Posted on 09/10/2020 4:15:22 AM PDT by Travis McGee
In societies living under the Rule of Law, sworn Law Enforcement (LE) officers have always been considered fully justified in applying lethal force against violent mobs during arson riots, such as those which have been occurring with regularity in American cities during the terrible summer of 2020. This was the intent and meaning of police officials publicly “Reading the Riot Act,” announcing over a loudspeaker that a violent mob had been declared to be an unlawful assembly, that is to say, a riot. Rioters who lingered on the street after that final warning could be engaged by LE at any level up to and including the use of deadly force, with no further announcement.
This was, in prior more civilized times, a basic understanding of all citizens living under the Rule of Law. This is why a police officer’s standard-issue pump shotgun was traditionally referred to as a “riot gun” long before the development of modern less-than-lethal munitions. This is also why arson riots were uncommon and short-lived. Everyone understood the ground rules. There was no right to burn, loot or murder.
Thomas Sowell put it this way: “If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.”
ABR, my own acronym for the current working coalition of Antifa, BLM and the Revolutionary Communist Party of the U.S., are now routinely using Molotov cocktails (gasoline bombs) and other incendiary/explosive devices as offensive weapons in both an anti-personnel and anti-property (arson) role. As far as the BATFE is concerned, a Molotov cocktail is an illegal explosive device, and so are powerful high-altitude fireworks, when they are deployed at ground level as anti-personnel and anti-property explosive/incendiary grenades.
ABR deliberately uses the anonymity of their black-clad and face-masked mobs to conceal the identity of their individual bomb throwers, in exactly the same way that 19th Century Ku Klux Klan night riders carrying torches on arson missions concealed their identities with white robes and masks. There is no moral or ethical requirement for either police or ordinary citizens protecting their communities from violent mobs to identify and ferret out the individual bomb throwers, when the rest of the mob is intentionally surrounding them in order to shield them from that identification. Because of the deliberately created synergy of bomb throwers utilizing the anonymity of the mob, the entire ABR mob becomes a legitimate target for police arrest or armed community self-defense.
Furthermore, at this writing in September of 2020, there is no moral or ethical requirement for a law-abiding American citizen to wait for a lit Molotov cocktail or any other incendiary or explosive device to crash through the window of their home or business, while ABR mobs are rampaging through the streets conducting arson attacks. Once the fires begin, morally and ethically, the same Rules for the Use of Force (RUF) should apply that would attach to a lynch mob, or to Ku Klux Klan night riders on their way to burn homes or businesses. Both KKK night riders bearing torches in olden times, and violent mobs of ABR terrorists with Molotov cocktails and other incendiary devices today, can and should be engaged by armed citizens with any necessary level of force required to halt their terroristic depredations.
In numerous recent cases, law enforcement under Leftist political control has repeatedly abdicated its traditional and expected role in breaking up violent riots and preventing arson and other terror attacks. Week by week, the level of ABR violence has been steadily escalating, and it’s logical to assume that it will only worsen as the hotly-contested presidential election draws near.
So let me be very clear: if Democrat Party governors, mayors and DAs have hamstrung their police for political reasons, and won’t allow them to protect the lives and property of their local citizens using all required force, abandoning their primary mission in order to bow to the ABR mob, then it is time for their undefended citizens to apply the clear intent of the Second Amendment. There should be deep regret about the abandonment of the Rule of Law by the Democrat Party political ruling class, but there should be no moral quibbles or hesitation by American citizens concerning the legitimacy of armed community self defense, in the absence of expected law enforcement protection.
Therefore, it is my carefully considered opinion that black-clad and masked ABR mobs, rampaging and terrorizing innocent citizens under the cover of darkness in the style of the KKK of old, may morally and ethically be taken under preemptive fire by armed citizens at any level necessary to drive them out of their peaceful neighborhoods and away from their businesses, before the terrorists can reach their targets and throw their Molotov cocktails and other explosive and incendiary devices.
As an historical note, it should be understood that the National Rifle Association was founded after the last American Civil War by former Union Army officers, (and Republicans at that), in order to empower freed African-American former slaves to defend themselves with firearms against KKK night raids. In the 19th Century, the Democrat Party, then allied with the Klan, (as the Democrats of today are aligned with Antifa and BLM), had favored strict gun control, in the form of narrowly written laws restricting the legal ownership of firearms by free black citizens.
The more things change…
#2 steel shot is an excellent bottle breaker.
Killing puppets discourages the other puppets.
For all intents and purposes, done at Post 5.
My bad! Thanks!
Excellent!
(And thank you for using ‘an’ before ‘historical’. :-)
Indeed! A lot of people lost their ‘patience’ with the marauding communists.
I’m moving toward the rest of my guns and that isn’t a moment too soon.
Ladies and gentlemen on the list, I am calling on all of you who constituted the great crew that covered the Egyptian Revolution, which turned the tables on Morsi’s Moslem Brotherhood (MB) in the summer of 2013. We may have to run live threads to UNCOVER THE MEDIA as we cover the news to balance the communist media and force them to inform the American population.
I pray this will NOT be needed but, the way things are shaping up, the communists will never accept a Trump win UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES! At least this is what I’m hearing in not so many words. Communists never retreat an inch without facing extreme force.
Mel
PS. The above is my opinion based on some lousy experience. There is no URL to submit. With what’s happening nowadays you just connect the dots.
Pardon me if I missed some names. After all it has been 7 years!
M
Matt, I have the utmost respect for you and what you say. You obviously know what you’re doing.
Even so, I do have a question. Shotguns are great, but using less-than-lethal loads seems like a dangerous proposition. It’s not that those who’ve been hit may try to hurt you more AT THE TIME, but what about after?
I have heard LEO’s say, in private of course, that if you have to shoot, make sure the perp is ‘graveyard dead’. If they survive and find out who you are, they can come back with a ton of lawyers and do their level best to destroy you and your family. Liberal judges are just itching to show “those freedom-loving right-wingers where the REAL power is”. The perp could sue you and your family into the ground and take everything, leaving you penniless.
A dead rioter can’t come back and sue you. That’s why I don’t like the idea of shotguns unless they’re deployed at close range (much too close for my taste) and loaded with the most lethal kind of shot (whatever is to your liking).
When they see we’re done and mean business, then let them come cowering and on their knees, begging for mercy. Then, dispense justice as is appropriate.
nikk this will be of interest to you
Matt
You need to add a caution to your moral argument.
In most states it is not supported by a legal argument.
Rightly so. As with the Klan, the PTB won't lift a finger to stop them. In many cases, they ARE them.
Short-sighted. Puppets have no brains. Puppetmasters need to be taken down. There is no end to stupid, brain-washed numb-skulls that the commies are willing to sacrifice. Cut the head of the snake. Assuaging your rage is not a war strategy.
“There is no end to stupid, brain-washed numb-skulls that the commies are willing to sacrifice.”
Sure there are. They have a tough time getting them in the first place. They have to pay them.
Agreed!
Those rounds function fine in any .22lr rifle.
Tent?
We were in a hotel!
Now on my mission to Liberia I was in cinderblock family quarters and there was no AC. That was great fun! But it was only me in there so there was that.
Generally yes.
Some folks caution the rounds can split when leaving the mag. I haven’t experienced that/
A shotgun is for close contact. As you stated, closer than one should/needs to be.
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