Interpol chief recommends “armed citizenry”
Andy sends us a link to ABC News in which they report that the Interpol Secretary General, Ronald Noble, an American, said out loud that maybe governments should consider an armed citizenry in response to the shift in terror patterns like at the Westgate Mall in Nairobi last month;
“Societies have to think about how they’re going to approach the problem,” Noble said. “One is to say we want an armed citizenry; you can see the reason for that. Another is to say the enclaves are so secure that in order to get into the soft target you’re going to have to pass through extraordinary security.”
“Ask yourself: If that was Denver, Col., if that was Texas, would those guys have been able to spend hours, days, shooting people randomly?” Noble said, referring to states with pro-gun traditions. “What I’m saying is it makes police around the world question their views on gun control. It makes citizens question their views on gun control. You have to ask yourself, ‘Is an armed citizenry more necessary now than it was in the past with an evolving threat of terrorism?’ This is something that has to be discussed.”
Well, there were the attacks in Toulouse, France last year when soldiers and citizens were attacked by a terrorist with a handgun, and that didn’t affect France very much. It will probably take a large-scale attack like Westgate in Europe to force a shift in the way they view legally armed citizens there. Africa still seems a little distant at the moment.
But it is amazing that an organization like Interpol is talking about the subject, albeit a bit belatedly. Of course, he was doing the interview in Colombia, where they have an equivalent to our Second Amendment – Article 223 of their Constitution – gun ownership is guaranteed by law with certain restrictions.
Category: Guns
Ah, Curt the Spurt returns. Guess they have limitations on how long the terminally stupid can be confined now.
Uh, Curt? My .223 (aka 5.56mm) rifle that I have? It’s a beaut, really. Sig Sauer M400. Really sweet. You know how many rounds I can fire at a time?
ONE. Just one. But I can carry a LOT of ammo with me. Like 30-round magazines, etc.
Which is gonna come in REAL handy, cause let’s face it, those fucking zombies aren’t going to kill themselves.
I think this question from the Interpol agent was interesting: ‘Is an armed citizenry more necessary now than it was in the past with an evolving threat of terrorism?’
Considering that we are now about 150 years post-Civil War; that after that war, people in the South were frequently disarmed and carpetbaggers (another name for looters and pillagers) were everywhere; and considering that the last Indian Wars were the Battle of Bear Valley in 1918 and the Posey War in 1923 – not even 100 years in the past, the lack of will power to take steps defend itself against invaders by the left side of the political fence is worrisome. It becomes even more so when you realize that the attack on the USA was less than 20 years ago, and some of these maroons on the left think it will all be taken care of by someone else.
I’m less concerned with silly purchases of surplus equipment by the police than I am with whether or not the police are actually properly trained in use of weapons and equipment. Recent events, as happened last winter in more than one city, have proven otherwise. The gangs are literally worse than ever. Students engage in riots in their own schools (two days ago in Chicago).
We’re so vulnerable in this country to an internal attack, and the majority of people are such dumbtrucks mentally about it, that the probability of something like the Westgate Mall attack is nonsensically high.
I just hope it never happens at my Walmart when I’m getting groceries.
Da Conservative mentality that their guns will save them is so immature it is astonishing. Not only are conservatives going to die but thier ideology is one way or another going to go the way of the dinasour and there will still be liberals around to see it happen. Although if this process takes to long I pity the poor liberals because they are going to inherit a planet that will be as badly damaged as the US aircraft carrier after the battle of Coral See whose name slips my mind at the momement because it does not concern me which had to be sank by US torpeodoes because it was just a floating hulk. Conservatives can have a mountain of guns but if they can not recognize what truly thretens their future they will continue to always be at the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong tools to fix the problems. Furthermore if they were to lose control of the electromagnetic spectrum they could be disarmed in the night in their homes in as little as 96 hours. Even worse is that in the future do their own stupidity there will be conservative idiots managing factories where immigrants flooding in to America, like Catholics and Muslims and who knows maybe even some Jews fleeing a radioacive mideast will be producing robosoldiers for the military inustrial complex. Such stupidity will lead to a society in which intellegent robot drones will lead squads and platoons of intellegent weaonized robots across the USA monitoring all the thoughts and movements of every person and removing all people whose thoughts and movements do not correspond to a pre written SOP about how people should behave in the circumstnaces that they find themselves. Robots will visit each factory observing the workers and insuring that each movement is in accordance with SOP so that not one extra calorie is used in the task at hand so that each employee will recieve exactly as many calories in energy, and not one more, that they need to sustain their life. This will be the end… Read more »
Curt the Fool: do you actually believe the bullsh!t you just posted?
I only ask because I have a hard time believing anyone could be that freaking stupid. But I’ve been surprised before.
Geeeezzz. Now I’m starting to miss the good ol’ days with Joey the Rockclimber.
