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Finland Promotes National Security By Building Ranges and Encouraging Armed Citizens
Bearing Arms ^ | 2/20/24 | Cam Edwards

Posted on 02/20/2024 2:00:05 PM PST by CFW

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To: 1of10

I suspect this legislation...
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4217890/posts
...is in reality, a sneaky way to crush that notion.

...first they came for the...
...you know the rest


21 posted on 02/20/2024 3:15:53 PM PST by SheepWhisperer (Get involved with, or start a home fellowship group. It will be the final church. ACTS 2:42-47)
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To: CFW

The Finns have a long history of defense needs and apparently they haven’t forgotten them. Good for Finland!
(in their own way, the Swiss have a similar positive attitude about being prepared to defend their country if needed)


22 posted on 02/20/2024 3:42:28 PM PST by faithhopecharity (“Politicians are not born. They're excreted.” Marcus Tillius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: CFW

I am of the opinion that JROTC programs should be teaching marksmanship via airgun competitions.


23 posted on 02/20/2024 3:55:55 PM PST by taxcontrol (The choice is clear - either live as a slave on your knees or die as a free citizen on your feet.)
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To: SheepWhisperer

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4217890/posts

thanks for that link ..... I thought I could sneak a little shut eye ... I should have known better... blink and you might miss something

Until these commies start being held accountable for their attempts to violate the Constitution we will see more of this kind of ... hmmmm ... stuff

Why can’t they be prosecuted for violation of their oath?
Where are the lawyer sharks on our side?
We need to get in the game...LAWFARE ....
....kind of boils my behind.


24 posted on 02/20/2024 4:01:01 PM PST by 1of10 (be vigilant , be strong, be safe, be 1 of 10 .)
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To: CFW

The Finns are not Scandinavian, ie Swedes, Danes and Norwegians, and do not consider themselves to be. They’re not ethnically the same and do not speak a Scandinavian language. Remember the olympic sport of the biathlon — skiing and shooting, was created to memorialize the Finns’ fight against the Russians.


25 posted on 02/20/2024 4:42:17 PM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative. )
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To: 1of10

If you really want to preserve gun rights ... take a kid hunting or to the range .... or just plinking out back
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My local radio station runs a commercial for a local gun shop which ends with a young lad saying to his father, “Hey Dad, let’s go down to the gun store!” That commercial must give the few leftist morons in my area some serious indigestion! Smile every time I hear it!


26 posted on 02/20/2024 4:45:45 PM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (Biden left our troops to die in Afghanistan and our military equipment to our enemy. Never forget.)
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To: CFW

We should bring back firearms training (at the minimum, the NRA safety courses) into the schools.
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The nearest public high school where I live has an active JROTC program that includes target shooting. I recently met the teacher, a hardcore Army veteran with combat experience in the Middle East.


27 posted on 02/20/2024 4:49:39 PM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (Biden left our troops to die in Afghanistan and our military equipment to our enemy. Never forget.)
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To: BobL

What the Russians really want is Finnish territory (and Estonia) to give free access from Petersburg to the Gulf of Finland and so to the Baltic.

That bit of Finland thats on the gulf is the most populated and developed bit of course, including Helsinki.

Russia also wants the highly educated and productive Finns under their rule.


28 posted on 02/20/2024 4:54:00 PM PST by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: Dead Corpse

The “Left” in this Country are literally DOMESTIC ENEMIES and should be treated as such at every opportunity.
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I preach that gospel to EVERY person with whom I’m acquainted. Many agree with me but quite a number have been brainwashed beyond all hope.


29 posted on 02/20/2024 4:56:06 PM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (Biden left our troops to die in Afghanistan and our military equipment to our enemy. Never forget.)
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To: buwaya

“What the Russians really want is Finnish territory (and Estonia) to give free access from Petersburg to the Gulf of Finland and so to the Baltic.”

As long Finland doesn’t elect another woman, Russia has nothing to worry about.

As far as educated Finns go, Russia doesn’t need them, they have PLENTY of very well educated people, as they don’t let the Leftists run education there.


30 posted on 02/20/2024 4:56:06 PM PST by BobL (Trump gets my vote, even if I have to write him in; Millions of others will do the same)
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To: fortes fortuna juvat

“Hey Dad, let’s go down to the gun store!”

