I’m a combat veteran and everyone should own an AR rifle
I know how stupid that sounds, because I’ve been reading articles these last few weeks from supposed combat veterans who think that no one should own AR rifles and they sound pretty stupid to me. Being a combat veteran has nothing to do with the gun control discussion. Nothing.
It’s just like the controversy every year at the Fourth of July celebrations where we’re supposed to be mindful of veterans when we ignite our fireworks. It’s just a bunch of people trying to remind you that they want you to believe that they’re combat veterans.
It’s really nothing more than attention-whoring at it’s worst. It’s on par with me saying that because I’m a combat veteran, you don’t deserve a tax cut. One has nothing to do with the other.
The Second Amendment is meant to apply to everyone whether they served in the military or not, that an armed population guarantees freedom for all of us from enemies both foreign and domestic. The Bill of Rights was written to protect the minority from the majority, the Bill reminds us that some rights are God-given.
The Declaration of Independence says that we are endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights – life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. In the spirit of that, when the founders wrote the Constitution, they added the Bill of Rights in order to protect us from the government being too intrusive into our lives and our pursuit of happiness.
If the Second Amendment wasn’t so important, why else would thousands of people gather this past weekend to announce their intention to disarm us? Why else would this Daryl Fisher fellow be running for sheriff in Buncombe County, North Carolina on a platform of prying our guns from our cold, dead hands?
R. Daryl Fisher, a candidate for Sheriff in Buncombe county says he is coming for your guns
Didn't he swear to uphold the constitution? #MarchForOurLives pic.twitter.com/pKyPATLx1h
— The Red Elephants ? (@RealRedElephant) March 24, 2018
You people realize that these kinds of proclamations aren’t making it easier for us to stomach seizure of our guns, right?
Category: Gun Grabbing Fascists
In response to the moron in the picture, Challenge Accepted.
You know he’s not going to show up, Jack. Nor is the doofus at the top. Nor are any of these Twitter warriors who insist they want our guns.
Nope, they’re going to turn to people like me- Guardsmen and cops.
It will end poorly for them.
When they come for mine, they need to be careful. The barrel will be very hot, and I’d hate for them to burn their widdle fingers.
As they slip on the pile of hot brass around us?
I will have hot bacon grease on hand to douse them.
Isn’t it amazing that ‘we’ still ignore that the FBI, Coward County Sheriff’s Office, Broward County School District were all complicit with the killings?
If it weren’t for all of their collective fuck-ups this shooting either never would have happened, or had been minimized by following the Columbine Doctrine.
Instead, these dumbasses want to go after the low hanging fruit in order to feel like they are accomplishing something. By doing this they play right into the hands of those that seek absolute power over the populace.
There was a time in this nation where “Give me Liberty or give me death!” was a rally cry.
Now, I see signs like Are your freedoms really worth more than your safety?
YES! Fuck you for being stupid enough to ask that question.
Sorry, this was supposed to be a stand-alone post.
Without freedom, you have NO safety. Ask anyone who escaped the Soviet Union before it disintegrated. Ask anyone who survived under Pol Pot’s regime, like TOW’s in-laws.
My Father-In-Law doesn’t own any weapons (he says if it ever goes sideways, he can get what he needs from me), but he is adamant that the right to keep and bear arms MUST be preserved. He’s seen firsthand what happens when the people no longer have the means to resist.
Your F-I-L is one whose “moral authority” on the subject I willingly accept.
Do you have a photo of something like that, Atkron?
Yes, I will send a copy to Jonn and ask him to post or send it to you.
Sent
Thank you! I appreciate that.
Without freedom, you have NO safety. Ask anyone who escaped the Soviet Union before it disintegrated. Ask anyone who survived under Pol Pot’s regime, like TOW’s in-laws.
People who sacrifice their personal freedom for a feeling of imagined safety end up with neither. Many experience a slow agonizing death in a concentration or “labor” camp, like those operated in every Communist totalitarian shithole during the past 100 years. These child twat-waffles should have to spend a few months in Venezuela where people thought they were voting for “safety.” In 1969 I spent a day in East Berlin and saw up close and personal what that “safety” looks like. I’ll take my freedom over that so-called safety. The totalitarian police state is not pretty when you are in one. It was the grimmest place I was ever in. The difference between it and West Berlin was shocking.
