Stirring myself to the right words after One of Those Tragedies always takes a while. First, there’s the dragged-down feeling of “here we go again.” The antis rush gleefully on stage to perform their blood dances and once again, decent people need to respond to them, if for no other reason than to keep the record straight.
We can’t even stop to speak with decency and sympathy for the horrible losses because to speak at all is to become political. And that’s obscene.
Mass murders, whether by bomb or knife or vehicle or poison, are horrific individual tragedies. But mass murders by firearm result in a dreary sameness.
Except this time.
This time, instead of merely hissing about “common sense gun control,” instead of the bad old lie that “nobody wants to take your guns, you paranoid crazy,” the media elite now openly call for repeal of the Second Amendment and/or confiscation of firearms. They’re following their Glorious Leader, who rushed to the podium before the blood had even ceased flowing to demand that we should “do an Australia” to rid the nation of guns.
As Nicki Kenyon wrote, at least they’re finally being honest.
Wishing for the impossible, as usual, but finally stating what they really want.
Better people than I have said just what those elitist dreams would entail. Charles C. W. Cooke (who’s written some of the best responses on this) invited the 2A repealers to start a movement.
Which of course they’re not going to do. Because that takes more effort than writing an op-ed or issuing an executive order.
And of course, they never, ever, ever think their way to the bottom line — that they intend to sit safely in their New York or Washington or Los Angeles offices while tens of thousands of working-class grunts — heavily armed and armored working-class grunts, but still — attempt to confiscate everyone’s weapons.
That image is too messy to fit in their utopia, of course. Anyhow, it would take years to get to point where the fedgov or state governments were ready to get that “non-violent.”
Meantime, I have a suggestion for those who want the guns gone.
This is for you, elitist scribblers.
Here’s an invitation. Shut the hell up and come and take them. You can start at my house.
I’m getting kind of old now — well, oldish — and I don’t have the fire I used to. I just want to live a peaceful life in a peaceful place. I don’t care to get roused over every new crisis. I don’t like to fight. So I should be an easy target. Come to my house. Come and take my guns. See how it goes.
I had good training in handling firearms, but I don’t practice as much as I should and I’m really not very ready for this. Again, this makes my house an easy place to start your confiscation campaign. Come and take them.
I’m not some big muscle guy. I’m a skinny woman. Again. Easy. Come and take them.
I’m not a member of the big, bad NRA — you know, the monsters that are single-handedly responsible for making “gun violence” possible. Surely I’ll surrender easily, then. Come and take them.
Though politically radical by your standards, I’m not a wild-eyed fanatic hiding out in a bunker in one of those infamous “compounds.” I’m just a regular woman who shares cookies and soup with the neighbors and chats with the clerks down at the post office about their bad backs and the lastest town news. Absolutely nobody who knows me imagines I’m any sort of danger to them or anybody else. But I own guns. So come and take them.
I have dogs, but they’re both old and friendly. So they shouldn’t get in your way. Anyhow, it’s just become routine these days for enforcers to shoot the family pets. So no, the dogs should be no obstacle to confiscating my firearms. Come and take them.
Although it’s not really possible to be a law-abiding citizen in this age when each of us routinely commits three felonies a day without knowing it, I do try. I try to be a good neighbor, a good person, and a good citizen. So really, what do you have to fear from me? I’m your perfect test case. Come and take them.
I’d like to live another 20 years — 30 would be better — but I’ve lived a full life and to die now, whether at the hand of a freelance criminal or a tyrant, wouldn’t be any great tragedy. So come and take them.
Really. See how it goes with one weak, skinny, peaceable woman who wishes no harm to anyone. Come and take them. I invite you.
See how that goes. Then times that by 100,000,000.
That’s a good on, Claire.
The goons might just manage to confiscate my guns at some point, but they’d have to dodge a lot of the ammunition first.
Molon Labe.
Right on, Sistuh! Time to clean my gun again.
And didn’t those TZP targets come just in time…
(BTW, the constitutional lawyers better start firing up their rhetoric. The Bill of Rights is a unit. To remove one, you have to remove them all.)
On the other hand, there’s an encouraging counter-trend:
Common Response After Killings in Oregon: ‘I Want to Have a Gun’
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/08/us/oregon-roseburg-shooting-umpqua-community-college.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0
That’s an encouraging article, Brad, especially considering that the NYT is the source.
