Guest Post by Kurt Schlichter
I was gravely disappointed with Judge Robert Benitez’s California federal court ruling that the Golden State’s ban on “assault weapons” like AR-15s is unconstitutional. It manifestly is unconstitutional, but the judge’s ruling does not go far enough. He should have found that our Constitution requires every healthy, law-abiding adult citizen to have a real assault rifle like an M16 – or, because diversity is important, an M4 – to defend his community and his country from all enemies both foreign and domestic.
That’s my modest proposal du jour – make our peaceful and secure society’s free riders carry their own rucks for once. We need to stop outsourcing the dirty and dangerous work of protecting society to the LEOs and soldiers who make up maybe 5 percent of the population. The other 95 percent need to get with it. It is people with guns who built and maintain a society so peaceful and prosperous that ridiculous twits can babble about “privilege” and engage in similarly frivolous nonsense without a care in the world. You can’t in most places – you’re either too busy trying not to starve, or the local tough guy would squash you like a bug for running your fool mouth. Somebody has to defend the freedom of idiots to explore the outer limits of their own idiocy, and for too long only a small percentage of citizens have picked up a rifle to do it.
I say, “No more.” I say that freedom isn’t free and everyone needs to get out his, her or xir checkbook. Pick up a rifle and get citizening!
This is not a new idea. There was a time when every able-bodied adult male was in a militia. They packed heat to protect hearth n’ home, whether from the French, or the British, or the rampaging relatives of Elizabeth Warren. Today, the threat is criminals and aspiring tyrants – an armed citizenry, including males, females, and people claiming bizarre pseudo-genders, provides a potent deterrent to both crooks and dictators, and a means to defeat them if they get frisky.
What’s a solution to riots? Armed citizens.
What’s a solution to thugs? Armed citizens.
What’s a solution to people who want to use the power of government people with guns to silence you, prevent you from praying, and generally make you a serf? Armed citizens.
We don’t need to get rid of cops or troops. We just need to back them up, 5.56mm style.
Some scoff at the notion of citizens defending themselves, but many of them have the same vibe as the Vietnam “protestors” who stopped chanting “Ho Ho Ho Chi Minh” the second the draft ended. They just don’t want to pull their weight.
In fact, an armed citizenry equipped with effective military grade weapons – no AR-15s here; we’re talking real assault weapons – can do a lot of useful things. Some putative male sap who you probably heard of from his leftist mewlings on social media once told me I was nuts for thinking our civilization might ever descend into savagery. I sure appreciate how he assumed that real men would keep his world stable for him as he typed his sissy screeds, but the fact is that society can come to a screeching halt in an instant. I was with the Army in the LA Riots – a real insurrection, as opposed to the mini-surrection the panty wetters are still whining about. And citizens regulated; there was nowhere safer than underneath the eavers of a building guarded by rooftop Koreans.
As for a bunch of citizens not being able to challenge “the military” (or, rather, the treacherous remanants of the military after the majority refuse to follow orders to kill fellow citizens at the order of some hypothetical tyrant), I direct you to Afghanistan. And Vietnam. And here, 250-ish years ago.
It’s wacky to think we might be threatened by a dictator? Us conservatives don’t need convincing, but you libs just spent four years telling us how Trump was practically Hitler. Was that all just bull-Schiff?
There are other salubrious effects of requiring every citizen to take personal responsibility for the protection of his family, his community, his state, and his Constitution. When every citizen owns a weapon, with the expectation that they will join together with other citizens in times of strife and chaos, that focuses their minds wonderfully. They are engaged, and cognizant that American citizenship is not a spectator sport. Because it shouldn’t be.
Outsourcing the tough stuff has made us weak and timid. Adults blubber that mean tweets have them literally shaking. Grown men wear masks while jogging. Grown women read Fifty Shades of Grey on purpose.
This unbefitting a great people, a warrior people.
We must demand of ourselves rigor and risk. We must demand that everyone step up. We must stop being a nation of sheep and one of, well, mostly not sheep. There will still be some sheep, but they should be shamed and scorned. Possessing your automatic weapon would be both a privilege and an obligation. We can exclude people who are physically, mentally, or emotionally unable to do it. We can bar felons. We can have conscientious objectors too, if they actually have a real religious objection as opposed to just not wanting to do their fair share. They can be medics and serve as citizens with honor. But otherwise, do your duty, fellow American.