Speaking of lovely Venezuela, where people voted of safety instead of freedom, there was a recent report about their new “fatherland” voter ID cards everyone will be required to carry. Citizens will have to present it to get food. Maduro’s government will require everyone to present one to vote. Their new system will show whether you voted (and how). If you didn’t vote for the gov’t in the last “election,” no food for you! That is the kind of “safety” one gets after the freedom has been surrendered. Oh, and Venezuela now has the highest homicide rate in the Western hemisphere.
So, having eliminated the free market and assumed all responsibility for the welfare of the populace, the Venezuelan government institutes an actually cruel form of voter ID, while normal people resort to eating feral dogs. Who’s surprised?
So, what you’re saying, RGR, is that Venezuela is another socialist “paradise”?
Yes, it is stumbling toward the lovely socialist end-point so carefully characterized in Orwell’s “Animal Farm,” where all animals are equal but the pigs are “more equal.” One good thing though, there won’t be a stray cat and dog problem there (Venezuela) soon. I imagine their “walking dead” days are only a few years away.
As Jefferson so famously wrote: “Malo periculosam, libertatem quam quietam servitutem.”
It’s been translated a couple of different ways,
My preference is, “I prefer a dangerous freedom over a peaceful slavery”
It has also been translated as this, lesser favorite to me, “I prefer the tumult of liberty to the quiet of servitude.”
Both get the point across but the first is more truthful in my opinion, even if not as correct as the second with respect to the translation.
Freedom is dangerous, it’s also often rude and loud. It’s never truly safe, but I would rather risk everything to get everything than risk nothing to allow someone else to determine my needs.
As well as:
“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety”
-Banjamin Franklin
A direct repudiation to the simpleton holding the sign.
As we know, this is a result of those who neglected to study history, had revisionist history and/or didn’t live thru it.
Probably most of us lived thru the Cold War and Russia and it’s elements were the boogeymen we trained to fight against.
Holy Hannah. I think now I have seen everything. Do you think she knows that her “Freedom” was won and is maintained by those who think of safety as a mechanism on a rifle?
Now that you mentioned it (safety), I don’t believe those Revolutionary War era firearms had safeties. That means, according to some anti-gun theorists, that present day firearms should not have safeties either.
Half cock, almost a safety with a flintlock the hammer will not release with the trigger, and is not in the fire position.
Although occasionally the hammer would slip forward, but not with enough force to ignite the powder in the pan. Thus the term “going off half-cocked…”
“Is freedom more important than safety?”
Hmm, the Roosevelt administration claimed that ethnically-Japanese Americans were being dispossessed of their property and forced into internment camps in the early months of 1942 for their own safety. You tell me.
Aaaaaand what was his political affiliation?
You know, I think it started with a D…
I still have to see just ONE of these snowflake freaks who are so concerned with the kids killed in the school, to say something about the 60+ million kids slaughtered by abortion and the stinking dumocraps who managed to keep it in the lastest bill for US to pay for it!!
I bet he wouldn’t be smiling so smugly if you walked up and dick punched him.
Yup. Come Get Some
Any gun designed for the military – effectively all handguns, almost any rifle, and pump shotguns. Yeah, right. Better not try that cold dead hands thing in person, bucko… sounds like you might run into problems.
Knives, boots, shovels, helmets, fish hooks, batons, axes, and hammers were all invented for military use. That’s a lot of shit to ban! Wait, all that track & field stuff from high school was designed for military use, too!
Do you guys remember those big cauldrons that were used to boil oil to dump on the castle invaders?
Yeah, those were for cooking enough food to feed the troops.
They were not assault cauldrons, they were purely defensive weapons.
Defensive cauldrons were made of iron. Assault cauldrons were frangible ceramic pots that would shatter and spread incendiary chemicals on impact when launched via trebuchet.
Fire pots make a wonderful addition for your trebuchet!
We’ll be prying the guns from his cold, dead hands…
Hey Fisher; come get some.
He would but his 6X body armor is on back order…
The factory called bullshit on gutting a tank for one guy.
The city of Asheville (Buncombe County) continues to gradually turn into NC’s version of San Francisco in the mountains. It’s pretty much where we store away all our stank ass hippies. I’m sure he’ll fit right in with them.
