Posted on 10/22/2002 7:58:47 AM PDT by Jeff Head
Arm the people. That is the answer, not only for the current environment, but for crime in general. The founders of this great Republic knew this, and they enumerated it in clear language in our constitution.
Use surplus M-14's or M-1's for long guns and .45's or 9mm's for sidearms and issue comm gear to all particpants Have the local sheriff's review those who volunteer and insure they are U.S. Citizens, have no violent criminal background, and are males between the ages of 18 and 50.
Deputize them.
Give them a three to five day crash course in rifle shooting and communications put on by volunteer former NCO's. Marine or Special Forces. Make update teraining mandatory every six months.
Have the Sheriff set up sentries (two to a location), perimeter patrols close to suspected targets (inner and outer ring) and close to local infrastructure to be protected from terrorists and also set up roving patrols in the community.
Have the comm procedure be to the local Sheriff who works with local FLEO's, from there to the National Guard at the state level for the Sheriff and to regional command for the FLEO's, and from there to Homeland Security at the National level who simply coordinates and calls in Federal forces if necessary.
Make the program voluntary but let those who complete training and six months of duty (that duty consisting of 4 six hour shifts per week) keep their firearm and comm gear.
Institute immediately - nation wide.
How is giving surplus weapons back to the taxpayers who paid for them in the first place a "government handout program"?
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A number of us have been screaming about this for a long time. Most pols don't want to face up to their duty ... they are more interested in their so called political careers. We need statemen who will put the Constitution and their duty to this Republic first.
best fregards.
Good luck and have fun. Get out on the range often.
BUMP
all Americans should have Guns! In fact it should be a law that every household must have one and that the whole family knows how to use it.
I'm about that age, and probably a lot healthier than a lot of the lard-a** 20-year-olds I see wandering around.
The chances of being killed are almost 1,000,000 to 1. But administrators want to close schools and you want to turn this into a police state. Freaking wonderful!
Yea, everybody's got their little pet cause. I guess that makes it okay
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I daresay that most of the "taxpayers who paid for them" who would receive these weapons have already received more in various public subsidies than they have ever paid in taxes...or do you really think that $6,000,000,000,000 national debt is just a bookkeeping error?
What I can guarantee you is that the vast majority of citizens out there would freeze under fire, even after getting a few hours of "teraining" from Marines and Special Forces NCOs (who Mr. Head believes, I presume, aren't doing anything important--like, oh, fighting a war, for example).
Notice that this program is a volunteer work program. They have to put in 4 six hour shifts per week for six months before they own the weapons. I don't see that as a hand out ... let's see, that's 24 hours week in addition to their normal job. Times four weeks per month times six months. You do the math.
... don't volunteer.
Well said, Mister Head. America has been under serious attack by subversives, terrorists and criminal elements since the 1960`s!
However, its not panic time yet. Deputizing and arming citizens like it was the old west, won't solve some very deep rooted problems we face in America today. But it may come to that in the end. Let's have some faith in US law enforcement and our military capabilities. Personally, I will remain vigilant, ready for anything and properly armed.
Sheriff's deputizing local citizens is not a police state. Arming local citizens is the anti-thesis of a police state. Get a grip.
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