That puts me in mind of the little ditty they used to play
before the movies at the theater when I was a kid.

Little cups of soda and pop corn boxes dancing across the screen. singing “let’s go out ...to the ... lobby...”

Some brilliant young mind should do a remake ...

Little 300 black outs and 30 rnd mags dancing and singing ....”let’s go down ...to the ...gun store...”
be a good meme


31 posted on 02/20/2024 4:56:49 PM PST by 1of10 (be vigilant , be strong, be safe, be 1 of 10 .)
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To: stevio

God, guns, and guts!
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
From an old metal sign on my front door:

God, Guns, and Guts
Made America Free
(Let’s Keep It That Way)


32 posted on 02/20/2024 5:02:56 PM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (Biden left our troops to die in Afghanistan and our military equipment to our enemy. Never forget.)
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To: BobL

No, Russia doesnt have these people. It just lost nearly a million of them in 2022-23, to add to the regular annual “brain drain”.

Worse, it doesnt have the entrereneurial spirit to make good use of them. In theory Russia should have all it needs to develop entrepreneurial high tech firms, but no, it hasnt. Where is the Russian Nokia?


33 posted on 02/20/2024 5:04:59 PM PST by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: buwaya

“No, Russia doesnt have these people.”

That’s why NATO weapons are getting CLOBBERED. That’s why the Sanctions have only made Russia stronger.

I’ll save you the trouble of responding with more Neocon-type excuses for Ukraine getting their assess kicked: (1) The Ukrainians are not properly trained; (2) Just you wait, Bob, we always said that the sanctions would not affect Russia until AFTER the second half of 2024.

Based on what you guys have been saying about Russia’s lack of capabilities from Day 1, why isn’t Ukraine storming the Kremlin Gates by now?


34 posted on 02/20/2024 5:16:51 PM PST by BobL (Trump gets my vote, even if I have to write him in; Millions of others will do the same)
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To: Carry_Okie

the 2A is just as dangerous in the hands of the left as it is in ours.
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Potentially yes, but not now for two big reasons: (1) a large percentage of leftists are opposed to the 2nd Amendment and don’t want anything to do with firearms; and (2) tens of millions of men and women who despise the left are now armed to the teeth and waiting patiently for a justifiable reason to rid our country of the bast*rds.


35 posted on 02/20/2024 5:25:01 PM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (Biden left our troops to die in Afghanistan and our military equipment to our enemy. Never forget.)
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To: faithhopecharity

(in their own way, the Swiss have a similar positive attitude about being prepared to defend their country if needed)
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That attitude and the defensive measures that resulted persuaded Herr Adolf to leave the Swiss alone during WW-II.


36 posted on 02/20/2024 5:31:08 PM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (Biden left our troops to die in Afghanistan and our military equipment to our enemy. Never forget.)
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To: BobL

Er, NATO weapons arent getting clobbered. The important ones arent even deployed. And nearly everything sent is at least 30 years old. Most is older.

The newest things in Ukraine are NASAMS and IRIS-T, in small numbers. Besides commercial drones of course. And Starlink.

The important part is the civilian economy. Russia simply hasnt produced an internationally relevant tech company, or consumer brand. Thats because the relevant people go abroad. I have hired a few. And my vendors hired many more.


37 posted on 02/20/2024 5:32:37 PM PST by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: buwaya

What the Russians really want is Finnish territory (and Estonia) to give free access from Petersburg to the Gulf of Finland and so to the Baltic.
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Many people are unaware that Russian already has an ice-free port at Kaliningrad on the Baltic.


38 posted on 02/20/2024 5:40:16 PM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (Biden left our troops to die in Afghanistan and our military equipment to our enemy. Never forget.)
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To: Bookshelf

Yeah maybe 50 years ago Finland was still homogeneous. That’s hardly the case anymore.


39 posted on 02/20/2024 5:44:10 PM PST by Roman_War_Criminal (Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything )
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To: fortes fortuna juvat

Both are true, and that is our opportunity for a conservative President to transform the unorganized militia.


40 posted on 02/20/2024 5:51:40 PM PST by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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