The only people who are afraid of an armed populace are people with a hidden agenda.
Tyranny is the state in which people fear their government. Liberty is the state in which the government fears the people.
Yes, and they had damned well better fear us, because we can fire them just as easily as not.
Or fire ON them,same,same.
And we need to START firing them! There are a bunch of culls on the senate and in congress, including the leadership that need to be shytcanned!
Good thing you don’t need a permit to buy a firearm in NC, cause if they kept a record of the permit that would make it real easy to find you.
Oops…
Sounds to me like that fat bastard Fisher and his limp-wristed fellow-traveler pictured holding the sign are making threats against the lives of 100+ million Americans. Riding right past the part where they’re clearly not thinking this whole thing through and are going full fascist (with everything that entails), here’s my reply:
COME GET SOME, MOTHERFUCKER!
If you’re coming for mine, you better bring yours! I have repeatedly been asked by disbelieving would-be confiscators if I really think keeping my weapons is worth my life. My answer to that is: Is taking them away worth yours?
Our side has roughly 8 trillion rounds of ammo.
Their side can’t figure out which bathroom to use.
So if someone spends 8+ years as an Infantryman doesn’t that make them a Doctor of Applied Violence?
Re interjecting one’s experience in this stupid ‘debate’, my logic goes something like this:
I’ve seen the real world consequence of a disarmed populace, as a combat Veteran.
As an expert in the use of force and military tactics I know how to use weapons and force, as a combat Veteran.
As a combat Veteran I would prefer people arm themselves, or at the least, have the right to.
How is that not pertinent to the conversation?
Maybe I’m missing something.
Sorry. I meant to post that stand alone.
Don’t forget that they believe there is more than two genders.
Excellent! 😉
Bring it you fat bastard Fisher. I’m one state south of you.
Sure, you can have my gun. Bullets first! 🙂
See? That’s the thing. As a vet, i’ve been taught that ANYTHING can be a weapon of opportunity. You somehow manage to pry my rifle from my hands, I will stab you. You get my knife, I was bludgeon you with a friggen helmet. You get my helmet, I will resort to hands. It’s not the WEAPON that makes a person dangerous, it’s the MINDSET. Always has been.
I said that same thing in my article, Jay.
It is NOT the thing used as a weapon,.
It is the PERSON misusing it that matters. 9-inch cast iron skillets, for instance….
Yeah, my wife uses one of those with precision. Not that I would know that………I’m just sayin’
Don’t forget the venerable E-tool. The old one with a hardwood handle, not that silly thing they give them nowadays.
Give me an object, and I can probably figure out a way to kill somebody with it. All you need is the anatomical knowledge of an EMT and a modicum of creativity. Just as I could figure out plenty of easy ways to commit improvisational mass-murder without using any firearm.
Many posters on TAH have the knowledge necessary to commit unspeakable acts of violence using unconventional means. But we also possess moral convictions that prevent us from doing so.
Molon Labe, bitch.
so, on a scale of “one” to “bro” how badly do you wanna come at me?
and any jackass that says – and then puts into writing – his intent to take my weapons from my cold, DEAD hands, automatically should get the boot.
(written) rant over. now if you’ll excuse me, it’s Monday morning and I’ve got to go de espresso liber. the pot is empty.
“We” will pry it from your cold dead hands? I don’t see a crowd around, dumb ass. You think that sign will stop a round? Please, bring it with you when you show up to pry my weapon from my cold dead hands. Also, bring your last will & testament.
He’s talking about sending armed officers to your house to confiscate your firearms after executing you. Like every tin-pot dictator in history.
Like Robert (master)Bateman, the self-proclaimed “Infantry violence expert” who spent his career hiding under a general’s desk.
Are we sure that isn’t (master)Bateman in the photo, cuz the sign mirrors his attitude about these “weapons of war” which he never had to wield in combat?
I don’t think so, if only because the tool in the photo is not between a general’s knees.
Porky Fisher retired after 23 years with Asheville’s police department. He refers to himself as a Retired Police Executive, which is rather odd since he was not chief or number 2. Nowadays, he lists his employment by place (the local community college) not by function, which is also odd. He’s head of training for the campus police. Porky needs a job, so he’s running for sheriff. Towards that end, he will tell potential voters, in the case of the video, moms, what they want to hear.
