Ranger Jim went to a gun show and encountered a military buff who is apparently a defeatist:

Yesterday at our local gun show I heard the following not quite penetrating analysis espoused by a fellow American: ''Al Qaeda is just waiting for the Democrats to take over and then they've got us beat. We're really in trouble then.''

I didn't comment as ignorance is not subject to thoughtful considerations, though there is much I could have said. I will mention his appearance as it is relevant to one of these--he was a grossly obese, 40-ish male, wearing woodland camouflage pattern shirt and trousers. The camo was a clever fashion gambit, as it broke up the visual field, but not enough so to conceal his prodigious excess girth.

Knowing that Ranger Jim lives up there in the Iron Triangle of backwater jerkwater Florida, where it’s still 1852 and Dred Scott hasn’t yet been told he’s not a human, I am disheartened that such a fine upstanding member of our native white Christianist militia (there is no other kind up there) has no faith in the abilities of himself and his brethren and sistren to defeat the evil Ay-rabs when they invade this country.

Valiant, proud, and defiant adherents of the Second Amendment must be mentally and physically prepared to defend the country at the drop of a hijab, because they know their Time of DestinyTM is fast approaching and they will be required to answer Patriotism’s grim call for sacrifice, laying down their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to preserve Freedom’s sweet song of success.

Ranger Jim makes a wise observation:

The Dems best watch the gun lobby in the next election. An overreaction in gun legislation to the Virginia Tech scenario is an ambush.

You’re absolutely right, brother. We’re in enough danger of ambush from these room-temp IQs as it is, without goading them on by suggesting an American might not need six or 27 guns to lay down his life for Democracy.

But I am shocked to learn that the denizens of your neighborhood have such little faith in the Armed Forces of the US. Obviously he’s never known the honor and privilege of wearing a real uniform for his country.

Oh yeah, next time please tell Mr Lardbutt to wear field suspenders so we don’t have to see his buttcrack when he bends over, stooping for stupid arguments.