Now, there’s an argument that the Constitution does not mandate that we all own an automatic rifle. It’s a bad argument. If we have learned nothing over the years we have endured liberal jurisprudence, it’s that the Constitution says whatever we want. No duty to have a M16? Look closer. It’s right there lurking in the penumbras and emanations next to the right to off your baby.
Where would the guns come from? Hey, we pay people not to work so we can pay for their rifles. Would they be trained? Yeah, basic rifle marksmanship should be a high school graduation requirement – it’ll do kids good to get some sun and to get away from commie teachers trying to blame them for slavery. But wouldn’t there be the danger of bad people doing bad things? Yeah. And? Everything has risks, including being an unarmed, passive wimp, which is very risky indeed. Besides, anyone thinking over playing horsey with his gat is going to have to factor in that everyone else has their own piece locked and loaded. As Robert Heinlein observed, an armed society is a polite society.
A lot of people will reject my modest proposal, most of them not because it’s a bad idea – it’s a great idea – but because they don’t want to have to do it. It’s hard when you have a weapon. You have to be responsible. You can’t be a knucklehead. And you might get in a situation where you could get hurt. But those aren’t bugs – they are features. Doing hard things makes for a hard people, a serious people, not a collection of perpetually offended weenies just waiting for the Chi Coms to turn us into a colony – or some leftist caudillo here at home turning us into Venezuela II.
Look, Judge Benitez deserves credit for his thorough and compelling defense of the right to keep and bear arms in the face of the lib-fascists’ determination to disarm and disenfranchise us. We just need to take the next step, and demand that every healthy, adult citizen step up.
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Great idea. The only problem is you can’t go full ‘rock n roll’ unless some sugar daddy is providing the ammo. I’ll stick with my AR.
I like my AK and plan to keep it.
Would love to see the Russian sanctions dropped and the DOJ/ATF people calm down. There are some very nice Russian AK rifles out there, like the AK-12 and AK-102 which can be had in a 5.56 model. Doubt we’ll ever see anything like that unless the US splits up and the Chinese decide to dump crisis weapons on their “little friends” inside the US.
They are already pushing Glock parts and funny money. I find it very odd no one has ever pushed the issue of who, or what might’ve been the source of Saint George Floyd’s counterfeit cash.
Full auto is usually a waste of ammo…
Spray and pray is good for burning up ammo and keeping heads down. One shot, one kill is a much better strategy.
Much preferring a nice, light bolt action magazine fed 6.5mm rifle fit with decent scope and night/thermal options. Bergara is turning out some very affordable, nice items just like this. Hope to get one and modify my very own, then go scout for some wild pork chops.
Aye. 3-round select fire does quite nicely as well.
I remember being in Gun Club in junior high. The school had a shooting range in the basement. Robbinsdale, MN to boot.
Like all these ostentatious assholes with lumber just sitting in their truck bed in their driveway. I accidentally left 1k rounds in Cali. I coulda shot myself over it, but…
When someone refers to AR-15s as ‘assault weapons’, it is time for me to stop reading. If someone does not know that an AR-15 is not an assault weapon they are lacking in knowledge. Did he also refer to a magazine as a ‘clip’, that is the complete proof of ignorance.
A lot of people call a magazine a clip. and many of them can put your eye out at over 200 yards.
Got it. By your terminology, if a lot of people call a banana an orange, the banana is now an orange. Definitions are important to communication and credibility. A magazine is not a clip no matter how many times you hear it on your Tel-Lie-Vision. A magazine feeds the firearm, and a clip feeds the magazine, different functions. You are not credible regarding firearms if you do not know the distinction.
Your second point that an illiterate person is not capable of being accurate with a firearm is simply silly.
We all know the common ancestry of the Armalite rifle split between military select fire and single shot for civilian use; we also know certain factions of this country make stuff up (AR15=assault rifle) to fit their agenda…we also know an ammo clip is used in relatively few guns, like the M1..most use detachable box, or tube magazines. My understanding from the article is that Kurt is implying the “liberal” definition of an AR (i.e., assault rifle), and using it somewhat tongue-in-cheek, to get his point across, so lighten up, Francis. (and Kurt, if I misconstrued, let me know).
I’ll let you in on a little secret Francis, WE don’t all know that! Of course it does not really matter, call whatever you want whatever you want and just lighten up, words have no meaning after all.
I call a suppressor a silencer..
I don’t think it matters, that gets into patent issues.
Manditory conceal carry for all legal citizens of the age of majority.
1000$ fine for NOT carrying in public.