Asheville is a great town, but it’s pretty much the Portland of the southeast. If you can duck the hippies and just find a decent mountain cabin it’s a great place to spend a few days.
I really don’t know what happened to North Carolina over the years. Some states have always been shit, but NC is not among them. My wife talked some about our moving there and my reaction wasn’t good. She likes beaches. I like mountains. She likes ponds. I like lakes and streams. She likes people. I don’t. It’s a marriage made in Heaven.
If you can avoid Asheville and Chapel Hill, you’ll be just fine. It’s still a great place to live.
The implication is, of course, that he intends to kill you. That’s the kind of guy that thinks he ought to be a NC Sheriff?
Better than he would be a chauffeur for Clarence “little dick” Dupnik.
Only smart thing the Pima County board of supervisors ever did was to effectively stuff Doofnik in a locker after his brilliant declarations following the Gabby Giffords shooting. He pretty much disappeared and then retired. Even Bisbee didn’t want him back. Fuckstick.
Understand he was referred to as “Stoopnik” when he was at Bisbee HS. He lived in Califuckya for about a year—when he was still sheriff of Pima County.
“ok,we will pry it from your cold dead hands”
He just wants the cock.
Did someone mention cock?
now there’s a name I almost forgot about…I absolutely love reading both of his AR15 experience pieces when im having a bad day.
Never was a bigger pussy than ol’ Gersch. He certainly is aptly named. I heard his nickname in middle school was “Gush,” and he spent some quality time locked in his gym locker.
I once read that the word “bunkum” originates with this same Buncombe County. (According to what I read, there was a North Carolina politician who wouldn’t stop talking drivel about the place.) This fellow’s keeping up the tradition.
So, the Left desires more restrictive gun control. I wish they’d STFU – permanently – on all issues.
You think they’d agree to let me (or anyone else who’s not a Leftist) determine what constitutes the Left’s permissible speech and assembly?
How about voting privileges, Hondo?
How about compulsory voting or else, and there’s only ONE candidate and ONE party?
OH, I do remember that well, how the media complained about low voter turnout at elections in the USA and whined that there was – what? – 99% turnout in the Soviet Union.
That is what the Maduro Electoral Plan is in Venezuela. If you don’t vote for the gubm’t with your “fatherland” voting/ID card, no food for you!
I dumped my Costco Citigroup card…activist Citi CEO is going after gun dealers…i’ll just pay cash from now on…I don’t believe the other major banks are going to follow suit but you never know
I am jettisoning my Citibank card in May after my interest free deal expires and I pay off the balance. Guess what I am going to tell them when they try to talk me out of cancelling the card.
Make sure you instruct them to close the card “at the direction of the card holder” and to put that in your credit report.
I was recently advised by a financial pro that this notation very much reduced the credit score impact of a closed account.
Because unflagged that way, it gets recorded as if -they- dumped -you-.
i agree, no one should own a AR-15 in 5.56/223. in the overall scheme of things its an underpowered gopher gun. i think everyone should own an AR-10, SCAR-17H, M1A, M1 Garand, FNAR or similar caliber rifle in at least .30 cal.
now if you are talking about and AR in 300 Blackout or .458 SOCOM then i might give you an alibi. the only reason to own a AR-15 in 5.56/.223 is because surplus ammo is cheap.
me personally, prefer my Remington Versamax 12 ga and as much 3 1/2″ #4 buck as my SAW pouches will let me carry (92 shells total as of now, but i digress). as a civilian the chances of me ever taking a shot at someone 500m away is nonexistent, the chances of a 50m shot is much more realestic. with a XX full turkey choke and my fancey new Meprolight M21, 50 yards is not a problem, closer and well they would wish i only had a .223
The AR-15 does fill the niche of arming the young and infirm.
arthritis tends to dampen ones enthusiasm for magnum shotgun rounds.
Hey needle-dick, come to Florida. I’ll make time for you.
μολὼν λαβέ, τύραννος
Game on.
BRING IT, bitches! But before you do, make sure your Medical Insurance is paid up AND you have your Last Will and Testament filled out and properly filed.
