Posted on 02/11/2013 5:50:34 AM PST by shortstop
Why is the government disarming us at the same time it is arming itself?
Not wanting to sound paranoid, or like a conspiracy theorist, I think it is nonetheless fair to ask: What foe is the federal government arming itself against?
And should the American people be concerned about a federal government that takes away their guns while simultaneously stockpiling hundreds of millions of rounds of ammunition for its own domestic security use?
As the president and Democratic politicians do their best to geld the Second Amendment, which was intended to protect the people against government oppression, the government they lead is building an arsenal of domestic arms that rivals both Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.
Since last spring, the Department of Homeland Security has contracted to buy more than 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition. That’s enough bullets to shoot everyone in the United States five times.
A nation with a Defense Department as large as ours needs ammunition, clearly, but these 1.6 billion rounds weren’t bought by the military. Very little of it is in calibers that the military uses, and almost all of it is of a type banned for military use by the Geneva Conventions.
These bullets aren’t for foreign battlefields, they are for domestic control.
Here are some of the recent purchases: 450 million rounds of .40 caliber jacketed hollow point – enough to shoot every man, woman and child in the United States, Canada and Mexico – another 200 million rounds of .40 caliber jacketed hollow point; and just last week, a request for bids to purchase 10 million rounds of .40 caliber jacketed hollow point, 10 million rounds of 9mm jacketed hollow point and, finally, 1.9 million rounds of 9mm full metal jacket ammunition.
Of those 671.9 million bullets, only 1.9 million – under international treaty – could be used by our military against a foreign enemy.
That leaves 670 million for us.
And one might justifiably ask what purpose the federal government has in mind for all that ammunition.
Enough ammunition – if you extrapolated from the worst month of the combined Iraq and Afghanistan wars – to sustain the daily heated combat of a raging war for some 25 years.
No government has ever so extensively armed itself against its citizens.
Which, from the perspective of history, should be alarming. No culture or nation, in any continent or time, has long been free of government tyranny. Sometimes it has been tribal warlords, or feudal princes, or chancellors and kings. But it has always been somebody. Even today, it is clear that large portions of the global population live under tyranny.
To presume that an oppressive or tyrannical regime could not rise in the United States is to deny human nature and history. It is ironic that liberals who mock the belief in American exceptionalism steadfastly claim that a totalitarian or dictatorial lust could never grip the heart of an American leader -- even though such evil runs like a river through the whole of human history.
The founding fathers and leaders of both parties through the 1980s warned of an over-powerful government and of the possibility of tyranny. History and heritage teach us that government can become a cancer, and that Hitlers and Stalins and Castros and Maos can spring up at any time among any people.
So why not us?
Why do we automatically presume our government and its operators are benign, and those who warn of oppression are insane?
Yes, we have rule of law. Or at least we have in the past. And, yes, rule of law is designed to restrain the tyrant. The checks and balances of our Constitution, and the liberties of the Bill of Rights, were all intended to keep governments and megalomaniacs on a very short leash.
But rule of law is ignored, rights are restricted, the balances of power within the federal government and between the state and federal governments are all ignored and perverted. The mechanisms of restraint have been stripped from our government.
And now they are buying bullets.
Incomprehensible quantities of bullets.
Bullets that cannot be fired at our enemies. Bullets that can only be fired at us.
And at the same time they are buying these bullets, they are taking away ours. Legislation is afoot to strip some types of rifles from private ownership, and to outlaw the magazines which make modern firearms effective. In the Democrat states, ammunition sales are registered and recorded, gun ownership is harassed and confiscation is discussed.
Even the massive government purchases, by hogging resources and production capacity, serve to disarm citizens, by making civilian ammunition scarce and expensive.
The Second Amendment was put in the Constitution to make sure the people could replace by violent means, if necessary, an oppressive government. It includes and affords many other privileges as well, from hunting to national defense, but it is fundamentally about self-defense – about the ability to fight to protect yourself, your family, your home, your faith and your freedom.
Against all comers, including the government.
And just as it expands in an unprecedented fashion its domestic offensive capability, the government is seeking to strip us of our already-limited defensive capability.
And that makes you wonder why.
Wondering such things doesn’t make you a kook, or an extremist, or some other vilification so quick to fall from Democrat lips.
It makes you a concerned American.
Who grows all the more concerned by the fact our questions go unanswered, and our rights go unprotected.
It's a good thing they won't need a high capacity magazine for that.
‘cause there are so many of US!!!!
We are told it is for “practice” purposes.
The better to kill you with, my dear.
They don’t but Obama’s allies overseas are happy to get them.
