War Is Coming!!! Are You Ready … Will You Fight?

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War Is Coming!!! Are You Ready … Will You Fight?

USA – -(AmmoLand.com)- Most of us don’t want a second Civil War, though many of us will fight, and a very few even think war is a good idea. But the obvious question is what would it look like?

The answer is nothing like the last civil war. I polished off a bottle of McCallum 25 with a couple of old friends who think about this stuff for a living. You’d like these guys, bright, inventive; each kept up at night by their serious jobs.

The causes of the last Civil War were economic. Tariffs on products coming into and leaving southern ports meant the agrarian south was at odds with the more urban and industrialized north. No such division exists today. The left does not control states; the left controls cities; everything else belongs to the people.

The days of massed armies are long passed. So what can we expect?

Most liberal politicians will be in hiding or deceased within the 1st 72 hours. A nation of riflemen will step up.

If you picked a City, let’s say Chicago. Close off the roads, shut down the airports and the City has maybe five days of food, close off fuel or power and in the winter it freezes in two days.

Pick a City like Los Angeles that imports all its water, close that down and inside a week, the City is dry.

Civil unrest will follow – our major cities will burn from self-immolation.

Only in the big cities will the left control law enforcement. The State Guard units will not fire on civilians and will not necessarily come to defend cities where they do not live; they have families of their own to protect.

With 120,000,000 gun owners in America, 3% represents 3.6 million people. There are 850,000 sworn law officers in the US. The numbers favor those of us who stand for freedom. In the face of these number the 1st thing the left will try to do is forcefully disarm the people in the big cities. That may not go as smoothly as they plan.

The fact is the left is driving this. They have no tolerance for anyone who does not think and believe as they do. That type of division can only lead one direction. We must break their grip on the narrative.

ANTIFA is the left’s, Brown Shirts. When these masked cowards move to take power who will stand in their way? American gun owners will rally to protect their neighborhoods. We will fire on the ANTIFA crowds to protect our children. It would be a quick fight.

With my group, when the bottle got closer to empty, we asked some other questions:

  • What happens when Mexico occupies Southern California and parts of Texas and Arizona to protect their citizens? What happens if they don’t stop there? With Gavin Newsom as the Governor of CA, will he welcome the Mexican invasion? Is the re-conquest of the lands lost in the Mexican/American war next?
  • Can Canada handle the 10’s of millions of refugees?
  • With our significant cities already being cesspools of disease and poverty, what happens afterward? How do you rebuild a country so divided with its major cities in ruins? Reconstruction will be harder than you realize.

So what can you do? Keep four weeks of food and water on hand. Buy a rifle. Pistols are excellent for personal defense, but there may be times when you need to reach out and extend your safe perimeter. Five hundred meters is right for me; your needs may vary. Keep enough ammunition and supplies to meet your family’s needs, then double it. Remember if your extended family knows you’re prepared you can expect guests.

Learn to store and handle your firearms safely and proficiency. (That is what REGULATED means in the 2nd Amendment.) Teach your children to shoot.

Get politically active, do what you can to stave off this conflict or prevent it.

So how else would it start? A President Booker throws gun owners in jail, or a President Sanders invited in blue helmets to help with firearms confiscation. Maybe it’s nothing more than a deranged kid with a grudge, like Gavrilo Princip.

Then again maybe it’s already started and we’re just not paying attention.

Or it could be a plague. Thirty million undocumented illegal aliens huddled in barrios who shun the police and authorities are a potential biological time bomb. Combine that with an outbreak of Ebola, and a population scared of deportation it would give the disease time to spread. Would we see it 1st in our detention centers or on our streets? It would directly affect the Sanctuary City problem. Hispanics would take the brunt of the blame and be seen as carriers; the nation would begin to fall apart as moves to protect individual population groups unfold. Segregation would follow.

Remember, luck favors the well prepared. Have you thought long term about your family when it all goes south? I’d rather be prepared for something I hope never happens than left unprepared when if it does. How about you?

