Publisher’s Note: The usual suspects among the communist chattering classes are now pivoting to a new mass advertisement campaign to attract apparatchiks to their serial killer ideology by painting every white human a white supremacist. While I think that government supremacists have done far more damage to earthlings, I look forward to seeing the unintended consequences and a mirror image of the very radicalization they so admire in their Antifa pets.
Keep pushing, collectivists.
Newton’s Third Law is a motherfucker.
They say the collectivists can’t meme and one reason is their complete blindness to the irony of their creed. Individualism is the enemy of government supremacist creeds because the individual isn’t valued in the hive mind. It is merely mortar for the foundations and walls of the leviathan state. A human competent to be bent to the will of the violence broker class and its sycophants on pain of death depending on the resistance to state authority.
John has penned another terrific travelogue in the brave notions of resistance to tyranny in the mountain Southrons. -BB
“You OK out there?” read the text message. “There is a guy with a rifle running around [redacted] mountain…”
When I pulled into the area, the local constabulary was staged. I had my EDC and typical vehicle load out already in place, which I didn’t even need to check. I had information from another local friend on where the guy was last seen. As I drove up the creek, the deputies were at the major lines of drift with radios. Most were in less than stellar physical shape and older in age.
The “man with a gun” was arrested several hours later.
The next day I heard several version of the same story, that involved a guy pulling a gun on another man. He then pulled a rifle on another totally unrelated bystander shortly after. Someone at some point called the law as the bystander is a well-known harmless and upstanding man in the community. When law enforcement responded the assailant apparently brandished the rifle while executing a poorly conceived escape plan.
The local constabulary didn’t waste any time in trotting out the dogs and the Special Response Team. In reality the show of force was kind of reminiscent of the famous and hilarious third episode of The Andy Griffith Show, The Manhunt that detailed a bureaucratic over the top reaction to a situation that Andy solved with out much effort.
One thing was unanimous; the residents of the community didn’t want law enforcement there. “We don’t call the sheriff out here, we handle our own business” was a common refrain. “Them deputies never waste a chance to show off do they?” said another. “Hell, that first guy might have deserved to have that gun pulled on him…”
In the Mountain South in particular, many disputes are settled even to this day in a private manner, if at all possible. The clannish nature of the residents, mostly descended from the Borderers of the English/Scottish border or of Germanic extraction, is still alive today in many ways.
Max Weber defines the state as has having a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence over a geographical area. To people historically and many still today in Occupied Appalachiastan, the state-only authority to dispense justice is a travesty of the highest proportions. Some do not want to outsource the dispensation of justice. Many do not want anyone mingling in the business of their community. Traditionally, the derbfine, the clan or even the community at large handled matters of justice. This goes back to lex talionis, which is the idea that if you are a righteous man and you are wronged, it is your duty to punish the offender, yourself.
“Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.”
“Men have sacrificed and crippled themselves physically and emotionally to feed, house, and protect women and children. None of their pain or achievement is registered in feminist rhetoric, which portrays men as oppressive and callous exploiters.”
“A woman simply is, but a man must become. Masculinity is risky and elusive. It is achieved by a revolt from woman, and it is confirmed only by other men.”
“American feminism has a man problem. The beaming Betty Crockers, hangdog dowdies, and parochial prudes who call themselves feminists want men to be like women. They fear and despise the masculine. The academic feminists think their nerdy bookworm husbands are the ideal model of human manhood.”
“Modern liberalism suffers unresolved contradictions. It exalts individualism and freedom and, on its radical wing, condemns social orders as oppressive. On the other hand, it expects government to provide materially for all, a feat manageable only by an expansion of authority and a swollen bureaucracy. In other words, liberalism defines government as tyrant father but demands it behave as nurturant mother.”
– Camille Paglia
Publisher’s Note: I think Paglia may be one of the most original thinkers on sex in out time.
The trans- phenomenon has gained plenty of traction in popular media and academia for a variety of reasons, the victimhood card is, of course, de jure and de facto, putting it at the front of the line. The other reason (among many, all root cause analysis discovers many vectors) is yet another assault on masculinity, no matter the destination of the gender dysmorphia even a transition to “male”; the feminine is always superior to the masculine. The reason is [blood] simple. The masculine impulse will always challenge authority whether government or private, the nature of masculine ambition distilled. This is a partial explanation for the sex deficit of women among libertarians and the all the components ecologies of the anti-state and anti-authoritarian. The dearth of female adherents to anti-statist philosophy may very well be determined by a natural inclination to security and the mistaken perception that only a coercive state can do this.
Hence the media swooning and pearl clutching over the plight and experience of trans folk. One can see that media portrayals of the feminine are shallow, worshipful and tilted in a confirmation bias that favors state violence and aggression to organize society while the media portrayal of men is mostly that of doddering, intellectually stunted sexual predators whose existence is merely guaranteed by female steering and moralizing.
“Toxic masculinity” is the glue that has held human civilization together since time immemorial. The war against men is real and the West is simply rending itself in paroxysms of idiotic indulgence and short-sighted pearl clutching at every vestige of victim-hood, perceived or real.
You see it everyday; in some chilling comments I read lately, the communist interlocutor claimed that both freedom and masculinity has lost and we simply don’t know it because the commanding hights of the media and academia have been collectivist hothouses that have captured the mind of the youth and therein lies the true generational power.
Teach your children well, especially your boys, Their entire future depends on it.
In other news, WRSA was kind enough to publish this PSA for future outlaws on liberty’s teeth.
The Freerifleman was kind enough to provide a short essay on collapsitarianism. Enjoy. -BB
“Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.”
– Marcus Aurelius
“It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.”
– Montesquieu
I was asked a good question today and thought it was worth mentioning here… along with my answer.
“Communists are clearly trying to destroy the US, what parallel to their effort is Collapsitarian?” This is a fair question, and deserves an in-depth answer.