I’m love the memes on the FB side of this post
Absolutely priceless
The AR 15 is underpowered
Mini 10 I’d more to my liking
Skippy the .223 is deadly with the proper expanding bullet when used . I prefer A-10 for serious takedown power. Joe
Say ‘allo to my new lil’ friend.
Awww, that one’s so cute! Did it just follow you home, or did you have to coax it?
For some reason, I saw “coax it” and it brought to mind a windowless van with “free candy bullets” written on the side.
That is equal parts creepy and hilarious!
Thanks! Followed me home from my favorite gun store. It’s quite the conversation starter at the range.
I did not know that Derringers were still being made until I saw one when I went to get cigars for someone.
Bond Arms
Thing is built like a bank vault.
AW1Ed;
I have a Rohrbaugh R9 .009MM made out in Long Island NY that I bought a number of years ago when I moved to Florida. Did you or anyone out there hear anything about Bond Arms buying out Rohrbaugh??
Yep. Looks interesting, but I wasn’t in the market for another 9mm pocket pistol.
https://bondarms.com/bond-arms-handguns/bond-arms-bullpup/
A .009mm pistol? That’s awfully small…
.000354?
Minor factoid: The original maker of them, back when they were single shot percussion pocket pistols, spelled his name with one “r.” One of Mr. Deringer’s guns is what was used to assassinate Pres. Lincoln. The most prolific derringer is the double barreled Remington in .41 Cal. rimfire; they were made from 1867 to 1935.
Bought the exact same one a few weeks ago. With .410 self defense rounds at about 15 feet that thing shredded the target.
*grin*
The .45 Long Colt rounds are a hoot, too. Only two shots, but with .410s loaded I get eight rounds on target. And that’s no joke.
Also got the .22Mag barrel for rimfire fun.
Like ^^^^^
Gotta a sleeve spring for it yet?
Ankle holster for now. Great little BUG.
Have you seen that slick horizontal belt holster that Bond makes for your gun? I think it was intended as an anti-carjacking tool. It puts the gun just to the left of your belt buckle. A little costly but slick.
It’s on the ‘must buy’ list, thanks.
Artemus is working on it.
Four aces, eh? And exactly how do you explain the fact that I am holding one? Would you care to walk away now or attempt to take the pot and be carried out? Your call, stranger.
I do love me The Judge.
Mrs. Sparky does know me and loves me whole bunches.
I bet you’d put the government in check with that. Thank God for the 2nd Amendment because I don’t know what else you’d do if you didn’t have that little gun to protect you.
Weak lily…. weak.
But thanks for taking time out from recess to try.
Nice piece! That’ll take the starch out of Jamal next time he asks for yo’ wallet!
Hey, Big Boy, in the photo!! Who’s ‘WE’?
You wanna pry it from MY cold dead hands?
Go ahead. Make my day.
http://shop.lodgemfg.com/wildlife-series/bear.asp
https://youtu.be/hrxHuT9taf4?t=54
Get some, Ex!! (smile)
Did anyone notice that sign boy has “idiot mittens”? (old Bill Cosby comment) Kinda negates the overall brilliance of his pose, huh? I’ve never seen an adult wear those. Maybe it’s ’cause I don’t get out much…
I think those are suppose to represent our cold, dead hands.
Yeah, but it isn’t really ‘mittens’. It’s plastic skeleton hands left over from Hallowe’en – like that’s supposed to scare me?
I saw things when I did medical photography that would make that clown wet his pants while he’s running away, screaming.
I remain firmly convinced that we DO need Gun Law Reform, every State, County and Municipality ought to have Gun Laws and Ordinances exactly like what currently exists in Kennesaw GA!
I love it when these shit talkers start on taking our guns. Like all brainless ones, they assume that the government will do the job for them. What they don’t know is that about one hour after the word gets out that the grabbers have started their work, most of the Government Minions tasked with the confiscation will be at home protecting their own families from us. I doubt that the majority of american gun owners will sit quietly by and allow the Gestapo freedom of movement. There are about 800,000 police against 100,000,000 honest gun owners. It won’t end well for them. After we have dealt with the official grabbers we might just start on the shit talkers.
How many cops, Guard troops, and AD personnel do you think would hoist the Gadsden flag and join us? I’m guessing quite a lot of them.
