A matter of class

By now I'm sure anyone reading this knows that a certain classless blogger stole a picture of the worlds most dangerous librarian and used it in a rude, classless and defamatory manner as a cheap means of scoring blog hits.

One of the things I love about the gun blogosphere is that it is full of good people.  People with class, people whom I respect and whose opinions I value, even when we disagree.  I've said before that an armed society is a polite society, even on the internet.  Respect is earned, and people like this individual do not deserve my respect. (or anyone else's for that matter)

Rather than hash out a long post on this matter I'm simply going to publish what I sent to this disreputable individual.  It's something I rarely do, but the whole situation really struck a nerve with me, both because Breda is my friend and because I couldn't help but think of this attention whoring asshat with say, a picture of one of my younger sisters.

Dear Gunmart,

I've known Breda for years now and consider her a good friend, so I'm not even going to get into the rude, classless nature of your post. Frankly, that your post was unacceptable behavior should have been obvious to you and should not need to be pointed out to anyone who understands the concept of common decency.

I will, however, say this. When you steal someone's copyrighted material and use it without their permission that is low. When you then ignore repeated polite requests to remove said content that is beyond low. You then tarnished your character (or what was left of it) by acting like a spineless coward and deleting her husband Mike's reasonable, polite comment to your post.

This is something that should have been a simple matter between you and Breda. You made a mistake and could have rectified it like a responsible adult in a matter of minutes. Instead you've decided to act like a child. Your behavior (and copyright infringment) is what I've come to expect from anti-gunners, not from people who are supposed to be on my side.


As for this brouhaha you've needlessly gotten yourself into by acting like a complete jerk, let me just say two things. One, you clearly don't know Breda and have no idea who you're dealing with. Two, I'll be happily writing to your advertisers. Actions like yours have consequences and given your attitude I'll be more than happy to see you lose money as a result of this.

Have a nice day,
 
-Mike W.
 

The "man" in question has since dug himself an even deeper hole in comments sections by "playing the victim" claiming we're being mean to him, and claiming Breda is somehow to blame for this dustup.  The adult thing to do is to simply man up, publicly apologize, and remove or amend the offending post.  The fact that he has still obstensibly failed to amend the post as asked speaks volumes as to his lack of character & outright lack of respect for women and his fellow gunbloggers.  His attitude and subsequent actions after the fact actually irk me more than the initial incident.
 
Case in point, here's his response to my above e-mail.  It reads like a short "form response" in which he fails to take any responsibility for his actions.
 

"Like I said, she jumped off the deep end and started a bunch of drama that I refuse to play along with. I dont respond to yelling and screaming demands nor is my blog run by mob rule. She is on this silly picture thing now because she thinks it has more traction then her original complaint of the wording of the blog post title.
This is silly and I know she is having fun with it, but I'm not gonna play her little game.
 
Have a good day."

 
If anything, his actions remind me of what we routinely see from garden variety anti-gun bloggers, right down to the deleting of comments and then turning them off completely to avoid criticism.  I'm glad to see he's been ostracized.  I won't post my response to his reply, since it was, shall we say, a little less polite than my usual.  I think this tone deaf moron is the only one who thinks Breda is "having fun" and "playing games."  We don't need jerks like this in the gunnie community.  I can't help but wonder if he has a wife, girlfriend or sisters.