The Communist Coup is clearly in full-view to anyone not reading braille or drooling tide-pods by now.
This has been their intention all along… to create authoritarian rule in the USSA.
It began in the compulsory indoctrination camps, and made its way through media, entertainment, local, state, and federal government… you cannot look anywhere without seeing minions with a child-like reverence for government. They want to be ruled.
This is happening.
It became apparent, that there was no un-doing the damage they have done… there was no solving this current trajectory towards chattel slavery by political means, or even by political memes (though we love them).
The only sensible action left was to accept the collapse and prepare for the next chapter, instead of losing all trying to protect what had already been corrupted with Utopian Collectivism.
The Communist Coup must disarm Americans to enact any further “progress”.
“Journalism is about covering important stories. With a pillow, until they stop moving.”
– David Burge
“…within an established totalitarian regime the purpose of propaganda is not to persuade, much less to inform, but rather to humiliate. From this point of view, propaganda should not approximate to the truth as closely as possible: on the contrary, it should do as much violence to it as possible. For by endlessly asserting what is patently untrue, by making such untruth ubiquitous and unavoidable, and finally by insisting that everyone publicly acquiesce in it, the regime displays its power and reduces individuals to nullities.”
“Apart from the massacres, deaths and famines for which communism was responsible, the worst thing about the system was the official lying: that is to say the lying in which everyone was forced to take part, by repetition, assent or failure to contradict. I came to the conclusion that the purpose of propaganda in communist countries was not to persuade, much less to inform, but to humiliate and emasculate.”
“If you are held responsible for what I do and I held responsible for what you do, does that make us not friends but mutual spies? Normal human bounds are dissolved by collective responsibility, to be repealed by distrust, fear, dissembling and withdrawal”
“It is countries with no dissent, which live in the quiet of the grave, that are vulnerable and fragile.”
Publisher’s Note: It’s 2019 and most of the country believes that communism and socialism are viable social models for modern human zoo-keeping. Go figure.
When I was much younger, I couldn’t imagine what led to the fearful, informer-based culture in the Eastern Bloc that we were told existed behind the Iron Curtain. I understand now, though. The bigger the government , the more it needs citizens who not only conform but have so swallowed the Kool-Aid they are willing to inform on their neighbors or friends or family. The confidential informant culture is a vital survival and leveling mechanism for government supremacists.
Grok this in your everyday life.
More thoughts on disconnecting from the connected world.
People could not distract themselves endlessly as they can now, and this also had ramifications for social bonding: the pretense that we are all sovereign islands unconnected to and independent of others was a lot harder to sustain. Conversation became high art and debate started to reach its apogee only to plummets precipitously in the twentieth century.
This in turn leads to mindless parsing of human attributes unanchored to morality or the human condition. Intersectionality is a mindless preoccupation with putting people into more and more refined pigeon holes. The only thing valid about it is that each individual human being is a unique intersection of varying attitude, aspirations, and aptitudes on a variety of subjects, issues, skills etc. I am amused at the intersectional cannibalism emerging from the myriad factions of mental illness parading as political discourse that seem to teem on the intellectual plains of the left-wing culture. I am convinced daycare and two working parents have caused trauma or irreversible damage to most children that makes them vulnerable to the deadly swansong of government supremacism.
But remember, the left always pretended they opposed McCarthy on principle, when in reality they were only upset that it was their idols being blasphemed. Now that Woke Leftism has the cultural whip hand, they are gleeful at the prospect of enforcing their own blasphemy laws and dealing out McCarthy’s tactics to their enemies in triplicate.
In other news, yes, I am on the spectrum and I wouldn’t want to be neurotypical.
“Neurotypical syndrome is a neurobiological disorder characterized by preoccupation with social concerns, delusions of superiority, and obsession with conformity.”
Neurotypical (NT) individuals often assume that their experience of the world is either the only one, or the only correct one. NTs find it difficult to be alone. NTs are often intolerant of seemingly minor differences in others. When in groups, NTs are socially and behaviorally rigid, and frequently insist upon the performance of dysfunctional, destructive, and even impossible rituals as a way of maintaining group identity. NTs find it difficult to communicate directly and have a much higher incidence of lying as compared to persons on the autistic spectrum.
NT is believed to be genetic in origin. Autopsies have shown the brain of the neurotypical is typically smaller than that of an autistic individual and may have overdeveloped areas related to social behavior.
Celebrate neurodiversity. Don’t be a hater, NTs.
525 shopping days until the next monster in human form shambles into the Offal Office, children.
Remember that Comrade Chuck (CPUSA-NY) wants to ban the placement of steel or composites on your body because…
5010 rounds so far. No cleaning. Best rifle on Earth until the 40watt plasma rifle debuts…
Make ready. -BB
“The limitation of tyrants is the endurance of those they oppose.”
– Frederick Douglass”
“Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.”
– Ludwig Von Mises”
Government
History is not race, class, and gender; these are simply faux-sophisticated academic constructs that fit nicely in unreadable journal articles the usual suspects pass off as research in the wretched academic Marxian hothouses polluting the educational void after K-12 has thoroughly scooped out any brain matter that could think for itself. The universities (why do you think they aren’t heteroversities?) are simply the finishing school to further refine the brainwashed automatons that eagerly hop onboard any government supremacist passenger train passing their way.
History of all government is the history of power, violence and slavery.
Politician is a deceptive colloquialism for violence brokers. The brokerage is the potential and actual dispensation of state violence through taxation, regulation, fining, kidnapping, caging, maiming and killing in the tried and proven continuum of government compliance. The notion that a single man is incapable of self government but a single psychopath and his connected minions and apparatchiks is the key to a peaceful and just society lording over millions.
