Mike, I did mean to ask you a question about that Oathkeeper’s rally on the 12th. I’ll be in Tennessee doing some shooting that weekend, but I’ve been meaning to ask you, whose oath exactly are you going to be waving in the tyrant’s face?

I mean, it’s not your oath, because you’ve never served. So really, you’re just waving the oaths, courage, and honor of other men in the tyrant’s face, and counting on those better men to stand in the gap for you.

This is the first I’ve heard about this protest. You guys could take a lesson from the NRA in communication and promotion. It might work out better if there were more people there than a few kooks.

I live in tornado country, so it’s not a totally hypothetical question.

That says more about you than it does about anyone current-serving who’s taken the Oath. You ARE saying that we can’t count on the fidelity and morality of any man or woman in the service? You are, right? Yet supposedly we can count on mercenaries?

Mercenaries work for who? They get paid by who? By an administration with taxpayer dollars. Have you noticed who runs that administration these days? You think that inj the end they won’t work for those policy goals they’re paid to work for? And they DO hire foreigners who have not been in the US military. I also notice that nobody has touched the domestic spying issue. Is that off the talking points page you’ve been issued?

This is still about kissasses wanting range time and boys who want access to their toys without risk.

We’ve drawn our line. When are you weenies going to draw one for yourselves? Never, right? when I’m dead and buried you’ll still be making excuses for inaction.

And by the way, I’ll be in DC thus weekend, helping to wave that Oath in the tyrant’s face. Where will you weenies be? On a Xe range, right? Big bad prags. Risking nothing, doing nothing, being, in the end, nothing.

The opposition won’t have to go door to door to collect guns. They’ll just enact ever tightening regulations, make more and more land unavailable to shooters, and wait us out. And all this will happen because 3′s are too pure (or lazy, same thing) to get involved in the political process.

Hey idiots, instead of beating off to Red Dawn for the 34th time, how about doing something useful for a change?

But the all the standing around while the local cops disarmed people sort of takes the wind out of the sails of the argument that the US military or Law Enforcement as a whole wouldn’t just stand by and watch illegal orders be carried out.

Lots of people are very anti-threeper. Be is those afraid of the public image problem or just those that think it’s all hot air and blustering.

But what exactly do you expect to take place the next time disarmament is ordered?

If the mythical good guys just sit back and watch, what exactly will they have accomplished?

Not following orders doesn’t do much at all. They might get shit canned for not following what at least some folks feel are legal, rational orders.

Where would that leave us?

And any reference to any oath is a joke. Our congress critters take a very similar oath. It’s so effective we have the patriot act, free speech zones, warrentless searches/surveillance, nationalized companies, gun control, and an unknowable number of laws set to destroy anyone who annoys the wrong government employee.

I don’t claim affiliation, though I understand where they are coming from much more than I do the folks who whine about them.