St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner honored by Coalition to Stop Gun Violence?

The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence (CSGV) is a frequent topic of discussion here at St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. The biggest reason for that was summed up in a column last October:

CSGV is . . . perhaps, the most rabidly anti-gun group in the country--or at least the most open about their rabidity. No other forcible citizen disarmament advocacy group, to my knowledge, openly calls for a government monopoly on force, but that's one of CSGV's central tenets. CSGV executive director Josh Horwitz went so far as to claim that "the government's monopoly on force would be infringed" if the citizenry were to become sufficiently well armed to offer credible resistance to a tyrannical government's edicts. From the right of the people being what shall not be infringed, Horwitz has perversely fabricated a "right" of the government to be the only party with the power to kill (leaving the people, of course, as the party doing all the dying).

More recently, my dealings with CSGV became somewhat more personal, as debates with them on Twitter devolved into them calling me an "insurrectionist" and accusing me of committing "treason."

Still more recently, CSGV has taken to "outing" gun rights advocacy bloggers--publishing their names, where they live, etc. The reason, they claim, is to make gun rights advocates more "accountable" for what they say. This, despite few, if any, of the "outed" bloggers having tried very hard to hide their identity. In my case, I write openly under my own name both here and at my Armed and Safe blog, leaving few "secrets" for CSGV to dig up, so I thought I would miss out on being covered by CSGV.

That turned out to be a needless fear on my part, with CSGV's Facebook page featuring a nice little write-up about me today:

Few Americans are as passionate about "Second Amendment remedies" as Hoffman [sic]. He is the quintessential spokesman for the National Rifle Association's [Me, a "quintessential spokesman" for the NRA? That ought to surpise some folks in Fairfax] radical view that the amendment guarantees individuals the right to shoot and kill government officials when they deem our government has become "tyrannical." This "insurrectionist idea" has become the foundation of the modern gun rights movement.

Hofmann does not beat around the bush, getting to the point immediately in his Twitter header . . .

That would be my reference to the immortal words of Claire Wolfe: "America is at that awkward stage; it's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards." Here's my Twitter profile, paraphrased:

The Second Amendment: Because America's 'awkward stage,' as described by Claire Wolfe . . . can't last forever.

Sure, CSGV's write-up wasn't entirely complimentary--they described me as "agitated and fearful" about the supposedly declining rate of gun ownership in the U.S.--despite agitatation and fear being rather far from what was expessed in the column in question.

Still, I was mentioned in conjunction with one of their perennial denunciations of Sipsey Street Irregular Mike Vanderboegh (whom they were able to work into the discussion because I had cited him in explaining why--minority or not--there will be enough gun owners to defend the right to keep and bear arms) and that's company I'm happy to be included in. CSGV has in the past likewise claimed that National Gun Rights Examiner David Codrea is a "threat to the rule of law," and Mr. Codrea is yet another with whom I am honored to be associated.

If, as I fervently believe, there is as much nobility in being despised by the despicable as there is in being admired by the admirable, CSGV has honored me indeed.

Update: Apparently having trouble finding many "Insurrectionists" to denounce, CSGV has been reduced to simply recycling their Facebook denunciations of me (comparing me to Sharron Angle?), and then a third time, after their Twitter account was suspended for their abusive harassment of those with whom they disagree.

Update II: Sipsey Street Irregular Mike Vanderboegh weighs in: "CSGV (Collectivists Supporting Government Violence) denounces Kurt Hofmann and me as traitors. Oh, my! Whatever shall we do?" Great stuff.

Update III: And now a fourth Facebook post, in a space of two days, repeating the same accusations of "treason." I think they're in love.