It’s a Hallowed, Gun-totin’, Redneck Christmas

By Skip Coryell / 27 December 2012 / 17 comments

For years I’ve been telling people I’m a gun-totin’ redneck. They always believe the gun-totin’ part, but sometimes balk at the redneck label. I’m not exactly sure why; maybe because I don’t fit the Jeff Foxworthy stereotype. After all, I can read and write, feed myself, and speak in more than one syllable without stuttering. Heck, I even have a college degree, and like I always say, “Ya give a redneck a college education ‘n yer just askin’ fer trouble.”

So here I am, comfortable in my redneck roots, able to dine with kings and vagabonds with equal ease and grace. And that’s never more apparent than during the holiday season when I go home to visit my kinfolk. I have five brothers and sisters and we always get together for the major holidays. Much of our celebrating is pretty average, and would fit in at any conservative, Christian home in America. But let’s face it; some of it’s not so normal.

Case in point: A few years back I was at my sister’s house in the country. (All of us live in the country. We just don’t fit in with city folk – way too many cops and restraining orders in the city.) I don’t recall whether it was Thanksgiving or Christmas, just that it was deer season, which is a major holiday for all rednecks. The house was packed as usual. The men were talking guns, bad-mouthing liberals and taking their best guess on when society would collapse. The women were talking about the men, looking through the sale flyers in the local newspaper and comparing tattoos. The kids were busy testing out their muscles, trying to mix up gun powder and working out the pecking order. It was a pretty good day.

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Skip Coryell lives with his wife and children in Michigan. Skip Coryell is the author of eight books including Blood in the Streets: Concealed Carry and the OK Corral, RKBA: Defending the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, The God Virus, and We Hold These Truths. He is the founder of The Second Amendment March, a Marine Corps veteran, and the President of White Feather Press. He is an avid hunter and sportsman, a Marine Corps veteran, and a graduate of Cornerstone University. For more details on Skip Coryell, or to contact him personally, go to his website at skipcoryell.com

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http://www.facebook.com/robertsgunshop Robert Fowler

Thanks for the laugh. Some of that sounds real familiar.
http://www.facebook.com/terry.jeffries Terry Jeffries

Sounds like my kind of get together, thanks for the laugh Skip.
http://twitter.com/DustyFae StarDust Dolittle

Same life here in WV and we all have guns. Deer season and turkey hunts are a big event here. And this redneck chick is packin’.
Phillip_in_TX

I wonder if I can get invited to dinner? It definitely sounds like a really good time! I needed a good laugh. : )
- voter suppression
  
  come to the Philippines for pig roast fiesta. Pig roasted to a golden brown on wood fires two times every year also fun for us here.
  - Phillip_in_TX
    
    I had a pig roast once in the Philippines. We were TDY from South Korea for Stinger Missile training. The Marines from the 1st LAAD were there too. One of the Marines’ had a girl friend there. We all chipped in bought a pig and had a pig roast. It was definitely some good eating.
http://www.bibleversusconstitution.org/ Ted R. Weiland

“Jesus IS a life member of the NRA.”

I don’t think so! If anything, more likely it would be a non-compromising gun organization like Gun Owners of America. Of course, we all know He’s his own authority! The question is whether the NRA, GOA, etc. are under His authority.

Listen Executive Director Larry Pratt’s views regarding the Biblical responsibility to bear arms in protection of ourselves, families, and neighbors versus the Second Amendment “rights” to do the same at http://www.bibleversusconstitution.org/tapelist.html#goa.
- Carl Stevenson
  
  It’s not just Christians. Jews have a biblical commandment to self
  -defense AND the defense of other innocents. It is a commandment, not a suggestion.
  - Carl Stevenson
    
    Hit the button accidentally before I was finished …
    
    From Leviticus: !לא תעמוד על דם רעך You shall not stand idly by your brothers blood!
Roger Mitchell

I wonder what the game laws in Michigan have to say about firing at an animal from inside a house. What do they say? If they actually prohibit it, then everyone who got off a shot through the window was in violation. How does this square with your God-fearing, redneck Christianity? Does the NRA support state game laws or not?

Romans 13:1-3 says, “Everyone must submit to governing authorities. For all authority comes from God, and those in positions of authority have been placed there by God. So anyone who rebels against authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and they will be punished. For the authorities do not strike fear in people who are doing right, but in those who are doing wrong. Would you like to live without fear of the authorities? Do what is right, and they will honor you.” (NLT)

Whether the law is right or not isn’t the issue. The issue is whether we submit to the law as it stands. I know that in many states, possibly even Michigan, if a game warden or policeman had been there, he would have been obligated to issue citations. Quite likely, a lot of you would have lost hunting privileges for some time.
No whitetail buck is worth that.
- Stan
  
  Sad that what you do on your own property is not your own business! And God didnt place this authority, we did, and are being punished right now for it! Well some of us voted him back in, but I was not one of them.
- Jim
  
  Great one, Skip! This might be your best yet. For all the “armchair cops” out their, at least in Indiana, there is no prohibition from hunting from a house, barn, etc…Roger, be very careful about quoting a verse or passage and developing a whole doctrine/message from it while ignoring all the other references in the Bible about the same subject. That is exactly what cults, do.
  
  It is quite clear when taking the whole message of the whole Bible that we are to always resist satan, evil, foolishness, etc…Jesus never submitted to “gov’t” until it was His time too. In fact, it seems like he never passed up a chance to ridicule, mock, belittle the religious gov’t (sadduccees/pharisees) at the time. Only He and the Father knew exactly when it was His time to submit. To believe that we might “know” when the time is “right” to submit to evil (becoming complicite) and not, is quite proud on our part, and foolish; and obviously against God’s commands.
  
  If you are going to quote a verse or two and mandate something so profound as to require a whole nation to submit to evil, then the least you could do is what Jesus expects, in his own words, Matt 19:21 21 Jesus said unto him, If thou wouldest be perfect, go, sell that which thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.
  
  So, Roger, have you sold all you have, given it to the poor??
Robert

Proverbs 29:2: When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.
Stan

Same here in Kentucky! And I bet a lot more fun than sitting around the Obama table!
http://www.Facebook.com/R.G.Yoho R.G. Yoho

Good column, Skip!
Smiley

This was a good article. Sorry Roger M. You just do not get the article, plus your reference to Romans may be a little misguided. Reading outside of Romans 13: 1- 3 it becomes evident the masses need to answer to a higher authority, yes. That is why we have traffic laws today and in the days of Romans 13, they had certain socially acceptable rules and obligations. However, it does not say we are to accept evil or slavery. This article was poking fun and the Liberal Left regarding gun ownership and the fun and family has at holiday times. This was very uplifting, even if you can not see it.
Billy Hill

I grew up a gun toting,critter hunting,country music lovin redneck.Until I got drafted in the mid 60′s,that’s all I knew.Retired now,built a place in the woods,a dozen or more deer are grazing in my yard each evening,late fall to early spring.An occasional well placed.22 short at 50-60 feet from my great room window keeps meat on the table & it’s legal cause they were eating my flower bushes.The little ones are the best eating.Bagged over 50 squirrels & a couple groundhogs this year from my porch.Also spring,summer & fall bluegill fishing & snagging snapping turtles(some crossing the road) in nearby 9 acre pond that borders my 8 acres of woods.Fall & spring goose picking at night on the same pond,in a tiny rubber boat with trolling motor & using a 6 foot hickory stick.

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