tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post1996469422459156353..comments2024-03-28T19:58:31.110-05:00Comments on Bayou Renaissance Man: H. L. Mencken in 1925 on gun controlPeterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10595089829300831372noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-32794176416300989262016-06-22T16:13:22.081-05:002016-06-22T16:13:22.081-05:00Don't forget that the Sullivan Law was named a...Don't forget that the Sullivan Law was named after one of its chief sponsors, the head of one of the large gangs operating in New York. Sullivan owned many of the New York politicos and was concerned that his gang members were being taken out by armed citizens. His solution was to have his politicians write up and pass a law banning the ownership of firearms. Of course his gang members wouldn't be bothered by such a law; only law-abiding citizens would be affected. And that's exactly what happened.0007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-37811841091222433802016-06-20T10:33:26.078-05:002016-06-20T10:33:26.078-05:00Mencken is always worth reading, even on those few...Mencken is always worth reading, even on those few occasions when I disagree with him. Like most of the old Newspaper men whose work one can still read, he underlines that the real reason the New York Times is in such financial trouble (last time I looked the Company's stock value roughly equaled the value of the real estate it owned) is not that the paper is biased, but that it is dull and badly written.<br /><br />My favorite bit of all-purpose Mencken is Mencken's Law;<br /><br />"Whenever A annoyed or injures B on the pretext of saving or improving X, A is a scoundrel."C. S. P. Schofieldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18307088118631856756noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-23115844166986902582016-06-20T09:47:28.869-05:002016-06-20T09:47:28.869-05:00Whenever I read Mencken I recall a quote about him...Whenever I read Mencken I recall a quote about him I saw long ago whose author I can't remember. To read Mencken is to know the truth of it:<br /><br />"He had no patience with his intellectual inferiors, and they were many."Shellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17673609316649175930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-40694670097899234442016-06-19T23:17:13.853-05:002016-06-19T23:17:13.853-05:00They never learn. Sometimes I think "Clarkhat...They never learn. Sometimes I think "Clarkhat" (a former columnist at Popehat, now runs Status451...describes himself as a "neoreactionary") is right about the woodchippers...after all, there are only so many lampposts and a limited supply of rope and/or stakes for impaling... just kidding. Well, mostly just kidding. Wrath is a vice I sometimes struggle with. *shamefaced* <br />Anyway, my bloody-minded anger issues aside, that is a *great* link. Thanks for posting it! Bibliotheca Servarehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11643412827583261562noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-75861460948605656382016-06-19T22:00:48.052-05:002016-06-19T22:00:48.052-05:00I always liked Mencken.I always liked Mencken.PapaMASnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-29813541999768983952016-06-19T21:24:39.268-05:002016-06-19T21:24:39.268-05:00Just proves they will never give up... sighJust proves they will never give up... sighOld NFOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16404197287935017147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-36190987616639653462016-06-19T16:57:26.295-05:002016-06-19T16:57:26.295-05:00All of this has happened before, all of this will ...All of this has happened before, all of this will happen again.<br /><br />LawDog hit it on the head when he described a century of slow descent when it comes to gun rights, and I'm afraid that it's going to take at least a century to get us back to where we started.DaddyBearhttp://daddybearsden.comnoreply@blogger.com