Sipsey Street Irregulars: "What do I care if a criminal is dressed in rags or a police officer’s uniform?” The debate over the right to keep and bear arms -- IN RUSSIA. And they're quoting Jefferson.

Sunday, August 12, 2012

"What do I care if a criminal is dressed in rags or a police officer’s uniform?” The debate over the right to keep and bear arms -- IN RUSSIA. And they're quoting Jefferson.

"'Nanny State’ Wants No Firearms for Russians."

In December 1917, weeks after coming to power, the Bolsheviks launched a drive to confiscate all firearms from the hands of the Russian populace. They never gave them back.

Old habits die hard, and Russia’s restrictive gun legislation was never seriously softened over the past 100 years, despite regular calls to the purpose, the latest of which came last week from a pro-Kremlin senator.

Those who oppose firearms are wary of the temperamental populace, predicting shooting rampages and an increase in murder rates.

But some skeptics claim the real reason the Kremlin is not allowing the public to own firearms is fear that armed citizens will turn their guns on the country's notoriously corrupt bureaucrats.

“They’ll just start killing off officials,” said Mikhail Pashkin, head of the Moscow Police Labor Union.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...: YUP!

DON'T SEE A DOWN SIDE THERE!

Maybe Corrupt Officials would though.

Nice to see we have that in common. Unfortunate that the Russian solution is probably the only option at this point.; August 12, 2012 at 8:48 AM
Anonymous said...: Which is exactly why our intellectual betters on the Hill are trying so diligently to unencumber us of our firearms.; August 12, 2012 at 9:39 AM
Longbow said...: The question to ask is, "Why do Russian officials and bureaucrats believe the people they serve want to kill them?"; August 12, 2012 at 10:54 AM
John said...: I think we are showing amazing self-control.; August 12, 2012 at 11:12 AM
Randall Stevens said...: [quote]White House: Obama Supports Renewing Assault Weapons Ban — But Congress Won’t Act

President Obama supports reinstating the assault weapons ban, White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters Monday, on the heels of back-to-back shooting rampages in the United States.

As a presidential candidate, Obama supported renewal of the 1994-2004 federal ban on manufacturing some semi-automatic weapons for civilian use. But he hasn’t pushed for it as president, largely steering clear of the issue.

“He does support renewing the assault weapons ban,” Carney said at his press briefing, one day after a shooter killed six people at a Sikh gurdwara in Wisconsin. In response to several questions, he added that “there has been reluctance by Congress to pass that renewal.”[/quote]

Read much more here: http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/08/barack-obama-assault-weapons-ban.php; August 12, 2012 at 12:55 PM
Anonymous said...: I reckon that cop union spokesman told the honest truth. He articulated the fear that a WHOLE LOTTA public servants have but refuse to.

"What do I care if a criminal is dressed in rags or a police officer’s uniform?"

+10 raised to the 250th power! I don't care what they're wearing when they come for mine or how their outfit is accessorized, they can peel my gun from my cold, dead, GSR-begrimed hands!; August 12, 2012 at 2:12 PM
Anonymous said...: "“They’ll just start killing off officials,” said Mikhail Pashkin, head of the Moscow Police Labor Union."

More honesty than you'll find anywhere in America.. our domestics feel the same way here, they're just are afraid to verbalize it honestly.. a shame since all they have to do to avoid such a necessity is to obey their employers and their oath.. simple, No ?

Now you can see the corruption angle clearly.
Yank lll; August 12, 2012 at 3:59 PM
Anonymous said...: The pic of that shorty AK looks a lot like the AK-47 pistol I got from CenterfireSystems.com before they ran out of them. Still haven't had the time to test fire mine but I do like the idea of a rifle cartridge in a (long) pistol. Nothing like having firepower advantage in close quarters.; August 12, 2012 at 11:37 PM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

Sipsey Street Irregulars

Sunday, August 12, 2012

"What do I care if a criminal is dressed in rags or a police officer’s uniform?” The debate over the right to keep and bear arms -- IN RUSSIA. And they're quoting Jefferson.

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