It is no more complex than that, all government outside of self-government demands violence to see its project in train and complete. Left or right is simply misdirection, it is always the choice between individualism and collectivism, the choice between non-intervention and intervention. In North America, there is no single political party that doesn’t want the reigns of government so it can take its collectivist vision and enforce it at gun point.
Whether the Mango Mussolini or any of his other predecessors in the Big House, they all have one goal in mind: compliance or else. That may be the three words that most simply tell you what the plan is for ANY government that forces itself upon you. This is not about questioning authority, it’s too late then. You must question obedience.
One of the greatest powers of the political class is that they tend to attract not only the worse but in economic terms provide no reliable future framework for decision making at the micro and macro level. In order for markets to optimally function, people need to be able to project and forecast into the future the variables that guide decision making and price signals. The state wrecks this calculus fundamentally and existentially hence the power of kakocrats at every level to use their “office” to extend favors and withdraw favor.
Politicians are the enemy of all free-range humankind.
Have you noticed a trend in the US? No matter what wing of the Uniparty gets in office, government gets bigger at the Federal levels and the state subsidiaries continue to expand their portfolio of zookeepers instructions to the zoo animals?
I am only slightly encouraged by the repeal of a number of regulations under the Trump regime but don’t anticipate the Deep State taking this lying down. Some of these repeals actually expand the power of the Federal government. I would urge you to examine the Brookings Institution findings on the repealed rules and regulations. It is not what you think it is.
But then again, the Federal budget continues to accelerate under the Grand Old Politburo.
“Pretty soon there’ll be a new kind of murderer, who will kill without any reason at all, just to prove that it doesn’t matter, and his accomplishment will be worth no more and no less than Beethoven’s last quartets and Boito’s Requiem– churches will fall, Mongolian hordes will piss on the map of the West, idiot kings will burp at bones, nobody’ll care and then the earth itself’ll disintegrate into atomic dust (as it was in the beginning) and the void still the void won’t care, the void’ll just go on with that maddening little smile of its that I see everywhere, I look at a tree, a rock, a house, a street, I see that little smile– That ‘secret God-grin’ but what a God is this who didn’t invent justice?–So they’ll light candles and make speeches and the angels rage. Ah but ‘I don’t know, I don’t care, and it doesn’t matter’ will be the final human prayer.”
– Jack Kerouac, Desolation Angels
Publisher’s Note: I am a committed collapsitarian and thank my friend Skip for essentially reviving the term.
Jim touches on some thoughtful notions germane to the coming Endarkenment. I am an antifragility advisor (one of my jobs) at my current employment and have presented two papers at the Military Operations Research Society annual symposiums on this very subject. The good news is that all insurgencies are by their nature antifragile while the counterinsurgency efforts in the western world have tended to a fragility that sunders their effectiveness.
Some random thoughts:
How am I faring off Twitter? It is a wise moving getting off Twitter. It is a swamp that puts you in touch with some of the more toxic and cancerous elements of humanity. It’s an ideal platform for the intellectually beggared belief systems of the government supremacists. Best case scenario is you waste time and get annoyed, worst case scenario is a Tweet against the hive mind causes an angry Twitter mob to dox you, and you lose your job or worse.
I don’t understand why anybody wants to be involved with Twitter or any social media that encourages the briefest and lowest forms of social interaction at the expense of genuine communication.
Haiku is an art form best left to the savvy and dedicated practitioners.
On reflection, there used to be a lot less “here and now”. The mass distractions and casual pleasures we take for granted didn’t exist for most of human history. Go back 150 years and there’s no internet, TV, radio, or recorded music and even photography was still in its infancy. Go back a bit farther and you’re in the “world lit only by fire”. Go back further and you have the advent of silent reading that directly led to the huge advancements in the West.A contemplative knowledge gathering exercise that demanded your active participation and cognition.
Put down your personal surveillance devices (cell phones) once in a while.
I urge everyone to consider stepping out of the digital shallows, take your eyes off the digital space and think for yourself, by yourself.
Master the cognitive bias codex and yourself and nothing will stand in your way.
I’d like to thank ACA for reviewing my Irregular Warfare series with ProfCJ.
Enjoy Jim’s essay. -BB
Special to L. Neil Smith’s The Libertarian Enterprise:
“This fragility is integral to the system and generated by it, in periods of boom and bust,” writes Wolf, instructing us about the invisible force that propelled the world into 2008, when this fragile system came too close to shattering into chaos.
~ Martin Wolf, Forbes, 2014
For some months now, my friend Skip who posts on Twitter as TheFreeRifleman has been using a term he coined, “Collapsitarian” to describe his outlook. Like many things in life, it began with a long series of sardonic posts in which Skip lamented the fact that Bankster Elite Pedophile Illuminati Globalist Satanic Luciferians (BEPIGS) rule the system as it presently exists, and that we should anticipate a day, soon, when we “burn this stupidity to the ground” (BTSTTG or in variants, BTFSTTG, BTSSTTG) or “back off and nuke the site from orbit, it’s the only way to be sure.” Skip also likes to refer to the current seat of governmental power as Mordor on the Potomac. So he has lots of great ideas.
The concept of a collapsitarian is a philosophical libertarian who is aware that the system as it currently exists is going to collapse. It is going to collapse whether you vote or not, whether you file paperwork the government asks for or not, whether you comply with their endless rules and regulations or not, and it is not going to be very long. The system that “nearly” failed in 2007-2009 in an enormous financial crisis which saved itself through all kinds of chicanery and bailouts and give-aways to corporate giants did not fix any of the fundamental problems that resulted in that crisis. It hasn’t fixed any of the millions of other problems it has, either. The systems of the economy, banking, finance, law, justice, foreign policy, electric power, and online access that have any connection to government processes are fragile.
