Captain's rank insignia. Or if it was Navy, that of a Lieutenant.
Posted on 04/13/2012 1:40:38 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The civil rights groups that turned outrage over Trayvon Martin's death into action say their work is far from over now that his killer has been charged with second-degree murder. Next, they hope to harness the activism to challenge Florida's "stand your ground" law and similar statutes in 24 other states.
But they also worry about maintaining their momentum during what could be a long judicial process and translating it into political action that could help sway lawmakers. The leaders plan to use churches, social media and other means to rally the movement that has already prompted protesters to take to the streets in several major cities.
"Arresting Zimmerman is the beginning of the process. This is a first down, not a touchdown," the Rev. Jesse Jackson told The Associated Press this week from Houston...
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Whats a railroad track? As far as horror I guess it depended on the teacher . I had one with a personality like nurse Cratchett.Tell you what though, It definitely taught you sentence structure and word classifications.
A friend told me that the future currency will not be gold or paper, but ammunition.
Some years ago, NYC would send some of their homeless to a shelter in Chester, NY about 60 mi away. This town had a rash of burglaries, muggings, assaults, etc. That is until one of the town council members addressed this problem in the local paper. To this day, I don’t know if it was extreme cluelessness or shrewdness, this councilman stated that he was “shocked and concerned” about the sudden increase in concealed carry apps being submitted to the Orange Cty Sherrif’s office. Almost overnight, the crime rate in Chester plummeted and NYC eventually shut down that shelter. I wonder why?
This would be hilarious if it weren’t real. Let me guess. There will be a federal challenge based on the Civil Rights Act, or some other convoluted scheme to completely frustrate the will of the people of the state that enacted the law, and the fundamental right to defend oneself from a lethal attack.
If the stand your ground law is repealed here, then it’s time for the shoot shovel and shut up policy to be implemented.
Captain's rank insignia. Or if it was Navy, that of a Lieutenant.
That's why I have 4,000+ rounds of .22 LR, a thousand or so of 5.56, maybe 500 or so 7.62NATO. Could use some more shotgun shells. Both serious social purposes type and birdshot. Birds are good to eat you know. Birds like those rats with feathers we used to call Canada Geese. :) Of course I have reloading gear for shotgun shells, so I should buy some powder and appropriate size shot, plus wads.
Plenty of .45 ACP as well. Very little 9mm, but then my 9 is pretty tiny and really only for “up close and personal” type work. Like barrel to nostril close. :)
That turns out not to quite be the case. Second hand report with known chain, originating with JMSDF officer on joint manuevers, around 1960, with US Navy. Attribution as to approximate year and the US Carrier the exchange took place on.
Armed citizens: the deterrent factor
If you're not going to believe Massad Ayoob, who are you going to believe?
Not a direct quote from Yamamoto, but an account of the feelings of the Japanese Navy of WW-II.
I have a lot of respect for Ayoob, but he doesn't claim the quote is correct, or offer any evidence. He only argues that they would have been concerned. For a direct quote you should be able to say when and where someone said it. The only attribution I've heard was that he allegedly said it to a notrhestern newspaper when he was in the USA. There is no record of what paper, or date. Yamamoto was in the US fisrt as a junior officer studying at Harvard in the 20's and later as a military attache for the Japanese embassy. It's unlikely that he would have been interviewed by a US paper in either position, or made such a statement. In his letters to contemporaries he makes it clear that his prime concern was America's overwhelming industrial might which he had seen first hand, and which dwarfed the Japaniese. From a logical point of view, those millions of crack shot Americans could (and were) be drafted and sent anywhere, so it would scarcely matter whether they shot Japanese here or in the South Pacific.
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