Michael Shock

Husband, Dad, USMC, Wheelchair Rugby, Boxing/MMA aficionado, history nerd, hunter.

[Atelier Missor @AtelierMissor_]

Our first contribution to the rebeautification of the USA, here in Washington DC.

As Frenchmen, we are honored to serve the friendship between our two great nations.

[WindTalker @nmlinguaphile]

As a Native American I’m a little offended that the 14th Amendment didn’t grant us citizenship until Congress passed an exception for us. Meanwhile, a CCP spy can fly to Guam, drop a baby and fly home with the baby who qualifies to run for president 35 years later.

[Gabe Guidarini @GabeGuidarini]

I admire the Israelis’ understanding of their nation as a particular people and not an economic zone, and they recognize their government exists as the political manifestation of said people.

What upsets my generation is that Americans, somehow, are not afforded this type of government.

[U.S. Interior Press @interiorpress47]

The advanced nanobubbler technology very effectively killed the algae that has plagued every Lincoln Reflecting Pool reopening—most infamously Obama's reopening—since 1922.

The Reflecting Pool water is crystal clear, and our National Park Service team is now vacuuming up the dead algae resting on the bottom of some parts of the Reflecting Pool—just like the destroyed Iranian Navy resting on the bottom of the Persian Gulf.

[Vesco Wheelchairs @VescoMC]

Troy is in San Antonio, TX this week and off to the Austin area, Saturday for a group fitting at HCI Sports in Bee Cave, TX. Contact him at... [email protected]

[Just Loki @LokiJulianus]

On the 6th year of his reign and 80th year of his life, the American Caesar settled a skirmish with the Parthians and hosted a circus maximus on the lawn of his estate. Much rejoicing was had, although consternation was felt among his enemies, wretched dogs that they are ...

[Michael Shock @mikeshock]

This UFC card is amazing. Great fights, great walkouts. Perfect event before the 4th. They should do this annually.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

59 years ago today, Israel attacked the USS Liberty in international waters. 34 crew members were killed and 174 were wounded by the IDF.

Today, I spoke on the House floor to honor the fallen and to recognize the survivors who were present in the gallery.

[Braxton McCoy @braxton_mccoy]

Californians used to say things like "San Francisco isn't real California." Texans with Austin, Coloradans with Denver too.

Now Idahoans, Utahns, and Montanans are trying to wish away Boise, SLC, Bozeman, etc. It doesn't work. Those cities have to be subdued— not ignored.

[Michael Shock @mikeshock]

@BryanDeanWright @grok who is Jonathan Jay Pollard?

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

Some good news to come out of Pakistan.

[Brandon Gill @realBrandonGill]

Me: "How many [Ohio fraudsters] had Somali, Bhutanese, or other African-origin names."

@lukerosiak: "100%."

Me: "And how many did you look through?"

@lukerosiak: "I looked at the names of hundreds of companies."

[Steven Edginton @StevenEdginton]

Henry Nowak was unresponsive, presumably dead, as police read him his rights after false allegations of racism from his murderer.

They cuffed him, and dragged him, as he drowned in his own blood, desperately telling them he had been stabbed and couldn’t breathe.

This is 1000x worse than George Floyd.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Release the footage, you evil bastards!

[John Robb @johnrobb]

The waiver should be permanent.

[Beard Vet @Beardvet]

Gosh dawgs, sad news to report that Outlaw Legend David Allan Coe has passed away at the age of 86

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

Okay, time to explain guns to our new friends.

Every day, when I leave the house, I attach a holstered handgun to my belt, under my shirt or coat.

I would no more leave the house without a gun than I would walk around outdoors without shoes.

Is it because I "need" a gun?

No.

I live in rural Tennessee, which is state in the American south. It's very safe here. The dangerous parts of America are big cities where the local government is leftist, and they shelter illegal migrant from the third world, and won't send violent criminals to prison. Places like Chicago and New York City.

Yet, any time I leave the house, I put on a gun, knowing that I will probably never have to use it, and if I do, it will probably be on an aggressive stray dog, not a human.

So why do I do it?

Why do many other people who live around me do it?

Why do we do this so much that carrying a gun is considered totally normal? If someone spotted it, it would not even arouse a comment, much less any fear.

In fact, it is legal to carry a gun openly here, without covering it up. Covering it up is just considered polite.

So.... why?

Well, try thinking of an English nobleman, during the reign of Elizabeth the First. When he dressed to go ride to court, he would hang a slender fencing sword, called a rapier or smallsword, from his belt.

He didn't expect to be attacked.

He didn't even expect to fight a duel. And if he was challenged to a duel, he wouldn't need his sword right then. He would meet his challenger later at an agreed-upon place and time.

No, he wore his sword because it was an expression of who he was. He was a gentleman, a person of status, with the legal privilege of carrying a sword.

By carrying a sword, he asserted his rights and prerogatives as a nobleman.

In Japan, you had the same sort of thing happening. The samurai, members of the bushi class, wore the two swords not because they expected to be attacked at any moment, but because the two swords were an essential part of who he was.

So, in these two cases, weapons were carried by noblemen as an assertion of status. They had the right to do so, and they did so in order to assert, exercise, and retain the right.

Americans carry guns because every American citizen is a nobleman.

When we fought the British for our independence, that war began on April 19th, 1775, when British troops, fearing American rebelliousness, marched out from Boston to confiscate guns from people living in the surrounding countryside.

Our ancestors did not submit to this. We shot them instead, and they fled back to Boston with their tails between their legs, to cower under the cover of the guns from the warship HMS Sommerset.

Thus began several years of war.

And when we won that war, we made a country where no government, and no man, would ever be allowed to disarm the people.

No agent of the government may say to us, "I may have a gun, and you may not."

Because to say that is to say "I am a nobleman, and you are a peasant. I am a master, and you are a slave."

We are not peasants here. We are all noblemen. That is the most basic principle of what it means to be an American.

I can be impoverished, so I can to be so poor that I live in a van down by the river. But however reduced my circumstances, as an American, I still have the rights and freedoms of a nobleman, of a daimyo, because that is the basic founding idea of the nation we forged on that day.

If you come to America to visit, if you walk among us, you will pass many people carrying guns. You will not notice this. You will not see them. You will witness no violence. Everything will be normal. But the guns will be there.

Because that is who we are.

We don't carry guns to be violent. We don't wish to be rude, or to intimidate people. We keep our guns covered up.

But they are the deepest, most essential part of what it means to be American.

[Michael Shock @mikeshock]

@C4CEO @HansMahncke Or, and stay with me here, you’re doing in real life what Mrs. Kael did…I don’t know anyone other than Jewish Americans and dispensationalists that support Israel that are in support of a war that seems to be hastily implemented and lacking in second and third ordered plans.