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Ukraine Arms Its People; Americans Say 'Way Ahead of You
Townhall.com ^ | March 3, 2022 | Kurt Schlichter

Posted on 03/03/2022 4:14:06 AM PST by Kaslin

Imagine you’re a Democrat for a minute – to fully experience the effect, invent some pronouns and forget which bathroom to use – then think of the cognitive dissonance you would experience watching the TV showing your new bestest buddies the Ukrainians handing out AK-47s to regular civilians. Normal people, with guns? And intending to use them to defend their freedom? But but but guns are bad! Your mind would be spinning – it’s got to be a manifestation of white supremacy, right? “Ohhhhhhh,” you moan, swooning and dizzy at the thought of men (and women) standing up to personally undertake the solemn duty of citizenship that is defending your country.

Seeing this, liberal sissies are confused and frightened. Normal Americans are all “One rifle? Well, that’s a start. I guess.”

We have 400 million gats out here in Americaland already. Issuing us more guns – while awesome – would be repetitive yet redundant. We’re already ready to smoke any invader, crook, or tyrant who dares step to us. And this is why we are awesome.

Guns are an essential element of American freedom. And, as I explain in my upcoming non-fiction book from Regnery, We'll Be Back: The Fall and Rise of America, this heavily armedness is a key reason why America is likely to survive the trials and tribulations we are facing from the wokesters, SJWs, and other communist dirtbags who want us normals dead or enslaved.

To be truly free, one must personally have the capacity to make himself truly free. And as we have seen in Ukraine, there are some really bad people in the world who only understand the business end of a rifle. The Russian conscripts getting caps popped off at them by angry grannies are learning that tough but fair lesson right now.

Putin expected to walk in and walk over the Ukrainians. His mechanized forces were designed to smash through military formations – the old Soviet-style tactics they still use are about as subtle as a sledgehammer. And the smaller Ukrainian forces were pushed back under the pounding. But there were a couple factors Putin did not seem to anticipate.

The first is that his forces were not as good at combined arms operations as he expected. After a few smaller wars in Georgia, Chechnya, and Syria, he probably expected his army to meld maneuver, fires, and other battlefield operating systems together better (Americans were very good at this once upon a time, and hopefully still train on it if there is time between sessions on trans awareness). The Russian attack appears unsynchronized and poorly supported, with piecemeal and uncoordinated attacks squandering much of the Russian size advantage. But there was another factor Putin apparently did not factor in.

Armed Ukrainians.

Anyone with some experience around Ukrainians would understand that those wacky cats would transition into unconventional (think “guerilla”) warfare if their formal military formations disintegrated. Let me put it in nerd terms. Remember the dwarves in Lord of the Rings? Tough, pugnacious, often drunk dudes who liked to mix it up with the orcs? That’s the Ukrainians. They hid out in forests and swamps for a decade fighting Stalin. This time, all they needed was a rifle.

Americans are like that too, generally minus the vodka. And we already have the guns.

I discuss some of the practical issues facing the bad guys trying to use force to oppress us patriots here in America in We'll Be Back. There’s a gun everywhere. If you were one of the bad guys, you would have to assume everyone is a guerilla. Everyone is a threat. Want to buy a coffee? Would you like lead with that? So you aren’t walking around. Now you ride along on your armored vehicle with your head out of the hatch and some guy used to taking down a deer with his .30-06 removes it from 300 meters and vanishes into the woods he’s hunted in his whole life before your convoy can react. So the bad guys button up and rumble through occupied territory unable to interact with the locals. Except counter-insurgency requires you mingle with the locals. See the problem?

Americans govern themselves, and the government operates only with our consent, in large part because, as a practical matter, there’s really no other way to govern 330 million people with 1.21 guns each.

Now, this is the very reason the left is so dead set on disarming us. The fact we have a veto on tyranny makes us uppity, and we maintain an intolerable defiance of our betters because, in our gun safes or hanging above our mantles, are the means of manifesting that defiance. To disarm us is less about eliminating the mercifully remote possibility that we would ever have to use our weapons – as bad as things are now, we are many, many miles from anything that might justify armed revolt – than about depriving us of the knowledge that we could. Australians gave up their weapons and their kangaroo kops were entirely too uncircumspect about the atrocities they inflicted on their own citizenry. Our left wants us to understand that we can’t ever resist, no matter what. That’s why it wants us gun-free – because it wants us to know we are at its mercy.

You saw how quickly the regime media moved on from the footage of Ukrainian citizens arming themselves to fight against tyranny. It is afraid that seeing that will give us ideas. But we’ve already got something better than ideas – we’ve already got our guns.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: banglist; guncontrol; guns; russia; schlichter; ukraine
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1 posted on 03/03/2022 4:14:06 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

2nd amendment should include stinger missiles and javelins.


2 posted on 03/03/2022 4:18:30 AM PST by Bayard
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To: Bayard

It does. We have allowed our government many infringements.


3 posted on 03/03/2022 4:23:28 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: FreedomPoster

Ukraine Learns The Value Of An Armed Citizenry, But Far Too Late
MAR 2, 2022 / by Brandon Smith

In all the world the US as a nation is utterly unique in its tradition of citizen rights to self defense. There is no other protection written into any constitution anywhere that is as solid and unapologetic as the 2nd Amendment. Whenever I end up in a debate with a gun control advocate from another country that wants to “educate me” on the level of firearms ownership overseas I have to laugh because these people just don’t get it.
[rest at link]

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ukraine-learns-value-armed-citizenry-far-too-late


4 posted on 03/03/2022 4:33:38 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: FreedomPoster

and yet, we let them mask our kids, force jabs and jail peaceful protesters without charge or bail.


