What good can a handgun do against an Army? Threead IV

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[Dick Bachert]

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Wish the government would just repeal the Second Amendment and confiscate all the guns because you believe sensible people shouldn't suffer because of some idiotic notion about some antiquated “right?”

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[harpseal]

Actually if one closely examines the History A high school agaed person actually did somehow manage to obtain a firearm even in one of these normally gunfree camps, TREBLINKA. The carnage that followed resulted in many of the staff of this facility being killed or injured. Of course people sometimes learn from mistakes. Especially Nazi types.

Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown

[SevenDaysInMay]

The FReeper standard is 1,000+ per weapon, with reloading tools and supplies. Anything less is less.

Practice.

BLOAT.

Cache is king.

[winner45]

It is interesting to consider that totalitarianism, whether Nazi, Communist, Fascist, or Democrat all require the harnessing of others labor.

You forgot to mention the republicans. They (pubby leadership at the national level) enjoy the benefits of the US tax code as well as the demosocialists.

[Fiddlstix]

Bump

[lavaroise]

It's the David and Goliath thing. With a single bullet a man could win, end WWIII and maintain the peace.

KEEP AND BEAR ARMS

[Eaker]

Bump......

[CollegeRepublican]

This is my all time favorite FreeRepublic Article and thread. I have had this bookmarked for it seems like years. It says it all. A Free Republic indeed.

[Jeff Head]

One of my favorites.

I have had this article posted on My Site since May of 1999 HERE

I posted it on FR in April of that year and Critter posted a follow up after that thread got almost 300 posts. That thread (which is the oldest one containging it now on FR) is HERE. Now you have kept the faith with it several times , the latest version being this one.

It always brings good discussion.

[harpseal]

I have appreciated this article for years and have understood the basic concept from a time prior to the original being written. The Warsaw ghetto uprising alone is more than ample evidence of what good a handgun can do against an army. This uprising which started with less than a dozen arms in the hands of the Jews in the Ghetto tied up the Wermacht for longer than the entire Polish Army.

This is the basic prnciple underlying the Right to Keep and Bear Arms enumerated in the Constitution and this well written essay brings elucidates the point.

Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown

[Jeff Head]

Amen and roger to every word of that. Those principles still hold true today and tyrants everywhere, abroad and right here at home, know it.

[hattend]

bump for later

[wcbtinman]

"Not in this day and age."

I give you Mohammad and Malvo. These two guys terrorized the DC area with just one weapon. And if they had only been reasonably smart about it, they would still be out there frustrating the efforts of the LEO community. The military wouild not have had any better luck.

Yes, even in this day and age.

[LibKill]

One of my high school teachers was a firearms/militaria/historical artifact collector.

He used to bring in the best stuff to his classes. Indian arrow heads and lance points. Civil war uniforms. Firearms of the period that he was teaching (this was the 1970's he did not get arrested).

He brought in a Liberator.

What a peice of junk! Sheet metal. Horrible trigger pull, must have been about 20+ pounds, long and gritty. No rifleing in the barrel, must have been horribly inaccurate. Only one shot! Harder to hide than an M1911A1.

But when you have nothing at all such a weapon is a godsend.

[lavaroise]

But when you have nothing at all such a weapon is a godsend.

Indeed, moping up evil has to be done with what is at hand. A liberator is a godsend that makes it easier, blesseder and more dignified the rotten job of killing people who like to start trouble for the rest of your life.

Of course, life is not a vacuum cleaning operation, but some like to turn it like that.

[Mark17]

Apparently a Japanese leader in WWII said Japan would not attempt to attack the USA mainland "because there would be a rifle behind every blade of grass."

I think the Soviets had similar concerns.

[harpseal]

A liberator was deswigned to get its possessor a nice Mauser, MP38, P38, Luger, or PPK. The old line crude but effective comes to mind. During the seige at Dunkirk a poster brought up the fact that a British officer who was an accomplished archer caused a great deal of havoc within the advancing German formations with a long bow.

It is not the weapon it is the person weilding it that is important. Also keep in mind that no sane person really would wish to see a war where we had to resort to this weaponry. The situations which would encompass such a war are the things of nightmares.

Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown

[quietolong]

Here's an older thread

What good can a handgun do against an Army? Thread II
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a38fcb918771f.htm

[river rat]

An early morning bump from Kalifornia...
Thanks for the article --- my first read.. Bookmarked.
BLOAT

Semper Fi