[Aetius]

If their fertility rates remain so low, then by the time they decide to fight back, it may be too late.

[Unrepentant VN Vet]

.......and that doesn't even mention the long-term effects of so-called "Progressive" education.

If there is any of that hard core left in Europe, it's only because somebody snuck in and cloned a whole bunch of folks, then stuck 'em in suspended animation.

If Steyn is wrong, IMO the error is only on the negative side of the time scale.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

And if their religious conviction remains as tepid as it has been. The two, low fertility rate combined with weak religious conviction, are playing hand-in-hand, as is pretty well explained in The West's Last Chance. These combine with the other points Steyn mentions to make the situation look like that of Socrates walking around his cell after drinking the cup of hemlock, just waiting for the paralysis to rise in his legs and strike his heart.

It's not too late. But it will take quite a resolve.

[devolve]

I agree

When I was only 13 years old and out at the farm after school feeding our horses and cattle with my older brother I sometimes ran into Rattlesnakes and Coral Snakes (Coral Snakes 20-minute killers!)

I did not wait for them to get bigger or for me to get "more concerned"

I unsheathed my Kabar hunting knife

I soon had a Coral Snake hatband and a Rattlesnake belt for my Levis

WWI & WWII proved that "Old Europe" cannot get their own butts untill they are dying by the millions and begging the USA for our spare "hunting rifles" (they banned theirs!) and food and ships - and American troops!

I learned firearms safety and proper care and cleaning of a (very heavy!) Remington 22lr bolt-action target rifle when I was only 7 years old.

By age 8 I was hunting rabbits in tall pasture grass (horses and cattle in the pastures) by starlight with my 10 year old brother and about 8 others of the "Wild Bunch"

A good quarter horse can instantly break a leg from a rabbit hole in a pasture - we simply convinced the rabbits to move into out heavily grown woods

I carried my (very lightweight!) semi-auto carbine in the trunk of my car every day to HS and to work and out to our farm

When I went thru FA training in the service I swapped my Mossberg semi-auto carbine for a Garand .30-06

I did learn a bit about long-range sniper shooting from our FA instructors

They learned how to see and hit small running animals in tall grass at night from me


But the army never let me wear my Rattlesnake belt with my Class A's.....

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The only mistake my father made was that he should have taught my (now NYC liberal) younger sister how to properly use firearms

The day is coming when women and children will need to know how to expertly use firearms to defend themselves and kill snakes instinctively and instantly

John Kerry, Slick Willie, Jack Murtha, Hillary Clinton, algore, Diane Feinstein, Chuckie Schumer all have firearms

- I'm sure they will be there to defend you.....




Don't call me - I'll be out killing snakes