It’s too bad we didn’t accept the woke’s offer to defund the police. They never thought their slogan through, and we should have closed with them before they had the chance. Just you think about it. Those two “teens” who, for fun, ran over the man in Vegas (not their first victim, incidentally), who ended up in court laughing and
Imagine then how much worse it is in European states where the conditioning has been at play for longer.
In Britain they began to outlaw guns in the early 20th century in response to the Bolshevik revolution. But they only finally succeeded in the 1990s.
People now find it inconceivable they would own a weapon. You must not let this happen to you and your arguments above, that you are responsible for your own safety, are the right way to go.
In Europe we are totally utterly brainwashed. No one (even very critically thinking people) can fathom the importance of carrying a weapon. Society lost control everything is in the hand of 'experts'. And at the same time 99% of Europeans are continuously complaining about immigrants: "why the government doesn't protect the border" because we the people should protect our borders and our neighbourhoods not the government.
I agree. It is all someone else's problem. The first time the foreign rape gangs abused white girls in England should have been the end of mass immigration. Simple as that. Instead we trusted the authorities who jailed a handful and refused to investigate the culture of abuse that still exists.
Watching a BBC detective crime show is like watching a bunch of defenseless sheep run from a wolf or wolves who eventually catch up to at least one sheep. Then the surviving sheep virtue signal on how “they would never own a firearm”.
It’s tough for an American to watch. I find myself yelling at the TV:
The more important observation for Americans should be how easily you lose these rights. There are always people agitating to bring this about. Every shooting atrocity is exploited.
Plenty do have shotguns and anyone can apply for a licence. The real erosion is the lack of desire to defend oneself. That is where resilience dies.
Exactly. At some point all Western nations will have to have a reckoning. We must accept a sizeable portion of our populations think emotionally, both in everyday support for these narratives and while voting. That creates a certain kind of society, one that is not sustainable.
In his Foundations of Distributism, Chesterton makes the argument that in order for there to be real democracy crimes must be punished in public. He suggests that the will of the people began to be thwarted as soon as executions began being conducted out of their sight and without their participation.
I think that that is much the same thing that you are suggesting. We hired people to do the nasty bits of governance for us and they took the nice bits as well. We farmed out the responsibilities and found that we had lost the power and privilege. Which is pretty inevitable in hindsight. We all want to eat sausage but nobody wants to make the sausage.
A cousin of mine lives in a Blue bastion of insanity. Criminal activity has bled into formerly safe neighborhoods, but he doesn't own a gun. Why? Because of the color of his skin and the likely color of any future perpetrator he is unfortunate enough to cross paths with, he knows that he will be prosecuted for defending himself. He fears imprisonment more than death.
This might be behind a paywall…. It is a story about a homeless man attacking preschool teachers in DC and another man who has been a menace in the neighborhood for years. I was amused by one commenter to the story who asked “Don’t any fathers in that neighborhood own a baseball bat?” It was my first reaction after reading the article also!
"I sure as hell wouldn’t want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military "–
William Burroughs
James Madison, US fourth president, wrote: “The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy. They are more: they are the best basis of public liberty, and the strongest bulwark of public safety. It follows that the greater the proportion of this class to the whole society, the more free, the more independent, and the more happy must be the society itself.”
The rulers want you to be dependent on the state for everything. Thereby having total control over you.
1984 and Animal Farm were handbooks, not fiction. Orwell was in the inner circle of the mind control manipulators.
This is exactly correct. The goal is always dependency. Welfare, tax credits, special loopholes. All nonsense. All designed to convince the citizens they need government.
The police are meant to be a local militia under local control. Nothing more.
The point is to make > 50% dependent on the goodwill of the rulers, via jobs, welfare and entitlements. That way a party in power will remain in power indefinitely by telling the voters that the other party will reduce their benefits. Student loans was an excellent example.
It also provides complete control, Farage took them on but by depriving you of benefits or in his case the means to exist in this transaction driven world, they threatened his entire livelihood and as they wanted nearly forced him to leave the country merely so he could live.
