Pistol... Don't leave home without it!Advice for the ages.
Over a year ago I warned that these flash mobs would eventually be used for violence and perhaps even terrorism.
I was flamed and called every name in the book for trying to throw a wet towel on these “playful pranks.”
Beware of mobs. All types. Beware of mobs, because they are comprised of people. And every person has some bad born into him.
I had never heard of one till the stupid cell phone commercial a month or 2 ago...
my theory is this...if someone gets right in my face (by that I mean physical contact)....I have the right to punch said face...
...if someone gets violent with me....it is my civic duty to return it 10 fold....
And one more point...
these “flash mobs” of violent blacks are no different than the “lynch mobs” of yesterday.
And that’s what we ought to call them, wireless lynch mobs carried out by the black version of the KKK.
“know the law” — In other words, put the gun away, because unless you’re a cop and you can explain how the unarmed 4 year old girl “made a threatening move to her diaper”, you will be arrested and tried for murder after dropping the thrice-convicted, machine-gun wielding man who just broke into your infant daughter’s bedroom at 3am. And if he’s a “person of color” you can forget the “trial” part — straight to conviction.
How do you train to use a firearm “under pressure”?
Except for being in intense situations (as they do in the army and law enforcement, for example) how do train for something like that?
Flashmobs are the Brownshirts of the 21st century.
Search on “Obama phone” and see who is eligible for free cell phone with text service.
The democRAT pols will begin to use them for political intimidation once they figure out how to control the mobs and not get their fingerprints on their activity.
Certainly very good advice.
I’ve been following these “flash mob” stories for awhile, and certainly it does pay to be armed.
However, what happens when you go up against a “flash mob”, let’s say, composed of 100 or so individuals, all of whom are armed as equally as you?
All it’s going to take is one of the “flash mobbers” to get shot, and they’ll arm up as well. I’m surprised they haven’t already, to be honest.
It’s easy to say fire off a shot and they’ll run.....but what if they don’t? They may not be the shots in the world, but all it takes is one bullet from a lucky shot, and down you go.
I’m NOT saying you shouldn’t defend yourself in a life-threatening situation; of course you should. I’m asking a hypothetical question. What happens when the “flash mobs” are as equally well-armed and carrying as law-abiding citizens?
Flash mob, trash mob. A flash mob should at least one that breaks out in a routine that happens outdoors on a nice day singing, “Good Day Sunshine” or “Here Comes The Sun”.
Of this, I would not be so very sure. What we don't know about the 'mob' in this case is if they would return fire instead. CCW in the face of a violent direct threat...yep, check. CCW in the face of a lone shooter...yep, check. CCW in the face of being cornered by a mob myself...yep, check.
I think the first time they run into a CCW person it will surprise them. Then they will come back more prepared the next time. The drawback is it really is just a matter of time before bullets start flying whether from the mobsters or from a citizen defending themselves.
GET A GUN
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Pistol... Don't leave home without it!“Similarly, I wonder how out of control a “flash mob” of racist “youths” might evolve in gun toting Phoenix, Arizona?”
I have some interesting takes on that hypothetical. The first of which is that the Coen brothers movie “Raising Arizona” was less a comedy than a documentary.
Committing a public armed robbery in Arizona usually means one of three things: the robber is newly arrived from out of State; or they are out of their mind with drugs and/or alcohol, or they are naturally out of their mind; or three, that they wish to commit suicide. Or, of course, some combination of the three things.
The closest thing Arizona has ever had to a riot was during WWII, when the blacks living in South Phoenix, a traditionally bad neighborhood, decided to protest-riot, because they believed an unfairly large number of black men had been drafted.
Anti-draft *anything* in “ ‘Ol Frank’s” authoritarian America was a major no-no, and was met by the deployment of a contingent of the Arizona National Guard, located not too far away. A single Army truck with just a few soldiers on it.
And a water cooled M1917A1 Browning 30mm machine gun, with an adequate supply of belted ammunition.
They “hosed” the asphalt in front of the rioters, spraying chunks of asphalt and ricochet bullets at a high rate of speed at the rioters.
A news report of “a public disturbance”, about one paragraph, was published in the now defunct Phoenix Gazette newspaper, far in the back, “among the truss ads”, according the the young reporter who wrote it. He had been among the rioters, and had wisely ducked into an alley, with only the heel of one shoe being shot off.
He did not publish a full account of the event until near his retirement in the late 1970s.
Now granted, the Arizona National Guard no longer actively uses water cooled M1917A1 Browning 30mm machine guns, it having been superseded by more trendy machine guns, but it goes to show the local attitude towards “public disturbances” committed by those who seek to use mob violence against the responsible public and their property.
Close to 50% of Arizona households have guns, and a large number of these have more than one.
The bottom line is even if someone proposed a “flash mob” in the worst part of South Phoenix today, everyone else would look at them as if they had lost their [expletive] mind. Which would likely be the case, unless they were newly arrived from out of State.
Arm yourself. Good advise. The situation has been so out of hand for years that “law enforcement” can’t handle it. If they could, there would not be the drug and illegal immigration and (fill in the blank) problems we currently endure.
I myself dress in a distinctive style, at least for these days. I wear the same kind of clothing I did in the ‘50’s ande ‘60’s. Jeans, belted firmly at the waist, a simple shirt, leather oxfords. I stand out now in the crowd of slovenly dressers that populate our streets and avenues.
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I’d say also, don’t go places alone. Flash mobbers can pack heat, too. But two or more united, well-trained men or women with guns, covering each other, will usually beat two hundred obnoxious teenagers looking for an easy mark.