Gov provided weapons.
Paid for by fining the libtards who refuse to carry.
One year of lead and hell and then it will be clear sailing.
Kurt wants to require all of the citizenry to be armed. Has he SEEN the citizenry lately?
A lot of them would sort themselves out (of the gene pool).
Like these upstanding citizens?
Nuke from orbit. It is the only way to be sure.
Now that is one of the sickest things I have seen in long time.
Yup, that’s how we’d make new corporals. Take some dickhead who’s been there awhile, slap corporal stripes on him, tell him he’s now responsible for the lives, safety, welfare and training of his three dumbass buddies, and if he screws up, he’ll go to jail. If he screws up, he’s gone. Then you grab the next dumbass and it’s his turn. Eventually you find the right one. Meanwhile, the current one is bashing his buddy in the nose, telling him “do what I say or I’ll kick your ass. I’m not going to jail for you…” It’s a highly refined system that’s worked for 200 years….
I wonder if Chicago would be different if citizens were armed up. (somewhat normal people, not gangstas)
It’s funny how living in a small town far away from big cities makes it hard to understand the hate and violence of big cities. It’s like hearing about a planet far away that is filled with strange violent people.
These mostly Democrat-led places are hard to comprehend.
This article makes an excellent point. In colonial America and after, all able-bodied white men were automatically enrolled in the militia and were required by law to own and keep in working order their weapons and equipment; there is still a Federal law regarding the unorganized militia, i.e., all able-bodied men in the country are members of it.
This is where the saying ¨lock, stock, and barrel¨ comes from, as well as the saying, “Pass muster”. You had to show up with your musket or rifle in working order or you did not “pass muster”.
On a related point, the Country Music Television channel (CMT) foolishly allowed itself to be gulled into participating in some silly “Wear Orange Against Gun Violence” campaign, with predictable blowback from country music fans, most of whom are American patriots.
Out of 100 Twitter comments, 95 were negative. Of course, the MSM had to highlight one of the handful of mouth breathers who supported this nonsense.
Some moron wrote that the Founders never meant for citizens to have “weapons of war” and that when the Constitution was written there were only single shot guns available, ending with the remark that anybody who did not support “controlling” guns like the AR-15 were “idiots”.
Ahem. Let me explain the Second Amendment to this clueless nincompoop. Please remember this so you can use it in the future if you run into any such jackasses.
The Second Amendment has nothing to do with hunting, target shooting, or even personal defense, though of course all of those activities are protected by the Constitution.
It is concerned exclusively with ensuring that the population at large has the right to bear arms to ensure that an out-of-control, illegitimate,, abusive, lawless government can´t use its regular military or police forces to oppress the people, period.
The fact is that “weapons of war” (perhaps within reasonable limits – I don´t want nukes in the hands of Californians, for example) should be freely available to all law-abiding citizens of the United States. I think that certain classes of such weapons (anti-tank rockets, machineguns, mortars, hand grenades, etc.) should be stored in secure local facilities, for obvious reasons, but local militia units should have access to them if state or local authorities approve (the National Guard IS NOT the militia; it can be put firmly under Federal control with the stroke of a pen. Several states have genuine state militias, however.)
As for “single-shot guns”, both sides in the American Revolution had single shot flintlock muskets or rifles. The whole point of the 2nd Amendment was that the farmers in the militia would be generally equal to British Army regulars in terms of firepower. In the modern day, law-abiding citizens should be able to equip themselves with at least the basic infantry weapon of a U.S. Army regular soldier.
The Leftists screech with horror at this, as do ignorant, well-meaning people. The Leftists fully intend to use the armed power of the state to force us to do their will and understand perfectly well why we refuse to give up the weapons we have. For all the ridiculous kabuki dancing about violent crime, mass shootings, and, always, “The Children”, that is what the issue is. These traitors and Marxist lunatics know exactly who are targets will be if they push us too far.
There is no gun problem in the United States. There is a problem of crime centered in the black community and, at a slightly less intense level, a lack of mental health services. In almost every mass shooting, early intervention by friends, family. co-workers, school officials, or the police, would have prevented it. These crazed people do not spring full-grown from the brow of Zeus.
Let us always remember that the American Revolution finally turned into a war when the British Army marched out of Boston on a gun-grabbing expedition. The British quite correctly concluded that the only way to force Americans to bend the knee was to disarm them and then rule them at the point of a bayonet.
Never forget it.
The country has too many socialist/communist imports.
Well put, Sage