What is it with Dim-ocrat presidential candidates thinking that threatening to wage war on American civilians makes a great campaign platform plank? Kalifornia’s Eric Swallowswell wanted to nuke America’s breadbasket, although he backed off a little and settled for overwhelming military force.
Oddly, that didn’t encourage campaign donors, or boost his polling. Go figure.
It appears Joe “c’mere, little girl” Biden apparently didn’t learn from Swalwell’s experience.
Joe Biden on the Second Amendment: No amendment is ‘absolute’
“Folks, don’t apologize at all about the Second Amendment,” Biden advised, explaining how the amendment allows for limitations on who can own a weapon and what type. “These guys will tell you, the tree of liberty is watered with the blood of patriots. Give me a break.”
Gropin’ Joe needs to check the whole quote.
“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”
That part about “tyrants” should concern a man who continued with this:
“If you want to protect yourself against the federal government, you’re going to need at least an F-15.”
That is a rather direct threat. More so than Swalwell’s snide, “The government has nukes.”
In fact, military aircraft aren’t going to be needed. When wannabe absolute tyrants like Biden push hard enough, my fear is that it won’t be anything so controlled as civil war. Far more likely is what I’ve termed “hunting season,” where thousands or millions of pissed-off individuals decide to take matters into their own individual hands. Not coordinated action by groups who can be targeted in return.
What could individuals do versus the government?
Two untrained idiots tied up the resources of two states and the District of Columbia for three weeks.
One sniper took down 12 cops (5 dead, 7 wounded).
One ex-cop with a grudge held the attention of three counties’ law enforcement agencies for a week and a half. The chaos he caused even got three innocent civilians shot (reinforcing the idea of staying out of it and crossfire).
One nonexistent sniper tied up the police for days.
But my personal favorite had to be four less-than-competent jihadis who tied up 90,000 police and military personnel for days.
Consider those, then multiply by thousands, hundreds of thousands, or millions of people with a grudge over being stripped of rights, and then you have “hunting season.” No bag limits. Clinton Rules of Engagement apply. Full scale ugliness, and it’s hard to see anything but a horrible outcome for everyone.
Hunting season. The whackos who would be king could help avoid this by respecting rights. They could stop campaigning on policy enforcement-by-genocide.
I don’t want to see this. If it comes to it, I’ll hunker down and try to stay out of the crossfire. But that show will require a lot of popcorn.
Oh, and, Joe?
“Can you go out and buy a flamethrower? Can you go out and buy an F-15?”
Yes, you can buy a flame thrower. And while an F-15 on the commercial market might be hard to find, other jet fighters are available. Lawfully arming a surplus fighter might be problematical, but if the groper-in-chief is waging war against Americans, and sending fighters after us, the legality becomes something of a lesser concern.
Americans currently own flamethrowers, machineguns, artillery, tanks, combat-capable aircraft, besides the semi-auto peashooters, Joe finds so scary.
Multiply hunting season by that.
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DANG it!!! The IDF advertised surplus gear a while bank including tanks. I KNEW I should have looked to see if they had a surplus Centurion laying around on sale.
Sheila,
Carl is right on this one. Jet fighters won’t be needed for this. Even if all the AR15’s and AK 47’s were taken, they still could not stop the angry wave of the American people, who would still have shotguns and deer rifles, pistols and such.
Given that well over three fourths of the military would not attack the civilian population, and after the first police started to die, they would all, probably to a cop, decide that it is much safer to join the rest of the country and either hide or join up, and the battle would be short lived.
It of course would be very ugly and bloody, on both sides. And most likely the side of the patriots would lose a lot of their members at the first bloodletting on their side, as well. But many patriots have made up their minds that some things are worth dying for. And the nation that they leave for their children and grandchildren is one of them.
I don’t own an AR or an AK. I do have a .22 squirrel rifle. I bet that would be a dangerous weapon in one of those patriots hands. I hope that it doesn’t come to that. I suspect that we will find out come the beginning of November of 2020, after the election. If the president is re-elected, I look for all hell to break loose.
I’d rather be wrong.
It could be done with torches and pitchforks.
I don’t see any F-15s for sale, but American private citizens can buy Sukhoi SU-27s, MiG-21s, MiG-29s, or SAAB 35 Drakens, among others. Being able to legally fly them in US airspace requires jumping through a number of paperwork hoops, but *buying* them is no problem.
If you don’t care for Elon Musk’s cheesy “flamethrower” you can buy the real thing from various surplus vendors. The starter matches are very difficult to get, but most people fit a modified propane torch as an ignitor. I watched a friend burn off most of his facial hair with a flamethrower at Knob Creek one year; there’s a bit of a trick to keeping the fire off at a distance…
Heck, an acquaintance has, last time I looked, *ten* tanks. The guns are all DEWAT per Federal requirements, but even an “unarmed” tank is a formidable weapon. In Desert Storm the Oklahoma National Guard’s “Charlie Company” had one tank with a dozer blade; it singlehandedly took out an entire company of Iraqi soldiers by angling its blade and filling in the trenches they were using for cover…
” it singlehandedly took out an entire company of Iraqi soldiers by angling its blade and filling in the trenches”
I hadn’t heard that one before. Victory and battlefield clean up all in one.