Molon Labe! by Boston T. Party, Kenneth W. Royce Page B
Authors: Boston T. Party, Kenneth W. Royce
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It doesn't even mean a preponderance of hunters every deer season.
A thriving gun culture is much more than that. It is a culture where all things related to shooting are widely and passionately enjoyed. Its members would rather go to the range than bowl or golf or watch TV. They would rather go to a gun show than a football game.
New Hampshire does not have a thriving gun culture. With only four or five gun shows each year (the largest being just 325 tables) and little public land to shoot on, how could it?
Folks already there have few places to become 500yd Riflemen, the smallest component of Liberty. If men serious about defending their freedoms did not have the supporting terrain (and culture) to practice putting .308 FMJ into 20" circles at nearly a third of a mile, then they could not become competent with full-power semi-auto military-pattern battle rifles. They could not become Riflemen and thus have a chance of defeating a modern military which relies too much on air and artillery. Using .223 carbines within 250yds is fighting an enemy on his terms. We have only marksmanship and .30 caliber power on our side. Should a fight come (and I pray that it never does), then we must engage at ranges beyond our enemy's. (They have only 250yd carbines and 50yd marksmanship.)
The only advantage a militia force has are 500yd accurate rifles. Americans cannot own battle rifles and train at such distances in the East. That means FSPers in New Hampshire will not be able to, if required, effectively fight for their liberty. Libertarian philosophy is, in the end, moot if its adherents have no final resort of armed defense, and freedom has usually required the shedding of blood on battlefields. If history has taught us anything, it's that liberty is won and maintained by Riflemen. As Heinlein once wrote:
The price of freedom is the willingness to do sudden battle, anywhere, anytime, and with utter recklessness.
Willingness to do sudden battle implies capability to do sudden battle. You must already have the tools, training, and practice to fight effectively. When you are capable and willing to fight, then you have options. When you are capable and willing to fight, then your enemy will perhaps fear and avoid you.
But not until then.
If you do not have — right now —an FAL, M1, M1A, or HK91, then there is something you have chosen not to own for your freedom.
If you do own such a rifle but cannot — right now — from offhand position hit a dinner plate at 100yds within 5 seconds on demand without fail , then there is a skill you have chosen not to earn for your freedom.
If you are not a Rifleman — right now — then you have announced to the world that your commitment to liberty goes only just so far. If you will not spend a summer and the price of a used jetski to become a Rifleman — to become a deadly foe of tyranny — then you are just mouthing platitudes, treating liberty as a hobby and expecting brave men to do your fighting for you.
If you're not a Rifleman — you're just a hobbyist.
By choosing to move to a state where you can't become a Rifleman, a hobbyist is what you'll remain .
The Nerf and Egghead Libertarians don't like hearing this, obviously, but facts are stubborn things.
The state that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards, and its fighting done by fools.
— Thucydides
FSPers in New Hampshire without battle rifles are like libertarians in Manhattan without handguns. All are at the mercy of any determined band of thugs. If you're not a Rifleman in the country or a Pistolero in the city, then you're merely food waiting to be eaten.
You can scream No initiation of force! all the way down your aggressor's gullet. Big deal. All fish wriggle when caught. Only fish with teeth are dangerous to anglers, and New Hampshire fish will find it very difficult to grow the teeth they need.
Also, New Hampshire is quite vulnerable to the counter-response of a neutralizing
A thriving gun culture is much more than that. It is a culture where all things related to shooting are widely and passionately enjoyed. Its members would rather go to the range than bowl or golf or watch TV. They would rather go to a gun show than a football game.
New Hampshire does not have a thriving gun culture. With only four or five gun shows each year (the largest being just 325 tables) and little public land to shoot on, how could it?
Folks already there have few places to become 500yd Riflemen, the smallest component of Liberty. If men serious about defending their freedoms did not have the supporting terrain (and culture) to practice putting .308 FMJ into 20" circles at nearly a third of a mile, then they could not become competent with full-power semi-auto military-pattern battle rifles. They could not become Riflemen and thus have a chance of defeating a modern military which relies too much on air and artillery. Using .223 carbines within 250yds is fighting an enemy on his terms. We have only marksmanship and .30 caliber power on our side. Should a fight come (and I pray that it never does), then we must engage at ranges beyond our enemy's. (They have only 250yd carbines and 50yd marksmanship.)
The only advantage a militia force has are 500yd accurate rifles. Americans cannot own battle rifles and train at such distances in the East. That means FSPers in New Hampshire will not be able to, if required, effectively fight for their liberty. Libertarian philosophy is, in the end, moot if its adherents have no final resort of armed defense, and freedom has usually required the shedding of blood on battlefields. If history has taught us anything, it's that liberty is won and maintained by Riflemen. As Heinlein once wrote:
The price of freedom is the willingness to do sudden battle, anywhere, anytime, and with utter recklessness.
Willingness to do sudden battle implies capability to do sudden battle. You must already have the tools, training, and practice to fight effectively. When you are capable and willing to fight, then you have options. When you are capable and willing to fight, then your enemy will perhaps fear and avoid you.
But not until then.
If you do not have — right now —an FAL, M1, M1A, or HK91, then there is something you have chosen not to own for your freedom.
If you do own such a rifle but cannot — right now — from offhand position hit a dinner plate at 100yds within 5 seconds on demand without fail , then there is a skill you have chosen not to earn for your freedom.
If you are not a Rifleman — right now — then you have announced to the world that your commitment to liberty goes only just so far. If you will not spend a summer and the price of a used jetski to become a Rifleman — to become a deadly foe of tyranny — then you are just mouthing platitudes, treating liberty as a hobby and expecting brave men to do your fighting for you.
If you're not a Rifleman — you're just a hobbyist.
By choosing to move to a state where you can't become a Rifleman, a hobbyist is what you'll remain .
The Nerf and Egghead Libertarians don't like hearing this, obviously, but facts are stubborn things.
The state that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards, and its fighting done by fools.
— Thucydides
FSPers in New Hampshire without battle rifles are like libertarians in Manhattan without handguns. All are at the mercy of any determined band of thugs. If you're not a Rifleman in the country or a Pistolero in the city, then you're merely food waiting to be eaten.
You can scream No initiation of force! all the way down your aggressor's gullet. Big deal. All fish wriggle when caught. Only fish with teeth are dangerous to anglers, and New Hampshire fish will find it very difficult to grow the teeth they need.
Also, New Hampshire is quite vulnerable to the counter-response of a neutralizing
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