If the Los Angeles riots taught us anything it’s that you’re a fool
if you count on the authorities to protect you in times of civil chaos
— in fact, at any time. In the end, only I can protect my family.
I’m never, ever going to allow myself to be outgunned by
the bad guys. All the gun laws that are on the books—and there are
thousands of them—just make it that much easier for the barbarians to
amass weapons, and for law-abiding people like you and me to be at
their mercy.
If you outlaw weapons, as so many squishy liberals yearn to do, well
then, only the state and the outlaws will be armed. Which leaves
ordinary citizens at the mercy of an all powerful government and a
variety of merciless criminal sub cultures.
When Hitler and Stalin snatched power, one of their first moves was
to outlaw private gun ownership. They understood that armed citizens
are a mortal threat to totalitarian rule.
Imagine history if several million Jews owned firearms between 1938 and 1945.
Is the mind capable of such a leap of faith, or is it too painful?
One week after the riots I legally purchased a pistol: A 1911
Springfield .45. It’s the pistol I trained with in Israel. Yes, it’s
heavy, and yes, the recoil kicks like a Rockette; but this is the
weapon I know best, and I cordially invite any mugger, rioter,
criminal, and gun-hating “progressive” to get on the wrong side of my
Hollywood gun.