RedBeard

Dad. Army Veteran. Patriot. Kafir.
No excuses… most days

[RedBeard @nightdesk22]

This Time They’re Not Going Back in the Lake

For years the joke was simple: if they come for the rifles, they got lost in a boating accident. Dark humor for registration schemes and confiscation talk. Some would rather sink them than turn them in. That was the plan when people still hoped the courts or the next election would stop it.

189 members of Congress just filed a brief telling the Supreme Court they want the power to ban the most common rifle in America anyway. Durbin, Blumenthal, Schiff, Raskin, McBath and the rest want the common-use protection dead so politicians, not the Constitution, decide whether you can keep an AR-15. Oral arguments are December 2. They’re not hiding the goal.

This time is different.
This time they are not going back into the lake because we will need them.

An armed, trained citizenry is the last check that does not depend on the next election or the next court opinion. The quiet man who keeps the rifle that works is not a threat to a free society. He is the reason one can stay free. Tyrants have always feared that man more than they fear the ballot box. That is why they keep trying to take the rifle.

So the rifles stay out of the lake, so to speak.

They stay clean, zeroed, and accessible to the people who will actually use them lawfully if the institutions fail and the family is the only thing left to defend.

Train. Carry what you can. Keep the tools that work.
Shall not be infringed.

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@onlystocks3 A lot of people have been carrying that anger for years. Watching things get worse, but feeling helpless. Or waiting on the government to self correct as it sometimes does in the natural swing from one party to another.

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Everyone’s waiting for the first shot that lights the powder keg.

Plenty of people have talked about the quiet guy who just wanted to be left alone, well there are a lot of those guys who sat back and watched while the brainwashed idiots burned cities most of us already avoid.

The rage we all keep in has been building the whole time. You can feel it in the air most days, and the cooker is about to blow.

[SaltyGoat @SaltyGoat17]

Mass invasion of a country is an act of WAR.

A government failing to protect it's country is an act of TREASON!!

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@Willie_Pete_VT As far as Star Wars, perfect analogy. Was raised on those movies.

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@Willie_Pete_VT It’s starting to hit me though. In ways I have never expected, especially today of all days.

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@PoorPrepper2112 1000000000%

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Small networks
A dozen people who will actually answer the phone beats a thousand followers who like your posts.
The first group is hard.
The second is easy.
Most people choose easy.

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@DanTana9f28 A lot of people have been carrying that for years, the frustration comes from watching things get worse and being told the only options are to vote harder or stay quiet and neither work.

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@pantry_bandit @Luth_AR_LLC Don’t forget creatine

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@BastogneNuts @augustdragon1 A lot of people who came home and just wanted the normal life they were hoping was waiting. Watching the country change in ways they never signed up for, while being told to keep quiet about it, is its own kind of weight.

[RedBeard @nightdesk22]

The oath was to the Constitution, not to whoever is currently in charge.
That part does not expire.

[𝙼𝚁. 𝙻𝙴𝙰𝙳𝚂𝙻𝙸𝙽𝙶𝙴𝚁 @MrLeadslinger]

I don’t know how much evidence people need to see to reach the conclusion that we can’t share a country with leftists and we won’t have a country with unlimited immigration, legal or otherwise.

I don’t think we’re doomed yet but more people really need to see the writing on the wall.

[RedBeard @nightdesk22]

This Veterans Day feels different.

Not because the day itself has changed, but because a lot of veterans look around the country we came home to and don’t fully recognize it. Men and women gave years, sometimes the best years, of their lives. Some buried friends, many fought people who wanted to not only kill them but destroy their way of life. They fought people who cut heads off on camera, and who targeted Americans and our allies without apology because that’s what their ideology told them to do, but we served, we believed the country and our families were worth defending, even when the mission was messy or the politics were ugly.

Now we watch protests where ISIS flags wave and Houthi and Hamas sympathizers show up, where people chant for the destruction of the country they now live in, and where open calls for more American deaths are treated as just another political opinion, only now from inside our own borders. We see the same networks and ideas that killed American service members get platforms, votes, and cultural cover. That hits different when you’ve stood next to the coffins or watched the casualty lists come in. That sense of betrayal is real for a lot of veterans right now. Pretending it isn’t doesn’t honor anyone, but it also doesn’t erase what we all actually did.

We volunteered. Different reasons, different wars, same basic act: we raised our hands and said we would go. The country didn’t always live up to what it asked of us, it rarely does these days, but the choice was still ours. The people to the right and left of us were still real, and the ones who didn’t come home still matter more than whatever is trending this week.

So go to the schools, attend the parades, stand at the ceremonies. Do it with your head up. Not because everything is fine, it isn’t,
but because the service given doesn’t become invalid just because parts of the country have lost the plot. We still have each other. Those who went still remember why they did. And the kids watching us walk those halls need to see that some people still stand up when it’s asked of them, even when it’s hard and the reception is cold.

We didn’t all serve in the same way, and not every veteran earned the same depth of pain. But we all volunteered for a country that asked something of us, and that still counts, no matter what it looks like today.

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@deactivatedahyd Please clarify the second paragraph

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A lot of people read “waiting for the first shot that lights the powder keg” as “we want the shot.” That’s not what it said. It was about the quiet guys who watched the disorder, stayed out of it, and the frustration that built from being told to keep doing that.

[RedBeard @nightdesk22]

Everyone’s waiting for the first shot that lights the powder keg.

Plenty of people have talked about the quiet guy who just wanted to be left alone, well there are a lot of those guys who sat back and watched while the brainwashed idiots burned cities most of us already avoid.

The rage we all keep in has been building the whole time. You can feel it in the air most days, and the cooker is about to blow.

[RedBeard @nightdesk22]

That longer version has been circulating for a while. It lines up with the same idea in the original post, the people who wanted to mind their own business, watched things get worse, and got told to stay quiet the whole time. The pressure comes from that, not from anyone looking for a fight.

[RedBeard @nightdesk22]

I have mad respect for the heart in your reply.

A lot of people who talk about the quiet guy who just wanted to be left alone are the same ones who went through what you described, with years of being told to stand down, coming home to families that had to keep going, and still trying to prepare anyway.

The original post was about the pressure that built from watching cities burn while being told to stay out of it. It wasn’t meant to overlook the people who already served, trained, and carried the weight of that. Plenty of those same quiet ones also built plans, learned skills, and worked through the damage so they could still look after their families.

Your point about what that actually cost is well taken.

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That’s part of it. A lot of people are still working the long hours and trying to keep things together, so the pressure stays contained. The post was about what happens when that balance finally breaks for enough of them. They’ve already watched the disorder. When the “stay busy and stay quiet” option is gone, I don't want what may come to pass, but is it inevitable? I think so.

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@realchasegeiser I'm actively wondering it right now LOL

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