Guest Post by Kurt Schlichter
Watching the Minneapolis Police Department abandon its precinct to the torch and crowbar-wielding peaceful protesters in that Democrat-run state and city, my first thought was that I should disarm. After all, I have been reliably informed by our smart and competent elite betters that I don’t need firearms because the police will protect me, and I am sure that even though they can’t defend their own police station they will absolutely defend me, my family, and our pet unicorn Chet.
Confusingly, I have also been reliably informed that the police are evil monsters of racism and badness and that they should be the only ones with guns because of reasons that I am not clear on, but I do know that our smart and competent elite betters know better. If you have any doubts about that, just look at the urban paradise that is progressive Minneapolis. I hear the zoo has a new unicorn exhibit.
But hey, what do you expect of a place that elects noted sister-wife Ilhan Omar?
Now, if I was cynical, I might doubt both the intentions and the competence of the Democrat elite and its media minions, who stood in front of burning and looted buildings solemnly informing us that the people contributing to the conflagration were socially-conscious activists registering their dissatisfaction with the Democratic city’s policing tactics by stealing big screen Vizios and bottles of Jack Daniels. There was a lot of giddy joy in the destruction among the blue check nomenklatura, at least until the peaceful protestors tried to peacefully burn down CNN and turn Tater Stelter into a French fry. Violence is so much more fun when it’s not you being violated.
In any case, our liberal elite handled this crisis about as well as the blue state govs handled the pangolin pneumonia – terribly. Cowardice, incompetence, moral illiteracy. You would feel sorrier for the urban victims of these Democrat clowns if these urban victims of these Democrat clowns hadn’t gone and elected and reelected these Democrat clowns. Weird how none of this is going on in a city controlled by Republicans, but don’t worry – the garbage media was there to assure us that this is all Donald Trump’s fault because of course it was. It’s all lies, but lies about Trump are all the Dems and media have.
Despite their compelling argument to the contrary – that we normal Americans, the kind that don’t riot, are a bunch of racist, Jesus-loving Neanderthals who should be grateful for the elite’s benevolent rule over us and anything that goes wrong is because the Orange Man is Bad – I still tend to think that we ought to keep our guns. In fact, I think we healthy, law-abiding citizens all ought to buy guns and ammunition, preferably in bulk.
Call me cautious, or crazy, or conscious, but we have a leftist elite that thinks the First Amendment does not apply to us. Our free speech rights don’t extend to hurt their feelz, and our religious rights are subordinated to performative paranoia over an over-hyped virus. We have a leftist elite that is outraged about the idea of due process for the accused, unless the accused is their badfingered, desiccated, and cringy POTUS candidate. And we have a leftist elite that claps like trained seals whenever thugs burn stuff down and that generally considers us normal citizens the scum of the earth.
I would prefer not to be at the mercy of people who hate me and deny that I have any rights or legitimate interests. In fact, I am going to have to insist that I not be at their mercy. And the way to do that is to deny these aspiring oppressors a monopoly on force, just like the Founders envisioned.
But isn’t this idea of militant American citizens packing heat for freedom an anachronism? Only to people who never heard of Vietnam or Afghanistan. One of my favorite aspects of social media life is hearing from futon fighting force generals who have never fired a gun and are even afraid to play Call of Duty because it reinforces patriarchal gender roles. Their insight, when one mentions the need of all healthy, law-abiding citizens to buy guns and ammunition, is to insist that a bunch of civilians with AR-15s could never hope to prevail against the forces of the government which they hope to enlist in their cause of oppressing the American people. Except in Minneapolis, a bunch of disorganized scumbags packing torches and crowbars just ran a precinct of cops out of their building.
Even adjusting for the manifest incompetence of the Minneapolis PD, starting with the mayor and working on down to the flatfoots who apparently don’t understand the concept of breathing, that’s not exactly a ringing endorsement of the idea that we might as well just give up our rights if the fearsome agents of tyranny so demand. The fact is that an armed population is an essentially unbeatable force that would outnumber and outgun any outlaws claiming government authority who chose to violate their oath and wage war upon American citizens.
Hell, in Minneapolis, a bunch of knuckleheads basically raised their voices and won. Despite the protests of the Prissy Pattons of Progressivism, a bunch of citizens with rifles (many of whom are vets) is a pretty fantastic deterrent to those who think they can steal our liberty.
