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2017-02-18 -Land of the Free

This Week in Guns, February 18th, 2017

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Posted by badanov 2017-02-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 ...but the other side will take casualties without so much as blinking.

Really? The free stuff brigade is not about work or sacrifice. They won't be blinking as much as their commissars drive them into the fire zone - see: Enemy at the Gates. Once you burn through their thugs and anarchists, there's not a lot of depth in their team. You think the rich and well to do are going to be on the front lines? The academics? the journalists?

Defending miles of power lines and gas pipelines, bridges and overpasses, rail junction is going to take a lot of disbursed manpower. Without those, cities starve, freeze and roast. The natural habitat is fundamentally altered.

I don't see a quick civil war. It'll degenerate into something similar to Iraq, dealing with a insurgency till the borders are really sealed and the tolerance for the natural destruction and nihilism of the Left is ended. Do on to them, what they did to everyone else in the 20th Century.

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-02-18 08:06|| 2017-02-18 08:06|| Front Page Top

#2 #1 is correct and on the right post:
"the other side will take casualties without so much as blinking" in 3rd para

Posted by Frank G 2017-02-18 08:15|| 2017-02-18 08:15|| Front Page Top

#3 Thanks Frank, duhhh. I missed it. 'One Team - One Fight' at the Burg.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-02-18 08:17|| 2017-02-18 08:17|| Front Page Top

#4 There are many forms of wide spread violence. Violent adversaries will try to destroy one or the other with deadly force. Some of the population will stay and many of them will become casualties. Others will flee and become refugees. During this time the Pale Horse of Death is at full gallop.

After the US civil war of the North vs the South the descendent sons and daughters witnessed the mass death and destruction and said "Not in our lands anymore." And all acts of war against them, they made sure the resulting violence occured in the far lands of the aggressor to protect our innocent from terror.

The new generation however is importing the ideologies of violence in a pact for power with the demonics. So the danger of the return of the pale horse of death, terror and desolation returns to our lands again unless their are peace keepers who have the courage to do what it takes to keep the pale horse of death at bay. The Satanic Demonics are mighty and powerful that even the holy angels fear, but by the grace of the good and mighty God that the American people have feared and worshipped in past by entire generations, victory over death will be ours.

Posted by Nero White 3083 2017-02-18 13:11|| 2017-02-18 13:11|| Front Page Top

#5 Plenty of examples of confident, well trained, well organized forces going into harms way against the forces of evil and coming up short. And dead.

History is replete with those, so there is no reason to think the average US gunowner wouldn't suffer as much as his opponent.

Official forces, such as kops and soldiers will first defend their own supply lines and positions, assuming they show up at all, not gas lines and not power lines. Pretty much what their opposition would do.

Everyone would be left on their own to adhere to whichever side is feeding who.

It would be an epic mess.

Posted by badanov 2017-02-18 13:42|| http://www.chriscovert.net 2017-02-18 13:42|| Front Page Top

#6 It would be an epic mess.

Posted by JohnQC 2017-02-18 16:16|| 2017-02-18 16:16|| Front Page Top

#7 Organization matters, as the review of Days of Rage points out. One side already has a leg up on organization. Again. There is intimidation long before there's much blood on the streets.

Posted by james 2017-02-18 19:18|| http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com 2017-02-18 19:18|| Front Page Top

#8 "but the other side will take casualties without so much as blinking" Sorry, not buying that one. When at 500+ yards away from their goal people's heads start exploding and spattering blood and brain tissue around the nearby followers, better then 95% of them will stop, turn and start running.

Posted by Chantry 2017-02-18 20:21|| 2017-02-18 20:21|| Front Page Top

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