Left-wing journalist and self-described “disturbed editorial cartoonist” for Alabama’s AL.com, JD Crowe, recently wrote a piece so indicative of Constitutional ignorance that I felt the need to make fun of him, publicly. His piece (of trash), entitled “Bullets for breakfast? Alabama proposes ammo tax holiday while still taxing groceries,” is exactly the type of emotionally devious drivel used to sway those seen by leftist elites as easily manipulated, or useful idiots. The article even begins with the tagline, “Let them eat bullets. – Alabama GOP lawmakers, probably,” a deliberate double entendre undoubtedly meant to stoke fear and demonize political opposition, much like the fascist and Nazi rhetoric they’ve thrown at us for years.
I’ll begin by saying that these aren’t just words on paper. This is a dog whistle, and it is a dangerous one at that. People like JD Crowe present these opinions as witty, even humorous, but the true intent and results of this irresponsible and dishonest bully pulpit are to create further division and publicly charge those they disagree with. Don’t get me wrong. I don’t like them, and the fact that they don’t like me is a source of pride. The difference is that I don’t have to lie, create false equivalencies, or use hyperbole to refute their position, and I certainly don’t need to call upon an army of man buns, invaders, or transformers to do my bidding. If you think I’m wrong, you’ve already forgotten about Charlie Kirk.
We all know the left is disproportionately responsible for political violence, including mass shootings, and that their disingenuous outrage and contempt for American gun rights are only fueled by their incessant thirst for power through subjugation. To be fair, many of those whom conservatives view as allies in the fight to restore our Second Amendment are anything but, and I think people are starting to understand that the real fight is not between Republicans and Democrats, but the haves and have-nots. Just ask yourself why President Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) is challenging the Big Beautiful Lawsuit and defending the National Firearms Act of 1934 (NFA) while simultaneously claiming reverence and loyalty to the Second Amendment.
Before I careen off track, let me get back to addressing Mr. Crowe’s (pardon me for assuming your gender) attempt to equivocate. Americans pay taxes on just about everything, and if you look closely, we pay them more than once. We pay taxes when we make money, and when we spend the money we’ve already been taxed on. We pay property tax forever, or at least as long as we want to keep our homes. Do we really own the property at that point? I believe that concept is called rent. The point is that we pay taxes on essentials and nonessentials every day, but consumer products are not specifically enumerated in the Bill of Rights, other than firearms, that is.
So why am I on my soapbox today? The federal government and the states have all but buried the Second Amendment, rendering it a privilege. Every gun law, regulation, rule, statute, ordinance, restriction, or tax, no matter what obscure term is used to spit in our face and call us stupid, is nothing more than an infringement. If that rings familiar, that’s because it’s precisely what is forbidden in the Second Amendment. If you want to argue that it is not, let’s apply tax stamps, registration schemes, rosters, and all manner of these same controls to speech and expression, then sit back and bet on how long it takes for liberals to scream bloody murder over their blue hair dye.
HB 360 proposes a sales tax exemption beginning at 12:01 a.m. on the last Friday in August and ending at midnight on the following Sunday. That’s two days in an entire year as a concession for the significant erosion of our gun rights. I don’t mean to seem unappreciative, but that’s the truth, no matter how it sounds. As minuscule as it is, however, it is enough to incite the left, who would see firearms entirely banned and confiscated. Don’t worry, they can’t, and if they could, they would have already.
Crowe goes on to compare the Alabama Legislature to dogs, referencing a quote from his colleague, John Archibald.
“I wonder if the same might be true for the Alabama Legislature, which soils our carpets more often than any four-legged fiend. We’ve already tried crates and pens, yelling and screaming, rolled up newspapers and despair,” wrote Archibald.
Your side has tried and executed much more than that. See, we can both use double entendres. Crowe continues the toxicity by trying desperately to draw a correlation between the timing of the proposed holiday and the timing of mass shootings.
“So attaboy Fido. People are gonna need a lot of bullets,” Crowe writes.
Just as his is an opinion piece, mine is, and my opinion is that this man is as revolting as he is ignorant. Suggesting that mass shooters will hold off until they can get a deal on ammo is disgusting, and inferring that GOP lawmakers somehow timed the tax holiday to facilitate mass shooters is nefarious, even while feigning jest. Looking back at mass shootings over the last few years, there does exist a glaring pattern, but it isn’t the month. Care to discuss that?
As icing on the poisonous cake, Crowe concluded by preying on emotions regarding slavery, likening conservative lawmakers to plantation owners.
“I get a kick out of seeing youngsters pushing a toddler-sized shopping cart around Greers’… with the sign: ‘Grocery Shopper in Training.’ It’s cute.
If it was realistic, that little shopping cart would come with a bloated, plantation-era-slave-owning politician stuffed inside like a hog in a suit, blowing orders out of his pie hole.
The grocery tax is just another way to make sure poor folks in Alabama don’t get a leg up on the plantation owners.”
I’ll confess that my words can oftentimes be abrasive, and I wouldn’t reject the notion that some might find them divisive, but there are certain principles that I will never set aside to appease those who attack American gun rights or try to incite political violence. I don’t want to get along with those people, but I don’t want to hurt them or cause others to do so. I wish they’d simply leave us alone, but that ship has sailed. The punchline here is that if they are ever successful in their quest to disarm Americans and hand the country over to globalists and Epstein clients, they’d quickly find out that their efforts were for naught, and that they have no seat at the table.
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