This post is a more modest statement of my views. It is mostly intended as a test of my command of unitonal dialect. There may be a flourish or two at the end.
Gun grabs are the Schelling point of resistance that we are stuck with. We are wise to reinforce it.
However, that does not make it a good Schelling point. The current panoply of American citizen firepower is not comparable to the Revolutionary-era armament of the citizen militia, which featured near-universal military-aged citizen enrollment. In that era, the American militiaman was better armed than his British counterpart. Today, ISIS is better armed, and most American military-aged males do not even possess a firearm.
The Revolutionary-era American militias could sometimes withstand British regulars. Current American civilians could not win against a determined 1st world army in the field. They are not organized at all. They lack the squad weaponry common by late WWII – explosives and LMGs. They completely lack all heavier armament.
A Russian style offensive against American militias would succeed just as Russia succeeds in Syria, despite Turkish and American support.
The original meaning of the 2nd Amendment is that citizen militias should be capable of handling 1st world militaries – whether the French and their Indian auxiliaries, or the British redcoats. Today we are far from that goal, and thus forced to hope for an asymmetrical conflict with the state. The last time the state crushed American militias – the Civil War and Reconstruction – Sherman proved Leviathan has an answer. The police state apparatus – which did not exist in the Revolutionary era – has similarly shown an ability to suppress peacetime white collective self defense within inner cities, allowing them to fall to Leviathan’s black criminal proxies.
Law-abiding citizens take note: It is not possible to both honor the Founders’ intent as embodied in the Constitution and also follow modern restrictions on militias and armament.
It is obvious that multifaceted conflicts are brewing. Military outcomes are difficult to predict. However, even were victory certain, we should not allow our pro-gun rhetoric to blind us to the need for Stinger missiles and tanks… or at least grenades, RPGs and Javelins, for a start.
An armed society is a polite society. I suggest restoration of the right to revenge, elimination of the police force, and resumption of the code duello, with approved weaponry being unarmed, rapier and dagger, or revolvers.
More practically, do as Jack Donovan suggests: Form a male gang… One more like the Cosa Nostra than Cheers.
Scale is ultimately what destroyed American liberty, and the solution starts with you. A Dark Age is coming, and this time castles will be built of 4GW flesh, not masoned stone.
(Just kidding. They’re stone.)
The complacent should bear in mind that as the Cathedral’s position becomes more desperate, and the Fed more insolvent, its provocations of foreign powers grow more flagrant, and the risk of nuclear war increases. Mad dogs must be put down. Nationalism + Great Depression 2.0 = WWIII. Let it be a Reconquista, not a re-catastrophe, please. The Russian bear has disemboweled enough insane empires; let’s do this one ourselves. Remember the Alamo, and bring your bowie knife.