GET A GUN

Newsmax.com | 11-19-02 | Geoff Metcalf

[Jerrybob]

Get a Gun

Geoff Metcalf

Monday, Nov. 19, 2002

The best way I know to win an argument is to start by being in the right. – Lord Hailshan We are at war and every one of us has a responsibility and a right to defend each other and ourselves. This is not hyperbole. It is not fear mongering. It is FACT. Item #1 in a list of 'Rules for a gunfight' is "Bring a gun. Preferably, bring at least two guns. Bring all of your friends who have guns."

About three years ago a friend told me a story about a colleague of his, Jerry Molen, who was one of the executive producers of "Schindler's List."

In the wake of the film's critical acclaim, Molen was speaking to some group. He noticed in the audience an old man who was staring intently at him during his speech. He said he felt odd by the intensity of the glare.

After the speech he was basking in the glow of audience approval when the old man walked up to him. The old man pointed a craggy finger at Molen and with a voice filled with intensity and seriousness, he said "Don't you EVER let them take YOUR guns." Molen noticed that the right forearm of the old man had a series of faded blue numbers tattooed on his flesh.

In the '90s there was a media/federal jihad against militias. In the New Millennium militias may again save the republic.

Notwithstanding the marginalized stereotype of militias as being gap-toothed, camouflaged, knuckle-dragging wannabe Rambos … militias have been, are and will/should be an integral part of protecting the country.

It was President John F. Kennedy who said, "Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom."

Once upon a time (1676) long ago and far away my ancestor Michael Metcalf returned to his home in Dedham, Mass., to discover it burned by Native Americans. He joined a militia and with other militias fought in 'The King Philips War' http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Prairie/9324/KPW/hiskpw.htm .

Today's modern militias remain an eclectic collection of constitutionally conservative folks from all walks of life. Sure, some of them are extremists, racists and criminals … but the same can be said for Democrats, Republicans, Christians, Jews and Muslims. To damn any group for the sins of the few is beyond myopic and disingenuous.

Since 9/11 and the inevitability of planned, organized terrorist attacks, the militia concept should be embraced and not vilified.

And it IS! The Arizona Daily Star wrote, "Cochise County's 'official newspaper' has issued a call to arms and is spearheading the formation of a local militia to combat illegal immigration." And the liberals went NUTS!

Sheriff Larry Dever said frustrations with the federal government's inability to stem the flow of illegal immigration have attracted the attention of a number of groups on all sides of the issue. Hey, how about the federal government's inability to post a platoon of combat troops in every neighborhood?

Militias SHOULD be local people. Militias should be neighborhood watch programs with guns as well as telephones.

Your right to own a gun is inalienable. You have a God-given right to protect and defend yourself, your family and your property. Any and all other legislative masturbation to the contrary, designed to erode, undermine or attrite that right is invalid, immoral and an invitation to massive non-compliance.

The Second Amendment was not intended to guarantee my bird hunting, or for states to maintain militias. It was, and is, as even Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe (liberal icon) acknowledges, an INDIVIDUAL RIGHT.

After the alleged end of the Cold War, several CIA types were informally meeting with a group of their KGB counterparts. Eventually, after a few vodkas, the question was asked, "So Ivan, did you guys actually have plans for invading CONUS (Continental United States)?"

Reportedly the KGB officer laughed, "Hell no!"

"Why not?" asked a CIA suit.

"Your people have too many guns."

Those "Minutemen" Kennedy longed for, and that the Russians recognize are the bone and sinew of a country's strength and Clintonite liberals would abolish, do exist.

Despite unbridled persistent efforts of Clintons, Gore, Janet Reno, Sarah Brady, Chuck Schumer, Barbara Boxer et al., at least so far there remain tens of millions of Americans who would rather die on their feet than live on their knees (or wait bleeding for 911 to send help).

