18 thoughts on “The Preservation Of The Republic”

  1. Limiting Gun Rights While Defunding Police Is a Recipe for Disaster By John R. Lott Jr.
    If gun-control advocates get their way, law-enforcement officers and ordinary citizens alike will be powerless to stop violent crime.
    For years, gun-control advocates told people that it is the job of police to protect them. But now, the same people who want to ban gun ownership also want to defund and disarm the police, replacing them with social workers who won’t do anything to stop violent crime.
    But months later, with the movement to defund police all the rage, gun-control activists now don’t trust police with guns. The Trace, a Bloomberg-funded outlet dedicated to gun-control advocacy, is probably at odds with police in part because officers are so overwhelmingly in favor of gun ownership. Just in the last month, it’s published articles with such headlines as, “An Arkansas Cop Said He’d Shoot at Protestors. Then He Killed a Fellow Cop,” and “The ‘Warrior Cop’ Is a Toxic Mentality. And a Lucrative Industry.” And it advocates for disarming police, claiming that American officers kill civilians at higher rates than those in countries where law enforcement is unarmed.

    Meanwhile, Shannon Watts, the head of the Bloomberg-funded Moms Demand Action, has said simply that “police violence is gun violence.” She has Tweeted that “Not only are these heavily armed secret police [sent by Trump are] a threat to the safety of Black Americans, they’re likely a precursor to what the administration is planning to try and suppress the vote in Black and Latino communities in November.”

    Major gun-control groups want to weaken law-enforcement agencies in other ways, too. Moms Demand Action and the Bloomberg-funded Everytown for Gun Safety have endorsed congressional Democrats’ “Justice in Policing Act,” which would provide surplus or second-hand military equipment to police only for use in rare counterterrorism operations. The vast majority of the military-surplus equipment provided to police is purely defensive, e.g. shields and other protective equipment employed during riots. But even weapons such as flashbang grenades and sniper rifles have important uses. Some police departments face well-armed drug gangs, and flashbang grenades may be the safest option to immobilize criminals before police enter a room. Sniper rifles might be necessary to save innocent lives in hostage situations.
    Gun-control groups are not alone in their advocacy for disarming the police along with civilians; such proposals have become mainstream in the Democratic Party. When it comes to gun policy, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has promised to defer to former representative Beto O’Rourke, who made taking away people’s guns his signature issue. Biden also wants to shrink police departments’ budgets and take away their military equipment. In a July 8 interview with journalist Ady Barkan, Biden said he “absolutely” supports redirecting “some of the funding [for police]” into social services, mental-health counseling, and affordable housing.

    If you want to see what a world without police would look like, you need look no further than the recent riots in which officers have been ordered to stand down. Armed citizens have protected their businesses and stopped rioters from causing as much damage as they otherwise would have. But we may soon live in a country where that recourse isn’t available to the would-be victims of criminal violence, either.
    After a concealed-carry-permit holder stopped a shooting last December at the West Freeway Church of Christ near Fort Worth, Texas, Michael Bloomberg warned that it didn’t mean we should put our faith in civilians. “It may be true that someone in the congregation had his own gun and killed the person who murdered two other people,” he said. “But it’s the job of law enforcement to have guns and to decide when to shoot. You just do not want the average citizen carrying a gun in a crowded place.”

    https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/08/gun-control-defunding-police-recipe-for-disaster/

    1. On the other hand, defunding some of the federal level police probably is a good idea. There’s way too many of them. And whoever is grabbing people off the street in Portland is probably a good place to start.

      1. We know who’s been doing it (their vests and jackets are plainly marked), and why, and why they’re using unmarked vehicles (marked vehicles have been getting torched by the “mostly peaceful protestors”).

  2. ” In a July 8 interview with journalist Ady Barkan, Biden said he “absolutely” supports redirecting “some of the funding [for police]” into social services, mental-health counseling, and affordable housing.”

    In other words when Joe Biden is asked whether he supports “defunding the Police” he responds in the negative. However when he is asked does he support “redirecting” police funding into other things he supports it. In other words he is both in favor of and opposed to defunding the police depending on how the questions is framed to him.

  3. Those who are unfamiliar with the components of a bolt carrier group should probably not start a civil war with those who are both familiar, and can assemble them into a functioning component.

  4. I commented on another blog recently that the Overton window has shifted onto the “S” word (Secession). Secession is now widely talked about on both sides. That is not a sign of peaceful times ahead.

    1. Secession is going to be the hot topic of the 2020s. It’s becoming popular here in Canada too, and obviously Brexit is still lumbering toward its final conclusion.

      When societies are this divided, the easiest way to fix them is… to divide them.

      1. Unfortunately having a psychotic ex living next door is not conducive to long tern peace. More so when the ex fails to keep their finances in order and decides they’re entitled to your wealth.

        1. It’s better to have them next door than in the same house.

          The fundamental problem with secession is that the right can survive and thrive without the left, but the left can’t survive without the right. But the left in the new states would probably purge each other within a month and then there’d only be a handful of survivors to worry about.

        2. “Good fences build good neighbors.” Let them secede. Build a wall and enforce strong immigration policies. For starters, make anyone wanting to immigrate provide their tax returns.

    2. Would be that bad if New York State leaves the union?
      Dems always threatening to leave US, instead they could all go to New York State. Though it seems recently the Dems have been fleeing the State.
      How about California? Well if California became independent State, it probably divide into a number of nations. I heard mentioned as many as 7. All that could mean, is maybe US Congress, might able to function without the likes of Pelosi. Though not chance, that Pelosi would king of any of the California states {even a drug crazed population, is not going want her}.
      It’s sort of gnome underpants plan. Where does it go.
      If was a key state worry about, I might pick Louisiana, but don’t think there much threat of losing that state. Texas also pretty important- again the lone star State seems settled in terms being part of US.

      1. The same states that have deep donkey big cities also have relatively sane rural regions. If those states depart the Union and associated Constitutional protections, those rural regions are motivated to themselves declare independence and petition to rejoin the Union.

        1. Yes. Those secessionists need to understand that they don’t get to keep their state’s current borders. Oregon and Washington east of the Cascades summit and south of Eugene, for example, aren’t going to want to join into the Democrats suicide pact.

      2. Downtown Houston, Austin and San Antonio are DemonRat cesspits. Cities tend to outvote the rural population, so don’t count on Texas just yet.

  5. Does anyone here really think that’s the secrssion would occur in a vacuum? Don’t you think the Chinese will move in to take over anything they can in the political and economic chaos that will certainly follow secession?

  6. “When societies are this divided, the easiest way to fix them is… to divide them.”

    Lt Col Ralph peters once wrote ” the dirty little secret of ethnic cleansing is that it works.” Doesn’t mean you have to kill those on one side or the other. Cyprus is the example. They divided the island and Greeks on one side, Turks on the other with a DMZ between the. I gather it isn’t a good idea to go hunting with a rifle in there.

    1. Another example, which happened to some in my family, is post-WW II– all those Germans who lived in Eastern Europe got out if they could, or were “removed” if they didn’t. No one seems to complain much that most of those countries don’t have those ethnic minorities any more.

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