Opinion
Ft Collins, CO –-(Ammoland.com)- A Snubby’s Influence:
… from a friend and veteran of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement:
“Back in the 1960s, I was a young Army officer, fresh out of college and fresh out of my military training. I had two months off while I waited for my first assignment. I ended up in the State of Alabama, in the company of a bunch of Quakers, who were trying to mediate conversations between opposing camps.
One night, as we were all gathered in a rented home making plans for the following day, a car-full of local KKK wannabes drove around the house firing shotguns into the air. I heard a half-dozen shots.
They also tossed at least one poorly-constructed Molotov Cocktail at the house. I landed in the grass and never broke (as it was supposed to). The small fire quickly burned itself out and did no damage, save for a singe-mark on the lawn.
The car departed after ten minutes, and the balance of the evening was quiet.
With my six-shot Colt Detective Special in hand, I went out to confront them, but they were already gone. But, they returned the following evening for a repeat performance. This time I went out again. Upon seeing me, they departed. I don’t know if they could see the revolver in my hand or not.
The third evening, I was waiting for them in the bushes. When the arrived and drove past me, shouting obscenities and pointing guns out the windows of the car, I fired six rounds into their trunk and rear bumper.
They departed immediately.
They next evening, and the next six, they never returned!
Two weeks later, we were in a different location, again in a rented house, and the same thing happened! This time, I was waiting for them on the first night! Again, their car ended-up with six bullet-holes in the trunk and rear bumper. They did not come back the second night for a return-engagement.
Never saw them again.
Of course, back then I was young and foolish! But, I never forgot the lesson inherent in these episodes:
Bullies and thugs, no matter what side of the political spectrum they profess to be on, are sleazy cowards.
When anyone (particularly the armed, trained, and determined) stands up to them, they break and run.”
Comment:
Armed resistance is effective in assisting evil-doers to see things in a different light and subsequently “come to repentance”
Nothing else is as effective.
Evil-doers have an easy time of it only with unarmed victims, especially VBCs (Victims by Choice).
/John
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One shudders to think of what an errant round through the rear window might have produced as far as legal trauma for the “young and foolish”…or if, upon hearing the sixth round, one of the brighter in the bully group decided then was the time to pursue John’s friend, shotgun in hand. Yes, I 100% agree with armed self defense, but a jury might see “lying in wait” as malice aforethought.
Just my opinion.
Laws – and their enforcement! – were a little different half a century ago . . .
A Southern jury might have been more liable to convict.
Times were different back then, no comparison to todays socialist oppressed cry babies.
So John’s friend is one of those responsible for the country being in the state that it is currently. This just shows you that communists are in every walk of life; then and now. The only “good communist” is a dead communist.
That applies to all socialists…
So, help me understand, you’re saying that a survivor of the 60’s civil rights movement is, by extension, a communist? Don’t misunderstand me, I’m not defending his careless and legally problematic actions, at least by today’s mode woke sensibilities, but I have a hard time jumping to the conclusion that his fight in support of citizen’s civil rights makes him a communist. As an active and passionate supporter of ALL our God-given and Constitutionally-codified civil rights, especially the 2nd Article of the Bill of Rights, I am equally passionate in opposition to communists, even when they run as, or call… Read more »
You are right, perhaps he was just a lowly “useful idiot.” That doesn’t mean that his actions didn’t further the Communist cause. I would suggest you research the foundation and implementation of the “Civil Rights” movement. Or not; I’ll continue to call them as I know them.