The article’s overall message IS correct, but he makes some laughably stupid statements and generalizations. For example the one on children; by the time they’re actually coming for your children in large numbers specifically for owning guns, that’s pretty much the trigger point (pun intended) for everyone and everyone. Remember the outrage over Elian Gonzalez? Imagine that x100,000 and native-born American children being hauled off. Them’s fightin’ words.
But that said, I do commend him for honestly trying to slap people awake. I’ve lost count of the gun owners who’ve made statements about when they’ll start fighting or had John Wayne fantasies about “sending them running” like they’ll be fighting beat cops or hastily-deputized forces. Or for that matter that lightly-trained and equipped militia (which is mostly what we’ll have) aren’t very likely to get decimated when they have to stand and fight real career soldiers or when their HQ gets spotted on satellite or when someone backtraces a cell phone call.
The asset freeze threat he mentions is very real unless you are the paragon of being off the grid. Do you really have enough cash out of the bank and under the sofa to pay all your bills - mortgage/rent, gas, food, etc. even for one month? It’s not just highly inconvenient, it’s a huge security risk. An increasing number of places will not even TAKE cash for payment because of the theft and logistics headache it comes with - my own apartment complex for one easy example.
So yes the article itself needs a revision or five. But his main point still stands and it merits thought.
Many here are or were career soldiers. Don’t discount an armed, free populace, new guy.
And last figure I saw was 88 million armed Americans but if it’s from the same people telling us how many uninvited guests from south of the border we have living among us, I suspect you can prolly double the number.
And welcome to FR.
“Do you really have enough cash out of the bank and under the sofa to pay all your bills - mortgage/rent, gas, food, etc. even for one month? It’s not just highly inconvenient, it’s a huge security risk.”
What do you think will happen to the economy when consumer spending is forcibly cut in half - paying bills, buying groceries, borrowing money for vehicles, paying a mortgage? Do you think businesses and banks will cheer that?