I know those elitists nattering about confiscation and repeal are not only fighting a tide, but fighting a strongly rising tide. I also know how quickly conditions can change.
“We can’t even stop to speak with decency and sympathy for the horrible losses because to speak at all is to become political. And that’s obscene.”
A good bit of prose worth hanging onto for future use. Actually, the whole piece is.
“Come and take my guns. See how it goes.”
My sentiments ezackly! I don’t know who locally would actually try it, but I pray they don’t surprise me. If not some of the local bunch, I will probably not be surprised.
Claire, you may be skinny, but Sam Colt made you equal.
Take that, NSA!
“Claire, you may be skinny, but Sam Colt made you equal.”
… with a little belated help from Gaston Glock!
Excellent commentary, Claire.
As was said above, excellent post, Claire!
I would propose that our dear Leader follow the example of his wife: Mrs. Obama is pushing for all kinds of healthy eating habits and modeling that by planting a garden near the White House, speaking at various venues that promote healthy food, etc….. .
So Mr. Obama, in being a good role model, should immediately dismiss his entire security detail (or at least take away their guns) and grant open access to the White House once more. The next step would be to disarm the police and military; after all when the great masses don’t have guns anymore we will all live in peace and harmony. /rolling eyes/
Mama Liberty- Molon Labe, indeed!!
I’m not sure what to think about this stuff every time somebody does a multiple murder with a gun.
Everybody trots out their well developed positions with their talking points and talk past each other. The people who are scared of big fierce looking black rifles want all the guns confiscated etc. The people who have their fierce black rifles will only give them up from their cold dead hands etc. Okay, everybody has made their point(s).
There are still x number of people in a theatre/classroom/church/someplace that aren’t coming home today and what are we as a society or civilization going to do about it? I don’t have the answer but shouldn’t we at least ask the question.
Sheesh Claire, it sounds like you are getting mad. 🙂
I just have to shake my head at the antics. I can’t believe how oblivious the rulers are. This ain’t Australia. BTW that “repeal the 2nd” is just the “logical” follow on after the “2nd only refers to militia” dodge stopped working for them. It’s nothing to take seriously. Executive orders? Don’t make me laugh.
Maybe we need to start a bleg to get Claire an M1A. That way she can take more of the bastards with her when they take up her invite. 😉
Sorry for the tease, I can’t help myself. I’m right there with you, sister.
The way things look now, the most likely attack on gun ownership will be through the pretext of mental illness. We are constantly hearing about how we need to be more on guard against people with mental illness having guns. Backers of gun rights are now chanting this. Beware of this trend. The CDC claims that half of Americans have mental illness at some time in their lives. See http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/233884.php. That would likely eliminate all household members from gun ownership also if they pursue that tack. Simply opposing the government agenda was seen as a sign of mental illness in the Soviet Union, and the psychiatric system was used to imprison people. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_abuse_of_psychiatry_in_the_Soviet_Union. That has been done to a limited extent in the U.S. So we need to argue against the mental health ruse that is gaining steam, before we all get regulated out of “legal” gun ownership.
Elitist scribblers, part deux:
You might have noticed that Claire’s last name is Wolfe. Trust me, it fits. So you might expect “acceptable losses.” (That’s when the people you send get hurt, and you lead from the rear.)
You also need to understand she’s a canary. As in the one in the mine. (Google it.) If she steps in front of a SWAT team, a lot of us are going to figure you’re starting down a list we’re on.
Now, I’ve been doing gun rights since 1968. (See: Gun Control Act of ) I don’t have much time left. So here’s what I’m not going to do. I’m not going to attack Fort Bliss or Fort Hood. I don’t need to debate whether I can defeat the Army. I’m not mad at the Army; it’s never done anything to me.
Well, except for sending me on an extended survival exercise in Vietnam, but I volunteered for that. And give me training in some interesting subjects.
No, I’m not claiming I’m spooky, or SEAL, or Special Forces. Just a grunt officer with a Combat Infantry Badge and a couple of other flashy things. Like tens of thousands of other veterans, who still remember that our oath is to defend the Constitution, not whoever lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
I do have a couple of what you call assault rifles, but you don’t have to worry about them. You see, I’m too lazy to chase wounded deer, so when I go hunting I have a break-action, single shot rifle with a pretty good scope.
