Civil War’s A-Brewin’

Townhall ^ | January 14, 2013 | Matt Barber

[2ndDivisionVet]

A pretty, young, auburn-haired woman – mid-20s – drove down a lonely country road somewhere in Oklahoma. Appearing in her rearview mirror, at the back windshield, were two menacing orbs of light floating amid ashen dusk. The guttural roar of a souped-up big block shook the tiny Volkswagen Rabbit as a van-load of inbred thugs lurched left and drew alongside her. A ponytailed passenger taunted inaudibly and blew foul kisses between crude hand gestures. He pointed for her to pull over as the van repeatedly swerved dangerously close.

Inside the car a man, asleep in the reclining passenger seat, was startled awake by the commotion. He rose and darted his head about, calmly assessing the situation. This only spurred the evil-bent goons. As they ramped-up efforts to run the car off the road, the man reached in the glove box, withdrew a military-grade, semi-automatic handgun – an “assault weapon,” if you will – and, with intentionality and great theatre, leaned across his young bride, pointing the gun out the open bay and directly between dirt bag’s booze-flushed eyes.

Van vanished amid a plume of gray smoke as wheels locked, tires screeched and “assault vehicle” fishtailed – jerking to a halt with taillights aglow skyward from the ditch.

Not a shot was fired....

[2ndDivisionVet]

Comments?

[Jim Robinson]

How much gun is too much in such a situation?

[Biggirl]

Maybe getting closer to?

[central_va]

We’ve been in a cold Civil War for decades.

[andyk]

Thought I was reading Matt Bracken for a minute.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

“They have the guns and therefore we are for peace and for reformation through the ballot. When we have the guns then it will be through the bullet.”

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

[Pox]

It will begin with vigilantism, it will progress to retaliation against law enforcement (who will attempt to clamp down on the vigilantes), and then all out violence will begin from all angles.

It will start small and snowball at an alarming pace, particularly if the economy is impacted in a significant manner, IMO.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Boys .51 caliber anti-tank gun?

[2ndDivisionVet]

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

[Georgia Girl 2]

The govt will likely start a civil war so they can declare martial law and take over. Well thats their dream. Everybody has one. :-)

[ExGeeEye]

Thought I was reading Matt Bracken for a minute.

Sshh...he's probably listening...

:)

[yarddog]

They got it all wrong. It is supposed to be a pickup truck with a rebel flag in the rear window and the rednecks in the front and in the truck bed.

I have seen it in the movies and TV a million times. The only thing different is the VW passenger being armed.

[marktwain]

Such situations are not uncommon. I was surprised when several women told me of similar events.

One had to slam on the brakes, turn off the car, run to the trunk, unlock the trunk, get the pistol out, get back in the car, start the car, endure a nasty game of “chicken” as the offending male came back at her, and wait until he turned around and again came up even with her.

She then pointed the pistol at him, he floored the accelerator, and she never saw him again.

[DoughtyOne]

I sure hope he didn’t have a magazine with more than ten bullets in it.

/s

[Bon mots]

The same thing is happening now and nobody is resisiting, nor will they.

[2ndDivisionVet]

What Good Can a Handgun Do Against An Army?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2312894/posts

[servantboy777]

Americans still have too much to lose at this point. Work, kids school/activities, retirement and so forth.

One day, Americans will feel uncle sugar’s crossed the line and they no longer have anything to lose.

The match will be thrown in the powder keg.

Hope not, but free people will not give up their freedom easily.

[Pox]

There will eventually come a snapping point that will unleash appalling acts of violence and those who want to use it to declare martial law may not be prepared for that which they have enabled.

[doc1019]

I think you are right. Too many generations of government conditioning, few will do anything. There may be pockets of resistance but not enough to save our nation from the inevitable.

If we can’t do it politically or through the courts, nothing will happen.

I sincerely hope I’m wrong but doesn’t look like it.

[central_va]

I would give up everything for a chance to participate and help one state to break free of this so called union, I would be there in a minute.