I have dispensed with Credit cards some 25 years ago (another story) but it means that I have immense difficulty doing simple things like booking into a hotel, renting a car etc.
and includes the obituary for Mr. Gardner. I wish I had known that he was in such distress so nearby, in need of shelter from the storm. The Stoics are wrong. Jake did everything right but take his own life. And so we failed him.
The problem was never one of arms, it was one of effeminacy. It matters not what arms controls are in place, or not, what matters is the willingness to resort to the sword. To claim self-help in regards to the coercive enforcement of justice. This is what the conventional conservatives and 2A absolutists never once understood.
It also does not help when a number of DA's with ideological axes to grind have taken the position that "OK, even if you _have_ your guns, we won't let you use them." - See the persecution of St Kyle of kenosha , among others.
It's nothing new - school systems since at least the 80's had teachers and administrations who fully believed being involved in any fight was equally your fault no matter who instigated it or how, how dar you hit back.
The same politicians that are creating a dystopian nightmare where: men can become women, children can be killed in the ninth month, criminals should be set free…
Tell us that if we only all became defenseless, we would be safe.
(And these same are never affected by the ideologies they push upon us.)
An off duty Federal officer in DC took care of a 13 year old violent criminal in the correct manner this past weekend. We need much more of that here. Much more.
Imagine then how much worse it is in European states where the conditioning has been at play for longer.
In Britain they began to outlaw guns in the early 20th century in response to the Bolshevik revolution. But they only finally succeeded in the 1990s.
People now find it inconceivable they would own a weapon. You must not let this happen to you and your arguments above, that you are responsible for your own safety, are the right way to go.
Ok you, (in my best Cleese-ian way) come at me with the banana, go ahead, do your worst.
In practice there are plenty of guns in the UK. But not officially. And the number is increasing as society becomes more violent.
In Europe we are totally utterly brainwashed. No one (even very critically thinking people) can fathom the importance of carrying a weapon. Society lost control everything is in the hand of 'experts'. And at the same time 99% of Europeans are continuously complaining about immigrants: "why the government doesn't protect the border" because we the people should protect our borders and our neighbourhoods not the government.
I agree. It is all someone else's problem. The first time the foreign rape gangs abused white girls in England should have been the end of mass immigration. Simple as that. Instead we trusted the authorities who jailed a handful and refused to investigate the culture of abuse that still exists.
Watching a BBC detective crime show is like watching a bunch of defenseless sheep run from a wolf or wolves who eventually catch up to at least one sheep. Then the surviving sheep virtue signal on how “they would never own a firearm”.
It’s tough for an American to watch. I find myself yelling at the TV:
- Do you at least own a shotgun!!!
- You Idiot(s)!!!
- (This is stupid, why am I watching this?)
The more important observation for Americans should be how easily you lose these rights. There are always people agitating to bring this about. Every shooting atrocity is exploited.
Plenty do have shotguns and anyone can apply for a licence. The real erosion is the lack of desire to defend oneself. That is where resilience dies.
Yes. It’s all about the “narrative”. If the murderer had locked doors and murdered by arson, or someone would have put him down with a concealed carry -it would have been “nothing to see here move along.”https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/1927-bombing-remains-americas-deadliest-school-massacre-180963355/
Exactly. At some point all Western nations will have to have a reckoning. We must accept a sizeable portion of our populations think emotionally, both in everyday support for these narratives and while voting. That creates a certain kind of society, one that is not sustainable.
In his Foundations of Distributism, Chesterton makes the argument that in order for there to be real democracy crimes must be punished in public. He suggests that the will of the people began to be thwarted as soon as executions began being conducted out of their sight and without their participation.
I think that that is much the same thing that you are suggesting. We hired people to do the nasty bits of governance for us and they took the nice bits as well. We farmed out the responsibilities and found that we had lost the power and privilege. Which is pretty inevitable in hindsight. We all want to eat sausage but nobody wants to make the sausage.
Thanks for this. I hadn't know this about Chesterton.
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Sure, fits the population reduction pogrom. Let the criminals cull the population. Meanwhile, the elitists live with walls encircling their homes.
Protected by mercenaries.