This article is a lesson for those on the left of thought; you cannot win.

The destruction you would invite is something to be avoided. Trump is NOT Hitler, in 2 or 6 years he will bow at the waist, thank us all for allowing him to serve; then he will walk away from power and enjoy his waning years. Be it Trump, Obama, Bush, or Clinton that is how it works. I hope you’re listening, so full of hate, you on the left are, that it blinds you to reality. Do not ring a bell you cannot un-ring.

I’m off to the range. Time to practice.


About Don McDougall

Don McDougall
Don McDougall

Don McDougall is an NRA instructor and member of the Los Padres “Friends of the NRA” committee. If he’s not at the range, you will find him setting the record straight with on gun issues and gun safety on AmmoLand Shooting Sports News.

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nrringlee

OK, point of disclosure. I am one of those people who have thought about civil war and revolutionary warfare and have practiced those arts for nearly 50 years. Folks, if you are looking for examples as a guide I give you two. First, look at Katrina. Bush took the blame and there was much blame to go around but the collapse of civil order was an entirely local thing. Local “leadership” was not able to marshal resources and people effectively, government employees saw that and for the most part they went home and cared for their families. NOPD evaporated over… Read more »

ralph

Confiscation of privately-owned firearms is the surest way to encourage pushback from American patriots. Come and take them at your peril. I agree with this article, tho I do not want to see a United States un-united by the Left. A sad fate awaits them if they push us beyond mere rhetoric. Call me old (I am 82) and feeble-minded, but I have no fear whatsoever of a gun confiscation attempt. Even the left knows they dare not try it. Many of us took an oath to protect and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC. This Marine… Read more »

JPM

The most profound part of this article (it’s all good) is the part noting that large Cities/population centers are controlled by the left. The large cities in almost all the states also control the elections by concentrating the vote to the exclusion of small towns and rural areas where the majority of people in the states actually reside. An electoral college-type system at the state level would solve that problem, but just like term limits, when the change needs to be undertaken, but those with the power to do so control they system (State capital & large cities, and Congress… Read more »

Buster

The most limiting factor for the Patriots will be the inability to communicate with each other. The government already knows who amongst us are likely to present resistance. All they have to do is disable our cell phone numbers and our efforts will be severely hampered.

The only reason they (the guv) wouldn’t disable our phones is so they can listen to our conversations.

JH1961

In my opinion, the ‘trigger’ for civil war is the upcoming 2020 election. The Left won’t ‘accept’ a win by Trump. Trump supporters will claim a ‘loss’ to be fraudulent.

Rock R

Everyone kind of laughs at the sombee notion, but what you don’t realize is that these city dwellers once they get hungry are going to act just like them…. There will be herds of them headed your way from every direction and they will be filthy, crazy and carrying diseases of every kind… They will eat everything in sight including all the animals you think are going to be around for you, along with trees grass and every other plant you can think of… They are not going to to stay contained in the city and just die and unless… Read more »

Mike Carbine

Well thought out post. EMP from Solar Flares(it’s happened before) or man made is a real threat to the USA. Every day forward in today’s world is another step into new conditions mankind has never seen before. New techs, new diseases, who knows what new ideology or religion might be the ‘next big thing’ to threaten our country.
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Rex

According to some, we are already in a cold civil war.

SGT_Wombat

I just hope the police will see reason and NOT engage in assisting the Left. I have a brother in law who’s a police officer and a friend who is one. I do not relish having a police officer in my sights, but if he tries to disarm me or my family, he will get the gun – bullet first. ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ

tomcat

Good article Don. This country is in one mell of hess, the worse it has ever been since the first civil war. What a shame because it is the most successful country the world has ever seen. There is no excuse for all this except some spoiled brats want total control and our property rather than work for their wealth. I don’t think it will rectify itself, the only way to stop it is to stop them.