Thoughts For The Week.
Ammunition To Send To Those Annoying Illogical Anti’s.
This is very well put, it expresses perfectly what I have wanted to write for more than 30 years. Please pass it about. It was originally written by Marko Kloos in March 23, 2007and published on the Munchkin Wrangler website. In 2009, it was published and wrongly ascribed to a Maj. L. Caudill (ret) who may not even exist.
The Gun is Civilization.
Human beings only have two ways to deal with one another: reason and force. If you want me to do something for you, you have a choice of either convincing me via negotiation, or force me to do your bidding under threat of force. Every human interaction falls into one of those two categories, without exception. Reason or force, that’s it. In a truly moral and civilized society, people exclusively interact through persuasion. Force has no place as a valid method of social interaction and the only thing that removes force from the menu is the personal firearm, a paradoxical as it may sound to some.
When I carry a gun, you cannot deal with me by force. You have to use reason and try to persuade me, because I have a way to negate your threat or employment of force.
The gun is the only personal weapon that puts a 100-pound woman on equal footing with a 220-pound mugger, a 75-year old retiree on equal footing with a 19-year old gang banger, and a single guy on equal footing with a car load of drunken guys with baseball bats. The gun removes the disparity in physical strength, size, or numbers between a potential attacker and a defender. There are plenty of people who consider the gun as the source of bad force equations. These are the people who think that we’d be more civilized if all guns were removed from society, because a firearm makes it easier for an armed mugger to do his job. That, of course, is only true if the mugger’s potential victims are mostly disarmed either by choice or by legislative fiat–it has no validity when most of a mugger’s potential marks are armed. People who argue for the banning of arms ask for automatic rule by the young, the strong, and the many, and that’s the exact opposite of a civilized society.
A mugger, even an armed one, can only make a successful living in a society where the state has granted him a force monopoly. Then there’s the argument that the gun makes confrontations lethal that otherwise would only result in injury. This argument is fallacious in several ways. Without guns involved, confrontations are won by the physically superior party inflicting overwhelming injury on the loser. People who think that fists, bats, sticks, or stones don’t constitute lethal force, watch too much TV, where people take beatings and come out of it with a bloody lip at worst. The fact that the gun makes lethal force easier works solely in favour of the weaker defender, not the stronger attacker. If both are armed, the field is level. The gun is the only weapon that’s as lethal in the hands of an octogenarian as it is in the hands of a weight lifter. It simply wouldn’t work as well as a force equalizer if it wasn’t both lethal and easily employable.
Ammunition To Send To Those Annoying Illogical Anti’s.
This is very well put, it expresses perfectly what I have wanted to write for more than 30 years. Please pass it about. It was originally written by Marko Kloos in March 23, 2007and published on the Munchkin Wrangler website. In 2009, it was published and wrongly ascribed to a Maj. L. Caudill (ret) who may not even exist.
The Gun is Civilization.
Human beings only have two ways to deal with one another: reason and force. If you want me to do something for you, you have a choice of either convincing me via negotiation, or force me to do your bidding under threat of force. Every human interaction falls into one of those two categories, without exception. Reason or force, that’s it. In a truly moral and civilized society, people exclusively interact through persuasion. Force has no place as a valid method of social interaction and the only thing that removes force from the menu is the personal firearm, a paradoxical as it may sound to some.
When I carry a gun, you cannot deal with me by force. You have to use reason and try to persuade me, because I have a way to negate your threat or employment of force.
The gun is the only personal weapon that puts a 100-pound woman on equal footing with a 220-pound mugger, a 75-year old retiree on equal footing with a 19-year old gang banger, and a single guy on equal footing with a car load of drunken guys with baseball bats. The gun removes the disparity in physical strength, size, or numbers between a potential attacker and a defender. There are plenty of people who consider the gun as the source of bad force equations. These are the people who think that we’d be more civilized if all guns were removed from society, because a firearm makes it easier for an armed mugger to do his job. That, of course, is only true if the mugger’s potential victims are mostly disarmed either by choice or by legislative fiat–it has no validity when most of a mugger’s potential marks are armed. People who argue for the banning of arms ask for automatic rule by the young, the strong, and the many, and that’s the exact opposite of a civilized society.
A mugger, even an armed one, can only make a successful living in a society where the state has granted him a force monopoly. Then there’s the argument that the gun makes confrontations lethal that otherwise would only result in injury. This argument is fallacious in several ways. Without guns involved, confrontations are won by the physically superior party inflicting overwhelming injury on the loser. People who think that fists, bats, sticks, or stones don’t constitute lethal force, watch too much TV, where people take beatings and come out of it with a bloody lip at worst. The fact that the gun makes lethal force easier works solely in favour of the weaker defender, not the stronger attacker. If both are armed, the field is level. The gun is the only weapon that’s as lethal in the hands of an octogenarian as it is in the hands of a weight lifter. It simply wouldn’t work as well as a force equalizer if it wasn’t both lethal and easily employable.