And no, I’m not a sniper. When I was at the Benning School for Boys I did a tour teaching Infantry Basic Combat Training. We only had targets out to 500 yards. Those veterans who are snipers are accurate much further.
By the way, I still teach shooting. Only a couple of hundred ordinary, everyday Americans and a few legal residents a year for the last 30 years, but then it’s a part-time thing with me.
So when you decide it’s time to take out the canaries (Claire’s not the only one) I’d suggest you make sure you’re in a city somewhere. Like New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, particularly Washington D.C. We won’t bother you there. We figure once the fan does its thing with the shit, and trucks stop bringing you stuff, you’ll take care of yourselves.
You know: When the gang members you’ve created with the war on drugs want your food, give them your food. Otherwise someone might get hurt.
But if you’re convinced that if you only eliminate the NRA we’ll be leaderless, and therefore you can come accept our surrender…
Well, you might want to check out an Appleseed weekend, and listen good to both the marksmanship and the history lessons.
It certainly seems that the Force Helplessness Now! crowd intends to capitalize on Umpqua as its go-for-broke incident. Well, I suppose we’ll see if they get what they ask for. And if they do, we’ll see if people truly are willing to give them a lot more of what they ask for, than they can possibly enjoy.
None of that, of course, despite all the grandstanding, will strike anywhere near the root of the problem. The problem of a society which not only accepts but embraces the outsourcing of individual morality and empathy–to politicians, no less–and which, in so doing, makes these narcissistic nihilist creeps not only possible but inevitable.
That’s the part that gets to me most, I think. Politics is an absolution fantasy in general, but there is something extra damning about demanding absolution through the forcible disarmament of the…what’s the term again…”politically unreliable”.
Of such stuff pogroms are made.
Apparently many of us are occupied with these topics. I was just vamping on them today myself, addressing someone who may represent the depressingly vanishing demographic of the thoughtful fence-sitter; one of my topics was exactly the same warning about the “mental health” entrapment tool (let’s call it what it is) as I see above in the Commentariat. On the other hand, I have also seen a notable uptick in the question “why is it that every time something like this happens we have to talk only about GUNS?”, and I can’t help but be at least a little encouraged by that.
Good stuff Claire!
I know I’m a broken record, but we’re just at the (near) end of the natural life cycle of a civilization. If anyone doubts this, please read Glubb’s essay http://people.uncw.edu/kozloffm/glubb.pdf While he doesn’t talk specifically about disarming the public, absolutely everything else is there, including a dramatic increase of internal hostility among the citizens. And the Founders knew that Democracies die an awful death, followed by tyranny. Since support for the Constitution among the three branches of government seems minimal at best, we’re now almost a de facto Democracy instead of a Constitutional Republic.
Larry A: You didn’t instruct at IOBC from late November 1967 to mid February 1968, did you?
Great work Claire. It needs to be propagated. If you don’t mind, I will “re-blog” it. We need to get as many people as possible to take on this mindset. Thanks for all you do. jtl, 419
Shel… I suspect it depends on how you define “civilization.” Or “democracy,” for that matter. Lots of other things. 🙂
As far as I can see, the bottom line for the rise and fall of various societies is the nature of legitimate authority. From the beginning of recorded history, most people have been willing (brainwashed?) to think that they require a king, priest, or government to control their lives, and believe in the “authority” of these entities over them, almost always in the face of massive, murderous and destructive evidence to the contrary.
I don’t think humans will have any functional “civilization” until that myth is dead and buried. People won’t find peace and prosperity as the norm until they accept full authority/responsibility over themselves. Only the individual has ultimate authority over himself, as innate and imperative as the “right” to self defense.
ML — Do you have the pdf on “Authority” that you had linked to before? I have lost my copy on a Win computer that crashed, and am building up my flash drive and Linux computer as I find links to what I had before.
I reposted on another forum, hope that was ok!
This is the first time have truly been fearful about our ability to take back our country and preserve our precious Constitution. God help us all if the Left is allowed to prevail. Even our own elected leaders are selling us out!
