Self Defense and Security Blog

Ya know folks way back when Poppajohn was still a young stud F.O. in the RVN. We had Artillery outfits that were I believe eight inch SP (sorry that’s self propelled) M-110 Howitzer units they fired a 200 pound projectile out to almost 17 kilometers (16,800-meters). Now this is a pretty good deal but they were not content with that range and addressed the need for more range by changing the 8 inch barrels out for 175MM gun barrels when needed. The 175-mm. gun fired a 174-pound projectile almost 33 kilometers. Now this was good distance! The MACE PEPPER SPRAY GUN fills a vacant long
range (up to 25 ‘) niche for non-lethal self protection devices, the C2 tasers and Air Taser M18
have a max range of fifteen feet for their major canawupas and you only get one shot, then what you’re left with is a stun
gun which to use you must close with your assailant.Now don’t misunderstand me a stun gun is a whole bunch better than nothin but it’s not as good as a weapon that you can engage your enemy with at long range. The Mace Pepper Gun Spray is way cool cuz it carries SEVEN SHOTS and it’l fire it’s package akikbut twenty five feet. Now that is morn twice as far as any
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Everbody have a good weekend and remember!!
Always carry personal protection, be aware and have a plan! Poppajohn

Hey, Folks; Poppajohn is back again with some more rants for you. De Old Effo has this thing about paternalistic government that just drives him bananas, throw in the way the teachers of this country have screwed up the education system and taken it completely away from the people who pay for it And there you have the makings of an all day (or longer) rant. That’s why when I ran across this article in my local paper the Orange County Register I was absolutely astonished that here was an educator that sounded so much like me that it coulda been me. So naturally I just hadda share it with alla you folks. Here it is exactly the way it was found nothing added nothing taken away.

The Orange Grove: The founders wanted us to be well-armed
Unlike today’s government, they treated citizens as adults
By NICHOLAS WISHEK
An educator from Fountain Valley
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I recently caught the movie “The Patriot” on cable. The 2000 movie depicts the events of the American Revolution in the South. The leading character, played by Mel Gibson, a composite of Daniel Morgan and Francis Marion, helps defeat the British under Lord Cornwallis. The movie is above average for accuracy in Hollywood, even if it doesn’t come close as a documentary.

What I want to address is from a captivating scene early in the movie. In the scene, Gibson’s character sees his second son killed, his home burned and his eldest son taken away to be hanged by British troops. Unlike most 21st-century Americans, Gibson’s character doesn’t look around for a lawyer. He grabs a bunch of firearms and enlists the aid of his two school-age sons. They catch up with the British patrol taking the grown son to his execution and, basically, massacre them. Both young sons help by killing British soldiers.

How many modern-day Americans would even dream of doing the same? Not many, I’d wager.

More importantly, how many could? I’m military-trained, but neither of my grown sons has even fired a gun. At ages 12 and 10, as were the apparent ages of the boys in the movie, I cannot even imagine my asking them to do what the boys in the movie did. My question is this: Does this make America a better, safer country? Or does it make us less safe, and less self-reliant? My vote is the latter. A citizenry that is not willing to defend itself is not a citizenry that can guarantee that they will continue to be free.

In the wake of the recent Supreme Court decision upholding an individual’s right under the Second Amendment to own guns, I would like to point out a couple of important implications that “The Patriot” highlighted. For starters, we have been given the right to protect ourselves from danger, whether foreign or domestic. To give up that right is going against the well-reasoned intentions of our founding fathers.

Another, even more important consideration is this: The founders expected citizens to be able to have guns as good as, or better than, the standard military weapons of the time.

In “The Patriot,” the guns Gibson’s character and his sons used were clearly long rifles, weapons that could hit a man-size target up to 300 yards away. The British soldiers had smooth-bore muskets, probably the Brown Bess, which weren’t likely to hit anything reliably from more than 50 or 60 yards. To me this means that the writers of the Second Amendment wouldn’t have had any problems with private citizens today owning automatic weapons, possibly up to .50-caliber machine guns.

How about handguns? Give me a break. There is no way that they could have imagined banning pistols. They wanted to give us the right to protect ourselves.

The difference is that they trusted common citizens to be able to make responsible decisions. Our current government doesn’t trust us nearly as much. Why else would we have seat-belt laws, bicycle helmet laws and hands-free cell-phone laws? The list goes on and on. The truth is that they don’t trust us.

It is amazing to me how anti-gun advocates can always point out how many accidental shooting deaths occur each year but never mention how many lives are saved by someone having a gun besides just the bad guys. How many horrific shooting sprees, like the one at Virginia Tech last year, might have been avoided or reduced if citizens, as the founders, could have protected themselves?

Our Nanny State, in trying to protect us from ourselves, has taken away too many of the basic rights our forefathers fought for and sometimes died for. Good movie, “The Patriot.” If you’ve never seen it, you might consider renting it. It might remind you that “all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights.”

One unalienable right the framers didn’t enumerate, because it was so obvious to them, was the right to be treated as a responsible adult, not as a child.

Well there it is and as I and George Washington have always said:
“A free people should be at all times armed”.

So be armed (always carry personal protection), be aware and have a plan!!

Thanks a lot! Poppajohn
ARMAMENT

Well looks like the free nation of Georgia is still in the eastern bloc the Georgians just didn’t know it. Russians in the Northern and Southern Osettia states of Georgia are celebrating just like the rest of Russia over the apparent victory of Russia over the miniscule Georgia in their invasion. While we and the rest of the world celebrate smaller victories at the Chi Com olympics. Yeah I have a problem with the Communist state of China also but at least it appears they may be able to join the twentieth century and get away from the post WW2 perceived greatness.
The US does not have the ability to respond militarily to this invasion of a sovereign state and ally since good ole boy Billy decimated our military during the nineties. Oh yes he did! Ronnie had built it back up again after Carter ruined it post Vietnam and Clinton re-ruined it during his less than a majority tenure (made possible by your friend and mine? Ross Perot). My major problem with the current administration is that they have had nearly eight years and a really good reason to make us strong again but have done nothing. We are still stuck with the half size army (yes half) and the no longer preparing for the future Air Force and Navy. We are cutting back new weapons systems which the left says are no longer needed since the end of the Cold War. An end they did everything they could to forestall (the left is hard to figure). Now however we have the ex KGB agent Putin running the show in Russia and guess what, he seems to have liked the cold war and wants to bring it back. Looking at his record in Chechnya, Dagestan and now Georgia he is reclaiming and re-establishing Russia as a world power. At the very time when we are over committed in the middle east and elsewhere with a still too small military. We are being slapped in the face by the Russian Bear and it looks like we are going to have to just take it.
NATO don’t make me laugh they deploy peacekeeping forces not fighting forces. They will do nothing and Georgia will be disemboweled by the bear and returned to their submissive condition of earlier years while we watch and do nothing because we can do nothing we just don’t have the goods, the strength or influence any longer. This is due to sixty years of the leftist influence of the American Academia and Journalist cultures. Which incidentally is the same reason we walked away from Vietnam after winning the war there on the ground (because Walter Cronkite told us it was what we had to do).
Okay okay end of rant. Thanks for readin.
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Thanks a lot! Poppajohn
always carry personal protection, be aware and have a plan