When I carry a gun, I don’t do so because I am looking
for a fight, but because I’m looking to be left alone. The gun at my side means
that I cannot be forced, only persuaded. I don’t carry it because I’m afraid,
but because it enables me to be unafraid. It doesn’t limit the actions of those
who would interact with me through reason, only the actions of those who would
do so by force. It removes force from the equation… and that’s why carrying a
gun is a civilized act.
By Marko Kloos March 23, 2007
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Prophesy for 2016, and how World Events will effect
Shooting in Australia.
Sorry For the Doom and Gloom, but the Good News is at the end of the article.The Australian dollar will stabilise, but the full effect of the 2015. 35% loss, (as all our imports are paid for in USD, $105. down to .70) will still keep filtering through to further burden Australian shooters. Stock in Wholesalers and Retailer stores will run out and replacement prices will really hurt the industry. Some ignorant, wholesalers and retailers will welcome the higher prices, celebrating that the margin for profit will be greater, without thinking to hard, as they criticize low priced products for lack of profit. They cannot work it out that there customers spending power has been reduced overall, as everything they buy will have been effected by our dollar devaluation. Wages have not risen and the only slight decrease of prices has been in motor fuel. So this causes a lack of sales in Gun Shops, which in reality reduces retail margins for the Gun Shop owners. To compete for the customers reduced spending power Gun shops will be the meat in the sandwich, being torn apart between two dogs, increasing prices and decreasing margins.
Of course they have a few other dogs tearing at their hearts, Government/Police impositions on security and paperwork, Banks wanting an ever greater slice of the action and the most ferocious dog of all the government taxation.
Sorry For the Doom and Gloom, but the Good News is at the end of the article.The Australian dollar will stabilise, but the full effect of the 2015. 35% loss, (as all our imports are paid for in USD, $105. down to .70) will still keep filtering through to further burden Australian shooters. Stock in Wholesalers and Retailer stores will run out and replacement prices will really hurt the industry. Some ignorant, wholesalers and retailers will welcome the higher prices, celebrating that the margin for profit will be greater, without thinking to hard, as they criticize low priced products for lack of profit. They cannot work it out that there customers spending power has been reduced overall, as everything they buy will have been effected by our dollar devaluation. Wages have not risen and the only slight decrease of prices has been in motor fuel. So this causes a lack of sales in Gun Shops, which in reality reduces retail margins for the Gun Shop owners. To compete for the customers reduced spending power Gun shops will be the meat in the sandwich, being torn apart between two dogs, increasing prices and decreasing margins.
Of course they have a few other dogs tearing at their hearts, Government/Police impositions on security and paperwork, Banks wanting an ever greater slice of the action and the most ferocious dog of all the government taxation.
GST 15% and Above?
Compounding the above problem is we are at the mercy of
the salivating teeth of our elected representatives who now feel a need to
increase GST from 10% of every thing we buy to 15 %. The politicians’s have realised
that as they have sent all the jobs to China with the Free trade deal that both
parties signed in 1974 the Lima Agreement they are receiving much less income
tax and paying out billions more in Un employment payments, so there response
if to copy Britains fatal mistake steal more from everyone pockets as they
consume. This will take prices of all Shooting equipment up in an ever
increasing spiral. They tell us it does not compound but it does, all services
cop the increase in costs, fuel, paper, computers and most can never be
redeemed, the only way business can survive is to add it on the bottom line.
The message here is, if you have any financial resources buy now, as it is
never going to be cheaper. Of course it creates even more corruption in the
growing black economy with people manufacturing and selling without paying tax.
Unfortunately, Gun shops are so oppressively regulated imports are all up for
GST at the Customs Barrier. Similarly, in the same way to Firearm Laws, GST
makes criminals out of honest people who just want to get on with their lives
without Government impositions.
Sorry, we are not into the Good News part yet.
The American Elections are in November this year, as that
advances the thought of Hilary Clinton and the Democrats winning will reduce
all international stock markets and they will not be in a hurry to buy US
dollars. So it is unlikely that the USD will gain strength and reduce the
spending power of our dollar. Well that might be a small point of good news it
is inconsequential in the other ramifications of that election, which is the
lack of firearm stock being exported to Australia. The Polls suggest that there
are 270 million firearms in the hands of the American public, with a population
just over 300 million. So when a 100 million firearm owners in the USA get
worried about the Democrats, Hilary (Hitelry) Clinton or Bernie Sanders winning
the White House, or the Senate on the basis that they will make legislation
restricting what can be purchased, they immediately go out and buy up. We here
in Australia are still suffering the shortages, due to the reaction of Obama’s
idiotic attempts to legislate. Gun Shops have full pages of backorder’s with
importers. When they ask for Expected Time of Arrival, (ETA) they regularly are
told, “Not this year” maybe next. This is why we have not been able to get,
Marlin Model 39 in .22 LR, or Marlin Model 94s in 357 magnum, or lines of 80
grain .243 ammo, or projectiles. Recently the Dealers have been told by
Winchester that they are not expecting any shortages of .22 ammo this year and
that they are trying to manufacture more locally at Geelong, but they also
mentioned that Winchester USA have stopped supplying all brass cases and
without them they cannot resurrect the Brass Mill so won’t be able to produce
anything, leaving us entirely at the mercy of what Winchester USA decided to
send to Australia. Instead of calling in assistance to help manufacture the
Brass they seem to have decided to hunker down and do nothing.