[The way things look now, the most likely attack on gun ownership will be through the pretext of mental illness… The CDC claims that half of Americans have mental illness at some time in their lives. See http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/233884.php. That would likely eliminate all household members from gun ownership also if they pursue that tack]
Sorry, Jim, you are very wrong on this. Eliminating people from gun ownership is not within their power. It is only within us. We cannot be disarmed unless we agree to it.
http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2008/tle459-20080309-04.html
ML, I believe, as I imagine you do, that this was the greatest country ever founded, on the greatest principles. I suppose Athens ranks well also, but I admittedly know very little about it (interestingly, Kissinger once compared the U.S. to Athens and the U.S.S.R. to Sparta; Sparta won in the end, of course). The innate right to be armed is all but nonexistent in the rest of the world, Israeli Jews and Swiss excepted. My attempting to summarize an essay so well written as Glubb’s would be presumptuous; suffice it to say that we show absolutely every symptom he mentions.
I in no way suggest that we fail to make every effort to arrest or retard this progression; I only suggest that a reading of Glubb’s essay shows it to be inevitable.
I believe we should try to follow the advice of Daniel Webster: “Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster and what has happened once in 6,000 years, may not happen again. Hold on to the Constitution, for if the American Constitution should fail, there will be anarchy throughout the world.” http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes_by/daniel+webster
Sometime ago, I informed my local County Sheriff that without the cooperation and assistance of the local public at large, they could not patrol our county roads without an armored vehicle. He agreed. I can’t help wondering what the left thinks they can do to the American people once they stand together and refuse to cooperate with a single one of their stupid non productive gun laws in the first place!
I train young people how to defend themselves (hand to hand) and most importantly, that they are the future of our Country. Without their cooperation, or the expressed consent of the government, this government cannot do a damn thing or force a single American to do anything he or she does not want to do PERIOD!
Most of the commentary revolves around shooting back as they come to your door to confiscate your guns. Start right now to find out where THEY live, and don’t wait for them to come calling. Once the confiscation starts, pay a call on them.
Guaranteed the elitists calling for confiscation will send their minions to do their dirty work, as always. No offense to the cute yellow guys.
Wow, Claire…..wish I’d said that!!! So….I’ll just copy and send it around and tell folks “Claire is our Model” 🙂
What should happen IMMEDIATELY upon confirmation of the first confiscations is all 100,000,000 firearm owners load up their motorcycle, truck, car, bus, RV, small plane or L110 John Deere lawn tractor and head directly to that Potomac River location called the District of Columbia. We can then have fair trials and immediate hangings of tyrannical, treasonous gubmint officials and employees. We can then have a reset to non-interventionist government authority, say 1859 and void all laws and court rulings that occurred after that point, renewing the affirmation that each state is autonomous and can determine it’s own destiny, US Senators will be appointed by legislatures in each state rather than direct vote and Life, Liberty and Property will once again rule the day.
Wonderful Claire! I will use that one as should many of the rest of us..From a fan in the town of the old “loompanics”…Molon Labe
Outstanding commentary, and thanks for including links to supporting opinions and facts. This is something you do not see in so much of the crescendo of reporting.
I don’t know how anyone else feels, but every time I was at my breaking point and about to get into a fight in my younger days I would feel like crying. I think there is a large crowd that feels like me. We don’t want to fight, we hate it when we are forced to go there because, someone is fixin’ to get bad hurt.
Very seldom is there a day that I pay attention to the goings on in this country, that I don’t feel that. I think the Fedgov believes that the “mighty force” that was unleashed after Pearl Harbor was them. What they don’t know is it was those who are connected to God Almighty, having nothing in common with our “fearful litres but physical form.
If they keep pokin’ that stick into the hornets nest, someone is gonna get stung. The thing about “hornets” is they don’t quit with one prick.
Oh man, that was something. Sorry…I mean oh woman. Not only is this how to win the War, but it’s the only possible way it goes peacefully. And it should be multiplied by more than 100,000,000 cuz a lot of us of feel exactly the same way but have far less than 20 years left.
Everyone chooses, including thugs. Thanks, Claire.
Notice how the Administration has now announced they will have foreign UN troops help with domestic extremists. That’s us, folks. Foreign troops! They will pick us off one by one unless we all rise up together. 100 million strong. Molon Lave must be our battle cry.
No, Shel, I have no reverence or respect for the “constitution.” It was written assuming ultimate authority over every person in the territory, living and dead. The same bogus “authority” has been claimed by every state and politician in each wide spot in the road across the world.
