The Gun Club

The author, born in Washington, DC and now a resident of New York City, is an eastern-establishment-liberal and must be judged not only by this book but by the values liberals have espoused (murderous street violence) since the George Floyd-inspired civil unrest that began in the spring of 2020 (when this book was released).

The political left, which includes this author, has few political policy proposals (such as repealing the right to bear arms) attractive to the majority of Americans, so their strategy, by default, is to tear down their opponents. Their weapon of first choice is to play the race card.

Now, in the competitive field of getting published, this author stumbled upon a worthy subject – Colt -, but the problem was his subject had produced guns that whites, among other things, used to kill Indians and, to a lesser extent, were employed by the Confederacy to wage war in support of black slavery.

So, our author determined to write about Colt, but make it acceptable to his liberal pals by characterizing Colt (on no credible evidence) as a racist who abided in a racist nation.

This work abounds in inconsistencies and hypocrisies. For example, the author asserts Colt got his inspirations from his high family and social connections but is left little choice but to acknowledge that Colt was pious, married a pious woman, and that, when young, his pious father admonished him to depend upon Providence and guidance from “Him” who is in Heaven. It simply doesn’t occur to the author that it was the Holy Spirit who inspired Colts revolutionary invention of the revolver. In describing armed conflict between whites and redskins the author has no moral quarrel with Indians when, in the early stages of the conflict, they used superior tactics and weapons to wipe out whites, but when whites developed superior tactics and weapon (the revolver) to kill redskins, that was morally unjustifiable. Another example – the author bemoans the horrific loss of life enabled by Colt-manufactured firearms during the Civil War but fails to reconcile his assertion that Americans are racist, with the record that so many "racists" were willing to die to end slavery.

Of course hypocrisy is no impediment to liberals, it’s there bread and butter.