“I already know my decision.”
The trouble with today versus 250 years ago is that we don’t have many groups of “well regulated” militias. In most cases that has been argued to mean that the regular citizens of a community were well armed AND had training and were ORGANIZED to meet a threat. (Others say that the “milita” are individuals. I believe that the term is a loose term and means both the individual, and groups of individuals).
The first “American” militia in Massachusetts (how far that state has gone downhill) - they were required to train once a week. Men that did not have arms or supplies were provided them by the militia.
At Lexington/Concord there were about 400 “American” militia that turned back the Redcoats. All the New England colonies sent their militias to help in the Siege of Boston. I use the term American in quotes - they were British subjects fighting their own government of course.
Me trying to fight off the police from taking away my God given rights will be an item in the newspaper about the nutcase with an “arsenal” of 12 weapons and 15,000 rounds of ammo.
“...Me trying to fight off the police from taking away my God given rights will be an item in the newspaper about the nutcase with an “arsenal” of 12 weapons and 15,000 rounds of ammo...”
We all have an expiration date, friend.
And what the newspaper thinks of me is irrelevant. We either HAVE the Right - and are willing to defend it - or we do not. They can only take away what you are willing to give up.
Personally, I’d rather live one moment as a Lion than a million moments as a sheep.
Every Man who ever bled and died for those rights, from this minute all the way back to Lexington understood that.
If you find yourself fighting off the police at your doorstep, you are doing it wrong.
There is no need or benefit from making "heroic last stands". General Patton had some words about that.
And we might as well learn from our enemies too.
In prewar Germany, the Communists targeted police and government officials. The Nazis targeted journalists, academics, and prominent non-governmental opponents. The Communists lost that fight. The Nazis won. It should be easy to understand why that was so.
The Nazis were in turn beaten by their own hubris. Considering themselves invincible, they over-reached, over-extended their forces, and blinded themselves to their true circumstances.
We should not be making any of those mistakes.