This guy, for one. It seems unwise to barf out of entire CONOP right here, but “go to these houses and collect these guns by force” is what I think of as an “apocalypse order”. The rules have changed, the status quo is dead, and life will never be the same again.
I know my Joes well enough to know I’m not alone on this.
Ceaucescu of Romania thought he had that gun control/disarmed populace thing handled. It did not work out well for him; especially when the sentence was carried out after his fifteen minute trial. I think evil guns were involved, somehow.
He and that bitch wife of his were executed together.
So was he worse than his wife, or were they on an equal par of beast behavior?
He got a fair trial and an efficient firing squad!
Due process, who could expect anything more fair. Romanians thought he got his due. If the Venezuelans weren’t such a bunch of pussies they could take back their country in similar fashion. Instead, the ones who can pull it off, vote with their feet.
1989 was a merry fucking Christmas for the Romanians.
Come and get my AK-47 with a bayonet mother fuckers, I also have about 4 thousand round of full metal jacket ammo as well! I don’t think you will have any hands left to grab your dick when I’m done with you. 40 rounds in my clip will give you a little time between changes, but you better be real fast! Fuck all of you gun grabbing pussies!
Everybody is a “combat veteran”.
Everybody has PTSD.
My son is 13. At Casa D, sometimes PTSD means “Put That Shit Down!”
One should not plan on limiting one’s ire to the minions of tyrants.
Should it come to insurrection, the tyrant -leaders- who seek to overthrow our Constitution are fair game, and shall be prioritized.
I suspect that would-be tyrants are under the impression that they can insulate themselves from the consequences of their acts, that they can be safe from any … feedback … from their victims.
(Grin) Peekaboo.
They forget Robespierre…
Tisket a tasket,
There are heads in a basket.
France blew a gasket
just wait until both sides turn on them.
THERE IS A PLACE that has JUST what libtard proglodyte moonbats want. Nobody there BUT Enforcement types carry any kind of weapon, free healthcare, everyone is issued the same amount of living space, food and clothing and there are jobs there where everyone works for the community, it’s called prison!
Or North Korea
…or Venezuela.
Every moonbat fucktard screeching about Gun Violence needs to go march in Chicago!
At least this socialist domestic enemy is being truthful. They want you disarmed so they can kill you more effectively. Disarming citizens leads to genocide. They know this.
Get fit. Organize. Train.
I will turn in my assault claw/ball pean hammer and my handguns if you libertards turn in your assault automobiles. Couple of weeks ago, a woman up in Boynton Beach ran over her husband with her assault car and I didn’t hear about any emotional/hysterical marches about an automobile ban.
Dear Wannabe Sheriff Gungrabber, The motion detector is not necessarily to alert me of your intention to enter my property and confiscate my weapons as you see fit. The motion detector alerts 2 Presa Canarios that there is an uninvited chew toy on the premises. Your screams will be my indicator to remove by the most violent of means a trespasser on my property!!
You can’t get within 200 yards of my door without my Burglar alarm going off, his name is Rocky and he can’t be trusted around strangers.
Rocky sounds like a great burglar alarm. Never ceases to amaze me how they know who lives on this road and they pay no mind to. But a strange car has the hair on their backs standing.
A dog can smell a change in the air from a thousand yards away. Especially if it is an “interesting” sort of whiff.
The constitution never supported a permanent federal military. Each state is supposed to have a militia. Of course the Reagan Libertarian Conservatives never liked that and never will. They act as if they’re constitutional experts, but hate it when people point out that a large permanent federal military isn’t in it.
The spirit of the 2nd Amendment was to get the people equal with the power of the government. It’s a checks and balances thing. Today your guns are no better than rocks against the government. The 2nd Amendment is spiritless.
Nope. Fail. Limited size permanent military, yes. No permanent military? Try again.
And consider this: I don’t need tanks or nuclear weapons when it’s already illegal for the military (the federal kind) to act against the citizens, and the NG and police are not of sufficient number or like mind of the bureaucratic/chickenshit cucks who would ever seriously consider outright confiscation.
Bottom line, shit for brains–who’s going to take me guns? You? Your little douchebag “friends”? Cause the government can TRY, but even they know it’s nothing more than lip service.
BTW, how come you aren’t calling for banning knives and cars? Seems Elliot Rodger would have made the case for banning both.