Fragility is widespread. Systems are teetering on the brink. A collapse is coming, and one collapse is very likely to trigger many others, in a cascade failure. Whether the triggering event is a natural disaster such as Yellowstone going up, or a Carrington event, or a large series of earthquakes and tsunamis, or Earth passing through an active meteor zone such as the Taurids and actually being hit by something large, or a foreign policy debacle ending in a nuclear strike or several, we have no way of knowing.
Given that you can anticipate a lot of things that you may be relying upon suddenly becoming unreliable or unavailable, what should you do? In the words of ZeroGov.com founder Bill Buppert, “up your preps.” You have time to prepare. You have time to buy ammo. You have time to outfit yourself with supplies, with equipment like night vision gear, gas masks, potassium iodide (which helps your thyroid survive in the event of volcanic or nuclear distribution of radioactive iodide by filling your thyroid with non-radioactive iodide), water filtration gear, food storage equipment, food, ammo, and more ammo. You have time to team up with people in your area and near your area and not too far from your area so that you can coordinate in the event things go bad. You have time to train with your team. You may even have time to build a mesh network or other resilient communications system.
But you don’t have much time, so you should not delay any longer.
Resilient Communities
In the last two years, I’ve been working very actively on building resilient communities both online and in the real world. I have located several really good prospective areas for development, including the Montrose county, Colorado area and the Greenup county, Kentucky region. As well, I’ve been in contact with developers and entrepreneurs involved in projects in Argentina, Belize, Burma, Chile, Europe, Uruguay, Canada, and elsewhere. My friend Kurt Hanson has suggested we develop a new Hanseatic League of free communities, and I think that’s a great idea.
If you are living in a city on the east or West coast of the United States, I urge you to re-locate. You are in danger. You are in danger of certain kinds of natural disasters (tsunamis, floods, earthquakes, volcanoes) and in the cases of cities like Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Baltimore, DC, New York, the metro areas of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey, and Maryland, all kinds of political and economic dangers. If you are not living in a place where you can grow enough food to keep yourself and your family alive, you should seriously consider relocating to somewhere you can do so.
Happily, the places I know of include several that are actively looking for additional people. There are businesses to get involved in. There are networks of online activity you can participate in. There are many new systems, much more resilient than the old ways, developing right now.
You don’t have much time to improve your situation. But you do have some. And about 100 million Americans are aware of the difficulties, I believe, based on their actions (ignoring the census, not voting, etc.). So I think there are tens of millions of people who will be willing to help when the collapse starts happening.
Not to be too gloomy, but there are also people in government who are going to continue to apply fraud to all revelations that they’ve been lying and increase the amount of force they’ve been applying to all the problems caused by excessive force (wars, prisons for profit, economic turmoil, etc.). Among other things I think you should anticipate is large scale prison camps near major cities where dissidents and people in rebellion, including those targeted by “red flag” laws are going to be concentrated. Yes, FDR created concentration camps in 1942, and other presidents were involved in a long history of “reservations” for Native Americans, so don’t imagine anything new is being said when concentration camps in America are discussed. Be prepared to free the slaves, stop the wars, and end the state.
If you aren’t motivated to change your circumstances, perhaps you have it all figured out. Or perhaps you are in a good situation. Changes are coming. Stay ready.
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Jim Davidson is a member of the religious society of the Friends of Truth, the people known as Quakers. He is an author, entrepreneur, actor, and dancer. You can find him on the web and Twitter. He can be reached at jim@resilientways.net.
“The price of freedom is the willingness to do sudden battle anywhere, any time and with utter recklessness.”
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Publisher’s Note: I just finished a 96-hour water fast, dropped some weight, cleared toxins and simply felt better. I had to gut it out several times but I held fast, pun intended. Our diet is paleo and keto minus because potatoes (a nightshade, no less) are my Kryptonite. This particular act of self-discipline caused me to reflect on parts of my life that need to be improved especially social media.
I have never had a FaceBorg, Instagram or other social media modality but I have maintained a Twitter account for years and have finally pulled the plug, I won’t delete it but I won’t be posting anymore. My publisher told me that a Twitter account would boost my sales and I got sucked into the Twitter-verse.
So while I have not closed the account, I will no longer be frequenting the Twitterverse.
Trying to cut the frivolous screen addiction. Conducting my personal digital declutter…
The screens that will remain in my life in addition to the work monitors are my Macs at home and the new Kindle Oasis, my Kindle DX (9.7” screen) that I purchased in 2011 is finally about to give up the ghost. The Kindle goes with me everywhere to supplement my life-long reading habit.
I am trying to declutter my screen life. Cal Newport has some great insights:
“The real problem — and this surprised me — is figuring out how to deal with all the free time this move toward minimalism suddenly injects into your life.”
Pity that but I will muscle through.
My oldest son is a minimalist, so I am on my way.
Just finished ProfCJ’s interview with Cathal Nolan on the allure of battle in Episode #182. Yet another brilliant episode. I started at #53 and I am nearing the end to catch up. Want to make your commute fly by? Listen to ProfCJ.
Kyle Reese from Blooded The Brave will be wearing the ZeroGov shirt and flying the abolitionist freak flag in his first video and title track to the new album “Sovereign Soulja”.
If you have Alexa or any other voluntary surveillance system in your house, get it out.
The Jesuit magazine America has published an article making a case for communism for Catholics. I am not astonished. this is nothing new. Government supremacism and communism all share the same basic philosophical premise: individual natural rights are non-existent, but are privileges granted by the state, which may curtail their exercise at will so long as it is for the perceived “common good.” There have been Christian apologists for Communism since the Paris Commune. Of course, it always begs the eternal question, when the last Catholic becomes Communist will freedom be made secure by strangling him in his own entrails? Personally I rather like Krushchev’s line that when Communists become Christians, shrimp will learn to whistle. Given how Krushchev was buried in an Orthodox cemetery, there is a certain irony in that. One might call this the left wing analogy to Holocaust denial and revisionism.
