I have been both active duty and reserve military and was in law enforcement until I quit after getting off probation. In the reserve military unit we had all kinds of law enforcement, big city police, deputy sheriffs and ATF to name a few that I personally knew. I don't think people really understand when I say you don't want these people and government at any level to be the only ones to be armed. That would be a huge mistake. I'm not saying that all the individuals were bad, although some were arrogant only ones. None of them even knew of Jeff Cooper or read any history at all.
I am saying that the institutions that they represented can and will be bad and dangerous to what remains of freedom and liberty if the opportunity presents. I think history adequately shows that.
An armed population is a check on absolute power, maybe not much of a check but something that has to be taken into account by the globo homo one percent and their water carriers.
Now the pearl -clutching can commence. the government has secret weapons and tanks and drones and on and on.
The George Zimmerman thing was a marvelous example of propaganda. They constantly showed old pictures of a 12 year old cherubic Trayvon Martin, and constantly distorted facts, all to undermine civilian self defense.
1. The rule of simplification - reducing all data to a simple confrontation between 'Good and Bad', 'Friend and Foe'.
2. The rule of disfiguration - discrediting the opposition by crude smears and parodies.
3. The rule of transfusion - manipulating the consensus values of the target audience for one's own ends.
4. The rule of unanimity - presenting one's viewpoint as if it were unanimous opinion of all right-thinking people: draining the doubting individual into agreement by the appeal of star-performers, by social pressure , and by 'psychological contagion'.
5. The rule of orchestration - endlessly repeating the same messages in different variations and combinations.
"When the United States were formed every healthy male of appropriate age was in his local militia. This was seen as a powerful force preventing such tyranny, though these days it is fashionable to poo poo the idea. In the Federalist Papers it is explained that you estimate the size of a militia by dividing the population by four. One half are male and one half of those are in the right age bracket, healthy enough, and not away at sea. (A traveling salesman would just join up wherever he happens to be during a crisis.) This would compose a military force far larger than any conceivable army, at the present time, that would be between 80 and 90 million men in he U.S. (And despite Joe Biden to the contrary, individuals could, and did, own cannon.) The entrenched powerful don't like that idea. Although the militias were amateurs, a major justification for the founding of the military academies was that, after their period of service, the graduates would form much of the officer corps of the militia. "
Critical that they owned their own weapons, which were not controlled by a higher authority.
I have been both active duty and reserve military and was in law enforcement until I quit after getting off probation. In the reserve military unit we had all kinds of law enforcement, big city police, deputy sheriffs and ATF to name a few that I personally knew. I don't think people really understand when I say you don't want these people and government at any level to be the only ones to be armed. That would be a huge mistake. I'm not saying that all the individuals were bad, although some were arrogant only ones. None of them even knew of Jeff Cooper or read any history at all.
I am saying that the institutions that they represented can and will be bad and dangerous to what remains of freedom and liberty if the opportunity presents. I think history adequately shows that.
An armed population is a check on absolute power, maybe not much of a check but something that has to be taken into account by the globo homo one percent and their water carriers.
Now the pearl -clutching can commence. the government has secret weapons and tanks and drones and on and on.
Forty acres, a mule, and a SURPLUS RIFLE. Or a rifle.
Funny how the rifle part is usually left out in Civil War history.
Another quote to include from Ida B. Wells, a founder of the NAACP:
“A Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home, and it should be used for that protection which the law refuses to give.”
Thanks, I'll add it.
David - - A quote you missed: “Freedom is measured in calibers.” By Kurt Schlicter
Also see this:
“The 2nd protects the 1st” By George Zimmerman
( yes, the George Zimmerman that WoeBama hated for justifiably killing WoeBamaz wanna be son, Trayvon Martin…….)
The George Zimmerman thing was a marvelous example of propaganda. They constantly showed old pictures of a 12 year old cherubic Trayvon Martin, and constantly distorted facts, all to undermine civilian self defense.
The Five Rules of Propaganda
1. The rule of simplification - reducing all data to a simple confrontation between 'Good and Bad', 'Friend and Foe'.
2. The rule of disfiguration - discrediting the opposition by crude smears and parodies.
3. The rule of transfusion - manipulating the consensus values of the target audience for one's own ends.
4. The rule of unanimity - presenting one's viewpoint as if it were unanimous opinion of all right-thinking people: draining the doubting individual into agreement by the appeal of star-performers, by social pressure , and by 'psychological contagion'.
5. The rule of orchestration - endlessly repeating the same messages in different variations and combinations.
Thanks, haven’t seen those myself. The number of things I don’t know would astound you.
I figure the amount of things I don't know would fill that government warehouse at the end of Raider's of the lost ark.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TASlXWbMZyU
An excerpt from my essay on war:
"When the United States were formed every healthy male of appropriate age was in his local militia. This was seen as a powerful force preventing such tyranny, though these days it is fashionable to poo poo the idea. In the Federalist Papers it is explained that you estimate the size of a militia by dividing the population by four. One half are male and one half of those are in the right age bracket, healthy enough, and not away at sea. (A traveling salesman would just join up wherever he happens to be during a crisis.) This would compose a military force far larger than any conceivable army, at the present time, that would be between 80 and 90 million men in he U.S. (And despite Joe Biden to the contrary, individuals could, and did, own cannon.) The entrenched powerful don't like that idea. Although the militias were amateurs, a major justification for the founding of the military academies was that, after their period of service, the graduates would form much of the officer corps of the militia. "
Critical that they owned their own weapons, which were not controlled by a higher authority.
https://drp314.substack.com/p/some-disjointed-thoughts-on-war