Do not be fooled by a belief that progressives, leftists hate guns. Oh, no, they do not. What they hate is guns in the hands of those who are not marching in lock step of their ideology.
Pravda warns Americans to protect their rights
Americans never give up your guns
These days, there are few few things to admire about the socialist, bankrupt and culturally degenerating USA, but at least so far, one thing remains: the right to bare arms and use deadly force to defend one’s self and possessions.
This will probably come as a total shock to most of my Western readers, but at one point, Russia was one of the most heavily armed societies on earth. This was, of course, when we were free under the Tsar. Weapons, from swords and spears to pistols, rifles and shotguns were everywhere, common items. People carried them concealed, they carried them holstered. Fighting knives were a prominent part of many traditional attires and those little tubes criss crossing on the costumes of Cossacks and various Caucasian peoples? Well those are bullet holders for rifles.
Various armies, such as the Poles, during the ????? (Times of Troubles), or Napoleon, or the Germans even as the Tsarist state collapsed under the weight of WW1 and Wall Street monies, found that holding Russian lands was much much harder than taking them and taking was no easy walk in the park but a blood bath all its own. In holding, one faced an extremely well armed and aggressive population Hell bent on exterminating or driving out the aggressor.
This well armed population was what allowed the various White factions to rise up, no matter how disorganized politically and militarily they were in 1918 and wage a savage civil war against the Reds. It should be noted that many of these armies were armed peasants, villagers, farmers and merchants, protecting their own. If it had not been for Washington’s clandestine support of and for the Reds, history would have gone quite differently.
Moscow fell, for example, not from a lack of weapons to defend it, but from the lieing guile of the Reds. Ten thousand Reds took Moscow and were opposed only by some few hundreds of officer cadets and their instructors. Even then the battle was fierce and losses high. However, in the city alone, at that time, lived over 30,000 military officers (both active and retired), all with their own issued weapons and ammunition, plus tens of thousands of other citizens who were armed. The Soviets promised to leave them all alone if they did not intervene. They did not and for that were asked afterwards to come register themselves and their weapons: where they were promptly shot.
“the right to bare arms”
Short sleeve T-shirts?
(Sorry – couldn’t resist it)
Happy New Year, Steve, to you and yours
Since then the old Soviet states have learned what is real not only on personal self-defense.
e.g.
LONDON, Dec 31 (Reuters Point Carbon) – Total supply of Emission Reduction Units (ERUs) swelled by more than a fifth over the last ten days as Ukraine dumped a further 105 million near-worthless carbon credits into the vastly oversupplied market, U.N. data showed on Monday.
They are learning fast.
Link http://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2012/12/ukraine-dumps-million-near-worthless.html
Here is one of my favorite examples.
http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/mexico/comment/airportAUG02.html
Take a horse to water…
True, although that is a separate issue IMO.
It’s about defending a way of life, for which the farmers should be admired.
If they enjoy farming and their standard of living, I say more power to them.