5 posted on 03/03/2022 4:37:40 AM PST by prov1813man
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To: Bayard

AMC Javelin

6 posted on 03/03/2022 4:40:58 AM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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To: Kaslin

A rifle behind every blade of grass has kept ARMED invaders out of the US.


7 posted on 03/03/2022 5:00:17 AM PST by weezel
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To: Kaslin

Well they’re going to need some Ammo to go with the guns.

https://www.thedrive.com/news/44543/nascars-richard-childress-offers-1-million-rounds-of-ammo-to-ukraine


8 posted on 03/03/2022 5:09:12 AM PST by mabarker1 ((Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress !!!!)
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To: Kaslin
Brilliant!

Anyone who had not witnessed it would never have believed that half the US population would become so confused as to allow a man like Joe Biden and the corrupt cabal which maneuvers his puppet-strings and placed him in the Presidency to seize control of America--or to allow the US government to fall into the hands of some of the most corrupt and dishonest people in history.

Half the US population has lost its moral compass and all common sense.

The world is aghast!

Who would not be horrified that such people control the US nuclear arsenal?

No one with a functioning brain is surprised that foreign leaders readily exploit the collapse of US global leadership and the integrity of the American People. More is to come if American's don't come to these senses--and fast!

American know-how and the Shining City on the Hill have cracked up into a laughable joke: a transvestite army holding drag-queen contests on military bases, city sidewalks covered with human excrement, national borders open to drug and human traffickers, a Supreme Court too cowardly to examine credible evidence of massive election fraud, a news media serving as a fifth column for America's enemies, and a population so confused it doesn't know which bathroom to use!

With a moral vacuum and collapse of leadership like that, who wouldn't be surprised that the world is so dangerous or that a recrudescence of the Cold War is upon us?

9 posted on 03/03/2022 5:20:32 AM PST by Savage Beast (In the vault of the mind lie all the chains of bondage, as well as the keys to freedom. --Yogananda)
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To: Kaslin
We need to get rid of the NFA, GCA, FOPA.....the 2nd Amendment should allow those that can afford it: Javelins, stingers, etc. Hell, if Bill gates wants a carrier air wing, I say let him have it, just don't buzz my daughters bedroom. You want a tank? Fine. Just keep it on your side of the road and take me shooting sometime.

I'm more concerned about recidivist criminals on parole with a sharpened screwdriver than I am a patriot with a military weapon.

10 posted on 03/03/2022 5:23:24 AM PST by DCBryan1 (Delete FB, TWTR, GOOGL, AMZN, YHOO, Gmail/chrome. Use Gab, Brave + DDG, VPN, Freerepublic )
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To: Kaslin

Their world is an enigma.


11 posted on 03/03/2022 5:46:34 AM PST by windowdude
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To: Kaslin

The 2nd amendment guarantees us the same exact firepower as the domestic security forces.

If the scumbag corrupt Biden FBI can have stinger missiles, grenades and bazookas then so can we. The same exact firepower!


12 posted on 03/03/2022 6:23:35 AM PST by Flavious_Maximus (Fauci is a murderer)
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To: Travis McGee

“It is always the people that step outside the artificial limitations of the mainstream that end up making a difference in the world, and it’s always the people that conform that end up becoming refugee fodder and victims of the historic tides.”

Excellent, and amen!


13 posted on 03/03/2022 6:39:44 AM PST by SouthernClaire (God Bless America)
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To: Kaslin

As our liberals and (D)’s try to take ours away.


14 posted on 03/03/2022 6:47:39 AM PST by SkyDancer ( I make airplanes fly, what's your super power?)
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To: Flavious_Maximus

“....guarantees us the same exact firepower as the domestic security forces...”

That is what we are told and the courts might support until it becomes a threat to them....which is exactly what it is meant to be.

The 17th & 18th century theories were arms of sufficient quantity and quality as to ensure that the majority of the people can set aside a violative government whether it wants set aside or not.

In the day rich men outfitted their own warships, artillery batteries, cavalry, and infantry units and offered them to the governor in return for a state commission or naval Articles of Marque and Reprisal.

My preferred shorthand is I have the right to any weapon that the government might use against me.

Legitimate government can have no authority to do, say, or possess anything denied its citizens....as rights are loaned from the People and are Inalienable.

A tall hill for most modern domesticates to be comfortable with....but that is exactly what our revolutionary fathers meant and expected.


15 posted on 03/03/2022 7:46:24 AM PST by Lowell1775
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To: Bayard

Javelins!
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Two,please.


16 posted on 03/03/2022 7:58:51 AM PST by Big Red Badger (Make His Paths Straight!)
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To: Travis McGee

“When Democracy becomes
Tyranny,
I Still get to Vote!”
.
Mike Vanderbough


17 posted on 03/03/2022 8:17:16 AM PST by Big Red Badger (Make His Paths Straight!)
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To: Big Red Badger

That will be $300,000.00 for 2 Javelins, and another $400.00 for two NFA Destructive device transfer taxes. ;)


18 posted on 03/03/2022 10:45:40 AM PST by DCBryan1 (Delete FB, TWTR, GOOGL, AMZN, YHOO, Gmail/chrome. Use Gab, Brave + DDG, VPN, Freerepublic )
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To: Kaslin

And not a GD citizen willing to enforce our Border which the Government NOW/AGAIN refuses to do!

Viva Ukraine Frig US!


19 posted on 03/03/2022 10:46:43 AM PST by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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To: Big Red Badger
I'd prefer RPGs or recoiless rifles, esp a Carl Gustov launcher


20 posted on 03/03/2022 10:48:01 AM PST by DCBryan1 (Delete FB, TWTR, GOOGL, AMZN, YHOO, Gmail/chrome. Use Gab, Brave + DDG, VPN, Freerepublic )
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