A numbers game played for comfort, complacency and self-deception.
“If every German Jew and anti-Nazi had possessed a Mauser rifle, twenty rounds and the will to use it, Adolf Hitler would be a footnote to the history of the Weimar Republic.” — Aaron Zelman, 1995.
"The Deerslayer, the Suburban Cowboy, and the Militia."
So, how would the 25 million militiamen fare against a land invasion from China? It seems that barring use of nuclear weapons by the Chinese, and assuming that we could muster up the willpower, America would suffer tremendous loss, but ultimately prevail.
I can now confirm that the email mentioned at the beginning is believable. Let those who would deprive Americans of their birthright as an armed warrior nation take a warning from Tenche Coxe, and we who support the right to keep and bear arms continue to voice his words that, “The unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people.”
I have seen these estimates from time-to-time since the early 90s but I have ever been suspicious of them. They are rolled out every so often as a numbers game played for comfort, complacency and self-deception by our side. The unstated conclusion is that we have nothing to fear since we have the evil bad guys outnumbered. Yet nothing could be further from the truth. As Aaron Zelman said, it all depends upon "the will to use it." And that is far more than a numbers game. That will is essential but then so is marksmanship, individual firearms training, team organization and proficiency, logistics, etc. That can only be developed by doing -- by getting your ass in the grass and developing the martial skills of a "well-regulated militia." If the recitation of statistics is taken as an excuse to do nothing, it will be a deadly self-deception.
3 comments:
Good Article. Since the patron saint of America is our BLESSED MOTHER, our LORD would never allow it to be conquered by any atheist forces and enemies of GOD. We will suffer though, THAT you can be sure of. Isn't that what George Washington saw?
The anti-gunners often dismiss the "armed Jews" argument. Perhaps they're right - if they fielded a homespun army vs. the Werhmacht it wouldn't have necessarily gone in their favor.
However, I think there were inflection points during Hitler's rise to, and consolidation, of power in which some stiff armed resistance could have slowed or even stopped his genocidal ambitions.
"Training is everything, everything is training."
The militia will be well-regulated when they are the primary force called upon to enforce the laws and respond to emergencies both civil and military. Till then, we're just going to have to muddle through with a poorly regulated milita.
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