Maybe the Catholic church can start writing screeds advancing the joys of pederasty, cannibalism, sado-masochism, on and on…wait, they already do that.
In other news, I have a day job so I couldn’t watch the moral Lilliputians eviscerate the feeble and imbecilic Comrade Mueller but the snippets I’ve seen are most satisfying to see the Deep State eating its own. The Uniparty will let the malefactor fade into a comfortable retirement. I don’t give a shit about the welfare or machinations of the Mango Mussolini but I think this performance has significantly dimmed the possibilities of impeachment thus Race Bannon will not become President in the Offal Office. Could there be a better example than this affair to demonstrate the utterly corrupt and chronic-to-the-point-of-terminal dysfunctionality of the US?
This is a good one making the rounds:
Question to Mueller: “What is your name?”
Mueller: “Can you repeat the last part of that question?”
Q: “your name?”
Mueller: “…that is beyond my purview”
Q: “…your name is on the report”
M: “Report? What report?”
Q: “…your report”
M: “I cannot answer that question”
Whatever the government vermin do to each other and ultimately against you, just prepare accordingly and harden your hearts for the coming Endarkenment. As a committed collapsitarian, my soul is at peace.
“The parties of special interests, which see nothing more in politics than the securing of privileges and prerogatives for their own groups, not only make the parliamentary system impossible; they rupture the unity of the state and of society. They lead not merely to the crisis of parliamentarism, but to a general political and social crisis. Society cannot, in the long run, exist if it is divided into sharply defined groups, each intent on wresting special privileges for its own members, continually on the alert to see that it does not suffer any setback, and prepared, at any moment, to sacrifice the most important political institutions for the sake of winning some petty advantage.
“To the parties of special interests, all political questions appear exclusively as problems of political tactics. Their ultimate goal is fixed for them from the start. Their aim is to obtain, at the cost of the rest of the population, the greatest possible advantages and privileges for the groups they represent. The party platform is intended to disguise this objective and give it a certain appearance of justification, but under no circumstances to announce it publicly as the goal of party policy. The members of the party, in any case, know what their goal is; they do not need to have it explained to them. How much of it ought to be imparted to the world is, however, a purely tactical question.
“All antiliberal parties want nothing but to secure special favors for their own members, in complete disregard of the resulting disintegration of the whole structure of society. ”
Mises, Ludwig von (1927). Liberalism [classical liberalism, not the modern definition]
Von Mises called the ball nearly a hundred years ago.
Resist. -BB
“The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he’s in prison.”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky
“All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.”
“Even if the absence of government really did mean anarchy in a negative, disorderly sense – which is far from being the case – even then, no anarchical disorder could be worse than the position to which government has led humanity.”
– Leo Tolstoy
“We must ask, not whether an anarcho-capitalist society would be safe from a power grab by the men with the guns (safety is not an available option), but whether it would be safer than our society is from a comparable seizure of power by the men with the guns. I think the answer is yes. In our society, the men who must engineer such a coup are politicians, military officers, and policemen, men selected precisely for the characteristic of desiring power and being good at using it. They are men who already believe that they have a right to push other men around – that is their job. They are particularly well qualified for the job of seizing power. Under anarcho-capitalism the men in control of protection agencies are selected for their ability to run an efficient business and please their customers. It is always possible that some will turn out to be secret power freaks as well, but it is surely less likely than under our system where the corresponding jobs are labeled ‘non-power freaks need not apply’.”
– Friedman, David. “The Machinery of Freedom Guide to a Radical Capitalism” 2nd Edition, Chapter: “The Stability Problem” p. 123-124
an·ar·chy
-noun
a state of society without government or law.
political and social disorder due to the absence of governmental control: The death of the king was followed by a year of anarchy.
a theory that regards the absence of all direct or coercive government as a political ideal and that proposes the cooperative and voluntary association of individuals and groups as the principal mode of organized society.
confusion; chaos; disorder: Intellectual and moral anarchy followed his loss of faith.
Again and again, people are shocked by even the hint of the elimination of large swaths, wholesale portions and the complete abolition of government at every level. I do not advocate for reduction or cost effectiveness; I advocate for the complete withdrawal of government and its attendant violence out of lives.
I have mentioned before that there is no such thing as limited government; that is simply the orchid hothouse for the future prosperity of the expansion of government.
I do advocate self-government but that is the only self-limiting government in human affairs. Mind you, this is a dystopian vision in which the individuals, businesses and entities will fail and even perish but is nothing compared to the bureaucratized slaughter that has been the story of man for time immemorial under the illusion that GOVERNMENT COERCION AND VIOLENCE IS THE SOLE ORGANIZING PRINCIPLE OF HUMANITY.
I want to take the time today to illustrate why anarchy is no stranger in human affairs and is, in fact, the ordinary everyday principle by which most of us conduct our business.
John wakes up in the morning and prepares to go to work in the house he purchased for an extraordinarily inflated price due to the fiat currency, building regulations and property taxes forcibly extracted from him to turn the community’s children into shambling illiterate and innumerate morons who will respond obediently to the beat of the government society they are yoked to.
In spite of this, John elects to pursue a career to bring the forty percent of his total earned income home and do the right thing with it. He is a middle-class American struggling to make ends meet. John is proud to be a producer and resents mightily the high taxation and regulatory tangle that has become life in America.
He goes on to eat his healthful breakfast which is the direct opposite of the Food and Drug Administration’s soothing recommendations to ensure he does not truncate the end of his life. After breakfast, he takes the prescription drug illegally stored in an unmarked container on his way out the door. The children are home-schooled so there is no necessity to wake them up from their slumber. He is eager to ensure the government does not get their claws into his children to turn them into to the aforementioned urchins of the state.