There is a reference to “consent of the governed,” but that is a fable. There is most certainly no provision for anyone to opt out and retain complete control over their lives and property. And “voting” for one or another overseer is not the same thing. Nobody can truthfully “represent” me, because I do not consent.
To paraphrase Spooner: This constitution has either created the mess we are in, or was powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is not fit to exist.
Pat, I believe the link was to Spooner’s essay. No Treason No. VI: The Constitution of No Authority http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/www/spooner/NoTreason/
Millions of like minded Americans should gather at Claire’s home (for cookies and soup) and collectively invite the government to come and take our firearms.
I stand with you Mrs. Claire!
ML — No, I have that; thanks anyway. It was Larkin Rose’s “The Most Dangerous Superstition” — and I just found it at http://www.mensenrechten.org/ wp-content/ uploads/ 2014…. It’s also sold at Amazon.
Bob and Claire, even Kalashnikov has provided quite a few “affordable” rifles for the American militia.
Larry A: You didn’t instruct at IOBC from late November 1967 to mid February 1968, did you?
That’s a bit early. I went through IOBC late summer 1969. Afterwards I was Training Officer in a BCT company, teaching draftees and enlistees. (That was interesting.) Then several months with the 197th, and Ranger School. Then the aforementioned survival camp.
What should happen IMMEDIATELY upon confirmation of the first confiscations is all 100,000,000 firearm owners load up … and head directly to that Potomac River location called the District of Columbia.
Meh. Firearm owners? I’m picturing 100 mil cats trying to pick a leader to herd them and decide whether it will be 1859 or 1941 or 2001 or… most likely result will be 1984. You’ll want Feds out of the loop, not back on top.
Take care of business in your home town, and state capital if necessary. The big blue cities, particularly D.C., will self-destruct. “Fair” trials, hangings, etc. will just escalate the hatred.
they are really brave online. please come take mine also. GOOD article
Dear Miss Claire,
I have to read your post again, as I fell in love mid read…and may have missed something important. Suffice that I agree with you completely…God bless us all. M. Clare
Spot on.
Paul,
I understand that their “laws” cannot eliminate our right to defend ourselves. That is why I put “legal” in quotes in the last sentence. I understand fully well that our rights are not established by their laws, or even by the constitution. They are inherent. You are right, only by complying will we be disarmed. My point was to watch out for the mental health approach as a justification for an attempted disarmament. I hear far too many people who are normally on the side of protecting our rights falling for that line.
Let them have the guns…we’ll make more. It’s taxing the ammo that concerns me. If they ever get their act together it could be problematic.Think the price of .22s just in the last year or so. We will have to take better aim to save on munitions. 😉
As I was in mid read of this article it did what all well written articles do. It made me think. I realized that the solution is hidden in plain sight.
There are some 7000-8000 gun related murders committed in this country each year. According to the FBI and ATF there are some 10+ million responsible gun owners who own some 80+ million firearms. If just 10% were to legally carry their guns, be it open carry where legal and concealed carry elsewhere, statistically some would find themselves in a situation where they could make a difference and save lives.
The problem is the criminals are getting all the press coverage. A couple of stories a month about gun owners saving lives could get the story about responsible gun ownership on the front page and seriously undermine the lefts attempts to paint all gun owners as irresponsible.
Bless You Claire for your leadership and example!
Although I don’t have any “black rifles” and most of my firearms are the same ones my Dad and Grandpa had, you can add this 70 year old geezers name to the list. Come and Take Them.
Come and Take Them or Shut Up!
Jim, since I (like MamaLiberty) don’t believe in Constitution, or even in rights, it is much simpler. I won’t be disarmed; that’s all. I don’t care what laws the ruling bozos pass about it, or what a piece of parchment says about it.
My point is that a person HAS TO CHOOSE to be disarmed. It’s not some external thing; we can’t pass the responsibility on to Obama or Congress or the Supremes. It’s all on us.
The obvious solution is to refrain from choosing that. Stop making excuses for submitting. Stop worrying about the latest gambit from DC, because it does not matter. Nor is there any need to march on Washington DC, or any of that unrealistic crap. Just stop paying attention to the bastards. Stop believing in the government religion.
