Posted on 05/01/2012 6:06:09 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I was invited via an email from Cabela’s to trick out my AR. It took a minute to figure that they were talking about an automatic rifle. The picture looked like the M-16 I carried 40 years ago in military service, but more upscale. I don't own an AR. I don't even have a gun. It is usually nice shirts and camping equipment I get from them. So it was a little surprising.
I like Cabela’s. When we lived in Michigan I'd take my kids to see their beautiful four-story displays of bears, coyotes, foxes in hinterland settings. It seemed a representative part of glorious northern Michigan known as the UP. I tend to like guns as well. But the AR is not a hunting gun. It is a war weapon and a lot of people are buying them. In fact, guns today are said to be the only bright spot on the economy and Cabela’s stock is booming.
But why are so many Americans buying guns? It has been like this for several years now. Since Obama was elected president. The question should be asked in the same way Thomas Mann once asked, "Why are they disinfecting the streets of Venice?” Is something dark and unknown rising within us? Is it already here?
We enter seasons ahead unlike any we had seen in the passing century. New trends, ideas and people — the Tea Party, Ron Paul, Sarah Palin, for beginners — tend to bring shock, even apoplexy to the institutionalized and sanctioned establishment. But the institutionalized norms are rapidly passing. Even the movie “The Hunger Games” brings the predictable scorn and ironic responses on the neurasthenic left and by establishment trend-setters like Vanity Fair and The New York Times. The rising times will not be like the receding times and these new trends mark the rising times. And so does this phenomenon of rapidly rising gun sales.
In the early part of the last century, the Swiss psychiatrist C.G. Jung developed "psychological types" — which Myers-Briggs and other personality tests today are based on — because the German national character was rapidly changing and he wanted to know why and what it meant. The great poets and visionaries, Maude Gunn, Yeats and Mann, sensed it as well and dreamed of blood flowing in rivers. Our institutionalized entertainment, educational and information networks today lacks these canaries in the coal mine. Liberals outnumber conservatives 88 to three in college humanities classrooms and the pillars of public information, the three networks and the two major newspapers are overwhelmingly liberal, yet the population actually breaks about even, liberal and conservative. This is, to say the least, unresponsive; a dream of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World come true which might even be called, to paraphrase Susan Sontag, “totalitarianism with a human face” — a face so accurately caricatured today in Suzanne Collins’s Hunger Games. So system shock will be greater, with greater difficulty to adapt when new realities arise.
Mann wrote Death in Venice a hundred years ago this year. And our American world this year appears today to be sending signs of subtle and unconscious change — a veiled elephant is entering the room — some of them transfiguring, some of them foreboding. Our world changes. The question is, to what?
Thirteen Charlie? I actually met some of those there. Twelve Bravo here. I went through OSUT at 31 years of age and graduated. ;-)
No, Company C, 1st Battalion, 3rd Brigade at Ft Leonard Wood. That was the thing we shouted at BCT. My MOS was 96B, intelligence analyst. Wasn’t OSUT, went to Fort Huachuca for AIT.
I'm getting ready to start baiting my barrel in another week or so and also planning on spending some time for grizz up on our summit. I luv it up here, cold weather and all.
I'm getting ready to start baiting my barrel in another week or so and also planning on spending some time for grizz up on our summit. I luv it up here, cold weather and all.
They sense it, something has changed and is changing. This is not the same America as it was 5 years ago. I myself feel we are headed toward rougher times possibly ending in a a civil war in the more distant future if things don’t improve.
The recession, Obama’s radicalism, the TEA party, the ideas of the Internet(information) age have all conspired to change us as a people.
We are thankfully more aware of our liberty and God willing the forces that worked to bring that about will continue to do so. Nothing is more important than our individual liberty. For there can be no free or just country who’s individuals are made subjects of the state. Armed with that awareness and a growing knowledge of what it will take to defend that liberty we might stand a chance of coming out of this better than we were when we went in.
But make no mistake the journey ahead will not be like the journey behind.
“Until you get to the 600-pounder. Or he gets to you. More gun, son.”
Over the last 3 years we’ve had an invasion of feral hogs on the ranch. For years I carried a Styer 243 for taking out coyotes and learned real quick it was a little light for bigger hog’s and lacked the firepower when you ran into sounders. My truck gun now is a Panther Arms LR 308 and it can reduce the population of a large sounder pretty quick. The first year I took 14 hogs with the 243 since the LR I’ve taken 42 the second year and 56 last year. I’m at 27 so far this year, I fear I’m fighting a losing battle. The did a Helo hunt on the ranch to the west and took 230 in 2 days.
Here’s why citizens are buying guns. People need to be able to protect themselves.... This story deals with members of the MSM being beat up ... Link has the full story:
http://hamptonroads.com.nyud.net/2012/05/beating-church-and-brambleton
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Wave after wave of young men surged forward to take turns punching and kicking their victim.