I suggest it will not be the camo-clad weekend paintballers and wannabe stereotyped militia Rambos who will refuse to comply with confiscation. Resistance will come from the remaining former military that still believe in the sacred oath of their youth. It will be the blue-hair grandmothers who protect their family and their heritage that would rather die martyrs than live as slaves.

Someday someone may kill you with your own gun, but they should have to beat you to death with it because it is empty.

[Jerrybob]

Excellent thoughts here. A call to arms.

[Jerrybob]

Excellent column here.

[harpseal]

A column for everyone who values the Ameican Constitutionb to print out and display to everyone else who values liberty.

Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown

[Huck]

Militias SHOULD be local people

And they should be well-regulated.

[umgud]

I love gun quips. "A gun in the hand always trumps a cop on the phone".

[conservativemusician]

Damn straight.

Peace through superior firepower.

[Vic3O3]

ping

[PatrioticAmerican]

BTTT

[jim_trent]

Unfortunately, there have been far too many instances of the police (and to some extent the military) following orders to confiscate legally held firearms in this country. I have no illusions that if Schummer, Boxer, Feinstein, etc. get a law passed to do so, the police (and perhaps the military) will follow orders to enforce it.

[mhking]

National Ammo Day ping!

[Centurion2000]

And they should be well-regulated.

Your'e correct ... they should function well. Regulation in the second amendment refers to functionality, not registration.

[CapandBall]

bang

[Mr. K]

I have a great slogan for Naional Ammo Day- "Buy a round for the house"

LOL

Send me a check...

(and yes I already thought of "- and another for the senate" but lets not be nasty...)

[CapandBall]

Let me add, lay in a couple of 1000 rounds of ammo. For years I owned guns but had only ten to twenty rounds of ammo, if that, for each. A gun without ammo is nothing but a club.

[Boonie Rat]

...well-regulated

ie: Well Trained.

Boonie Rat

MACV SOCOM, PhuBai/Hue '65-'66

[wordsofearnest]

An armed society is a polite society.

[gnarledmaw]

"After the alleged end of the Cold War, several CIA types were informally meeting with a group of their KGB counterparts. Eventually, after a few vodkas, the question was asked, "So Ivan, did you guys actually have plans for invading CONUS (Continental United States)?""

Ive often seen this referenced but cant find any documentation of the event, Im often referred by others to the similar Japanese commentary from WWII. Does anyone have any less vague suggestion of the approximate time frame and who was involved?

[conservativemusician]

Agreed. Why, do you suppose, it is so difficult to get this through the thick skulls of the left?

Wait, I may have answered my own question.

[supercat]

And they should be well-regulated.

Indeed, a smoothly-functioning militia would be much better than a ragtag bunch of people who have little idea which end of the barrel the bullet comes out.

A poorly-regulated militia, after all, would be about as useful as a poorly-regulated clock. Though a poorly-regulated double rifle (one where the barrels fire to different points of aim) may be at least somewhat useful if the shooter knows how it shoots.

Of course, you did realize that a "well-regulated" militia isn't made so by an oppressive government.

[Howie]

"The project of disciplining all the militia of the United States is as futile as it would be injurious, if it were capable of being carried into execution. A tolerable expertness in military movements is a business that requires time and practice. It is not a day, or even a week, that will suffice for the attainment of it. To oblige the great body of the yeomanry, and of the other classes of the citizens, to be under arms for the purpose of going through military exercises and evolutions, as often as might be necessary to acquire the degree of perfection which would entitle them to the character of a well-regulated militia, would be a real grievance to the people, and a serious public inconvenience and loss. It would form an annual deduction from the productive labor of the country, to an amount which, calculating upon the present numbers of the people, would not fall far short of the whole expense of the civil establishments of all the States. To attempt a thing which would abridge the mass of labor and industry to so considerable an extent, would be unwise: and the experiment, if made, could not succeed, because it would not long be endured. Little more can reasonably be aimed at, with respect to the people at large, than to have them properly armed and equipped; and in order to see that this be not neglected, it will be necessary to assemble them once or twice in the course of a year. "

Alexander Hamilton, federalist 29