Let’s see: It’s Europe. Not all of our allies are on board, especially Germany.
To borrow a line from another distinguished American: Should we be leading from behind?
Gun control is slavery.
How can this be? There’s some FReepers who claim that Russian military personnel are not even in the Ukraine?
All these guns will absolutely be banned, hunted and eliminated once the crisis is over.
Woke EU would never allow such otherwise.
I’m also hearing that Soviet-era RPG’s are also being handed out.
The Russians are not going to score an easy victory.
The dictator Putin is also starting to face civil unrest in Russia over this nonsense. Seems there’s no shortage of Russians who do not want to see the return of the Soviet Empire.
From now on, anytime any politician talks about restricting guns for any reason. This should be the counter argument.
Also, should be used in response to the libs that try to say that a person with a gun cant stand up to a modern army.
Gee, I feel slighted. I kinda feel like that’s what I need here on my homestead for the coming Democrat Final Takeover.
This is NOT the Second Amendment. This is not even Switzerland.
The President is willing to fight, to the last Ukrainian, that’s all.
This should have been done long ago.
Knowing they were walking into a country where the entire citizenry was armed with machine guns would have done much more than the threat of unnamed sanctions to deter Russia.
Better late than never.
Better never late.
Another story there says most of the population is trying to flee.
“Estonia said it would send additional Javelin anti-armor missiles to Ukraine to bolster the country’s defenses, according to its Defense Ministry, which didn’t elaborate. “
More javelin’s on the way. Poland/Ukraine border is open.
They voted for the 2nd amendment before they voted against it...
“The government says it is handing out 18,000 machine guns to ‘all those who want to defend our capital.’”
If they are going to “defend their country,” they can’t do it this way. They are getting equipment from a few nations, but it’s too little, too late. They are outmanned, out ran, and outgunned. And it was the Russians that perfected retreat. There are two ways to play this game. Kill as many as you can before you become a casualty, or you can make the country worthless to Putin. Destroy all the natural gas and petroleum resources and burn anything useful to him and make it expensive to replace it. That was how they stopped Napoleon and raised hell with Hitler’s forces on the eastern front when both tried to follow the Russians as they regrouped. Putin is going to get control, so why kill people when the Russian troops decide not to enter but level the place with missiles anyway. They’ve already done a lot of that and it is a sound tactic.
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Video link to them handing out rifles in Kyiv.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1497194377306902532
This has never been done before so the results are unknown.