was they want to see the law. I suspect they'll settle for a big government contract and sell out.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11006015336607998634noreply@blogger.com