And now, Curt lays out an incredible scenario, complete with his ideal of how history should have been written, to demonstrate why the American Colonies threw off their British chains, and in the process guaranteed the God-given Right to own firearms to preserve that Freedom from future tyrants.
I for one welcome our robot overlords!
Jebus Curt, don’t get high and watch I, Robot and you won’t end up posting nonsense on the interwebs.
Man, this troll enjoys his fantasies…I am thinking he finds this shit on the VT site and reposts some of it here after he is done cutting and pasting the various fantasy scenarios together in any random mish mash of thought…
I am also thinking it’s a colossal waste of time to read his words or respond.
I agree with VOV — this is one troll we don’t want to encourage. We may have gotten him in the custody settlement (post #28), but that doesn’t mean we have to talk to him.
Oh, no, VOV, it’s fun! He can’t spell. He has no concept of spelling, punctuation, or basic sentence construction. He rambles in a way that is actually worse than anything either Joe the rock climber or Sippy the Sap ever inflicted on us.
And we get to say things like: Hey, Curt, you dump, truck-sucking imbecile, learn to spell, will you? It’s DINOSAUR, not dinasour. Dinasour is a candy you give out oat Halloween. Dinosaurs were those big, chunky butt critters whose generic name means ‘thunder lizard’. Got that, stupid?
And it’s the Coral SEA. A ‘SEE’ is a semipolitical variant term used to describe the Vatican, also known as the Holy SEE. Got that part, numbnuts?
Also, Curt, don’t get drunk and write stuff. It makes you look stupider than you did yesterday.
That should be ‘give out with oatmeal cookies’ at Halloween.
@58/59: Agreed.
Aw, c’mon, where else can you read such a mix of Sci-Fi, alternate history, and propaganda, in such a unique style of alternate English and reality?
Y’all really need to look at this through the lens of entertainment.
On another note, why is it that his ilk doesn’t send over their literate and “logical” debaters? It’s always the ones that can’t form a coherent paragraph.
@64 “…why is it that his ilk doesn’t send over their literate and ‘logical’ debaters?”
It’s like a bigfoot sighting — hard scientific proof, or I refuse to believe in their existence, TN!
TN-because they know that their stupidity protects them, they can’t reason so they can’t be reasoned with. Those rare few on the left who can make a rational argument might be turned, so they have to keep them in the echo chamber where they won’t be introduced to those dangerous alternate arguments.
68W58: what, you mean the hard left is afraid of folks like David Horowitz? Who’d a thunk it?
Hondo-I absolutely loved Radical Son, one of the best books on the rise of the American left that there is.
Fortunately becasue conservatives are always looking over their sholder for the threats of Halloween past they are distracted from seeing the threats of this Halloween. Even worse for all of us they can not even conceive of the threats of the Halloweens of the future. Hopefully those cuts were irreversible.
Even a relatively intellegent conservative like John Adams is nothing more than an all pro on a “has been” NFL football team that finishes 3-13 at the end of the season. If there was someone around today that was like the John of then and he were to switch sides he could be a bench warmer on a 13-3 team like the New England Liberals, or the Nationwide African Americans, or the Midwestern Progressives, or the Oregon Trailblazers, and actually win a Super Bowl ring at the end of it all. There is no shame in being a bench warmer when you are on the right team. Steve Young was a bench warmer. For many years he lived in the shadow of Joe Montana. Steve Young was actually the better QB. Had he not been younger he would have never gotten the chance to prove it. Steve Young might have not been the best QB of all time but he was clearly the best bench warmer of all time. Bench warmers make the starters better.
‘threats of Hallowe’en past’???? What ‘threats’, Curt.
C’mon, morhpendyte, spill.
While you’re at it, could you provide the coordinates for your home planet? We took a vote and we’d like to do the ‘return to sender’ thing, ASAP.
Quit drinking the Sterno after you strain it through bread and/or huffing the shoe cleaner, Curt the Fool. That sh!t causes brain damage.
Words matter and language permits us to think. Curtsy here perfectly illustrates for us what it is like to be deficient in language and nonselective in word choice. Whether his obvious disability is congenital or a result of years of drug abuse, I do not know. It is painful to try to wade through his inane ramblings and impossible to make sense of them. It must truly suck to be that moronic. Here’s hoping he has no self awareness. He couldn’t take knowing. No one could.
Curt is almost a bot, we’ve all seen those incoherent rambling responses by bots before in chat rooms or comments threads….I’ve not anything so nonsensical in some time now…
Oh man, I had to read back. BWHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAH! This Curt is hilarious!
Oh, crumb! I see I misspelled ‘morhpendyte’.
It’s ‘morPHendyte’. Sorry. My bad.
Can anyone tell what star system Kurt is transmitting from?
