It’s not that they don’t know anything. It’s just that so much of what they know isn’t so, as Reagan so memorably quipped.
Somehow this weird talking point is still seen as a mike drop by gun control nuts even as the U.S. scrambles to cut a deal to end 18 years of grueling quagmire warfare against an enemy that lives in caves and has no F-15s or Hellfire missiles. https://t.co/FxWHZeq4P4
— John Hayward (@Doc_0) February 28, 2020
Ace extols Hayward’s premise:
Great point.
The left is always claiming that we mustn’t go to war in this shithole country or that one, because peasant militias can always defeat Colonialist Invaders.
But when it comes to America, they claim that Bubba can’t do a damn thing with his AR-15.
That contradiction comes as no surprise. After all, we’re talking here about people s guns than they do about warfare, other than that they’re terrified witless of both. Ace then breaks the Tweetstorm out into manageable text for us, bless his cold, shriveled heart.
Of course it’s vapid, but it’s also vicious. They think they’re judo-flipping the rubes out in flyover country and pinning them to the mat with their reverence for the U.S. military. “You hayseeds can’t possibly think you could beat those awesome soldiers in a GUNFIGHT?”
One of the obvious problems with this “you can’t beat the U.S. military so guns are no use against the military” idiocy is that tyrants around the world very clearly DO fear the prospect of an armed populace. That’s why they always aggressively disarm their captive people.
The track record of lightly-armed insurgencies against professional military forces in the modern era is actually pretty good, even when the military forces are vastly more aggressive and willing to inflict collateral damage than the U.S. armed forces ever would be.
To even speculate on how things would go if the U.S. armed forces became a gang of ruthless killers under some communist or fascist American tyrant is to enter the realm of science fiction. Healthy respect for the 2nd Amendment helps to ensure things never get that far.An armed population of sovereign citizens goes a long way toward keeping tyranny from ever getting off the ground. Of course collectivist Democrats with their hive-mind thinking don’t consciously understand it, but the 2A is helping restrain their worst impulses RIGHT NOW.
They’re trying to reassure each other that THEIR power is absolute while YOU have none at all. Once they trick you into submitting to socialized medicine, forced population shifts, or one of their other doomsday schemes, you’ll be helpless. Deep down, they’re not so sure.
But long before you dip into left-wing psychosis or apocalyptic scenarios of armed revolt against a tyrant, you have the way armed citizens see themselves differently than disarmed ones. The first two amendments in the Bill of Rights profoundly shape the nature of citizenship.
The 2nd Amendment UNDERMINES tyranny long before anyone has to think about FIGHTING it. If we stand tall as sovereign citizens and cherish our rights AND responsibilities – the 2nd Amendment is where they meet! – we won’t get stuck with rulers we have to “take on.” /end
I can’t claim to be quite so sanguine and positive about all that as John seems to be, but in the main he’s correct: however lax we’ve been about vigorously defending our liberties from incremental encroachment, there’s little doubt that the Left’s tyrannical tendencies have been at least somewhat attenuated by the uncertainty an armed populace instills in them.
Some gaps have been knocked into the Constitutional fence that encircles and safeguards American rights from predation, admittedly. But the fact is that its protection, while not as sturdy and complete as it might be, has not been entirely removed even yet. And it can be repaired and made strong again, any old time we choose to take the trouble.
Our failure to destroy the sewage in the sandbox comes from our “leaders” insistence that to win the war, we must “win their hearts and minds.” Do note that they have no problem with Sherman from the War of Northern Aggression…
The 2nd Amendment to the US Constitution means NOTHING if one does not subscribe to using those “2A protected” weapons against the domestic communists ensconced in our federal & state legislatures and judiciaries. Actions speak louder than words.
Traditional and native born citizens are being subjugated by the Amerikan ruling elites elected, appointed or hired into government power. Yet American citizens, i.e, slaves, serfs and “der untermenschen” continue to cut their own throats by keeping the elected, career politicians in power. These government scoundrels pad their own nest with folks they GIVE .gov jobs to. They buy the loyalty and support of people they hire or appoint into government. They GROW “government”. An example of this are the attacks on Virginia’s freedoms. Attacks where the communist voters mainly occupy only 2 or 3 counties. Yet, these same domestic communists are the majority in Virginia. Not only are they the voting majority, but they are federal and state government employees in Richmond and the District of Columbia ! What a coincidence, eh ?
If citizens do not find the testicular fortitude and the WILL to defend ourselves, with force, against the growing tyranny and subjugation being imposed on us by the scum of government….the FUSA will come to be no better than any other given shithole nation on this planet !
The federal and state CON-stitutions have become meaningless as have “YOU” ! Now shut up peasant and pay those taxes.
Sometimes, violence IS the answer.
Your typical leftist: BUT THE ARMY HAS TANKS, MAN!!!!
Yeah, but as Kurt Schlichter pointed out in one of his Kelly Turnbull books, when the tank commander climbs through the hatch to take a leak, he has a deer hunter take his head off at 300 yards. Or even better, take out the logistics tail. Then your SUPER INCREDIBLE POWERFUL TANK, MAN is just 80 tons of rusting junk at the side of the road.
Leftists are ignorant. I’m not really sure they know which end of a gun the bullet comes out.
These comments also pre-suppose that .mil will not join FreeFor. I think most libtards have no idea how the military works and how many service members take their oaths seriously. Not to mention, at least when I was in, the majority were Southerners who have not forgotten the War of Northern Aggression.
But since when must a lefty nut know about something to spout off about it?