The Chinese coronavirus fiasco, the shocking killing of George Floyd, and the riots resulting from Democrat failure have taught the American people several things. One is that a surprising and sad number of law enforcement officers are willing to follow cheesy, stupid, and unconstitutional orders. A quick tour of social media will horrify you with the damage done to that support by video of stupid cops hassling civilians for going outside or trying to attend church. The people who long backed the blue feel stabbed in the back, and LEOs are going to have to work to earn back the support they lost because a lot of their comrades sided with Democrat bullies against the people.
Similarly, we have learned that the police are not necessarily going to be there for us. From that gooey tub of cowardice in Florida who let kids be murdered while he stood with a weapon outside the school – I can’t even type those words without sputtering in rage – to the MPD running away and letting criminals burn their building, do you feel comfortable putting your lives in the hands of such government employees? The one inspirational sight during the riots was a bunch of black Americans with modern rifles defending their businesses. That’s so American that it couldn’t be more American if there were eagles, a 1964 Mustang, and a Ted Nugent soundtrack cranking.
Gun control began with Democrats trying to control black Americans. Gun control today is Democrats trying to control all Americans. And that’s not going to happen. Buy guns and ammunition, because there can be no truly free people that is not also an armed people.
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When it comes to citizens prevailing against government arms, ie police and military one might want to consider just how much success that America has had in subduing Afghanistan. Not real good, and it has been many years. the Russians found out the same thing. A determined populace will defeat even the most well armed, sophisticated force on the planet.
A determined population that is not afraid to fight and, if necessary, die for the cause.
Way too many Americans are today afraid to leave the house, two and one half months after the “public health emergency” soft martial law began, without a mask and gloves and hand sanitizer and wipes, because the might catch the Rona and get sick.
Columnists are gonna column.
Never start a newbie out with an automatic.
Revolvers and single shot rifles teach discipline.
Beg pardon, sir, but I’d start the noobs out on a Ruger Mk IV any day.
Great training handgun, simple as a Glock, and doubles as a great stealthy “gray man” piece, or for wet work if you swing that way. I once kitted the prospective wife out with Interceptor kevlar and a Nine on an indoor range and after a few minutes of listening she did pretty darned good.
Could she pop a real, live Orc as opposed to a paper one? Probly not, but that’s why I’m around when not doubling as a door stop or paper weight.
Words of advice.
Pls keep all fingers and hair away from moving mechanical parts of the handgun unless you like pain. Especially the slide and muzzle.
Good leaders are always to the front – unless you’re a handgun trainer, then stand to the sides and rear.
Don’t forget women are pretty good listeners even if they do talk a lot. Believe it or not, the soldier of the cycle for my basic training unit back in 1983 was a woman who ended up in an MI unit. Funny thing though, I never saw her on any assignments or deployments for the next thirty years so she must’ve taken some damned good notes during the camouflage instructions.
It has been documented during this George Floyd phony protest of grief that those so upset they loot and burn Target ,Walgreens , The Cheesecake Factory , liquor and jewelry stores along with overtaking a police station and police vehicles and burning them while police and national guard stand by in riot gear sucking one thumb while rotating the other up their collective blue line assholes and switching on command !
However we have video of them hanging up and shoving an elder gent with a cane to the ground for not moving along quick enough then helping him up with the oops sorry bull shit !
Then there is a quiet peaceful neighborhood street where people came out front surprised to see military and police armored vehicles and a literal gang of cops and guardsmen wandering behind barking orders to go inside now . These people were shocked to see a show of such force on their street where nothing was happening .
Then came the order “LIGHTEM UP” paint projectiles and rubber bullets rained down upon these unsuspecting citizens !
Now we know , that blue line only has the balls to attack those posing no threat . We need them like we need another hole in our ass
To the useless blue line fuck you and your bull shit , only following orders !
In times of civil unrest looters are shot !
Do your fucking job or are you just a uniformed welfare recipient sucking on a taxpayers tit !
Bet as soon as a bunch of white fucks do this the cops bring out heavy artillery, swat, mraps, drones and ventilate many. But they cannot do that to the protected class. The media would have them strung up. If they dont do that to whites the media will string them up. If this shit hits and you are white you better make a firm choice as it will be to the finish one way or another…
Nailed it