{"id":38275,"date":"2013-09-12T12:00:29","date_gmt":"2013-09-12T17:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=38275"},"modified":"2013-09-30T12:25:54","modified_gmt":"2013-09-30T17:25:54","slug":"the-well-regulated-militia-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=38275","title":{"rendered":"The Well-Regulated Militia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the past year, we Real Americans were asked “Why do you\u00a0neeeeeeed<\/em>\u00a0an ugly military-grade firearm?” – and before we could answer, were promptly told “You really don’t!”.<\/p>\n

There are many answers, of course. \u00a0The best of them is “I’m a law-abiding citizen buying a legal product that will never be used to commit a crime of any kind, so it’s none of your business, and go piss up a rope”. \u00a0But “serving as the ultimate deterrent to government overreach” is right up there.<\/p>\n

And somewhere down the list – for Americans – is this answer;\u00a0deterring, and if necessary doing more, to the scumbags that prey on society’s honest and hard-working people<\/a><\/p>\n

An audacious band of citizen militias battling a brutal drug cartel in the hills of central Mexico is becoming increasingly well-armed and coordinated in an attempt to end years of violence, extortion and humiliation.<\/p>\n

What began as a few scattered self-defense groups has spread in recent months to dozens of towns across Michoacan, a volatile state gripped by the cultlike Knights Templar, a drug gang known for taxing locals on everything from cows to tortillas and executing those who do not comply.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Law enforcement – up to an including the Army – is of no use in protecting the citizen:<\/p>\n

The army deployed to the area in May, but the soldiers are mostly manning checkpoints. Instead, Mexican President Enrique Pe\u00f1a Nieto is facing the awkward fact that a group of scrappy locals appears to be chasing the gangsters away, something that federal security forces have not managed in a decade.<\/p>\n

They include a 63-year-old pot-bellied farmer mindful that he can run only 30 yards; a skinny 23-year-old raised in Oregon who said he had never used a gun before; and a man who wears a metal bowl stuffed with newspaper as a helmet. A 47-year-old bureaucrat, who is sure that she will be killed if the gang retakes her town, said of her decision to join the cause: \u201cI may live one year or 15, but I will live free.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“Hey, you can’t fight an army…” – and the\u00a0<\/em>narcotrafricantes<\/em>\u00a0are surely an army, if only an army of thugs – “…with your deer rifle!”<\/p>\n

Volunteer fighters who have been using old hunting rifles and even slingshots are increasingly armed with silver-plated AK-47s, armored trucks and other bounty that they said they have seized from the cartel. And although the self-defense groups had been operating independently, they are coalescing under the leadership of a tall, white-haired surgeon who once worked for the Red Cross in California.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the whole thing.<\/p>\n

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Mexico being what it is, of course, I fear that the socialist Nieto and his Army will get paid off by the\u00a0narcos,\u00a0<\/em>and sooner or later turn on the plucky locals.<\/p>\n

We certainly have to hope not.<\/p>\n

Perhaps if our government would finance a “sting” operation to send American firearms to\u00a0law-abiding citizens\u00a0<\/em>across the border…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over the past year, we Real Americans were asked “Why do you\u00a0neeeeeeed\u00a0an ugly military-grade firearm?” – and before we could answer, were promptly told “You really don’t!”. There are many answers, of course. \u00a0The best of them is “I’m a law-abiding citizen buying a legal product that will never be used to commit a crime […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-victim-disarmament","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38275"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38697,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38275\/revisions\/38697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}