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Mullins fears militia situation will be used to take Americans’ guns
Tom Mullins
Republican 3rd Congressional District candidate Tom Mullins says he wasn’t making a statement of support for the recently arrested members of a Michigan-based militia group when he wrote in a blog posting that the government is “after the militia” but “the citizen militia is not the problem.”
Mullins made this statement on Monday in the blog posting on his campaign Web site:
“Janet Napolitano and the Federal Government are after the militia now. Don’t fall for the media spin accusing Americans with guns as the problem. When you disarm the American people that will be tyranny. We are all citizen soldiers and we will protect our nation when our government fails us.”
Earlier this week, the Michigan militia members were arrested and charged with planning to kill police officers in the hopes of sparking an uprising against the government.
In his blog posting, Mullins stated that “the citizen militia is not the problem. We are the solution to many of the challenges that face our nation.” He encouraged people to “Please step forward to serve New Mexico and our great nation in whatever way that you can” and mentioned “volunteering in your local community” or church, donating blood or “assisting a political campaign.”
Mullins wrote in an e-mail that his blog posting shouldn’t be interpreted as support for those who were arrested. He said he was simply trying to convey his fear that the situation will be used to take guns out of the hands of law-abiding Americans.
“My point is that sensationalism sells,” Mullins wrote in the e-mail. “There are many instances where our government has gone after law abiding Americans for questionable reasons. I know of many folks who are concerned about being labeled domestic terrorists without due process.”
“Our law enforcement folks do a difficult job, but oftentimes law abiding Americans get corralled by the media as militia,” he wrote. “Owning a gun is not a crime. Training with guns in the woods is not a crime.”
“I believe this Michigan matter like many others will be used by the gun control believers to disarm law abiding Americans. That is my fear,” he wrote in the e-mail.
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People with stated views like Mr. Mullins scare me. Am originally from the midwest (NM since 1975), those militias in IN, MI and OH are very right-wing for the most part. There are also organized Neo-Nazi groups and lots of other folks that adovcate force of arms against the government. Yes, innocent gun advocates could get caught up in situations and be arrested when they have no thought of doing things against the established government. Our justice system is not perfect in many areas. I don’t believe that people who wish to carry guns legally have anything to fear. Of course, I see no reason for an ordinary citiizen to have an Uzi or a machine gun. Sports rifles, pistols and such are okay. Individuals should be licensed and trained if they wish to carry firearms.
Mr. Mullins is clearly reflecting the conservative republican party agenda that the government should be dismantled. In place of that entity they believe we should have small bands of people armed to the teeth. Mr. Mullins would like us to believe that just because there are a few people who get arrested for wanting to ‘speed up’ the process that doesn’t mean shouldn’t enjoy our ‘right’ to continue to go out in the woods and dump a few pounds of lead into the earth. Personally, I’d like to hear the philosophical argument [and bear with me if I say this in a way that doesn't sound like it makes sense] that says a political group can rely on the ‘rights’ they have under the current government but their goal is to dismantle that government because it is, ultimately, harmful to the existence of human beings. I think that is the underlying point Mr. Mullins is addressing. It would be nice to hear him expound upon it.
Wild-eyed paranoids preparing to kill cops and foment violent revolution need no defense, and even loosely tying a defense of gun rights (legitimate) to those idiots (illegitimate and indefensible) is just stupid politics.