ascan wrote:
Sean wrote:
We should be well armed enough here in the US to deal with such an insurrection.
Indeed. What's happening in France is a portent of the misery that will engulf the UK, soon. You see, currently we're enjoy an economic boom that has lasted for over a decade; there's full employment (apart from the unemployable),and things are about as good as they get. In respect of the incumbent government, the economic situation is generally fortuitous. However, their current policies are tipping the balance of fate towards inevitable doom, which is exacerbated by global economic pressures.
If you live in a city here you want to get out fast: particularly "ethnically diverse" ones. Economic woes breed discontent, and makes recruiting young Muslims to the cause of Jihad, so much easier! I can remember riots in the under-class areas of the city where I lived a number of years ago. The thought of being caught up in that frightens me, particularly as these days many of the rioters will be armed. The police will be their usual ineffectual selves, and the innocents caught up in it will be left to their fate. Those that do try to escape will probably get their skulls cracked open by a police force that serves a corrupt Labour government, rather than the people.
That says alot about what happened to liberty over there. The government disarmed the public by using Dunblaine as an excuse, started telling you what you can and can't say, allowed search and seizure, non citizens can be held up to two months without charges (it's 10 days for non citizens and 2 for citizens in the US), and now you are left at the mercy of the police, and cannot be certain the police will be there for you in an emergency unless it happens to be at the leadership's convenience. The establishment can probably rig elections by now, and any attempt to force them out of power will likely end up like the June 1953 Berlin Uprisings.
http://www.cia.gov/csi/books/17240/art-5.html
I'd reccomend aquiring a Walther P99 9mm pistol or a Mauser M2 .45ACP (preferable), and a Russian Baikal or Italian Benelli pump or semiauto shotgun. It doesn't really matter how you get it, ammo, and cleaning supplies since this would all be stashed away for a survivalist situation. Mabe try to get some range time in the US or another gun friendly country using rented guns of identical or similar models.