For those of you coming from GunFreeZone.net, thank you for following us here.
Miguel has kindly allowed us to forward GFZ to The Vine of Liberty.
The story of why GFZ shutdown is below the fold.
TL;DR;
J.Kb was responsible for the Twitter/X account and in generating engagement. In a moment of frustration, he posted something that was so egregious, Miguel shut him down, shut the site down.
The longer version will be posted after I talk to Miguel and J.Kb.
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Good luck!
Looking forward to the new effort.
I expect to be dropping by fairly regularly. Hoping most of the comment section will be turning up here.
Bookmarked!
Got you in the RSS feed. Looking forward to more of your court anaysis.
That was fast – thank you!
I am curious, how did you arrive at the name?
Hagar and I spent around 4 hours tossing names at each other. I think we tried around 50 different names before we hit on Vine of Liberty. It just felt right for the blog. We do have “UnrestrainedLiberty.{com,net,org}” for sale, if anybody wants it.
Sorry to hear of the GFZ demise and don’t understand the need to kill it, but happy to be here. Great hopes for the future.
Looking forward to good things from these blog. Love the name!
present. thanks for keeping on. Sad to see that the reason Miggy finally threw in the towel, but it was bound to happen some day. Glad to see the rest of y’all over there. Please ‘open up’ comments to those of us who don’t have or use WordPress accounts… you kno, the lurkers..
It should be available. I couldn’t start work on the blog until I had the name. I didn’t have the name until noon. I wasn’t at a computer to do the install until 1600. I’m running as fast as I can, attempting to get everything working right.
Good luck Awa and Hagar!
Obviously it’s very early and much needs to be discussed and planned. Has any thought been given to the PDF library and patches? I don’t know who has them but I wouldn’t mind buying one as an early way to support the site.
Glad you’re carrying on. GFZ was a regular read. Glad you guys are keeping your perspective alive.
I’m looking forward to this new iteration!
Perhaps I have missed it somewhere, but is there a procedure to subscribe?
I wish one of those boomer haters would give us a try, I believe they would turn into a puddle of jelly. Big mouth no ass.
What happened is a bummer and a shame, but it is what it is. I’ll miss the old blog, but I do understand Miguel’s reasoning. Especially if you understand where he came from and what he went through while he was there.
Came here from GFZ. Sorry to see it go. I’m subscribed and bookmarked. Looking forward to the new blog. May it soar like an eagle (bald of course).
Question: I understand Miguel is shutting down GFZ — will he have an account to contribute here if he feels like it? Or has he truly hung it up for good?
Or is it too soon to say?
He has an account already. If he chooses to post, he can.
Glad to see this, I have bookmarked and will check back daily