Trading Doomsday, by Remus

When the government and social order break down, it won’t be like a Boy Scout Jamboree, only longer. It will be grubby and dangerous. From Remus on a guest post at eatonrapidsjoe.com:

9-11, Boston and other mass murders say government can’t defend us.

By declining to inconvenience the criminal mobs which assaulted Ferguson and Baltimore, government showed they won’t defend us. The attacks on military installations show government won’t defend itself. The authorities have revealed themselves for what they are, gutless and spineless, promising what they can’t, or won’t, deliver and bullying the blameless for their failure. This is full-on “banana republic”. The people have taken notice. Lesson learned. We’ll rely on ourselves.

It’s no mere coincidence gun sales routinely set new records, nearly doubling between 2010 – 2013 alone. Ammunition is in chronically short supply. Women, formerly reliable supporters of confiscatory gun laws, are arming themselves at a rate half again that of men, in fact, it’s not unusual to see women at shooting ranges as instructors. Courses in self defense are increasingly popular, outright combat training isn’t far behind, private ammo stockpiles are proliferating, reloading is becoming common and neighborhood alliances are forming. Survivalism is now mainstream. We’re preparing for the worst.

We pretty much know what the worst is too. Put in antiseptic terms it’s economic and civil collapse, but it’s really the murderous “can’t happen here” bloody maelstroms we saw in Europe during much of the 1940s, again in the genocidal Yugoslav wars of the 1990s and currently in Syria and Ukraine. Some of us have seen the worst first hand, others in “viewer discretion is advised” video, in hi-def, at ground level where people actually live. Our ‘worst’ would be much the same, except without the subtitles.

So, what are all those guns and sweaty training exercises good for? Certainly not for taking on an armored division, say the hecklers, with a sneer. No indeed, nor for taking on any outfit with artillery or air support. They’re good for what they’ve always been good for, taking out a bad guy with a gun. In case it needs saying, a good guy armed only with a first-rate argument for Jeffersonian self-rule will lose to a bad guy with a gun. That’s what it comes down to. It always does. And there will be plenty of bad guys with guns.

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