More Bad News (but the last of it)
With further restrictions on imports from the largest
firearm manufacturing country the USA, we naturally turn to the second Europe.
So when we try to order from the producers or exporters in Europe they tell us
that they have been flat out exporting to the USA, due to the increased demand,
they say that the US dollars is worth much more than ours, so can ask bigger
prices.
They also mention that they have had a million
immigrants, bringing with them a huge increase in household burglaries, and
that anyone with a firearm licence is buying everything that is not nailed down
in their shops. The thought of another 25 million immigrants moving to Europe
has fuelled the greatest gun sale ever. Austria leads the most by having the
best gun laws. Followed by the French, but Germans are travelling to Rumania
and the Baltic states to buy what they are un licenced for at home. Millions of
worried customers are buying all available production and pushing up the
prices. That makes it harder for us here in Australia where we have an extremely
small and restricted market, for most of the worlds largest manufacturers we
are hardly worth considering. Even if we had two million shooters licensed to
buy guns and ammunition that would not equal the shooters in one of the USA or
Europe cities.
Petition For Your Gun Rights.
Due to our Australian philosophy of ” She’ell be Right
Mate”, our Law Abiding Firearm Owners will not raise up their heads and
protest, this email goes out to over 9000 of them, yet only 2453 of them have
bothered to sign a parliamentary petition, (which costs nothing, and does not
subscribe them to thousands of unwanted emails) is it because they are scared
and want to be anonymous? Is it because they don’t care if it happens? Is it
because they don’t care if they have further restrictions on lever action
rifles? Is it because they don’t care that their friends will lose their lever
actions, rifles and shotguns?
No, its because they care more about the Lotto numbers,
or if they are a Holden, or a Ford supporter. They look for logic in Gun
legislation they find none, so either conform, or be an outlaw, never
considering standing up for their human rights.
If you have a change of heart, or have not heard about
the Petition before, please, before the 29th of February 2016, go to
and put in the simple details and sign to support.
“Licensed shooters request representatives vote against
any further impositions, or adverse changes of categories in Weapons Act 1990.”
The next Police Minister COAG meeting is on in April and
they will be asked to make a decision reclassifying Lever Action firearms from
Category A to Cat B, Cat B to Cat C and Cat D. If your firearm is reclassified
to either Cat C or Cat D you will be forced to surrender it. By the legal
mechanism of changing Categories instead of “banning” they are effecting the
same result without paying compensation.
The April 2016 date for the next meeting has been chosen
to gain the maximum publicity from the anniversary of 20 years from the Port
Arthur tragedy. The enemies of freedom will be working overtime to produce
endless re-runs on the Gogglebox, to fire up as much public animosity and
hatred against law abiding firearm owners. Of course our enemies will use every
terrorist Act, anywhere in the world to force in more gun laws. They are even
using the USA anti gun movement to increase the venom of their Anti Australian
propaganda.
Okay, You Have Waited for It. Here is the Good News.
Above, we mentioned that there are 270 million firearms in the USA, well it came up in the Commonwealth Parliament the other day that in 2015 Australia had 2.7 million legally held firearms, with an increase in Licensed shooters reported being at 16% that doubles the numbers every five years. So by 2020 we will have getting on for 6 million. All we have to do is wait, when the numbers of firearm owners becomes a inescapable majority, we will have politicians swooning at our feet, wanting to bask in the sunlight of supporting shooters.
Above, we mentioned that there are 270 million firearms in the USA, well it came up in the Commonwealth Parliament the other day that in 2015 Australia had 2.7 million legally held firearms, with an increase in Licensed shooters reported being at 16% that doubles the numbers every five years. So by 2020 we will have getting on for 6 million. All we have to do is wait, when the numbers of firearm owners becomes a inescapable majority, we will have politicians swooning at our feet, wanting to bask in the sunlight of supporting shooters.
16% increase is well in front of our population increase
at 1.45% and the annual increase of firearm owners could climb even higher as
Australians finally wake up to the fact that we are living in a very dangerous
and troubled world. The only reverse possible is if our treacherous politicians
get away with importing thousands more un educated immigrants to take our jobs,
send our currency back to the Middle East and vote Labour.
Ron Owen.
Ron Owen.
