We Are At War
I have an e-mail pal who is a journalist currently assigned to Paris. He got there to cover the terrorist attacks and it has become his beat. As part of a rather long e-mail he sent me the following which I have edited for brevity. It is a description of entering the American Embassy.: First, there are three checkpoints before entering the courtyard. Next come concrete caissons which are spaced five feet apart which is the first line of defense. Next are the French police, three pairs standing abreast of their squad cars which are parked directly before the Embassy gates. They all carry sub-machine guns.Next there is a watch house which is posted with a Marine security detachment. The streets are cordoned off for four blocks in every direction and there are snipers stationed on nearby rooftops. Now, who would like to tell me that we're not at war?
The other reasons include run-of-the-mill criminals, crazy people and the Birmingham City Limits being less than 15 minutes away in some places.
The only bodyguard I can afford is the 9mm in my right front pocket.
Its easy to slip off holster kinda looks like a billfold at first.
Wonder why I thought that may be a good idea?
My best advice for a bad guy is to leave old guys in wheelchairs alone, they may not have decades of life left, but theyare VERY intent on living them.
My power wheelchair back, neck and head rest are lined with 1/4" AR500 armor, enough to defeat any handgun round and most mid size rifle rounds. In addition to a 9mm pistol, in my belt (summer) or a 45cal 1911 shoulder rig (winter) there's another high cap pistol under my seat. A couple knives just might be found too, just for fun.
I would never never go looking for a fight, I'm a vet who has seen to much for such foolishness, but I am a vet who KNOW'S what might be required to win such an engagement. My intention is that if I ever find myself in that situation is to win and to be the guy to go home.
:) :)
Larry
I can only go to the range with my walker. It has a built-in seat . You should see the looks I get at the range. If someone gives me the stink eye, I smile and say, "Don't tread on me." You illustrate one of the great faults of the internet, which is the friends we make we may never meet. I'm not supposed to drink alcohol, but I can nurse a beer all afternoon at the right kind of bar. Good to know a fellow geezer. I know of a few scattered around the Gulch, perhaps more than you'd imagine.
I want people like this living in my neighborhood-- not just armed, but experienced, not looking for a fight, but half-jokingly too old to put up with any violence from criminals.
But we are supposed to allow Muslims in here who do NOT disavow those parts of Islam that profess to kill all infidels?? Thats just dumb, in my opinion.
That was right after I stated that intakes of Muslims is dangerous.
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These are also the only rounds I carry.
Shortly thereafter, I showed a FTX to my son, who said he had recently read that the round was an aerodynamic improvement for getting from the gun to the target.
Any round that deposits all of it's energy in the target is a friend of mine.
That said, I recently discovered some AP bullets (I reload) for .223 and .308. They cost about as much as gold, but should work well for remote detonation of explosive clothing.
They need to stay where they are. I dont want muslims who believe, or even accept those tenets living around me. Got nothing to do with racism. Its purely a desire to feel safe. Muslims who want to be around me need to disavow the intolelerant and violent parts of Islam, PERIOD.
We do not hold our politicians to the laws they create. Most of the education system and the media are complicit. See Dino's CNN Fake News post.
Not only have we been the target of Islamic attacks as is all of the so called western world.
We are shamed to accept all comers in the name of tolerance and diversity, never mind the cowardly murders of young girls at a concert in Manchester and the slashing of throats of any in striking distance in London. They attack Israel and use innocent human shields with the hope that those shields are killed to further their cause. The list goes on and on. Oh be sure you aren't a bigot
that is worse than killing randomly and subjecting women to Sharia Laws. Unfricking real.
Kathleen Sebelius ,Podesto both Bushes, Cheney
Kissinger , Soros , the Ninth circuit wow once you get started weeding out the murderers and looters ......
She also suggests government "turkey farms" to which unfireable employees could be promoted. Desk in a plain office building, perhaps somewhere in Lost Dakota or one of the Aleutian Islands. "Your job is to warm this chair. If you don't like it you can get a productive job elsewhere."
When I saw that this morning I said, "We are going to lose this war." The enemy has infiltrated. My wife's family is French. I compare this to the Nazis having friendly visits with the French police and government officials to bribe them pre-invasion. That's why Hitler rolled in so easily. Just this Sunday my mother-in-law was telling me the story of her mother closing the drapes and turning off the lights as the Nazis marched past their home in the night. In the previous town they passed through they put all the men in the town in a barn and burned them all to death. She says she can still remember the smell of the flesh. My point is that I am sure the same approach has been done in Europe, and probably here in America. That's why we are told that a President's anti-terrorism tweet is more dangerous than a couple guys plowing their van into a crowd and then jumping out to slash the throats of the women and children. See how that works? It's a form of gas lighting. And, we're subjected to it every day because certain people have been bought off. Brilliant, really...
Nero wasn't that bad. As murderous narcissists go, he was fairly small time compared to modern despots.
My thought on this: It's wrong to point to one person as the focus for a republic becoming and empire. Rome became bloated and corrupt in a long process. Our empire will have a different cast of characters. History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes.