Posted on 08/04/2008 3:50:44 AM PDT by sig226
THE Most BASIC HUMAN RIGHT - self-defense.
I carry a firearm; unabashedly, unashamedly, and even more than a bit defiantly. I am an AMERICAN CITIZEN, with the rights granted by God, defined in the Constitution, and secured by the blood and sacrifice of AMERICAN MANHOOD.
People are safer wherever I am, because THAT is the DUTY, OBLIGATION, and RESPONSIBILITY of ALL who call themselves AMERICAN CITIZENS. If citizens surrender the initiative to the more base and animalistic in society, you get the society that the animalistic deem appropriate.
I choose not to surrender that initiative.
If I can STOP a violent action, I will; If I can PROTECT an INNOCENT life, I will. If I can DEFEND my COUNTRY, MY NEIGHBORHOOD, MY FAMILY, I will.
About sums it up.
Thanks for the ping.
“I was BORN an AMERICAN. I LIVE as an AMERICAN; I shall DIE as an AMERICAN, and I intend to perform the duties incumbent upon me in that character to the end of my career. I mean to do this with ABSOLUTE DISREGARD of personal consequences. “
- Daniel Webster
I remember there was an outcry. Thank you very much for the link. Reading.
But push comes to shove, I'll be a grizzley that doesnt like the taste of lambchops...
I agree with Teddy about the eagle. It’s a scavenger
FWIW: When a notable member of such a group was asked why the perpetrators from those groups victimize members of those groups (trying to stay really PC here, sorry) instead of those outside, he responded that the perps would generally not survive such attacks.
Are you talking about gangs, as in Mexican gangs killing blacks in CA, just because they're black, and vice versa? I'm not PC. LOL
The sheep comment is very appropriate - and in tune with my long-standing signature.
I remember reading of a violent incident at a K-Mart where the shoppers were aware of the problem. I think it was a nutcase with a knife running around and shouting.
One customer later commented that his kid asked him “Dad do you have your gun?” (a big No No IMO). Other customers heard the kid and started to gather around the guy for protection. Probably the same ones who would have been against passage of CCW.
My daughter and I were in a grocery store one evening when we heard two carts collide and an argument start.
When we rounded the corner here were two men. One tall, 6 foot, about 185 pounds squaring off with a shorter fatter guy......with garden tools.
One had the little 3-prong rake, the other the small trowel shovel.
It was hilarious, I started laughing out loud and they both started giving me grief for laughing at them. They BOTH turned and brandished their 'weapons' at me.
I calmly moved my coat open so they could SEE the 1911 I was carrying in it's holster. I then informed them we were walking to the store office to call the police.
They were both pretty meek after that.
I’m talking violent gangs vs. polite middle class.
I recall a deputy commenting that such behavior would be ... um ... dealt with. And I have reason to believe my polite pretty neighborhood is way more armed than any ghetto block.
I think the search to define us as sheepdogs, rams or grizzly bears is a futile one because we are the chosen ones who protect America and her citizens. We are the eagles constantly observing the herd animals shifting from one plateau to another. We are the ones who take note of the hungry carnivors who trail behind the herds killing their young and unprotected aged. We are the ones who examine the corpses taking note that the fallen were stricken with viruses and diseases brought to our land from offshore invaders.
We are the only ones who have to courage to stand and fight the Quislings. It is our job to determine if our laws and politics have been corrupted to a such a state of desperation that arms are necessary to bring our Republic back to health.
The burden on our shoulders is indeed a heavy one. We have been selected for the task as protectors because we are not animals. We wisely do not instantly respond to all attacks the way an animal would because we recognize that some attacks are searches seeking to gain knowledge of our size, strength and capability. The Quislings need to know what our plans are. They must determine how to defeat us if they are to continue. These traitors fear us because we believe in a power that they can never defeat and it sure isn’t Islam.
I tend to view my fellow patriots as something good for all humanity such as an antibacterial antibiotic, say penicillin.
My honorary uncle Archie was a cop in Glendale in the ‘60’s, and he taught me much of what I know about shooting. One of the things he told me was to never “brandish” a weapon. Keep it holstered (or at least held down out of sight), or put it on-target and fire. Here 30 or 40 years later, it still seems good advice to me.