Maybe ChipNASA knows.
Let’s assume for a moment that what Kurt says is remotely true – does that mean that the next bear I discover in my garden is just looking for meth, and that the policia will be around shortly to fix everything for me??
In spite of my looking at a bear tearing into the veggies, I am to assume that he and his fellow travelers are not really interested in veggies, and that they are simply attempting to cover their tracks, so to speak, until one of them can distract me so that they can get to the meth instead. Surely the bears will withhold their frustration at finding no meth until those gracious fellows arrive to protect me from them, right?
And how are those wonderful men who are going to protect me to even know that I need their assistance? The bears are not really likely to encourage me to call for help especially as they come to the realization that there is no meth here.
Maybe there are cameras in my garden! That must be it. The non-conservative element would be watching diligently so that they can rush to help me whenever I need it, right? Because, you know, like they want to make sure that I am safe. Always. Uh-huh.
And now that we have the bears figured out, what about the foxes and coyotes and hawks?
Too bad we dint lose the custody battle.
I think I figured out the ‘threats of Hallowe’en past’. It’s all those preggers mamis in my neighborhood from last year and the year before.
This year, they’ll be showing up with toddlers dressed up in litup costumes that look like stick figures, so that my entire street will look like angry bathroom door signs gone bad.
Well, I will at least be able to see them. And count them.
Curt, what was the name of that planet where you were beaming messages to us, again?
I should know better than to ask this, but…
Curt, what exactly do you consider a “threat”? You’ve only mentioned that about four times, and haven’t identified your subject yet.
Okay, his last comment lacked the artistic talents of his previous works, but perhaps its just a pre-hangover.
Or it could just be the pressure to produce a new comedy, and he rushed it.
@78…what about the foxes and coyotes and hawks?
Yeah, what did the fox say?
I mean, meth would certainly go a long way to explaining that whole video.
@ 83: Maybe the AZ ANG is air dropping meth to the critters around here? Might explain some of their TDY issues as well as the video thing.
Coyotes? There are so many wooded areas around here, and I haven’t had a chance to interview any of the local coyotes. I don’t think they’ll take kindly to being interviewed. Maybe if I put out some cat food, they’ll grant me a few seconds of their time.
Personally, I think Curt the snurt is not just drunk, but very, very close to barking mad.
Ex-PH2, maybe he was abducted by space aliens that anal probed him so hard, it gave him brain damage! That, or he went back in line for seconds, and that caused it!
Oh, oh, oh! I finally have it figure out!!
Since I am constantly looking over my shoulder for unfriendly critters wandering into the yard, I must be a conservative. And, the Halloween reference is that the critters all get especially riled up around then, so my fears are worst during the Halloween season? (No, hunters would not have anything to do with any of that.) It’s my fear of Halloween exacerbated by the meth-head raccoons and opossums and deer looking for their winter stashes.
Must be it.
OWB: for the bears, just use the Curt-Approved (TM) 26mm handgun he wrote about above.
Just don’t miss. (smile)
Just out of curiosity, Hondo, how far away IS Curt, the twurp? If he’s actually FROM another planet, I’d like to know which one. Maybe we could get NASA to photograph it, like they did a while back with that planet orbiting Vega.
See, Heinlein KNEW, even in 1956, that there was a planet orbiting Vega. It was Mother Thing’s home world. According to Heinlein’s recounting of that tale, the name of the planet sounded like a rooster crowing, or something.
Kurt’s instructions were pretty clear that I should only need 2 bullets per gun, but I was not so clear about how many guns I could have total. With the number of critters running around here, I would need a wheelbarrow to tote them around!
No thanks, Kurt. I’d really rather use the wheelbarrow to haul compost, chicken house litter, plants and stuff and an appropriate holster for any gun which might need to be at hand in case of a critter attack. Or attach.
I have an amendment for my post at #44. Add a few seconds of Alex Jones to that cough syrup fueled fireside chat between Biden and Piers Morgan, and you have Curt’s posts in a nutshell.
A list of Effective Defensives against critters which will never gain NRA or EPA approval.
A Lance: A Long curved sword usually worn by Calvary Officers
to impale fleeing bolshivicks on winter days.
A Sabre: A long pole made of wood or metal with a pointy end usually carried by calvery officers to impale midlanders rioting over the enclosure of the commons.
A Bayonette: A long knife like extension of a rifle usually carried by infantry to stab workers attemptiong to unionize in impoverished countries.
A Mallet: A wooden or iron stick with a round iron ball mounted at the end which often has protruding spikes, often carried by Pioneers used for smashing the heads of critters that often live underground such as gophers.
A Fairytail: A barbed whip used to whip gun sensability advocates back in to the cage that they had escaped from.
@92, how ’bout a “Smack Upside The Head”? It’s something loons like you need at least a dozen times a day!!