He grabs his briefcase and pack and heads out to his truck. Under Arizona law, he is practically unrestricted in his travel with a weapon and ensures that the Glock stored in the truck is fully operable and ready for social work knowing that the cops are far more interested in ticketing drivers than catching genuine criminals. By their nature and incentives, the police cannot protect him in 99% of circumstances and he is on his own. He dials the cell-phone and sets up his meetings for the day and ensures his lunch appointment is still on. He pulls the truck onto the unimproved road and drives to the highway to head for work. He drives as he wishes on his private road but knows that once he has hit the pavement on the government built road he will be in constant danger of being stopped by the armed tax-eaters for violations as minor as having a license plate light out to provide the impetus for a fishing expedition by the constabulary to exact new monies or escort him into the prison system.
When he gets to the intersection, the entire signal system is inoperable due to a power outage but he simply waits his turn and eventually motors onto the interstate. He is a polite driver not because of the law but because he realizes that cautious and defensive driving is in his own self-interest. A woman on the side of the road is having to change a tire so he stops to render assistance.
Once he arrives at the office, he strolls in and views with amazement the huge wall-space dedicated to the mandated posting of all manner of government foolishness concerning minimum wage (none at his office make anything approaching that even the interns), harassment and all kinds of silly mandates which do their best to retard progress and blunt effectiveness. He shakes his head at the sheer waste and furrows an angry brow when he thinks that almost sixty cents of every dollar his company takes in goes to one government entity or another and he is not even paid or reimbursed for the collection service he is obligated to perform under penalty of fines or jail or worse.
After corporate income taxes and the strangling regulatory burden, one third or more of his employees are directly paid to deal with tax accountancy and regulatory compliance. He is consistently amazed at the sheer anti-business attitude of all levels of government from local to federal. They seem to attract not only the kind of folks who never met a payroll but people for him business is a dirty four letter word. Ironically, their very plush lifestyles are underwritten in part by the tremendous tax receipts robbed from productive enterprises everyday. He remembers reading “I, Pencil” and briefly being amazed at the depth and magnitude of the spontaneous order needed to produce such a simple consumable – all with no coercion or violence whatsoever.
He goes onto lunch later on and orders a burger “under the table” which is not cooked to the shoe-leather standards of the idiotic Health Department regulations. In conversation with his usual lunch crew, they engage in friendly rhetorical contests about the latest political chicanery and the looming election that will change – nothing.
After lunch, he heads back to work to spend the afternoon not pursuing profit but to deal with the latest ingenious move by the local government to exact more monies from his company’s wallet. They are pursuing the age-old nostrum of all politicians – to extract wealth from the producers to provide for their various captured parasite groups they have assembled who are their most loyal constituency.
John later calls it a day and heads home through the traffic snarl called government roads. He is contemplating whether the new 8.2 mile private toll road is worth the monthly expense and decides to give it a try. He was told by a contractor friend that private roads in new developments take an extraordinarily shorter amount of time to finish and do it under budget every time. Of course, the local government has been more aggressive in annexing (a nice word for seizure) these roads shortly after construction which then leads to cops prowling for revenue enhancement. One study reported that most signs removed improved driving instead of making it unsafe; in America, it is a simply a pretense to end-run civil liberties for ticketing although no one has yet caught a cop on or off duty coming to a full stop at a stop sign.
John miraculously makes it home without being pulled over and wearily walks into his house to greet his wife and family. She is a bit frazzled having spent the day home-schooling but glad to see the hunter return. After a healthy dinner which again violates every nostrum of the vaunted FDA, he asks after his sons and daughter and the wife relates the verities of the day. After a brief conversation, John proceeds to go to his shop to work on his gunsmithing hobby with his lads for the evening and then hit the rack in preparation for another day.
Publisher’s Note: Just finishing Part 15 of ProfCJ’s phenomenal series on the “Not-So-Civil-War”. I highly recommend you make your drive time profitable by listening to podcasts and Dangerous History is one of the best out there.
And give money to SubscribeStar to support him.
My boys are coming down in the fall to train with me, I am so looking forward to it.
I have five children and three have gone to college. One has an BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering, one has a BA in a “soft” science and one stopped after completing her AA. None have debt having attended state colleges absent the Ivy League pedigree and had significant scholarship assistance. All home educated with short interregnums in a government school.
There is a liberty gap across the sexes so my son came out unscathed by the Marxoid government supremacist programming and even personally introduced Ron Paul’s speaking engagement at his school in Idaho. My daughters have come out fairly whole in being human beings with a solid moral center instead of rabid communist man-haters.
I have two sons who have not gone to college and I don’t want them to. I have no fear of losing them to the alien human extinction philosophical framework that informs the moral ecology of most campuses. They are stronger than that.
I don’t want them to sink four plus years of their life into the morass that is the university campus, there is a reason they don’t call it a heteroversity because any ideas that county the orthodoxy of communism, government supremacism, collectivism and infanticide are not tolerated.
So if my lads don’t want to go to college, they will get no grief from me, there are plenty of non-college professions out there (excepting policing, my lads know I would disown them).
Imagine taking those hundreds of thousands of wasted dollars and four to six years of your life to build a business, become a craftsman apprenticing with a master, travelling or even being homeless. At least in the latter you’d be your own man instead of becoming a drooling communist stuck in the Copholm Syndrome collectivist spider web of lies that is government supremacism and other deballing activities of the modern left.
Imagine investing tens of thousands of dollars in becoming the best shooter on Earth.
Building your house with the cash you would have used for college.
Learning a skill the Japanese way, Kintsugi and achieving the Gladwellian mastery of a craft or calling.
Traveling to every corner of the planet you want to.
We discovered in our travels east and west that nothing cures affluenza in children better than immersion in other culture for years at a time. The same applies to the raising of a family in a rural area instead of a hive. My children grew up in a Huck Finn lifestyle when we lived in north Idaho after I retired.
If you have children and they are at a crossroads to go to college, be very careful with that decision and your guidance. You could very well lose your progeny to the most murderous cult in history because the collectivists control the heights of academia and they are using it to terraform the country into a vast slave plantation.
