In the event of a civil war, which the Puppetmasters’ Administration is doing their worst to bring about, the most important weapon, other than firearms, would be pressure mines, easy to manufacture and hard to detect. Of course most military installations tend to be in Red States, and a majority of recruits are from Red States. If it came to a fight, the side opposed to the Puppetmasters’ Administration would not lack for the most sophisticated weapons and trained troops to operate them. May God spare us from such a fratricidal conflict.
Thought For the Day
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
The number one factor young men commit crimes, black or white, is there was no Father in the home.
But Democrats can’t talk about that. They are behind the sexual devolution and Welfare state that’s the cause of it. I can’t talk about the poor public schools that give young men no hope either.
So they talk about guns. It’s the guns and the law abiding citizens that own them.
Larry has weighed in.
https://monsterhunternation.com/2018/11/19/the-2nd-amendment-is-obsolete-says-congressman-who-wants-to-nuke-omaha/
And by that I mean his classic article.
History question: Prior to Community Organizer in Chief B. H. Obama and his little sidekick China Joe, has any occupant of the Office of the POTUS ever openly threatened his own citizens, here in our own country, with military force? And the declaration of martial law during the Civil War doesn’t count.
And the lapdog media don’t even think this is an issue. To them it’s a feature, not a bug.
It’s no surprise that ‘President’ Biden’s memory fails him, or he’d remember the fate of the USSR. That regime was also a nuclear superpower with a corrupt nomenklatura propped up by a lickspittle press.
Yet that hated government was collapsed under the weight of its own economic and spiritual incompetence, kicked to the curb by its subjects despite its vast array of military gear and nuclear bombs.
It is astonishing that an American politician would say what Biden just said— that the American people would need fighter jets and nuclear weapons to take him on. It sounds as if the fool is daring us to do something. It betrays a perverse attitude— it sounds like he sees the American people as subjects he’s ruling, not serving. And it sounds like he’s annoyed that we’re forgetting our place.
Biden isn’t merely vain and stupid, and likely sliding into dementia. That’s bad enough. No, he’s also arrogant and vicious, and contemptuous of the people he thinks he rules. I suspect the dementia is pulling the veneer of affability off the ugly, corrupt base that’s always been there. What a pitiful man.
They are behind the sexual devolution and Welfare state that’s the cause of it.
The welfare state is at best a weak vector in generating social decay in the slums. The bad behaviors people blame on ‘welfare’ are now prevalent in every strata of society, even though only an odd minority ever got a dime out of AFDC or its successor program, TANF. The % of the population collecting AFDC / TANF declined by 2/3 over a period of > 20 years and the observable effect on the frequency of illegitimacy was nil. The same observations can be made in re the explosion of divorce, abortion, and general slatternliness in every segment of society.
Sales of used F-15 spiked on the news.
Seen on ebay: “For Sale: Lightly-Used F-15. Bitcoin and Green Stamps accepted.”
News yesterday: Smith & Wesson [they don’t sell toaster ovens] sales broke $1 billion.
Gun control/violence is one of their longest running moronic hoaxes.
Should note also that the homicide rates in 1930 and 1980 were the same (they declined and increased in the interim). The welfare state in 1928 consisted of public schools, state asylums, veterans hospitals, state sanitoriums for tuburculosis patients, and Victorian poorhouses.
Among the correlates of high crime rates are an unbalanced sex ratio, a great deal of demographic churn in a given area, and weak law enforcement. The latter can be the result of technical incompetence, understaffing, demoralization of the forces, inefficient police procedure, and inefficient court procedure. You want public order, hire cops, train cops, institute best practices in policing, give cops free rein to do their work, harshly sanction judges who turn judicial process into a never ending game of footsie among lawyers, and strip judges of the discretion to replace punishment with social work.
Despite lockdowns, factory closures, supply-chain constipation, etc. sales of bullets rose 60% in 2020.
We have 450 million guns and more than one trillion bullets.
Yes We Can.
They simply haven’t crossed the line, yet.
Gun control/violence is one of their longest running moronic hoaxes.
It’s all lies and status games with them. I grew up in a part of the country which had a population of about 1.3 million. In 2005, just north of 200,000 lived in the primary core city, about 400,000 lived in suburban tract development around it, about 50,000 in an urban settlement about 105 miles south of the main metropolitan blob, and about 650,000 in small town and countryside. About 60% of the homicides in 2005 were in a segment of the core city where live a tad over 100,000 people. Note, those feral young men hardly ever use long guns, which account for about 4% of all homicides. This is all a transparent effort to stick the blame for slum crime with rural people whom they despise for a host of reasons. Note, a non-metropolitan county in New York typically has 85,000 residents and might see one murder and a half-dozen robberies in a typical year, even though the population is amply stocked with sport hunters.
And the declaration of martial law during the Civil War doesn’t count.
IIRC, just one state not seceding was under martial law.
The left, in defiance of all common sense, is defunding and crippling city and county police. Predictably, crime is rising.
