The Coffee Can Revolution
Wednesday hundreds of 2nd amendment supporters and liberty minded individuals flocked to the State Capitol in Hartford to testify against an anti-gun bill (SB1094) which would make it a Class D Felony to possess a magazine which holds more than 10 rounds. If you were not able to attend or watch on CT-N,you can view the video here. (Bill text here)
If passed – all such magazines would be confiscated by July 1st, 2011, by the State or you face a felony charge… no compensation either – and it doesn’t matter if you are a collector or have invested thousands of dollars in these pieces. It doesn’t matter if your firearm is rendered useless because it doesn’t take any other ammunition and it also doesn’t matter if CT businesses suffer the effects of this ban. Thousands of people in CT will be affected and possibly made unwitting felons with the stroke of a pen. And of course criminals will not comply with this proposed law.So of course, again, criminals will be given a huge advantage over law abiding citizens – especially when they perpetrate a home invasion. But most importantly – this piece of anti-gun legislation is unconstitutional. It is an ex post facto law and would also violate the taking of private property lawfully purchased.
Jews For The Preservation Of Firearms Ownership (JPFO) has come up with a wonderful idea… it’s the “Coffee Can Revolution”
Gun-grabbers — the victim disarmers — are like a flock of vultures, perched on a Saguaro cactus, waiting for something to die.
This time it’s the Arizona shootings, committed with a Glock semiautomatic pistol and an extended 33-round magazine. The vultures can’t go after the pistol. Sixty percent of American cops carry Glocks, and the company is well known for resisting the shakedown tactics of the anti-gun establishment. Instead, they’ve decided to go after high capacity magazines, as if the assassin would have desisted if they were unavailable. The mainstream airwaves and paper media have overflowed with anti-self defense bluster and threats. And it’s all based on lies and emotionalized irrationality.
What to do? You can always boycott the network sponsors. The problem is that, for a boycott to be effective, you need to persuade thousands — or millions — of others to go along, which is a lot of work, and usually not very successful.
Then one day I asked myself the right question: if a boycott won’t work, then what’s the opposite of a boycott? Obviously it isn’t doing more business with your enemy.
How about doing more business with whatever your enemy opposes?
Call it a “reverse boycott”.
Now, whenever I find myself subjected to victim disarmament drivel disguised as “news” or “entertainment”, I drop a quarter (or a dime, nickel, or penny) into a coffee can I keep beside my TV watching chair. Given the rate at which propaganda fills the air, it’s no time at all before the can fills up.
When enough change accumulates, I don’t give it to the NRA or any other group whose policies I neither control nor necessarily approve. I spend it the best way I know, in the free marketplace, acquiring something I wouldn’t otherwise have bought.
In this immediate instance, and as part of JPFO’s “High Cap Freedom” campaign, my coffee can coins will be directed towards the purchase of another high capacity magazine for one of my semiautomatic rifles or pistols. Think about it: a high capacity magazine you wouldn’t otherwise have bought — and the propagandists have only themselves to blame.
Appeal to the self-interest of enough gun owners, and hundreds of thousands — maybe even millions — of unforeseen “high cap” magazine purchases will occur. This will strengthen the gun industry relative to the rest of the economy, perhaps even put some spine back into those who’ve taken the historically discredited route of appeasing the oppressor.
Appeasement didn’t work with Hitler; why did anybody ever think it’d work with Hitler’s spiritual kin, Charles Schumer, Carolyn McCarthy or Dianne Feinstein?
Some estimate that, since Obama’s nomination, around thirty million new gun purchases have been made. That’s 30,000,000 new weapons in the possession of American citizens. Now that is one heck of a “reverse boycott”!
Victim-disarmers have tried hard to keep the public ignorant of this inconvenient statistic. But as word of millions of coffee cans filling up with coins — and suddenly being emptied for high cap magazine purchases – this new tactic, if publicized, will take on a life of its own.
The best part is that nobody is in a position to think, speak, or act for you. It’s your TV, your chair, your coffee can. In your home you’re the judge of what constitutes anti-gun propaganda. You decide how much to drop in the can. You decide how to spend it. You’re the ultimate beneficiary.
Me, I’m buying Glock high cap magazines. Yes, that’s plural.
It won’t work unless we tell the media what we’re doing. So let local TV stations — and the networks — know about your coffee can. Talk it up on FaceBook, Twitter, every other social medium you can.
So get involved now with JPFO’s “High Cap Freedom” campaign. Use the “Coffee Can Revolution”.
So whenever you hear anti-gun propaganda on TV or Radio or anywhere else – drop some money into a coffee can.. in no time you’ll have enough money saved up to buy another high capacity magazine or a firearm that uses one.
I especially this idea written by a CCDL friend of mine…
“And in honor of JPFO, I shall buy at least one full-capacity mag to celebrate Passover, and Purim, and Rosh Hashanah, each of the eight days of Hanukkah, Sukkot, Simchat Torah, etc.” – M. Butler
It’s a terrific idea.
Let’s do it.
About the Author
Judy Aron lives with her husband Michael in CT. They have three grown children who were homeschooled and are now successfully pursuing careers. Judy earned her Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Magna Cum Laude, with minors in Business Administration and Computer Science from the State University of New York at New Paltz.
Judy has been involved in politics for over 15 years. Judy has written many articles on various aspects of education at home and in public and private schools. She has been published in magazines and online, and has been interviewed on radio and in print.
She served as Vice President of Connecticut Homeschool Network (CHN) and was their legislative liaison. She now serves as Research Director for National Home Education Legal Defense (NHELD) providing parents across the nation with important information on legislative issues concerning parental rights and education.
Judy is the author of the blog “Consent of the Governed“
Most recently, Judy has been involved in various organizations and efforts to Restore the Republic, End/Audit the Federal Reserve, and to educate the public about the issues regarding their Liberty and Freedom, and is working to put a halt to the erosion of our rights. Judy is a fan of Ayn Rand, Seinfeld, Star Trek, Peter Schiff, Judge Andrew Napolitano, The Founders, JPFO, Appleseed, Von Mises, John Taylor Gatto, Wallace and Gromit, Dick Heller and Ruger (not in that order).