The victim’s friend, a young woman, tried to pull him back into his car. Attackers came after her, pulling her hair, punching her head and causing a bloody scratch to the surface of her eye. She called 911. A recording told her all lines were busy. She called again. Busy. On her third try, she got through and, hysterical, could scream only their location.
Church and Brambleton. Church and Brambleton. Church and Brambleton.
It happened four blocks from where they work, here at The Virginian-Pilot.
Two weeks have passed since reporters Dave Forster and Marjon Rostami - friends to me and many others at the newspaper - were attacked on a Saturday night as they drove home from a show at the Attucks Theatre. They had stopped at a red light, in a crowd of at least 100 young people walking on the sidewalk. Rostami locked her car door. Someone threw a rock at her window. Forster got out to confront the rock-thrower, and that’s when the beating began.
In the early part of the last century, the Swiss psychiatrist C.G. Jung developed “psychological types” — which Myers-Briggs and other personality tests today are based on — because the German national character was rapidly changing and he wanted to know why and what it meant. The great poets and visionaries, Maude Gunn, Yeats and Mann, sensed it as well and dreamed of blood flowing in rivers. Our institutionalized entertainment, educational and information networks today lacks these canaries in the coal mine. Liberals outnumber conservatives 88 to three in college humanities classrooms and the pillars of public information, the three networks and the two major newspapers are overwhelmingly liberal, yet the population actually breaks about even, liberal and conservative. This is, to say the least, unresponsive; a dream of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World come true which might even be called, to paraphrase Susan Sontag, “totalitarianism with a human face” — a face so accurately caricatured today in Suzanne Collins’s Hunger Games. So system shock will be greater, with greater difficulty to adapt when new realities arise.
“...system shock...”
Indeed!!!
The events of yesterday clearly illustrate the fringe elements of a larger, and more violent uprising when the vunerables and the entitlement crowd don’t get their piece of our pie...
Ohhhh what a day that will be when they believe once again by pushing the right buttons, breaking the wrong window, rioting in the wrong niegborhood will be their undoing...
Some people may have a lower threshold than I, and thats ok...I can put up with a lot of crap...But when you cross the line, be prepared to never be that unhappy again...
It really is a shame, and the whole mess we are in was broadcast to us with plenty of time to avoid it, if we had shown up at the polls...
I figure the same mistake will happen again, and we’ll have another 4 years of this socialist in the WH, a divider, not a leader who demonstrates any credible leadership or responsibility, much less accountability...
So I guess the powderkeg is set, the plug is out and a nice pile of powder is ready for that spark...
Whats funny is the people causing the unrest don’t believe we’ll fight back...
When it does, everyone will lose that day...
Everyone will be disappointed in the end...
The potential for more Travon incidents has never been greater...
Thats what they want...
“If you think there is a difference between Romney and Obama then you have sold your soul to the devil and you’re an idiot.”
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I defer to Soros on that, he has assured us there is no practical difference between the two. On the other hand maybe there is, Romney may be the more dangerous at this point. He seems to fool some people who were never fooled by Obama.
Last I checked.
Do these people know how stupid they sound? Two sentences and the guy has lost all credibility. Besides, what is he even talking about? Handguards? Sights? Carry handles? None of those things have anything to do with the actual round being fired (which, as far as I know, is what actually does the damage).
It is essentially the equivalent of arguing that a leather steering wheel cover, a new stereo, or a shift knob would make a Corvette faster. It hurts my brain. Anybody who’s ever fired a gun and held an AR can tell you that a lot of the standard equipment is cheap and uncomfortable. I don’t know what the Cabela’s e-mail said, but I’d guess they were just pushing things like MOE grips, handguards, stocks, and BUIS.
Did you see this?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2878896/posts
Many blacks beat white couple, media bury attack...
Yep, it is only a matter of time and opportunity before a mob like this tries this on someone who is armed and prepared to defend themselves...
The ignorance of this author is positively breathtaking. Yes, an AR can be an automatic rifle, but in this instance AR stands for ARMALITE RIFLE. (Of course, then you’d have to tell this sharpest knife in the drawer what the ArmaLite Company was.)
The AR-type rifle is arguably the most copied rifle clone next to the M1911 and the AK. Every major manufacturer has their own variant of this iconic rifle — Remington, Ruger, Colt, S&W — plus a host of others. Stag Arms even build left handed versions of the rifle for the 1 of 5 people who soot from the other shoulder.
It boggles the mind where Mr. Bernie Quigley has been living since Mr. Obama was inaugurated in 2009. I can only think it is some parallel universe. Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
Great post, your #45. Thanks
Lowest bidder meeting minimum specs?
Lowest bidder meeting minimum specs?
Think Beirut Lebanon in the mid 70’s early 80’s. Or perhaps Northern Ireland from the early 70’s to present.
Actually think religious/ethnic/political brawl/blood feud & that would keep a lot of folks away from anything to do with this country.
Now if we could just get an indictment against AG Holder. In Arizona. There's your pluperfect gun-grabber.
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