Don't Tread On Me

[crudos]

I'm in a particularly feisty mood today. Speaks well to limp-wristed argument about needs.

http://monderno.com/monderno/dont-tread-on-me/

Need? We need not justify.

When asked what I do for a living I reply: I teach people how to shoot people. I teach people how to shoot people because some people need to be shot ? and they need to be shot NOW.

I have found that in the long run sugarcoating reality rarely produces good results. Yes, it might make some people ?feel? better, but feelings and reality are often polar opposites. Pretending something is what it is not only postpones judgment day, and the longer it?s ignored, the higher the price.

26 years ago I began my involvement with ?gun rights?. I had a good grasp on what Article II of the Bill of Rights was about then, and my thoughts haven?t changed since. Article II is about the individual?s ability to shoot tyrants ? plain and simple. It has nothing to do with hunting, collecting or competition. And tyranny, as I define it, may appear in the form of a rapist in the alley, a mob during civil unrest, an invading military, or one?s own government.

I personally own no ?sporting arms.? I own and train with auto-loading, magazine fed weapons; rifles and pistols which are designed to get hot and function during conflict. Most are black and ?scary looking?, and that suits me just fine ? I?m not in the rainbows and unicorns business, I?m in the force business. What I, and thousands of other instructors around the country do, is provide the necessary skills that Americans need to deploy firearms in tyranny?s direction. We don?t teach people how to play games or take quail; we teach people how to effectively launch bullets into the bodies of tyrants.

And to such tyrants, my advice is this:

If you don?t want to find yourself on the business end of my rifle, then behave yourself.

As long as there is a free exchange of goods and services, a system of justice, a redress of grievances and I?m free to walk unmolested, there will be no problem. If not, expect trouble.

Joe Biden and Diane Feinstein may pretend that they don?t understand such things, but they do. They understand perfectly what AR-15′s are for, and that?s exactly why their bodyguards have them. You see, like most criminals, they aren?t interested in a fight. They came about their power the old fashioned way, they lied, cheated and stole their way to the point where they are protected by men with guns at taxpayer expense.

The notion of armed peasants in ?their kingdom? scares the living hell out of them. It interferes with their plan. They know they are up to no good, and they know that someday the population will be on to them ? If not them specifically, then some future generation of socialist/fascist tyrants who worship them as gods. They also understand that a willing population armed with semi-automatic battle rifles can only be pushed so far. That they work so hard to disarm us should be a clue to anyone paying attention.

I understand and accept the responsibility of liberty. To be free, one must be willing to fight for it?not just on civic level (letter writing, voting, jury duty, etc?), but all the way up to the use of physical force. In my opinion, it is the right, responsibility and duty of every able free person, to own, train with, and be willing to use, arms. Real arms ? not your great uncle?s duck gun ? but weapons of war.

It is far past time for us to take control of the debate. We need to stop making excuses for why we own guns, and we need to stop apologizing for our personal liberty.

We are not subjects.
We are not serfs.
We are not slaves.

Some will never understand that, and so be it. However, there are millions who have never considered such things, and they never will if we continue to pretend that our guns have any other use than to force the expiration of tyranny.

We are free people, armed to the teeth ? And we should not be interested in living any other way!

Have no shame about it.

Frank Sharpe
Fortress Defense Consultants

edit: I did NOT write the above article, though I wish I did.

[Kentactic]

Exactly.... Fuck hunting, fuck all the PC bullshit. My guns are for stopping tyranny in its tracks. They are setup to be as effective as possible. I have no shame in saying this. If it offends you or scares you then understand your defective not i.

[hjmoosejaw]

Great post crudos!

[crudos]

Exactly.... Fuck hunting, fuck all the PC bullshit. My guns are for stopping tyranny in its tracks. They are setup to be as effective as possible. I have no shame in saying this. If it offends you or scares you then understand your defective not i.

Right on! People who go about needs of [insert firearm metaphor here], generally have no clue about what it is to struggle in life past the nightly dilemma whether to watch American Idol, and how wronged contestant X was by the judges. They have little appreciation to the scores of lives and oceans of blood spilled to have such a contented life, free from superficial oppression. There is no perspective about the face of tyranny other than the chain of bosses in their little cubicle world. Blindly siding with whatever candidate one of the two parties says they should support. So captivated by trends, buzz words, and talking points they wouldn't know truth if it smacked them across the face. The founding fathers would be in tears at such people claiming to citizens of this nation.

[CrystalHunter1989]

To people who ask why we haven't deposed any tyrants at home recently, I answer: "Because we've been incredibly blessed compared to the rest of the world." Just because we aren't in a new civil war every other year like many African nations, that's no reason to nullify our oldest legal safeguard.

[JohnyMac]

Thanks for posting Crudos.

IMO, The gun control folks have a good hand hold in the psyche of the American people and with the help of the compliant media "they" are going to keep hammering until a firmer foot hold is established.

I know that I am beating an old drum here; however, we can not let up for a single second with our responsibility of continuing to pester our state and federal representatives.

The gun grabbers have the money and the history of patience - If we back off the pedal for one second they will win. I pray often that we have the fortitude to keep up the fight - If not for us then for our children.

If we lose the Second Amendment all of the other Amendments will topple.

Just saying...

[Alex1992]

A tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny. Thats an old saying that grandpa told me when I was a kid. The saying says it all, a tyrant finds a justified reason to be a tyrant and whats going on today Obama has found a pretext