Posted on 04/08/2021 9:21:12 AM PDT by rellimpank
Among the many questions my wife and I did not consider when deciding to start a family, one stands out: What to do about guns?
She was raised in a city. There were no guns in her home, and she knew very little about them. She simply assumed our children would not have guns in their home either. The truth is, she was afraid of guns.
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Molon labe.
In a few days (God willing!) I’ll celebrate my 87th birthday. When I grew up I could (and did) carry a fully-functional .22 rifle to my High School to work on in my Shop class.
Since then I’ve watched a Right guaranteed to us by the Second Amendment gradually whittled down to a conditional permission. I’ve seen the results of the people taking action to stop a man who was sexually mistreating his own children. He died at the end of a rope (He wasn’t black either.) I’ve also watched my father disarm the local dogcatcher and throw the gun in a muddy creek.
Now though, I get to be entertained by keyboard commandos who eagerly buy evry accessory available for the Whiz-bang assault rifle they caress with more emotion than they show their wives or children. They’re all ready to go to war — as soon as their neighbors need some help.
Well, their neighbors need more than help, they need a new neighbor - one who does more than post pithy remarks from behind a curtain of anonymity.
Unless someone sees some truth in what I write and “steps off the porch, I’m of no help anymore. But I still hate to see the country I grew up in reduced to being led by “Joe and the Ho.”
Maga men. Maga!
I want the America that you and I grew up in. I want that back. I'm afraid there'll have to be blood to buy it back.
Memories of attending church in the 1960s where the men leaned their rifles along the back wall for the turkey shoot after services. The pastor, a WWII vet, kicked most of their butts. I miss America.
Is her nickname “Peggy”?
Allow me to quote a modern-day prophet.
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“We will not go gently”
This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can’t be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won’t be done. The Founders’ Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.
But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.
And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.
— Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai: Death Cults, the “Socialism of Imbeciles” and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008
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I had the honor to meet Mike once and to shake his hand. Mike told of his earlier life as a Communist and his awakening by an old man who had lived through the ‘30s and ‘40s in Europe. The old man told him about life under Socialism and the lies his local Communist friends were telling him. It is our good fortune that Mike was smart enough to listen and to learn.
It’s almost a lost art now but pen and ink properly applied to paper and then reproduced is something we all need to relearn. We need to chronical our deeds, our feelings, our hopes and dreams and give copies to our grandkids with an admonition to care for your stories and pass them down to their kids and grandkids too. What we say here on the internet can be destroyed by the stroke of a key, but written records distributed in quantity will last forever. Think “Dead Sea Scrolls” if you doubt me.
As I’ve mentioned before, I’m an old man and I spend more and more time sleeping. One day I won’t wake up but with a little luck, some of my words will continue to teach children whose parents are still unborn what we fought for. I hope — It’s all I can do anymore.
Maga!
#8. Re “Is this guy serious with this moronic question”? Because he’s a moron. Let him live in SE DC with the “brothers”. He’d last about 10 minutes before becoming dead meat.
Southside Chicago. Same thing only in 5 minutes. Portland, Seattle, Minneapolis, SF/LA, the San Bernadino to Rialto etc highway towns, Baltimore, East, South and West sides (my old territories), No. Philly (yeah right), NY City subway system, parts of Cleveland, E. St. Louis, Detroit, Houston, etc.
Some people are just born stupid and chose to remain that way.
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