Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for July 24, 2022

A musket might work for you. The second Militia Act of 1792 recommended the following:

That each and every free able-bodied white male citizen of the respective States, resident therein, who is or shall be of age of eighteen years, and under the age of forty-five years (except as is herein after excepted) shall severally and respectively be enrolled in the militia… provide himself with a good musket or firelock, a sufficient bayonet and belt, two spare flints, and a knapsack, a pouch, with a box therein, to contain not less than twenty four cartridges, suited to the bore of his musket or firelock, each cartridge to contain a proper quantity of powder and ball…

I hate to say it, but some people are almost this bad. And that’s just the nominally sane ones.

Wonder what he’ll use to keep the M1 Abrams off his lawn after his house is leveled.

Gun violence advocates believe this scenario is perfectly normal.

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And definitely acceptable.

Admirable, even.

Tell me again how well arming the citizenry has improved the quality, dependability, open honesty, and trustworthiness of government.

“Well, we’ve got a great deal on these bazookas. Or perhaps this Armageddon 666 tactical nuke.”

After January 6 AND what is to come, orange getting reelected. I fear! You’ve read Bannon’s comment?

5.56 is light for choppers. 7.62 is better suited.

You know something, however many decades the NRA and gun nuts have been pushing the “we need these guns to resist tyranny” mantra? I haven’t heard jack about any of them taking down any tyrants. I HAVE heard about several thousand children, mothers, fathers, co-workers, teachers, grandparents and innocents gunned down, though.

Sell him a blunderbuss—maybe it’ll blow his d@mn fool head off!!

Google: pictures of gun collections

My favorite: gun-loving Americans and their firearms collections

I always wondered why these Nudnicks who want assault rifles don’t just join the military. Plenty firepower there and free to use

So far a typical, normal American weekend. One family was shot to death camping except for the 9 year old. Not the only shooting.

By the logic of the gun-crazy American Conservative, it must be okay to shoot a cop who tries to make you do something you don’t want to do. Since they’re the Government.

And that guy who shot Senator Scalise? Just a patriot rising up against the agent of an oppressive Government.

Hmmm, my screen seems to have cut off the punchline

Hot dang, just what civilians need so they don’t fall behind on firepower (/s):

https://www.yahoo.com/news/assault-rifle-being-sold-civilians-105625717.html

I need a gun in order to keep the government from taking my gun…reminds me of the noodnick who took his car to the mechanic, and was told the engine was shot, because he never checked the oil. The mechanic asked him if he ever noticed the check engine light was on, and the guy told him he thought that was just there to let him know the light was working.

It’s frightening what you get, when you mix a simple mind and a little fear.

Humans are easily led. Consider how many are driving pickups, and have no use for them, at all. None.

Are sheep led, or driven? Hmmm.

The best way to keep choppers off the lawn is not to be interesting to chopper flying people. A nice winchester 73 and a colt revolver will tend to most of your hunting and self-defense needs. The grunt stuff is just cooler.

Do these “Molon Labe” and “from my cold dead hand” blusterers realize that what they’re saying is “I will murder law enforcement officers if they try to take my toys?”

And then he will be climbing back into his lifted 5 M.P.G. Coal-Rolling 4X4 Pickup with the multiple “Trump 2024” flags dropping his fuel mileage down even more, which has never been further off-road then the time he accidentally ran into the grass at the edge of the Mall-Wart Parking lot, whining and kvetching about the price of diesel before driving his Mall-Crawler back to his double-wide on the cracked concrete blocks with the “Stop the Steal” signs all over the front yard.

I see these people EVERY TIME I have to make the 25 mile trip into town from where I live out in the country.

My God, this is pathetic.

I’ve actually heard people use that argument, apparently seriously: “I need guns to keep the government from taking away my guns.”

“I want a gun so the gubment can’t take it away.” Don’t worry, you’re white. Cops will see you as an ally first and you’d have to do something serious, like shoot a bunch of people, for them to come after you. Even then they’ll be gentle.

Let’s see. Which Clint Eastwood character are we talking about?!!

Sigh

A former acquaintance once bragged about the arsenal of long guns he maintains. This was after the mass shooter in the movie theater. He claimed he should be able to go armed into the theater so he could “take down” a shooter like that. He’s well over 350 lbs and in poor health. Never went to the range. I suggested he had a better chance, in that scenario, of taking out innocent bystanders, and if the active shooter kills two and he kills ten, who is the real bad guy? His answer was, if I kill ten, I’ll get him on the eleventh shot. The rest are collateral damage.

I’ve never heard a more bizarre justification for owning a firearm.

With that logic, everyone needs 50 guns, just in case the government wants to take away 49. Once you admit guns are not the answer, then you can look at the real problems in your life.

Military grade is made by the lowest bidder

The “right-wing” crazies that committed insurrection on January 6, 2021, invaded my State House and tried to destroy or prevent my vote! Invoking the 25th Amendment before January 6th, may have prevented the death & destruction of lives, and our national reputation.

Another mass killing last night and another this morning. But people of all ages need to be sacrificed for the 2nd Amendment. Thank dog we moved to a civilised country where bullet proof backpacks and body armour for students of all ages are not needed. Thank dog we can go in to town and not worry about a disgruntled former employee going about shooting up the grocery, stationery, or feed store.

And so we have the tale of one C. Wesley Morgan, who spent $6.5 million builing a bunker and loading it with guns and gear, convinced that civil war was coming and wanting a place he could defend against roving bands of marauders.

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Then there was an intruder who broke in and shot his daughter eleven times in her bed. An intruder who was a 23-year-old former soldier, convinced that civil war was coming and wanting a place he could defend against roving bands of marauders- and hey, he had a gun, so he could just take it from the people already living there.

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All those guns, all that preparation, and he couldn’t stop one man from killing his daughter.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/21/us/kentucky-bunker-civil-war.html

Anyone who believes guns will keep the government from taking your guns, or your property, or your life, is deluded. This has been demonstrated in Waco, Ruby Ridge, etc. What keeps us safe from our government is obeying the laws, respecting the rights of others, and voting for people who believe in the freedoms our founders believed in.

Yeah… and that’s all the government “militia” had at the time either.

Surprised he’s new to guns, with that attitude.

In the Constitution, Article 1, Section VIIIClause 15. The Congress shall have Power * * * To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions.

Clause 16. The Congress shall have Power * * * To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress.

This is hardly the same as “everybody gets a gun.”

Circular fanaticism.

I’m sorry to hear that this person has so little concern for the human race as to call them collateral damage.

I myself own several firearms. Was trained in the use of them not only by my Father, but, by both sets of grandparents as well as my time in the military.

A person with an attitude as you have mentioned has no need to be my hero.

If I were in a situation where he was trying to get the bad guy, I would probably take him out by mistake thinking he was the active shooter.

Nailed the level of intellect and thought process

Actually, his reasoning is a pretty good reason for many folks who love the Constitution to own a gun.

The Best way to keep the Gummint from taking away your Gun is to not Have one.

Bonus: You get to watch them getting ungodly Frustrated when they cannot Find it, no matter how hard or how long they search.

For me, “Doing my own online research” means following your comments here. Our forebears were more prescient than I had previously thought. Their hardware may have been antiquated; their racism, not so much.

THE ART

MY EYES

What we need is a well regulated militia to take out the morons who think THEY’RE the “well-regulated militia”.

Here’s to Judy Collins singing “Shoot First”