A cousin of mine lives in a Blue bastion of insanity. Criminal activity has bled into formerly safe neighborhoods, but he doesn't own a gun. Why? Because of the color of his skin and the likely color of any future perpetrator he is unfortunate enough to cross paths with, he knows that he will be prosecuted for defending himself. He fears imprisonment more than death.
Shared on Twiiter. Common attitude. https://twitter.com/FamedCelebrity/status/1719000166135468125
With governments like this, how could anyone fear anarchy?
"...be persecuted for defending himself..." would be just as accurate
And/or prosecuted.
true
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/10/27/dc-daycare-attack-policing-crime/
This might be behind a paywall…. It is a story about a homeless man attacking preschool teachers in DC and another man who has been a menace in the neighborhood for years. I was amused by one commenter to the story who asked “Don’t any fathers in that neighborhood own a baseball bat?” It was my first reaction after reading the article also!
Of course toddlers in pre school begets the question where are the mothers? Certainly not mothering.
"I sure as hell wouldn’t want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military "–
William Burroughs
James Madison, US fourth president, wrote: “The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy. They are more: they are the best basis of public liberty, and the strongest bulwark of public safety. It follows that the greater the proportion of this class to the whole society, the more free, the more independent, and the more happy must be the society itself.”
The rulers want you to be dependent on the state for everything. Thereby having total control over you.
1984 and Animal Farm were handbooks, not fiction. Orwell was in the inner circle of the mind control manipulators.
He warned you but you did not listen.
This is exactly correct. The goal is always dependency. Welfare, tax credits, special loopholes. All nonsense. All designed to convince the citizens they need government.
The police are meant to be a local militia under local control. Nothing more.
The point is to make > 50% dependent on the goodwill of the rulers, via jobs, welfare and entitlements. That way a party in power will remain in power indefinitely by telling the voters that the other party will reduce their benefits. Student loans was an excellent example.
It also provides complete control, Farage took them on but by depriving you of benefits or in his case the means to exist in this transaction driven world, they threatened his entire livelihood and as they wanted nearly forced him to leave the country merely so he could live.
I have dispensed with Credit cards some 25 years ago (another story) but it means that I have immense difficulty doing simple things like booking into a hotel, renting a car etc.
But it is worth it.
I am with you. I still use cards but am now increasing my cash use. I also cleared all my debt which helps.
But dependency is always the goal.
Zmirak puts it very well,
https://stream.org/why-jake-gardner-had-to-die-our-home-grown-bolsheviks-plan-to-hang-all-the-kulaks/
and includes the obituary for Mr. Gardner. I wish I had known that he was in such distress so nearby, in need of shelter from the storm. The Stoics are wrong. Jake did everything right but take his own life. And so we failed him.
The problem was never one of arms, it was one of effeminacy. It matters not what arms controls are in place, or not, what matters is the willingness to resort to the sword. To claim self-help in regards to the coercive enforcement of justice. This is what the conventional conservatives and 2A absolutists never once understood.
It also does not help when a number of DA's with ideological axes to grind have taken the position that "OK, even if you _have_ your guns, we won't let you use them." - See the persecution of St Kyle of kenosha , among others.
It's nothing new - school systems since at least the 80's had teachers and administrations who fully believed being involved in any fight was equally your fault no matter who instigated it or how, how dar you hit back.
Same for hockey referees. Hate those pieces of.......
The Time of the Law has passed.
The same politicians that are creating a dystopian nightmare where: men can become women, children can be killed in the ninth month, criminals should be set free…
Tell us that if we only all became defenseless, we would be safe.
(And these same are never affected by the ideologies they push upon us.)
An off duty Federal officer in DC took care of a 13 year old violent criminal in the correct manner this past weekend. We need much more of that here. Much more.
True. And why I moved 2 years ago to 2A Constitutional adherent West Virginia.
Open carry and conceal carry without a permit.
Citizens are heavily armed and polite.
@Briggs here is an DODA acquisition blog that would perhaps interest you.
6 years for DOD to go from requirement to contract.
https://acquisitiontalk.com/
He also has podcasts.
He (Eric Lofgren) goes into the weeds.
Thanks.
Cool, a fellow Michigander. Are you in the northern part of the state? I am between Grand Rapids and Traverse City.
Further north. I was once a yooper, too.
Noice.
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