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2015-07-18 -Land of the Free

This Week In Guns, July 18th, 2015

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Posted by badanov 2015-07-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 What they do have is a large number of crazies living in the USA, who support, tacitly or blatantly, ISIS' apparent goal of general mayhem, and a probably smaller number who are just as crazy but with the capability of launching a mass casualty attack.

Empathy for FDR's internment? Might yet come. Just wait till they get a real body count that can't be suppressed by the media for a couple of years. 9/11 took almost eight years to bury. It's officially in the NYT's Memoryhole.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-07-18 06:42|| 2015-07-18 06:42|| Front Page Top

#2 Empathy for FDR's internment? Funny, the Mrs. and I were talking yesterday about this. I said, someone such as Donald Trump ought to suggest "internment" so we can all watch the liberals go nuttier. We may have to seriously consider such things as internment. Better keep Gitmo open for awhile longer--maybe expand the concept. ISIS access to the internet ought to be shut down. This would shut down an avenue of communication as well as a means of recruitment. The social media doesn't seem to be being used to dismantle terrorist networks or predict "lone wolfs terrorists." Likewise, NSA doesn't appear to be being used to identify terrorists. It seems as if it is being used to collect data on citizens who are not terrorists. The ISIS money supply should be shut down as well. Our so-called ally's such as Saudi Arabia should be talked to "seriously" about spreading the evil of Wahhabism and Sharia. The current administration needs to quit being stupid about helping Iran build a nuke. When Obama pulled our ground troops out of Iraq, we gave up a great potential for on-the-ground humint. Too bad Congress doesn't have the votes or inclination to remove a sitting president from office; Obama is a one-man wrecking crew for nearly everything he touches. We need to get serious about this piss-ant war we have going on in the Mideast before it becomes much larger. We have to take care of the subversive war here as well as the war over there.

Posted by JohnQC 2015-07-18 17:01|| 2015-07-18 17:01|| Front Page Top

#3 During WWII we had "beach watchers" in the U.S. who were mostly older people with shotguns who patrolled the beaches. In fact, one such beach watcher discovered the Nazi saboteurs who were put ashore for Operation Pastorius in 1942. Hoover's FBI rounded them up before they could do much damage.

For some reason when the Department of Homeland Security was set up, it never seemed to embrace the idea of recruiting U.S. citizens to help the effort---if was as if they adopted an "us and them" attitude about citizens of this country--"us" being the federal government and "them" being the larger citizenry. It was as if the federal government did not trust the rest of us to help in the defense of this country.

Posted by JohnQC 2015-07-18 17:13|| 2015-07-18 17:13|| Front Page Top

#4 They didn't want help from the citizens because their idea of 'defending' the country seems to include defending all their illegal terrorist invading buddies from the south and being shipped in as refugees to the countries actual citizens.

It's quite clear that to the Federal Government, American citizens are it's one true enemy.

Posted by Silentbrick 2015-07-18 19:28|| 2015-07-18 19:28|| Front Page Top

#5 There are some good videos out there.
Is it a substitute for hands on instruction? No.
Not even a substitute for range time. It does give good ideas for training and

Awareness. The common thread throughout all videos.

All the IEF vets I have had a honor to hear the real stuff say Get Out of the Kill Zone in an ambush.

I was at a game recently, storm coming in. First thing I do is find where the storm shelters are, then time from seat to aisle (best time, no panic or emergency) then aisle to concourse then to shelter.

Have a plan for your day to day locations, such as work or restaurant frequently visited.

Plan your house. Practice a couple times during the day, then at night with lights off, then at night during a storm - changes everything. Don't want to carry a handgun around house (kids, neighbors whatever) put a baseball in your shooting hand. Practice with your off hand, something I wish I had done prior to my (luckily false alarm) clearing.

Have a realistic appraisal of your abilities. My default bad guy is a 21 year old male on drugs; I figure other bad guys are downhill from that point.

Posted by swksvolFF 2015-07-18 22:11|| 2015-07-18 22:11|| Front Page Top

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