iphone, nikah selangor pdf iphone indonesiaStake It or Pull It? Holds Sign Stirs Debate
As The Washington Times reported last week, a group of pro-gun activists in Ohio staged an event at a Cincinnati shopping mall called "Stake It or Pull It?"
The gathering included weapons ranging from a.22-caliber pistol to a semi-automatic rifle and a shotgun.
"A lot of people look at this as just something to be seen," said Carl Cain, 50, a retired electrical engineer, as he loaded a.357-caliber revolver into a suitcase.
"For my generation, it was a rite of passage," Mr. Cain, who has fired his gun several times, added. "I grew up with a rifle in my hands."
The phrase "stake it or pull it" has been used for years in a line from an old country song:
My daddy said that you ought to live and let live;
But if you don't, and you get caught,
You'll have to stake it or pull it.
The phrase has been employed in political rhetoric, sometimes as a taunt to a perceived adversary.
One example was a 1992 speech given by then-President Bill Clinton, in which he said, "You know, some people stake it, or pull it, or cheat it out of you."
Stake It or Pull It?
The phrase has been applied in other ways.
"Stake it or pull it" is used in a line in the 1967 British film, "The Knack... And How to Get It," with a scene of a man standing over a corpse after he shoots it in the head.
And a magazine published in the mid-1980s by the National Rifle Association had a picture of a man with a drawn gun over the headline "Stake It or Pull It? Should the 9th Commandment Apply to Firearms?"
The display of the guns in Ohio, along with posters encouraging attendees to "Be Armed" and "Stake it or Pull It?" were organized by the Second Amendment Defense organization, founded by Alan Gottlieb, who has said that the organization aims to legalize "the manufacture and lawful ownership of fully automatic weapons."
The group did not respond to repeated requests for comment.
Mr. Gottlieb recently said on his radio program that the gun activists were
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