We may just live in different worlds.
To me 5000 rounds of .22 ammo just does not sound that extreme. Every time we go shooting my boys and I will burn through 500 to 1000. Owning a gun is worthless unless you can hit what you aim at, and the only way to build and maintain good marksmanship skills is to shoot. I can’t afford to put 500 rounds through my .44 or .303, but I can afford to shoot my .22’s.
As far as the connection to insurrection or revolution; I don’t think it is that as much as it is a total lack of confidence in our government’s ability to ensure our safety and future. I don’t understand the mindset of people that look to government to ensure their safety, security, or prosperity. I guess I have just never seen government deliver on any of those promises.
I mean I still believe that the only reasons governments exist is to secure the individual rights of men and women, and I also still believe that, “whenever any form of government becomes destructive to those ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it.” That is what our founders believed. They also believed that it was, “their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government.”
I am sure you recognize those words from our Declaration of Independence. You know reading through their list of grievances that they wrote that day there are a lot of similarities. Even our founders acknowledged that revolution should not be undertaken for “light and transient causes.” But look at some of their complaints that they considered, “a long train of abuses and usurpations . . . design to reduce them under absolute Despotism.”
Their complaints included (among other things):
· He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
· He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws;
· For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent
So perhaps we are due another armed revolution. Our founders envisioned that happening every generation or so. But it will not be led by “little old ladies” with .22s. I think they just want some security that they will be safe in the anarchy many of us see on the horizon.
When the government fails JC and MP, who will protect your family? Or when the government comes for you, will you go like sheep or will you resist?
I have told men before they could have my possessions, but they are going to have to take them, I will not give them up willingly. If you want what I have you are going to have to whip me first. And I am not saying you can’t, it’s been done before. But it has been done fewer times than it has been tried, I will tell you that.