You may go now.
Well! Aren’t he -fierce-!
Or not. He is trying to walk it back.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/03/27/nc-sheriff-hopeful-apologizes-for-joke-about-taking-guns-away-from-peoples-cold-bare-hands.html
Beat me to it, 11B.
‘The sheriff hopeful told North Carolina’s The News & Observer on Monday that “a one-sentence clip from that meeting has been taken out of context and circulated on social media with a false interpretation of what I actually said.”’
The old “taken out of context” argument. Sorry, won’t carry any water, that’s exactly what he said.
‘“Don’t believe the scare tactics, because you’ve heard people say, ‘You’ll have to pry my gun from my cold, bare hands,’” Fisher is heard saying in a video posted by his campaign at the 3:04 minute mark. “OK … Whenever you pass away, we’ll come get it,” he quipped.’
Pus-nuts bedwetting booger-eater!!
The context was a Moms Demand Action meeting. So, to the extent that the words he spoke were taken from that meeting and repeated here and elsewhere, they were taken out of context. That’s the way these clowns think He’s whoring for votes. He needs a job. If a gun-grabbing fascist is what the people of that area want in a sheriff, they are welcome to him. Yeah, it’s all just political rhetoric until the Brown Shirts are in the streets knocking heads.
Reality check for those interested, but probably mostly directed to those least interested:
Combat veterans have no more rights than anybody else in this country. What combat vets have that the run of the mill citizen probably does not have is a LOT of training in how to safely handle firearms. (Some cops do as well but all too many do not.) Combat vets certainly are not trained in the military on the specific handling and characteristics of a wide variety of weaponry. The principles of safe handling do, however, apply to anything and everything they might acquire as civilians.
Conclusion: Of any arbitrarily selected group of Americans, combat vets, as well as most other vets who never saw combat, are the best trained in how to safely keep and bear arms. We know it and the gun grabbers know it. Perhaps that explains why they are so desperate to find excuses to disarm us first, something they have been doing successfully for decades now.
I’ve actually asked leftist colleagues over the years how gun confiscation would work. I’ve pointed out that many members of the military would not go along with it, and their whole scheme would be kaput. Their response is almost invariably to remind me that “soldiers follow orders”. Yep- they see members of the armed forces as an unthinking monolith that will do whatever their superiors say. It’s funny, because I, as the only service member in the convo, would say that assumption is wrong, but they’d insist. Since they almost without exception never served themselves, I can only assume that this belief comes from the movies. Especially anti-war ones. I don’t remember Platoon that well, but the soldiers in that movie commit a number of war crimes with nary a thought. Did someone order me to burn down this village full of civilians? Fuck yeah! There’s no knowledge of actual history. They know nothing of My Lai, where, while some soldiers committed atrocities, others challenged rank and orders to stop the tragedy. Further afield, they might know about Eichmann trying to excuse himself as simply following orders, but they know nothing of the members of the Wehrmacht, such as Rommel, who did ignore certain orders from Nazi high command. TL;DR? Soldiers are not unthinking automatons! I joined the military with a goal. I wanted to contribute to my vision of the world, where America’s enemies are put to the sword so that the safety and freedom of innocent Americans are preserved. I follow orders that feed into that. Even when those orders are lame. Deploy to Afghanistan, work in the S3, and prepare CONOPs with risk mitigation procedures for green-on-blue attacks during joint patrols? Ok, well, that’s not exactly “lead an infantry platoon into combat” but fine, I’ll do it. It contributes as part of this team to my ultimate goal. Same thing with “pee in a cup”, or “complete accident avoidance for the sixty-eighth time”, or “participate in DIV WarFighter as a 1LT” (yeah, that one really sucks). They contribute to my vision, even in the tiniest way, so… Read more »
And here we go. I have been saying for quite some time that as stupid as the Lefties are, they know damn well that existing gun laws are useless. But they demand more useless laws as a way of conditioning the rest of the country that, after decades of failed attempts to curtail gun violence by gun more and more statutes, the only answer is to eliminate that pesky 2nd Amendment. The drum beats have begun and the NYT is banging loudest with a guest editorial by uber lefty and retired Sup Ct Justice John Stevens. Says he, “They [gun protesters] should demand a repeal of the Second Amendment.”