the munchkin wrangler.

That sucks, buddy.

Have you tried getting in touch with Maj Caudill, USMC(ret)?

I've quoted it a couple of times, and I admit, it didn't occour to me to ask permission for which I apologise. However, I have always attributed it to you with a link. Hope I haven't added to your ire.

I saw it linked on "Sharp as a Marble." Thought it was a great argument. I've got a copy of it, with your by-line, to refer to.

No plagiarism intended. Just want to use to refer too.

Hope it's okay?

I have quoted people numerous times, but to me it is only common courtesy to correctly attribute the quote. Otherwise you are taking credit that is not due.

I saved it as a wordpad document on my computer, just for my own edification, but certainly list you as the author.

http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=283164

Just FYI.

Marko,

This just turned up on www.warriortalk.com with the Maj. Caudill attribution. I set the record straight, and provided a link to this blog entry.

The essay has recently been posted on Free Republic with the wrong attribution. I do not have an account there & am not going to sign up for this -- but if anyone reading this does have a Freeper acct, it'd be a kindness to post the correct attribution.

I posted this on Packing 4 Life, did not know who wrote it only the forwarded by, We have fixed that and have given you credit, I suspect it will show up on alot of gun forums.Great article.

Once it gets posted to someone's email, Lusers immediately fail to properly attribute it.

Then it spreads in corrupted form back to blogs via email.

Googling "Why the Gun is Civilization" turns up a 50% failure rate in proper attribution.

I created an account and left a comment over at FreeRepublic to correct the attribution of the article. It was "submitted for review". Hopefully it will show up shortly.

You have written something worthy to be repeated. Lack of attribution comes with that territory. Most of that is lack of knowledge or poor writing habits of those repeated what you wrote.

Attribution is important. But you know it is yours as do many others. Feel good you wrote something worth repeating. Not many people achieve that.

#9

I apologize. I posted this on opencarry.org after it was sent to me. I googled it to make certain it wasn't a hoax, too.

Someone on opencarry.org set me straight. I will ask the person who sent it to me to re-transmit with the correct authorization.

Sorry for the error.

Marko, what an excellent and well written piece! I would love to post this on my blog www.rightisright.us, with your permission.

Bob,

you have it. Thanks for the kind words.

Thanks for all the support, folks. I've noticed quite a few corrections spurred by comments from my 'net buddies.

No need to apologize for unintentional misattribution. (Hell, it's not like I'm losing royalties here.) I'd just like to have a chat with the knucklehead who first added the Major as the author before forwarding/posting the whole thing somewhere else.

In all probability, it happened this way:

The good Major found your post, and liked your words so much, he cut an pasted them to friends in an email. Either he forgot to attach the proper attribution, or did it wrong, or just plain listed it too far above or below the text, and one of the readers didn't see it. They, in turn, copied the text and posted it in a blog, or an email, or a discussion board, and, thinking that they were properly attributing it to the author, attributed it to the guy they got it from-- Maj Caudill.

Sometimes these things are just honest, unfortunate mistakes.

This essay also showed up at AssaultWeb.net, attributed to the infamous Major L. Caudill, USMC (Ret).

http://www.assaultweb.net/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=42;t=040758;p=0

I posted a correction, giving the cite of your original essay and the note on plagiarism. The folks at AssaultWeb are good, solid people, so I'm inclined to believe that Matt G is right, and this just an honest, unfortunate mistake. Anyway, I have corrected the record there.

GunLaw.

Your original post also showed up on the Black Bear Blog today, attributed to the Major. I let Tom Remington, who writes the Black Bear Blog know, and the author of the article is now correctly named.

Marko,

Would that I could write so clearly and accessibly.

May I add it to my personal sustainability and survival website www.live-well-survive-well.com, with full attribution and link, of course?

Civilization without self-defense is unsustainable!

Hi Marko,

I'm afraid I screwed up too. The article was sent to me by a friend, with the Col. whatsis attribution, and I stuck it up on my site because it was so well-written.

Apologies! If you permit me to keep the article on display, what is the exact attribution you would like given? Copyright? Name? Link to site?

I'm new here, and only found this spot because I did a search for this Colonel to see if it was okay with *him* to post it. blush

Thanks,
Bob

I always post a link/credit when posting articles; if no author shown, I indicate "author unknown," received via e-mail, etc.

An extreme case, I think, of this problem here 9below)...

http://www.angelfire.com/ca/dickg/marinesquote.html

Best
Dick Gaines
~~~~~

Would you take a peek at this and see if it gives adequate attribution? Thanks..

http://rtrev.com/articles/guns_civilization.html

Bob

This is a copy of the email you sent to president@vcdl.org
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Mr Cleave,

The most recent VCDL Update 8/13/07 (section 23) claims that the
authorship of "Why The Gun In Civilization?" is a Maj. L. Caudill USMC (Ret).

To the best of my knowledge, the true author is Marko Kloos of the
Munchkin Wrangler blog - please see his comment entitled "On plagiarism"
dated 16 June 2007 at
http://munchkinwrangler.blogspot.com/2007_06_01_archive.html

As a matter of honor I would suggest that you investigate and give
credit where credit is due.

Kind regards,
Andy C

Just to let you know, I unintentionally spread this essay on Huffington Post in a similar manner to how it was spread to me (attributed to the retired Major). I have since corrected the error and given both proper credit and this blog's web address.

I extend my apologies. It was an excellently-written essay arguing a point I've argued for some time now in a manner more eloquent than I could manage. I thank you for your time, and once again apologize for not checking my sources first.

Have a kind holiday to you and yours,


-Brian

I have copied to possiably post or quote elsewhere, but I do have your name with it and the link to the blog.

Thanks for an excellent essay. Good logic which many need. I'll pass around the correct attribution.

I'm posting it to my political website, www.neutralunderground.com, and I will most certainly credit you and link back to this blog. It's an amazingly direct and succinct argument. Well done.

San Diego John

You have created something and crafted words that have a life of their own and you have loosed a little freedom's virus and it lives yet.
This is no small thing that you have done.

Hmm, it seems to have been resurrected! I received it in an email on 1-12-09, attributed to "JEFFREY W. KILGO, LTC, U.S. Army, Instructor U.S. Army CGSC, DJIMO".
In an attempt to know more about the alleged author, I found your blog. Great stuff!

Well, your little, yet powerful, article has made the jump to print with the authorship shown as Major L. Caudill USMC (Ret.)

I wish I could reason and write like that. Thank you. This gives me an even stronger argument than I already had for defense of the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.