It’s humbling to a Second Amendment activist blogger: The death of gun control will be caused by normal, nice, traveling sisters, so comfortable with carrying a handgun that they overlook Big Brother’s jealous hatred of the right to keep and bear arms.

I’m being a little whimsical, here, but what are “the authorities” to do with all of these ladies showing up with a gun in the purse?

Also, to the chagrin of some of the women shooters, the 65-year old caught carrying at DFW (Dallas) was packing—you guessed it—a .38 caliber revolver.

Hey, maybe we should call for a day of mass civil resistance: On a given day, sugar-and-spice-and-everything-nice dresses in office casual, kisses her family good-bye at the airport (and has them stand by with their cameras) and confronts TSA with gun in purse.  By the thousands.  I like it.  You can get away with it, while we crusty men would face the full force of the system.

The editor of the Knoxville News Sentinel is never known for supporting that Amendment that comes right after the first one.  But, in last weeks’s paper, he wrote, “Free Meredith Graves!” and editorialized about how New York City should not prosecute the Tennessee woman who asked security guards where she could “check her gun” while visiting New York City.

Ms. Graves is a Tennessee handgun carry permit holder, though perhaps a bit behind on how far good elected representatives and Second Amendment advocates have progressed in protecting her right under the Second Amendment.  She apparently had read the Second Amendment, obtained a permit, and traveled to New York assuming the city government’s good faith and common sense—never good assumptions to make about government.

But, I comment because it appears more and more, every day, that we are, indeed, convincing others that the right to keep and bear arms means nothing, if not practiced and enforced against the whims of the state—or even the big city.

Now, what is missing from the editorial is the editor’s explanation of all of the many reasons why Meredith Graves’ right to keep and bear arms should be defended.  This is not about the liberty of just one American citizen. “Free Meredith Graves” is about freeing us all.

Here is our seeming dilemma.  We want reciprocity.  We want the Second Amendment to protect our liberty even as we cross the dotted line on the map and pull in at that next rest stop, or—more to the point—when we get off the plane at LaGuardia. We see a federal reciprocity law as the solution.  However, we do not want Congress constantly riding roughshod over the state’s authority to make law, either.

At Instapundit, Glenn Reynolds gives a quick explanation for a reciprocity bill is OK.

Mayor Bloomberg, brace for civil rights lawsuits.  The latest of your victims is this 28-year old, ex-Marine, with no criminal record, and a valid permit from Indiana.  Ryan Jerome joins Tennessee’s own Meredith Graves as tourist-under-arrest for violating your illegal ordinances.  You have created a dilemma for yourselves, by insisting on continuing to suppress the right of the people to keep and bear arms.

Those of us attuned to firearms and firearms issues know NYC shares this infamy with Chicago.  Others—more ordinary gun owners—just go about their lives, enjoying their liberties, loves, work, children, and travels.  They travel to NYC not only because the city is a must-see tourist destination, but also to honor this city so central to the American experience and, in so doing, to honor America.  They behave themselves, and keep out of trouble.  It does not enter their minds that NYC’s government could ever consider them to be criminals.

Particularly, after 9/11/2001, they come to stand with you—to grip your hand, and to swear that they are one with you.  I did.  How iconic and ironic that your government has turned the Statue of Liberty into a puppet with handcuffs waiting for those who visit, hidden behind her back.  You have twisted her countenance into a face that glares at us, scoffs at us, and mocks us as simpletons from the non-New York rest of the country.  You have contorted Liberty into a machine who will arrest us in a heartbeat.  Or perhaps Lady Liberty weeps at what you have done.

Your mayor, your police commissioner, and your borough governments are on notice.  You cannot claim ignorance of the law.  You deign to put your nose in the air and haughtily remind we bumpkins that “Guns are against the law” in New York City.  Guess what, Mayor Bloomberg, Commissioner Kelly and the rest: you are breaking the law, and you know it.  Read the Second Amendment.  Read what Dick Heller did to Washington, D.C., and just do a quick search for McDonald v. City of Chicago.  You know what I am talking about.  Let me put it this way.

You know you are a government violating the civil rights of American citizens.  You are guilty.  You are liable for damages and attorney fees, and subject to having a federal judge put you under a mandatory injunction order.  You are subject to criminal penalties.  You are criminals.  And, you will answer to your own citizens as the right to keep and bear arms returns to NYC as well.

I bet this lawyer at pistolpermitattorney.com is getting some interesting calls.

Good. Kim Jong Il dead.  Now what?  For North Korea, I mean.  I know what’s next for him.
For those who think that culture, technology, and governance have moved on from any possibility of another such regime, note this: Kim Jong Il proved to you that even in this telecommunications age, a ruthless totalitarian can control millions of people’s thinking.  He can order an entire army to suppress any sign of uprising.  He maintained his Korea in darkness.  For decades.
So, cling bitterly.  It could happen here, too.

Yeah, it’s scary even to say it, but if you lived in the shadow of communist China, you’d want guns, too.  Even if you went insane 60 years ago, and thought you were better than everybody else, and nearly destroyed your own country by provoking everybody else to war, and you tortured them, and raped them, and mocked them, too.

So, sure, Japan, you had better get over what you did in WWII and prepare for WWIII.  No better way than to go MacArthur one further: adopt your own 2d Amendment.

Again, thanks Say Uncle.  I would have missed the article you linked to.