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The Would be City Where You Must Own a Gun
Posted: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 12:03:40
by Kreutz
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc ... 5s/267126/
Gun enthusiasts want to build it in the mountains of Idaho. They've already drawn up plans and are taking applications.
Imagine that New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg built a private city of his own design, where prospective residents would agree in advance to certain heavy-handed rules governing how they should live. Recycling and aerobic exercise would be mandatory. Trans-fats, salt, and soda would be banned. And folks making below a certain income would submit to being stopped and searched on the street. That city wouldn't appeal to me, and I wouldn't advise anyone I knew to make it home. But so long as its residents moved voluntarily and could leave as they pleased?
I'd uneasily wish them luck.
That's sort of the way I feel about The Citadel, "a small planned community of 3,500-7,000 families of patriotic Americans" being planned in the Idaho mountains. In nudist colonies, no one wears clothes. The Amish foreswear modern technology, among other beliefs. The folks planning The Citadel say they're ordering their community around the concept of "rightful liberty," as articulated by Thomas Jefferson: "Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others." But the Citadel Patriot Arrangement, the "voluntary set of conditions to which every single Patriot who accepts a residence in the Citadel must agree," suggests that gun ownership and proficiency are paramount.
rest at link. Living there is strictly voluntary, it strikes me as an HOA.
Re: The Would be City Where You Must Own a Gun
Posted: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 12:15:55
by dorminWS
"Marxists, Socialists, Liberals, and Establishment Republicans may find that living within our Citadel Community is incompatible with their existing ideology and preferred lifestyles."
I wouldn't want to live in the Citadel, either. Too confining. And too much regulation - even if I agree with the regulations, I don't need and won't accept the supervision. No need to swap one officious meddler for another.
Re: The Would be City Where You Must Own a Gun
Posted: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 12:18:10
by Mindflayer
And how long would it be before Janet Reno, err, Napolitano sends in the ATF and FBI to burn it to the ground?
Re: The Would be City Where You Must Own a Gun
Posted: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 16:46:26
by Kreutz
Mindflayer wrote:And how long would it be before Janet Reno, err, Napolitano sends in the ATF and FBI to burn it to the ground?
That was my thought as well.
Re: The Would be City Where You Must Own a Gun
Posted: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 19:39:05
by gunderwood
Kreutz wrote:Mindflayer wrote:And how long would it be before Janet Reno, err, Napolitano sends in the ATF and FBI to burn it to the ground?
That was my thought as well.
Or mistake it for a Chinese Embassy?
Re: The Would be City Where You Must Own a Gun
Posted: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 22:07:57
by HilarityEnsues
Re: The Would be City Where You Must Own a Gun
Posted: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 22:27:44
by Vigo
Was Jefferson not suspicious of cities in general? I would imagine he'd have people living more in the country as yeomanry.
Re: The Would be City Where You Must Own a Gun
Posted: Sun, 20 Jan 2013 13:16:05
by sboyajian
It seems to be missing a range.
Re: The Would be City Where You Must Own a Gun
Posted: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 16:58:30
by graybeard321
also seems to be missing a tavern, we have to have somewhere to meet and discuss out firearms choices.
Re: The Would be City Where You Must Own a Gun
Posted: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 00:57:56
by mobb70
Is the dude running it the same guy who cannot own a firearm? I remember reading something about it waays back.