Please add me to the gun club list. Not all of us New Jersey residents call 911 and die, you know.
Shoot ‘em up!”
To paraphrase a common directive when I was going through BASIC: “Shoot ‘em if you've got ‘em.”
I agree with your take on this subject. The only firearm I currently “own” is about a thousand miles from me right now. I left it there to keep it from getting stolen when I was moving so frequently in the military, and haven't recovered it yet. Not possessing any firearms, however, doesn't mean I don't think anyone else should. If I can get my financial situation straight before I die, I intend to get a CCW permit, and fill a large gun safe. In the meantime, I've got a couple of crossbows, and the whole family is outfitted with swords. Not as effective as a pistol or rifle, but even a ballpoint pen can be a weapon if someone is interested enough. I've also spend most of the last decade in places where I wouldn't be allowed to carry a firearm if I had one, and I'm hoping to see those laws changed soon, too, on both the local and Federal levels.
I'm not steady enough to shoot long-range targets, but full-auto weapons can be fun! And practice for self-defense is never, ever, wasted time.
Amen! Thank you for your service and ditto your comments on self defense. Have you seen Benchmade’s new tactical ball point pen? Fine looking and versatile tool.
I recall a deputy commenting that such behavior would be ... um ... dealt with. And I have reason to believe my polite pretty neighborhood is way more armed than any ghetto block.
I agree with you on the violent gangs. Aren't most of them violent any more? MS-13 is the worst, IMO. What's scary is that their education level is maybe the first grade. Illiterate gang bangers whose biggest thrill is pleasing the gang by committing violent crimes against people.
People in my neighborhood are armed to the teeth too. Of course we live in the country, so that's a given for survival.
Not all. A group identified by their pink button-up shirts was finally caught harassing our community sign. They were guilty of lousy art, not violence.
I'd never seen the Benchmade tactical pens, but I carried one of these until the last week of school this year, when I loaned it, and lost it, during a small emergency.
It's not quite so nice as the Benchmade, but much cheaper. $10 apiece if you buy less than 25 of them. Solid brass body, heavy and solid. The back end of the pen is a dialer for old-style rotary dial phones, and would probably break someone's skull quite handily. The writing end is reasonably sharply pointed, so I suspect it would distract anyone you poked with it considerably.
Since I'm kinda broke at the moment, I'm thinking of using my new lathe to make one of my own. I just may study that Benchmade for a bit before I start cutting... Thanks!
That was an informative and thoughtful article - thanks!
I work with a retired soldier, rank, name and branch of service will remain unknown, he was recently terminated from a high school teaching job as he broke a students arm in 3 places. It seems this student decided the teacher was an easy mark and pulled a knife on him and took up what was considered a offensive posture. At the hearing where he was terminated he told the student and the parents they could be glad he did not have a gun at the time as he would not have bothered with breaking his arm, but used the gun instead. The school board was “shocked” at that statement. Makes me know where some of the local sheep are and what their reaction is when the sheepdog is turned loose.
I worked as a teacher's assistant at a local high school a few years ago. One of the kids asked me what would happen if a bunch of them attacked me. I said “I'd probably wind up in the hospital. But I wouldn't be the only one.” None of them ever messed with me.
Had a young woman trying to hurt one of the other young women one day. Told her she had to go through me first. She asked what would happen then, and I told her once she came after me, she was a legitimate target, and after I stopped her, I'd be suing her parents for everything they had now, and would ever have. She decided to settle down.
One day two of the boys started fighting at the other end of the room. I got there after the first two or three swings and hits, and got between them just as one started to swing. He reached up with his other hand and grabbed the one on its way to my face and stopped it. I guess he believed me, too.
I suspect there was really only one difference between us, however. My administration supported me, and his didn't. Simple as that. Things like this are why I live in Oklahoma now, instead of California, where I was born. Even the libs here generally support 2nd Amendment Rights.
Mind, I was never in combat arms, just a tech in the Air Force. Attitude has a lot to do with it. I keep running into kids I worked with who tell me that I helped them a lot. Pretty much all I told them was that they were responsible for their own actions, which would have consequences. Some good, some bad. They just needed to think things through, and decide which consequences they wanted, and what it took to get those consequences instead of the others.
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