Why would they do this in defiance of the polls, which show a large majority of the public oppose the deliberate crippling of their law enforcement?
I suspect that the rise in crime and instability is a feature, not a bug. By creating a crime crisis, the left likely intends to push for a solution involving both: A) As much gun-grabbing as they can impose; and B) the imposition of a federalized, “woke” police to do the job the locally-controlled police the left have crippled can no longer do.
Such a federalized police would be answerable to DC, not your City Hall, and certainly not to voters.
I imagine they’d basically be antifa, but with badges.
As summer heats up, I predict we’ll see more of our Leftist nomenklatura begin to suggest their “solution” to the rise in crime they’ve created…
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A Federal police force would not get through this Congress and Antifa would make poor Stasi.
On 3 June, The Atlantic published an article titled “How to Actually Fix America’s Police”, which listed ‘hyperlocalism’ as one of flaws in America’s policing system. To the authors of that piece, grassroots control of policing is a negative, although I didn’t see them make a good case for how federal control of policing would necessarily be a better option. Nevertheless, the whispering about doing so seems to have begun.
Would federalizing policing make headway in this Congress? Who knows?
If you’d told me last January that my City Council would unanimously and overnight vote to strip $120 million from my city’s Police budget and disband the cadet classes, in spite of overwhelming disapproval of voters, I’d have said such lunacy would never make it past a Council vote.
I wonder if the Left isn’t hoping that if the situation they’ve created is left to fester, they’ll have an incident happen that can be used, like George Floyd’s death, to achieve what was until then politically impossible…
And as for antifa— their footsoldiers are thugs and dim-witted sociopaths LARPing as vigilantes. But they are manipulated by some ruthless and sophisticated people who know what they’re doing.
We might dismiss the punks throwing rocks, but they’re just chess pieces moved by some very dangerous people.
Re: long-barreled firearms and US murder statistics:
In 2017 [I’m sure the current years are similar]: 10,874 Americans were killed by drunk drivers; 1,591 killed by knives; 467 murdered by hammers; and 403 by long-barreled guns – Walmart still sells automobile supplies, beer/liquor, knives, and hammers; not popular semi-auto, scary-looking rifles. .
Apparently, the POCLGBTQ+ crowd are afraid they’ll get killed.
22 June 2021: “The Washington Times reported that the trans murder rate is 1.48 per 100,000 [are there 100,000 trans?). The overall murder rate is about 5 per 100,000. the rate for men is 6.68, and the rate for black people is 18.8. Most of the killings aren’t hate-related.”
“I imagine they’d basically be antifa, but with badges”
Something like this was part of the storyline in “A Clockwork Orange.”
Would federalizing policing make headway in this Congress? Who knows?
I do. It wouldn’t.
I wonder – but I’m too lazy to look, and I found Google searching yielded little information – but is there any proof linking gun shows and gun violence?
Dave G,
If it advances the fever swamp narrative, they would report that gun shows kill 150,000,000 Americans a day. .
On 3 June, The Atlantic published an article titled “How to Actually Fix America’s Police”, which listed ‘hyperlocalism’ as one of flaws in America’s policing system. To the authors of that piece, grassroots control of policing is a negative, although I didn’t see them make a good case for how federal control of policing would necessarily be a better option. Nevertheless, the whispering about doing so seems to have begun.
Suggest that as a rule, we should not have municipal police forces. Counties and multi-county authorities are the appropriate venue for providing general police services. The states can run the prison service and allied agencies and assemble a state police from specialty bureaux (highway patrol, security services for state property, statistical collection, consultative services, forensic laboratories &c). Federal policing you could sort into half-dozen departments with distinct functions (military police, coast guard, custodial services, security on federal property, plainclothes investigation of violations of federal law; and border guards, point of entry inspectorates, & miscellany). Ideally, the federal penal code is scarified and sentencing re-calibrated. State penal codes often have a mess of barnacles and allow too much discretion over sentencing.
20 comments in and I’m surprised no one mentioned that our military wants conservatives plucked from the ranks while our brilliant Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, who calls the 3/5 compromise a 3/4 compromise is endorsing critical race theory. I wouldn’t be so sure in a few years the red states would be protected by military personnel. China Joe now at 56% approval, per Fox news. That Clint Eastwood imitation he does with squinty eyes reading the teleprompter and the raspy voice must make voters think he’s a tough guy.
China Joe now at 56% approval, per Fox news.
Again, contemporary polling is in the business of massaging convenience samples.
“IIRC, just one state not seceding was under martial law.”
I don’t even know where to begin to address this statement that has nothing to do with reality. There are so many examples on both sides of various sorts/various locations of martial law being carried out during the Civil War. I will just encourage you to read original source data such as diaries written during the War & various edicts issue by people like the Confederate governor of AR & the conquering generals of major Southern cities.
Despite lockdowns, factory closures, supply-chain constipation, etc. sales of bullets rose 60% in 2020.
We have 450 million guns and more than one trillion bullets.
Yes We Can.
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This is why they are determined to limit our ability to own guns & bullets. So we can’t.