Thanks for you reply. I live in a Western Open Carry firearms state. Only concealed firearms must have a permit. Most people who live here are quite familiar with firearms and what they can do. Antifa had their own “Socialist Rifle Association” contingent armed with AKs and ARs.
SRA has grown to over 6,000 members nationally since George Floyd and are organized into Local Chapters. Each Chapter uses a different name and they are prolific in all 50 states, according to their web site. Google SRA or Socialist Rifle Association to read for yourself.
When they marched through our town everyone on both sides knew the score, and what could happened if a single shot was fired or a single armed resident was approached to burn and loot his property. In my state if you are approached with malicious intent and “Reasonably Believe” your life,or an innocent third party’s life could be in danger you may shoot to kill.
We were not militia! Every man and woman was a resident property owner taking Defensive Action to protect their businesses, homes, and families. This is what decent people have always done from East of Eden on.
We need to rub the scales from our eyes and prepare for this fight that is being forced upon us. We are not a warlike people by nature and we have always stumbled into war reluctantly and unprepared. God has shown us such mercy and protected us when it seemed all could be lost. Then we buckled-down and did what we had to do to win.
This time the civil conflict we face will not be fought by great navies and armies sweeping across seas and continental battle fields with tens of millions following the flag into a decisive battle that will end the war.
Instead our enemy plans to destroy us in detail, community, by neighborhood, by home. There is no Private property ownership, including your home, under Marxism. This is same Marxist enemy that has always been there; slowly and patiently over the generations corrupting our Constitution, our cultural institutions ,legal and political systems, and even our right to practice our Worship and speak freely.
This is the same enemy that has come for us now. When General George Washington took his army to Valley Forge to spend the Winter of 1777-78 he had 12,000 soldiers with 400 women and children. During the fist months 2,000 died of disease. By Spring frostbite, exposure,and desertion had reduced Washington’s army to under 2,000 Soldiers.
These were the Winter Soldiers. They were the hard core of what was to become the victorious army that accepted the Surrender of British General Cornwallis at Boston years later. We are that generation for today. Winter Soldiers fighting without apology in defense of their nation, their Constitution and their homes cannot be beaten.
So, to hell with the prophets of Marxism,doom,national disrespect, guilt, and surrender. Let us stand-up together as men and women who love their Country,and their children, and fight!
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THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated...'Tis surprising to see how rapidly a panic will sometimes run through a country. All nations and ages have been subject to them... Yet panics, in some cases, have their uses; they produce as much good as hurt. Their duration is always short; the mind soon grows through them, and acquires a firmer habit than before. But their peculiar advantage is, that they are the touchstones of sincerity and hypocrisy, and bring things and men to light, which might otherwise have lain forever undiscovered. In fact, they have the same effect on secret traitors, which an imaginary apparition would have upon a private murderer. They sift out the hidden thoughts of man, and hold them up in public to the world. Many a disguised Tory has lately shown his head...
...The period is now arrived, in which either they or we must change our sentiments, or one or both must fall... But, before the line of irrecoverable separation be drawn between us, let us reason the matter together: Your conduct is an invitation to the enemy, yet not one in a thousand of you has heart enough to join him.
HoweANTIFA is as much deceived by you as the American cause is injured by you. He expects you will all take up arms, and flock to his standard, with muskets on your shoulders. Your opinions are of no use to him, unless you support him personally, for 'tis soldiers, and not Tories, that he wants.[A man with a child in his hands] finished with this unfatherly expression, "Well! Give me peace in my day." Not a man lives on the continent but fully believes that a separation must some time or other finally take place, and a generous parent should have said, "If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace;" and this single reflection, well applied, is sufficient to awaken every man to duty. Not a place upon earth might be so happy as America. Her situation is remote from all the wrangling world, and she has nothing to do but to trade with them.
-PJ