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Legislator to tea party: Get your guns ready for economic collapse
http://blog.al.com ^ | August 1, 2013 | Cassie Fambro

Posted on 08/04/2013 5:17:59 PM PDT by Whenifhow

Washington state legislator Rep. Matt Shea (R) says preparation is crucial to get ready for what he calls "the inevitable collapse" of the US economy.

The Self-Reliance Rally event at an Idaho State Park had several speakers encouraging attendees to prepare by gathering arms and ammunition and considering forming militias.

"When it happens, we need to look at this as a opportunity, not a crisis," Shea said. "Who's job is liberty? That's our job."

Shea told the crowd to stock up on ammunition, stay in shape, practice shooting, learn self defense and special tactics.

He related a story from when he was in the military where a superior officer told him to remember an important lesson.

"Be prepared at any given moment to give up your job to do what is right," he said. "You have to stand up for what is right - even if it means you have to stand up to your government," Shea's superior officer allegedly told him.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: banglist; collapse; economy; guncontrol; mattshea; preppers; secondamendment; survival
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To: Lancey Howard
Guy makes sense.

From eastern Washington, similar to north Idaho. Ruby Ridge has never left our minds.

61 posted on 08/04/2013 9:54:17 PM PDT by D Rider
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62 posted on 08/04/2013 9:59:19 PM PDT by Daffynition (Life's short- paddle hard!)
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To: Pelham

“And that mass death will come largely because we have become overly reliant on the technologies that make our usual life possible, and we have no backup plan in case it all collapses.”

Some of us have backup plans. I’m okay if it collapses tomorrow.


63 posted on 08/04/2013 10:03:04 PM PDT by Marcella ((Prepping can save your life today. I am a Christian, not a Muslim.))
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

You are scaring me. I guess that is a good thing. Fear leads to action.


64 posted on 08/05/2013 12:22:43 AM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (Free goodies for all -- Freedom for none.)
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To: GGpaX4DumpedTea

Yabbut, the only time you have too much is when you are trying to swim with it or are on fire...


65 posted on 08/05/2013 1:25:56 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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To: Whenifhow

And while you’re at it, buy stock in Ruger, Winchester and Smith & Wesson. Might as well make a profit off the panic.


66 posted on 08/05/2013 4:22:16 AM PDT by jespasinthru (Proud member of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy.)
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To: Jane Long
every night, right here... 8^)
67 posted on 08/05/2013 4:39:39 AM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Smokin' Joe
There is a gun shop in Rhode Island where I shop occasionally. The have 9mm parabellum FMJ for sale for 39.99 per 100 rounds. As much as you want. Factory loads....not reloads.

looks like things are catching up again. Though I don't expect prices to fall back to where they were for some time...if at all.

68 posted on 08/05/2013 6:44:49 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (So Obama "inherited" a mess? Firemen "inherit" messes too. Ever see one put gasoline on it?)
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To: Smokin' Joe

LOL...I din’t mean to suggest that I had too much...ordered some 9mm early this morning...added some 30.06 last week...


69 posted on 08/05/2013 7:32:38 AM PDT by GGpaX4DumpedTea (I am a Tea Party descendant...steeped in the Constitutional Republic given to us by the Founders)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

You are free to disagree. However, their housing bubble will make ours like a miniscule correction. They define GDP in a way that is downright moronic.

That is the reason they build entirely new cities that remain unoccupied. Then they continue to build, putting phony numbers out there in regards to their builing “boom”.

America’s biggest problem is that when China falls apart they will call in their debts.


70 posted on 08/05/2013 11:05:29 AM PDT by sakic
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To: RedHeeler

My last comment was tongue in check...about Bush...


71 posted on 08/05/2013 2:08:22 PM PDT by Popman
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

If we ended the taxing of money made overseas by Americans and American companies, some of that money would come back here, meaning the possibility of more jobs.


72 posted on 08/05/2013 6:41:27 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (I am in charge!)
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To: Smokin' Joe

Further thought...when you’re trying to swim with it (and drag it through mud, it better be an AK47...just hopin’ you have enough full mags...and a couple thousand rds in your saddle bags...


73 posted on 08/05/2013 8:06:00 PM PDT by GGpaX4DumpedTea (I am a Tea Party descendant...steeped in the Constitutional Republic given to us by the Founders)
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To: Popman

I know. Yet, my question was not, tongue in check, or cheek.


74 posted on 08/05/2013 8:14:17 PM PDT by RedHeeler
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To: GGpaX4DumpedTea

I have the bases covered, as much as I want to carry, and then resupply tucked away here and there. Snow is more of an enemy here than mud, most of the year—dust comes in second.


75 posted on 08/05/2013 9:53:54 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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To: RedHeeler

My biggest complaint about Bush is he did not address his attackers...which emboldened the libtarts to delegitimize the conservative brand and in many ways got us to Obama...

After all if you don’t defend yourselves even against the most vile defamatory lies and smears....after a while they stick to you...even if completely untrue...

Which in turn hurt the GOP...and conservatives in general....

The GOP has lost the millennium generation until they grow up and move out of mommies basement....


76 posted on 08/06/2013 3:43:20 AM PDT by Popman
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To: VerySadAmerican

You would know as soon as you jumped in your car and it wouldn’t start. Or your other car or the neighbors. The planes falling out of the sky would be a big hint too...


77 posted on 08/06/2013 3:50:34 AM PDT by Kozak ("Send them back your fierce defiance! Stamp upon the cursed alliance! To arms, to arms.....")
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To: Kozak

I thought about the car not starting. That would be the only way we could get a hint.


78 posted on 08/06/2013 1:55:26 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (If you vote for evil because you can't see evil, you ARE evil!)
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To: Popman

I understand your position. Thanks, Popman.


79 posted on 08/06/2013 7:04:39 PM PDT by RedHeeler
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To: Whenifhow

Placemark.


80 posted on 08/08/2013 8:41:22 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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