The gun-hating liberals love to intimidate others, but when they receive pushback, they quickly get indignant.  The next thing you know, they are sending submissions to The Washington Post.

Miguel at Gun Free Zone does a nice job fisking some of the idiocy written by Ryan Albert in a Post submission.  Albert typifies a gun-hating leftist, pulling a bait and switch when it comes to getting held to account on his actions.  Albert claims it’s a “free speech” issue, but in reality, it’s a conspiracy to put a corporation out of business – in violation of Virginia law.

Miguel’s fisking is brilliant.  His fisking excerpts are in italics.  Follow the link above for the whole thing, or another fisking at The Liberty Zone.

I was sued because I don’t want military-grade weapons in my town

(Washington Post) – I grew up shooting shotguns and rifles with my grandfather in rural Georgia. He would take this city boy out to the farm that has been in my family for more than 150 years. He would teach me how to safely load, discharge and clean the weapons. 

The SJW version of “I have a Black friend.”

I understand why people want firearms and I believe there are reasons to own hunting rifles, shotguns and, with proper training, handguns for self-defense.

No, you don’t.

I do not believe, however, that there is any legitimate reason for ordinary citizens to own military-grade weapons or use suppressors (better known as silencers by many among us). Yet these are somehow legal to be bought and to own.

Is there a legitimate reason for ordinary citizens to have mufflers on their cars and trucks?  Because after all, that’s all suppressors are is mufflers for guns.

Oh wait, trying to reason with a lunatic is about as useful as trying to potty train a mouse.

It is because of these beliefs that I posted on Facebook my opposition to Broadstone Security’s Nova Armory opening in Arlington County. The owner opened an online store that sells variants of AK-47s, AR-15s and other semiautomatic weapons, short-barreled rifles and silencers.

…Because I expressed these beliefs in two Facebook posts, I have been named as a defendant in a frivolous lawsuit that seems designed to intimidate me and 63 of my neighbors and state legislators into silence.

Frivolous?  We’ll just see.

 

My constitutionally established right to freedom of speech and right to assemble have been directly attacked. I must decide whether to surrender and be silent or endanger my welfare and that of my family.…And it saddens me that we are being silenced into not expressing our beliefs and opposition for fear of being financially attacked, vilified and threatened by a minority of armed and aggressive neighbors.

Cognitive dissonance anyone? 

Cognitive dissonance:  the state of having inconsistent thoughts, beliefs, or attitudes, especially as relating to behavioral decisions and attitude change.

Ryan’s hypocrisy runs deep.

Here, let me get Ryan a box of tissues.

Here’s what the attorney who filed the suit wrote:

Simply put, free speech begins and ends with speech. When you take active steps to put someone out of business, that’s a crime in Virginia, even if you do it mainly by the use of words. That goes beyond “free speech”. If I can make an analogy, the fact that, in Virginia, I’ve got a perfect right to strap on a gun and walk around in public with it doesn’t give me the right to pull it out and shoot someone I don’t like. There is a point at which the privileged conduct stops and wrongful action begins. These people are not “random protesters” – they’re not protesters at all – they’re people who have communicated among themselves to effect an unlawful purpose using unlawful means. NoVa Armory is not a governmental agency, and a letter to its landlord is not “petitioning the government for a redress of grievances”. Trying to shut down that business is not an exercise in free speech.

The unlawful acts include defamation, calling NoVa Armory’s manager “gun-slinger Denny” and accusing him of being a terrorist, a liar, and a person who would sell guns to “those people” who live on the other side of the Anacostia river thereby promoting an illegal “black” market in guns and drugs. But it’s not a suit for defamation, it’s a suit for unlawfully conspiring to injure NoVa Armory in its trade or business in violation of Va. Code sections 18.2-499 and 18.2-500.

Emphasis added.

So, it’ll be interesting to see what happens next.  At the very least, Mr. Albert will be incurring extensive expenses defending the suit which can be seen here (it’s only 16 pages).