You have to be my age, and have a memory, to realize how totally the gun control argument has changed.

I remember when any discussion of crime on the networks went, without a pause, into how hard it was to get effective gun control laws. That was the ONLY crime control measure liberals approved of so no one expected any other to be mentioned.

The whole change has been the one we have been trying to effect. The Corporate Culture of the NRA was the corporate culture of respectable conservatism. All the NRA talked about was the Right to Hunt.

I am NOT kidding you. That was IT.

FINALLY, some “radical” pro-gun organizations started talking about self-defense. Only when the competition got fierce did any conservatives, least of all the NRA, start to MENTION self-defense.

You see, if they mentioned self-defense, liberals would make fun of them. As soon as they started liberals began saying that the NRA wanted to hand out submachine guns to grammar school kids. This made them LOOK bad to the only people who mattered to them.

Which takes us right to Simmons blasting at AmRen. When the NRA would not mention anything but hunting, they had no effect at all. While AmRen takes up all the publicity space and never mentions assimilation and immigration are only for white countries, they take up space and LOSE.

After a decade or so of being forced to talk about self-defense instead of hunting rights, the first response of a majority of Americans to mass shootings has been to give the heave to anyone who demands more gun laws and to point out that one person with a gun could have stopped the maniac.

But as long as AmRen and the BNP take up all the space for argument and avoid the effective ones, this breakthrough will not take place. At least half of he 22,000 gun laws in the US can be laid directly on the old NRA’s doorstep.

Simmons is right on target. The only way to have a decent society is NOT to have a safe, kept opposition group.

AmRen, respectable conservatives, mealy-mouthed “National” parties. They are more costly than outright enemies.

We have very, very little chance to respond. The last thing we need is for that space to be taken up by wimps.

I find reading recent comments exhilarating.

A verb occurred to me that would only be understandable by a person who has been a regular member, even if is not commenting but auditing the course carefully.

That verb is “porching.”

I sit up and take notice when people begin to tie things together. I sit up and notice when people are talking about what they DID, like Truck Roy and White Rabbit, how they HANDLE actual experiences with our way of defining our message, developing out own way of thinking, and at the same time introducing different kinds of people to THINKING.

There are words like intellectualizing and preaching and so forth, but porching, among us, does a lot to explain itself. The family on the porch is listening to old wisdom and children who are not afraid to give their opinions.

Sure, most of what young people have to say will seem obvious to them later on. But even in a normal family each person is not afraid to go ahead and say it. They say it in terms which have been worked out inside the family, inside the SOCIETY.

Porch talk, among other things, is not from Mommy Professor, but from LIVING.

Parkinson, of Parkinson’s Law fame years ago, pointed out that Karl Marx’s basic problem was that he had no one near him to say “Balderdash!” That is, of course, Mommy Professor’s problem too, and that Marx is underneath all Political Correctness, left AND right, is not coincidental.

But none of the words like over intellectualizing and so forth really lead to what we might call porching. If I could give you a clear explanation of what porching is, we would just have another Wordism.

No, I want you think some about that verb. It is the essence of a real society. It is the essence of what the family group can give that the media take away. It is THINKING. It is trying things out. It is saying “Balderdash!”

I have said repeated that what I feel I have to offer is a WAY OF THINKING. That cannot be defined, but you can sure as hell tell what it’s NOT. But really just the word itself is what I have to offer here, since we all have a clear idea what “porching” is, and only we do.

I will give one example of what “porching” is NOT. It is NOT Family Values. That is simply a way to indoctrinate your children against the ruling indoctrination. A healthy family raised on porch talk can have members who end up on the right and the left, and most of them will freely admit they don’t give a damn about a lot of stuff.

I think mantra think on the verb porching is worth one of our thousands of articles here.

After all, the whole point of Mantra thinking is that I give you things to chew on, not that I teach you some rigid doctrine. I am not Mommy Professor. I am not Family Values. As long as you clearly understand what the traps of Wordism are, you will have to proceed to build your own world view.

Here as on the porch, The Old Man’s job is to give some good ideas on how to follow your own path. I can give you invaluable practice is seeing what is just plain silly. Then you can start off clean and fresh and go out like we did from the porch, happily thinking the other is way off tilt on a lot of things.

But we are learning here what is just plain silly. Since porching went out of fashion, no one else seems to have a way of doing that.