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Cape Buffaloes Point Way to Political Victory
May 24, 2008 | Tagged Culture War, gun rights victory, Second Amendment | 1 Comment
I do not use the word “awesome” lightly. Have you seen the awesome video that was reportedly shot of a lion attack on a cape buffalo herd in Africa? Let’s assume for the sake of argument that this dramatic footage is real.
We see a pride of five or so lions attack a herd of cape buffaloes. (The cape buffalo has the reputation of being the most dangerous, vengeful animal in the world.)
The lions manage to cut a straggling calf out of the herd and chase it over a low bank into a river. They leap into the river and drag the desperate calf out of the water, literally pulling it from the jaws of a large crocodile that has taken an interest in their prey.
The lions get the calf up the bank and prepare for the kill. Meanwhile, the cape buffalo herd has stopped their stampede and returned! The lions look up and face a narrowing circle of determined avengers with hard, merciless eyes and menacing black horns that pin the predators against the bank of the river. You can almost smell the lions’ fear. This wasn’t the plan! The herd was supposed to run and keep running. There is no safe escape route. The swift hunters are now the hunted.
Suddenly, a huge buffalo breaks from the packed ranks, catches a lion on the awful points of those powerful horns, and hurls the big cat head over heels into the air. The other lions cower, and the calf, injured but alive, escapes and returns to its own kind. Buffaloes one. Predators nothing.
The surviving lions will, no doubt hunt around the edges of the herd again, but no cat that faced the circle of deadly rage will ever again charge quite so confidently at a straggling calf. One lion, if she recovers, will run a little slower and carry with her forever the scars and the memory of the well-directed anger of the cape buffalo.
The lesson for gunowners is this. Whenever one of our own is attacked by a new gun law, or one of our own is subject to unjust persecution under a current law or a renegade government official, we need to legally emulate, with decisive finality, the absolute, no-nonsense, grim-as-death determination of the cape buffalo.
We lobby our friends, relatives, and other politicians against legislation that impacts our natural right to self-protection from crime and tyranny. We vote against anti-gun politicians every time they come up for election. We campaign for and contribute to their opponents. We peacefullly protest their public appearances. We expose their lies and their attempts to hide behind media bias and junk science. As long as they threaten our freedom, we oppose them in the courts and the legislatures. We support pro-gun rights organizations with our time and our money. In short, we remind the opponents of individual liberty time and time again that the cape buffalo is not the most dangerous, vengeful animal on the planet, and that there are about 80,000,000 of us in the United States of America.
Rights are not a gift granted by a government. Rights must be consistently asserted and defended by a free people. If we do not act together to defend our rights, we will lose them. There are always predators near the edge of the herd.
Def Mech
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