All Dictators and Tyrants Want Their Own Police Force
- Roman Emporers had their Praetorian Guard.
- Hitler had the Waffen-SS.
- Stalin had the KGB
- Saddam Hussein had the Republican Guard.
- Iran has the Revolutionary Guard.
- Obama wants his “Civilian National Security Force”
In 2006 Obama made the following speech:
“We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.”
So Obama is now building his “Civilian National Security Force” under the cover of Homeland Security at the same time he is turning the real military into another wealth redistribution mechanism for freaks, minorities and the unemployable.
Soon he won’t have to worry if the real military will remain loyal to the constitution or will fire on civilians, shoot their own mothers and fathers, lock up their own grandparents.
His well armed, well funded “Civilian National Security Force” will hold their allegiance to him and his loyal assistants like Janet Napolitano.
All Dictators and Tyrants Want Their Own Police Force
- Roman Emporers had their Praetorian Guard.
- Hitler had the Waffen-SS.
- Stalin had the KGB
- Saddam Hussein had the Republican Guard.
- Iran has the Revolutionary Guard.
- Obama wants his “Civilian National Security Force”
In 2006 Obama made the following speech:
“We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.”
So Obama is now building his “Civilian National Security Force” under the cover of Homeland Security at the same time he is turning the real military into another wealth redistribution mechanism for freaks, minorities and the unemployable.
Soon he won’t have to worry if the real military will remain loyal to the constitution or will fire on civilians, shoot their own mothers and fathers, lock up their own grandparents.
His well armed, well funded “Civilian National Security Force” will hold their allegiance to him and his loyal assistants like Janet Napolitano. and won’t hesitate to carry out his orders.
“Bullets”? Is fedgov now into reloading?
The average citizen would use his hollow points sparingly, as far as practice goes.
And since average citizens are paying for this, so should the government.
If they are telling the truth about these being for practice, they are still being very wasteful.
Once again Lonsberry is brilliant in his analysis but missed a tiny point right here, or at least didnt carry it far enough...
At the same time they are telling us we have no reason to mistrust the government, and that it would never grow to tyrannical sizes, they are growing the government to tyrannical sizes.
NO ONE in the government has credibly explained why they need this much ammunition, and yet they are stockpiling it. The deception is obvious. "Trust the government" they say- while the government is arming against us, and lying about it.
Liberalism is a mental desease. While I believe that many of them are truly evil and this is an actual plan, there are many more that are good-hearted and naive (the kind of trust in evil that always gets millions killed)
They must know.............
“This isn’t a society stocking up on certain guns because they fear they may be banned. This is a society preparing for war”. (David R. Ray, GySgt. USMC Ret)
You make a great point. You don't buy jacketed hollow point for practice. They are costly. You practice with wad-cutters or something cheap.
There are many similar threads and it has been posted that the quantity is for pre-buying 5 year supplies. They are probably going to put the makers out of business and later have china supply their ammo.
Also, i was just reading about our Medal of Honor nominee Romesha’s battle.
“...Larson alone went through approximately 1,200 rounds in 10 minutes.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2987299/posts
It's time for the feral governments love affair with guns to end.
For “the greater good” moving towards “President for life”?? Could it be there are elements in government and his supporters that actually want his “serving” additional terms? ‘fraid so!
The people have very few representatives anymore. One would think one of those useless goobers might make an issue of this. But, maybe not, I doubt many of them pay any attention to what is going on, To them, it is all party politics and they miss about everything.
And another similar tangent is in order...
If Liberals say we are NOT exceptional, in the same breath as saying tyranny can never happen here, then why not? Only if we *were* exceptional, that is if we DID reach a utopia, would they be able to argue that we had finally reached a point where all men were angels.
Nothing to see here,move on.
I have been thinking about this for a while, and I think I know how to orchestrate a peaceful preemptive strike. We don’t need a list of the ammo being bought with our own money. WE NEED A LIST OF THE TRIGGER PULLERS. Perhaps a group such as Anonymous can help, or an insider can help, but some how we need a list of every DHS employee with the addresses of their homes, as well as their relatives homes and we need it posted on multiple servers with their GPS coordinates and interactive maps with precise driving directions to their homes. Get it up on multiple sites all at once so it will be archived on as many servers as possible. Once this information is made known, their loyalties will be tested. In this way, we can manage a PEACEFUL RESOLUTION BEFORE THE SHTF. I think it would be the single most effective deterrent to protect our freedom. All of need to get the word out, through formal requests, through insider whistle blowers to hackers or what have you. We need to execute quickly to nip this thing in the bud.
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