Israel and guns

[Double Naught Spy]

When I got my original CHL ( I'm on my 4th renewal ) our instructor was an ex-Secret Service guy. And, like all the rest of the instructors, he had to go thru several days of training at the DPS training center. But, one of the things he saud early on was that they were told that the State of Texas wanted to arm as many people as possible because the state knew that there weren't enough cetified LE's in the whole state to head off a full offensive or a coordinated offensive by one or more of the cartels. And it would take all hands on deck to stop 'em. We just witnessed the greatest possible example of how true that could be.

You mean we just witnessed the greatest possible example, again? Same thing with the war in the Ukraine.

The famous liberal George Takei noted at the start of that war how 20 million American AR15s sure could be put to use over there, helping those poor Ukranian people. https://twitter.com/GeorgeTakei/status/1...18?lang=en

Of course, as several people pointed out, we have the 2nd Amendment just in case something like that happens, which is why we are not shipping all of our civilian owned AR15s to some other country.

None of these are one-offs. This is an oft-repeated lesson. Few countries seem to learn it. The governments typically fear their own people more than external threats. Ukraine had gun ownership, but he right to carry with nearly nil. They had to sign emergency declaration to let their citizens arm themselves in public against the threat of Russia and they brought out some ancient and bizarre guns in the process.