Resist! -BB
“But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain – that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case it is unfit to exist.”
― Lysander Spooner, No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority
I took a stab at modifying the 1776 American Declaration of Independence, a brilliant document announcing the divorce of thirteen nation states from London, to present standards of governance, moral malpractice and cowardice; I discovered that much would be left out on the cutting floor and severe alterations to verbiage would be necessary to keep the Homo Sovieticus Booboisie in America from filling their pants and gibbering in abject fear at the prospect of freedom with risks and costs not underwritten by their neighbors.
I had to erase over half of it and wipe out any reference to any behavior absent government permission. So I had to move on to the more fitting document for human bondage and perpetual government, the Constitution.
The Constitution buried the ideals of the DI to import the “London-in-a-box” solution the Hamiltonian Federalists designed to smother freedom in its fifteenth year after the coup in Philadelphia.
The Declaration of Independence continues to be a masterwork of brevity and directness in its promise to sever ties and formalize a divorce. There is no sizable sector of America today that would even have the temerity to sign it much less live up to it. Well, maybe at an abolitionist meeting but I digress.
So I scrapped that project and found a document more in keeping with the modern 21st century American mood.
Now, the Soviet Constitution is something that most Americans can cotton to with the slightest modification in verbiage. I chose the latest of three variants from 1977. I have included a link to the original text at the bottom. All I changed were the descriptors and none of the prospective language.
Most of the ahistorical tax Helots automatically associate the 4th of July with the wretched Constitution anyway. Constitution Day is in September but why wait when the DI has been so famously and ingloriously betrayed in every aspect of its essence and message. The majority in that decision would applaud the Soviet Constitution not that the earlier American version was any shakes when it came to liberty.
The Fourth of July is the same day in 1863 that the defeats at Vicksburg and Gettysburg snuffed out any hope of the South prevailing in its divorce proceedings during the Second American Revolution and the Lincolnian juggernaut would take the Constitution to its final stages of expanding and securing a place for the leviathan state in North America.
Happy Dependence Day, comrades.
PREAMBLE to the 1977 Soviet Constitution slightly modified to American standards:
The Great November Democratic Revolution, made by the workers and peasants of United States under the leadership of the US Government headed by its Presidents, overthrew capitalist and landowner rule, broke the fetters of oppression, established the dictatorship of the voter, and created the American state, a new type of state, the basic instrument for defending the gains of the revolution and for building government intervention and democracy. Humanity thereby began the epoch-making turn from capitalist to government intervention.
After achieving victory in the elections and repulsing free market intervention, the American government carried through far-reaching social and economic transformations, and put an end once and for all to exploitation of man by man, antagonisms between classes, and strive between nationalities. The unification of the American Republics in the Union of American Democratic Republics multiplied the forces and opportunities of the peoples of the country in the building of government intervention. Social ownership of the means of production and genuine democracy for the working masses were established. For the first time in the history of mankind a democratic society was created.
The strength of government intervention was vividly demonstrated by the immortal feat of the American people and their Armed Forces in achieving their historic victory in the Great Cold War. This victory consolidated the influence and international standing of the American Union and created new opportunities for growth of the forces of government intervention, national liberation, democracy, and peace throughout the world.
Continuing their creative endeavors, the working people of the American Union have ensured rapid, all-round development of the country and steady improvement of the democratic system. They have consolidated the alliance of the working class, collective-farm peasantry, and people’s intelligentsia, and friendship of the nations and nationalities of the US. Sociopolitical and ideological unity of American society, in which the middle class is the leading force, has been achieved. The aims of the dictatorship of the voter having been fulfilled, the American state has become a state of the whole people. The leading role of the US Government, the vanguard of all the people, has grown.
Publisher’s Note: Here is Part II of the scintillating essay series by Andy on why the Glock very well be the only pistol to give us a path to perfection until the 40watt plasma pistols make their debut.
This will be limited to the two part series. -BB
Glock’s promotional tagline is “Glock Perfection.” Points for hyperbole, but as most of us know, a new Glock pistol is far from perfect. In fact, I have long maintained that a Glock is not a perfect pistol, but it is the perfect pistol hobby kit.
I view a new Glock pistol as a platform for creating a personalized fighting tool that is superior to any other pistol. I believe that it comes out of the box as serviceable, but far from proper. As such, there are a number of modifications that I make to all of my Glock pistols on day one in order to achieve that “perfection” Glock glibly promised me.
In this article I’ll detail mods I believe every Glock pistol needs, some optional ones I can recommend, and a few popular modifications I believe one should never make to their Glock pistols. As stated in Part 1, my evaluations here are couched firmly in the context of a fighting gun. I won’t waste our valuable time here touching on aesthetic or sport-specific mods. Those I mention here are about more comfortably and more effectively meting out startling violence in counterattack with a gun that survives the fight intact.
The Must-Have Mods
Sights
Unless the pistol came with the factory iron night sights, and it’s hard to find one that does, the first thing every Glock pistol needs is new sights. I’m still not sure why Glock persists in shipping its pistols with those useless polymer sights, but they do and we must get that crap off the slide and replaced with irons.
Glock’s polymer “U-notch” sights work just fine for sighting. The issue that necessitates replacement is the fact that they’re plastic and cannot hold up to the necessary abuse particular to training and fighting with a pistol. Things that can damage these plastic sights include the pistol falling to the ground; racking the slide on a belt buckle, mag pouch, furniture or other objects; or being bumped against objects on one’s environment while training or fighting. Any of these or other common or uncommon actions can move or even rip Glock’s plastic sights right off the slide. There’s a reason pistols have iron sights and a Glock needs them if it is to be anything more than a static, target-practice gun.
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Here’s a short video showing racking the slide one-handed off my belt. Glock’s polymer sights can’t stand up to this compulsory abuse.
