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We have guns.

So what?

If we do not have the resolve to use them when necessary, what use are they? If they are conveniently lost in a "boating accident", what good are they?

This is the point in time that they are to be used, specifically when a tyrannical government is bent upon disarming us of those weapons that they know are very useful in opposing their tyranny.

Put up or STFU is what I say.

Count on it.

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Put up or STFU is what I say.

Reminds me of a Dilbert cartoon I saw once. Dilbert's boss is sitting at his desk and is telling Dilbert "change is good. You go first."

I see that here. Two forms of despair. "logical me" and others just throwing in the towel, because, I don't know, maybe it's just in their personalities. They've given up hope and they want everyone else to give up so they can, I don't know, feel better about being the wisest among us? I can't reach where that's coming from.

Don't misunderstand. I've made mistakes and believed in people I shouldn't have. But my optimism is incurable. I see God working out His plan no matter how powerful the forces of darkness think they are. He will laugh at them all in the end.

But there is another form of despair. I see it in your response. Do I understand you to be saying you want an armed revolution now, and that you will declare the situation hopeless if that doesn't happen? That's my understanding, and if I'm wrong, I apologize in advance.

But if I'm right, if that's what you mean, then I'd call that an ill-begotten despair, of no use in restoring the country I am sure we both love. Despair ends up cutting the nerve of action. Given a false choice between all out war or all out surrender, people will choose surrender, because they are not ready for war.

That is not how we should be managing this conflict. It's a sure way to lose it. We need people engaged all the way to the flashpoint, so that the transition, if there must be one (and I do think it might be avoided), has the full momentum of the people behind it. We do that by getting people who are standing still to crawl, those who are crawling to walk, and those who are walking to run, etc.

What if the Founders' plan is actually still workable? What if we can muster a long succession of electoral victories and begin to roll back, by virtue of overwhelming numbers, the advances of our opponents?

Conversely, what if we had a Tea Party equivalent to Ruby Ridge or Waco? What came of those events? I am willing to die for my country. I am not willing to throw my life away, or the lives of my family, or the lives of my friends here, for actions that not only will not be effective in our cause, but actions that may well harm the cause of freedom.

No, like Solomon has said, there is a time for war, and a time for peace. When we come to that transition, we cannot act like a thousand individual Randy Weavers. It will serve no purpose. We must come together as a unit, by tens and hundreds of thousands, under qualified leadership, with as much support from within the system as it is possible to retain. There is no possibility of victory without maximizing momentum. Only then will our would-be oppressors come to understand that "consent of the governed" is not a mere suggestion, but a physical reality that cannot long be denied.

So if some are having trouble now with boating accidents, then perhaps it is as Solomon said elsewhere: Cast your guns upon the water, and after many days they will come back to you, when you really need them. OK, very loose paraphrase there, but you see the principle.

Tru dat!