“While we can look like soldiers, sound like soldiers and sometimes even train with soldiers, we’re not soldiers (unless the individual officer has membership in National Guard or Reserve military components). These days, it seems the military is being pushed our direction mission-wise. Still, the fundamental mission is different – we’re here to keep the peace and to be gate-keepers for the system of criminal justice. Theirs is to kill people and break stuff.” Rich Grassi, U.S. Army (ret.) and peace officer (also ret.)
I’ve had long guns of my own since I was 12. Kept them in a soft case in my closet unloaded and an ammo can next to them full of .22 and 12 gauge. I had 3 .22 and 1 12g by then. I saved money from stocking shelves at the local convenience store and my paper route to buy my Mossy smooth bore (w 3 barrels) and a 10/22, the other two were gifts from my grandpa. My dad and everyone else I knew kept their guns on display in a glass case or a wall mount rack. We were educated enough to know they weren’t toys.
Strange enough, nowadays all my guns are locked in a safe, including my kids guns. I still teach them how I was taught – to respect them and follow the 4 golden rules, but we have a lot of friends and family over to the house and I can’t trust that other people did the same.
The police in this country do not uphold the Constitution. They break the law for a living by enforcing illegal ones, many of which are clearly UN-Constitutional and others not as clearly, but still, a crime is a crime. Especially if it’s being done on a routine basis by cops, which it is. The cops in this country are NOT on our side at all, most of them are brainwashed by the we need to be a warrior mindset crap and they look at us as threats, with weapons (potentially). They trample the Constitution all the time, in every city/state, all in the name of what they consider “law” because some politician/bureaucrat said so. Then they enforce the crap on us & we always roll over thinking we can’t resist it, that we can’t fight back with more than just words and cameras. The truth is, the government has created this since it knows it can’t use the military to control us, and with many in the service being patriotic also, they’d refuse orders to hurt us. Some won’t, many will. The cops are worse & as we saw in Boston (and I can give many, many other examples too) the police state is alive and well. The police state being managed by DHS/Fed’s & it extends to every single state/local dept & Sheriff’s office since a good deal of them have taken federal money, received APC’s, MRAP’s, military toys, etc, etc. We have a standing army of civilian cops/wannabe soldiers & federal agents who are being taught and mentored issues that belong on the battlefield in some war, not in America.
I wish it wasn’t like this, but it is. It’s not something you wake up one day to realizing either. Over a period of time this tyrannical govt has really taken a long way to preparing war against us, to permanently remove the Constitution since that’s in it’s way & it has militarized the police agencies to control and subvert our rights & the Law for a living. You really think those MRAP’s are being snatched up for warrants or weapons fears??? LOL. They’re being grabbed because the fed’s will need the police depts to control us, fire on us and have something more than just a police cruiser to instil fear into people. You see an APC or MRAP rolling down your street, you’re going to be afraid, think Boston! Cops are enemies of freedom and all of you would do well to remember this. If not, if you choose to ignore the warnings going off around us everyday now, then you will choose to be a potential victim to the police state tactics, just like the police did for Nazi Germany against the citizens.