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Saturday, April 27, 2013

And the drumroll goes on.

Gun Shops Rationing Ammo: 'We Have Police Departments that are Scrambling'

"People go to one of two extremes: bury their heads in the sand or preparing for World War III."

Uh, that would be Civil War II (or CW III, depending upon how you reckon them).

LATER: America's gun: Sales of AR-15s soar

Even later: Ammo Factory All Fired Up Amid Gun Ban Threat.

"We could work seven days a week and not meet the demands right now. It's just crazy up there - supply and demand - we just can't keep up with demand."

3 comments:

BobF said...: I like to think my continuing ammo purchases are job security for the industry.

And BTW, I just finished reading "William Diamond's Drum." If I'd had a Highlighter the whole thing would be a sea of yellow. Thank you for the introduction. And it was published when I was in high school... Downloaded the pdf and bought 2 copies to send to others.; April 27, 2013 at 6:19 AM
Paul X said...: From the article:
"The AR-15 is, essentially, a gun that was designed to inflict maximum casualties, death, and injury, in close to medium range. That's what it does," said gun control advocate and former NRA member Tom Diaz.
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OK, let's agree, Tom. They are everything you say they are. All the more reason not to let only govt and police have the things. Everybody should have at least one.; April 27, 2013 at 10:21 AM
Ashrak said...: I submit it would have to be ww4.
WWIII already took place and it was indeed a nuclear war.

We just shot ourselves and the Soviets shot themselves (and their satellites) in a pissing match about who could detonate the bigger bomb. Cold War? Not hardly. It was nuclear hot. Just my opinion.

Paul - exactly. The republican form of government is held together by checks and balances. Without the population having the same arms as government there can be no balance because there is no check. And that SIMPLE point is what turns me away from today's "Republican" party. They do not make this simple point in the "debate".; April 27, 2013 at 1:12 PM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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