Larry, my time as a trainee included the time of Tet of ’68 and the Pueblo incident. Once, in the lecture hall, a man opened the door in the back and trotted down the isle holding a piece of paper very prominently. He ran to the captain at the podium, who asked him, “Is this for the class?” The man nodded. “Should I read it to them now?” Another nod. “Flash!” Everyone’s rapt attention was thereby assured. “Seoul, South Korea.” A dramatic pause was effected, insuring that we could understand that we might now have two wars. “Two North Koreans armed with .45 caliber pistols and paddling a kayak have captured the U.S.S. Enterprise.” Everybody has their idea of a good joke 🙂
And since it was off limits – a great advertising ploy – I once went to Chad’s in Phenix City. It was an exceptionally good decision.
Fortunately for me, I never had to get shot at, although I did spend 15 months over there. One week Life Magazine, I believe, printed the pictures of the 300+ men who were killed in a previous week. I did recognize a classmate.
Paul you can not care and not participate. However we have to stick together and keep ownership legal otherwise you won’t get anymore guns. You may say you have plenty and you might but theft, fire, and heavy use might make replacement a need.
ML I do love reading your posts and your thoughts on not needing gov. I just don’t get it though. Courts need to settle arguments. Records need to be kept. Rights need secured for those that aren’t strong or well enough. Police, courts, fire, ems, military, road, infrastructure, hazmat, dot, public health, oh you get it. It’s all fun and games until plague starts killing. Anyways please keep writing though cause it does make us think! That’s a great thing.
Claire you would be the match that lights a forest fire. We will win together or hang together.
What are we to do? Well, we can start by outlawing both the idea and the act of putting out a sign that reads “we’re all disarmed and vulnerable…come on in and shoot us” .
Can’t say I didn’t get shot at, but my claim to fame is none of my people ever earned a Purple Heart.
Chad’s was double off-limits for me, as I was married and accompanied. My acquaintance with sin happened during a short break in the midst of Ranger School, when I got a craving for a Coke float. So I promoted a quart of vanilla and a six-pack, and had me one.
We were soldiers once … and young.
I’ve given the confiscation scenario a great deal of thought over the years, and I’m convinced it will be tried at some point.
It’s going to be tried in the middle of some great national crisis, probably an economic collapse with attendant civil unrest, or possibly a major terrorist attack featuring multiple WMD’s in multiple locations, or less likely, a major regional natural disaster. Under some sort of declared “state of emergency” as well as some undeclared form of martial law, with appeals to patriotism and understanding for whatever state of emergency exists.
They will enlist the anti-gun portion of the citizenry as informants as one method of target definition, as well as the current systems of record keeping. Permits, tax stamps, FFL records, the background check database will all be used for the development of a target list and prioritization of same.
It will be a concerted effort, deadly, and short lived.
It will last as long entry teams can tolerate the number one and possibly number two men in the stack getting shot to pieces. Pretty soon, nobody will be volunteering or even acquiesce to be ordered to take those positions in line.
This should not last long, but unfortunately will result in the murder of more than a few formerly law abiding gun owners, turned resistors.
I hope to not be one of them, but that is their call, not mine. They get to play the white pieces, and the first move is theirs.
As recent events have shown, governmental agencies, even militarized ones, can’t seem to figure out how to deal with certain levels of resistance of any scale, even though the government forces at their disposal are superior.
They lack the internal psyche of the average infantryman, and have tickets to Sunday’s ballgame, which they do not wish to miss. A substantial paycheck to collect, and a fat retirement plan.
And when the murder is completed, they have to go back and live, among us.
And I do not believe the military will cooperate with any of it in any substantial way, particularly the NCO’s. Oh sure, there will be some leftist indoctrinated, high heel wearing sissy officer types that want to get in on the oppression. I would submit they will be ignored or shot in the back.
Good article by John Lott:
http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/thinktank/Would-be-killers-target-gun-free-zones.html
I don’t think a general confiscation effort will be tried. Everybody knows such a thing would be doomed to fail. Even Hitler didn’t do that; he made it so only Nazis had guns. They will pursue the mental illness restrictions. That won’t work either, but they will get farther with it.
Well stated, Claire, well stated!
Bob
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Like this remarkable lady I too am old, I have fought my wars, I’ve raised my family and now to protect the freedom of this country, if I have to die, please God, let me die on a pile of my own spent brass with blood in my mouth and hate for the tyrants that have destroyed this country in my heart.
We may have our differences but on this I’m with you 100%. I’ve thought several times what would happen if a SWAT team came to my door. I’ve lived a full life, lost my life mate several years ago, and really don’t intend to live as a subject of a police state. So, ditto Claire.
Thank you Claire for the uplift . The French Revolution was started by women . Maybe the next revolution will kicked off by women . I pray King Putt jumps the shark and starts confiscating guns . That will start the much needed revolution.
Larry L We talk past each other because the other side has nothing to offer us except making us felons at the stroke of a pen, and coming to take our lawfully owned property with the threat of murdering us and our families.
What more is there left to discuss?
It’s too bad bad crazies on drugs shoot up schools, and churches now and then, but I feel no more blameworthy for that than I do for thousands of automobile fatalities as a result of me owning a minivan. No matter how much you weep and emote, and try to bully me, I’m not giving you my car!
Discuss all you want. I see no need to listen.
Now would you like to do something about the dangerous psychotropic drugs that EVERY SINGLE BERSERKER is taking?
Didn’t think so.
They will enlist the anti-gun portion of the citizenry as informants as one method of target definition, as well as the current systems of record keeping. Permits, tax stamps, FFL records, the background check database will all be used for the development of a target list and prioritization of same.
By all means, bring on the lists.
Active duty military, including medical and chaplain corps, 1.4 million.
Active reserves, 1.1 million.
Total military 2.5 million.
Total law enforcement, call it 1 million commissioned officers, federal, state, and local.
Grand total, 3,500,000, of which an unknown number won’t respond.
Concealed handgun permits, 12 million plus.
Hunting license holders, almost 15 million, and not as much overlap as you might expect.
And we’re scattered over 3,780,000 square miles of the U.S.
Anti-gun civilians might not see a problem there, but street cops, military non-coms, and company and field grade officers will know it’s a suicide mission.
Concealed handgun permits, 12 million plus.
Hunting license holders, almost 15 million, and not as much overlap as you might expect.
And we’re scattered over 3,780,000 square miles of the U.S.
Let’s not forget those of us who always figured we don’t need no stinking license. 😉
Two thumbs up and back to loading magazines!
“Let’s not forget those of us who always figured we don’t need no stinking license. ;)”
+1. I was thinking of the best way to say that when — typically — you beat me to it.
This ^
I was just wondering if Claire is married, or single?
Sounds like a good woman to have at your back, and
in your life!
You go, girl!
Richard
Very well put.
2knives – You could stock up now. And you could invest in reloading equipment and supplies, and reload your own when that time comes. You could also do what guerrillas have done historically – get your weapons and ammo from enemy casualties. You need merely be there when the casualties occur somehow, so that you can pick up what you need.
Inspiring words, Claire! Let them have our dead bodies (and if possible a few of theirs as well), not our obedience.
We are already felons for not submitting in CT, and NY. Hundreds of thousands of us in wacky liberal land. Just think what they will inspire in folks from the heartland and Dixie. And when they come to our doors we will go to theirs in kind.
Don’t forget the ambushes.
Look at the upside of Obama’s threats – fewer and fewer people bending the knee to the Government Religion. Not only is he the best gun salesman in history; he also generates the most apostates. Of course he is helped in that by Congress and the Fed, et. al.
http://strike-the-root.com/apostate-from-government-religion
Three observations/comments:
1. Thanks, Ms. Wolfe. I appreciate your work and willingness to take a stand.
2. I am pleased to hear Spooner and Larken Rose mentioned in this thread. It is a fact that if we are to be truly free, we must break free of the illusion that government has ANY right, in ANY form to intrude in your life. “Consent of the governed” is an oxymoron. If it’s consent, it’s voluntary. If it’s governed, it is not. Libertarians, anarchists and voluntary society are the most peaceful people. We live by the belief that we will use force ONLY in self-defense and will not initiate aggression against another.
3. I am afraid, very afraid that “they” will continue nickel and diming us to death until we have nothing left to fight with. You know how many people in my home state of New York have “assault weapons” and did not register them under the “SAFE Act”? Likely 90%. Where are those guns? Hiding somewhere, not being used. NO resistance, because it just wasn’t quite enough to warrant it. And it shall not QUITE be enough the next time…….or the next.