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You won’t have trouble finding replacement sights, as every sight manufacturer makes options for every Glock pistol model. There are all sorts of options to suit your needs or preferences, including blacked-out rear sights, hi-vis front sights, narrow (precision) front sights, fiber-optic sights (I recommend you avoid most of these), glow-in-the-dark sights, Tritium night sights, 3-dot sights, 2-dot sights, lolly-pop sights, ghost-ring sights, and even other configurations.
I mention that you should avoid most fiber-optic sights because most models feature exposed tubes of fiber, necessary for gathering the light that makes them effective as sights. As such, they’re far too susceptible to breakage, as the fiber strings are quite delicate. Unlike most fib sights, Truglo TFX Pro sights do a good job protecting the fiber so that it’s far less apt to be damaged. Since they combine the fiber optic qualities with a hi-vis, contrasting front sight AND Tritium for night-sight ability, they’re one of my two preferred replacement sights.
Sight replacement is not difficult, but it does require specialized tools. Get and learn how to use those tools or instead take your slide and sights to a skilled armorer (found at most indoor gun ranges) for replacement. After replacement, be sure to properly zero your pistol at 25 yards.
Frame Contouring
Glock’s nickname as a “Block” is well earned. Though the edges of the grip and slide are rounded, the overall shape is that of a rectangle; flat sides, flat top. This un-ergonomic approach makes its most egregious violations in the areas of the main grip area and the junction between the trigger guard and the grip.
The flat-sided grip (left and right) is not too difficult an issue to warm up to, but many shooters simply don’t like it and so they opt for rounder, more ergonomically shaped grips found on other pistols, like M&P, Sig Sauer, Walther, etc. Due to a lack of grip material, it is not really possible to reshape the Glock grip into a rounder-sided version, so this is something we have to live with if we want the best pistol. I don’t have any problem with it, but I hear that some people do.
Where we can make amends is with the trigger-guard-to-grip junction. This area on a stock Glock pistol can cause significant discomfort for most folks after shooting 50 to 100 rounds. It’s just poorly designed, but it’s nothing that a Dremmel tool with a barrel sander head can’t fix in a jiffy. I always contour this area, on both the right and left sides (proper training means shooting righty and lefty!), so that my primary hand middle-finger knuckle can comfortably rest there when I grip the pistol. The comfort difference between a stock Glock and one contoured in this fashion is remarkable. I do this contouring on day one after a purchase (I own 7 Glock 19s) and won’t spend time with a Glock not made to fit my hand.
Stippling
Every polymer-famed pistol that is a fighting gun needs to be stippled. There is not one made that has proper grip texture out of the box. So stippling is another day-one modification I give every one of my Glocks. I’m well practiced at stippling, but I deem that anyone can do a credible job with just a few moments’ practice (practice on the extra backstraps you’re not going to use). Much is made about the aesthetics of a stipple job, and as a designer I can appreciate such things, but the ONLY thing that matters is the proper purchase on the gun that stippling affords us.
Many pistols’ texture is fine for good purchase when your hands are dry and you’re standing still. But what about when you’re in a fight for your life; when your hands are sweaty, wet from rain, …or bloody? Sweat and especially blood is damn slick. If you’re ever in a gunfight, you’re likely going to get hurt; your hands will be bloody. Try slicking up your hands and performing a malfunction clearance and reload, while running, with a non-stippled gun. I bet you fail 5 out of 10 tries. Stippling can save your life so don’t forget this lifesaving necessity on your Glock.
Optional Mods
Triggers
Glock pistol triggers are not the worst in the world, but they’re certainly not the best. Luckily, there is much one can do to improve on the action of a stock Glock trigger. Advisable modification here is as simple as replacing the 5.5lb connector with a 3.5lb connector. Doing so does not bring the trigger-pull weight down from 5-6 pounds to 3.5 pounds, but it does smooth out the press and reduce the weight to around 4.5 to 5 pounds. It also makes it a bit more mushy, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing.
The other thing I can sort of recommend is replacing the trigger shoe with another polymer shoe/safety. I am not fan of the weird, pointy trigger that Glock uses. It’s not very comfortable and that strange shape makes it easier for us to pull or push our press to one side, affecting accuracy. I prefer a flat trigger face. It’s more comfortable and it helps coach me toward a straight-back press. Replacing the shoe alone is certainly an option, but it requires that you destroy the stock shoe. I’ve done it a few times and am confident doing so, but it’s a bit tricky and so while it can be learned in relatively short order, a mistake could mean you have to purchase another trigger bar.
So far as replacement trigger groups or trigger bar/shoe combos go, keep this vital fact in mind: an aluminum shoe/safety found on almost all aftermarket triggers will destroy your Glock’s frame in short order. I’ve had an aluminum shoe/safety destroy one of my Glocks in less than 20,000 rounds. That’s just 4 months of use; and the pistol is entirely useless, destroyed by a $150 replacement part.
The rule is this: plastic moves against plastic, metal moves against metal. Glock got this right and their pistols follow this important doctrine, but many aftermarket manufacturers invite you toward disaster with their stupid, negligently made aluminum replacement parts. Do not violate this polymer-for-aluminum prohibition. And for goodness sake, don’t carry a pistol that does!
I can recommend only one manufacturer’s trigger. That is the McNally trigger. Their trigger shoes are flat and made of polymer; just like Glock intended. They are adjustable for reset, but don’t touch that screw. Leave it as it comes from McNally, unless it won’t properly reset when you install it (I’ve never seen this happen).
Do-Not-Do Mods
Because Glock pistols are so modular and so easily modified, there are some popular modifications that make little sense, as well as some that one should never impose on their carry pistols. The most popular and seemingly innocuous of these is the grip plug. Glock pistol frames are made with an opening behind the magazine well. You need that space in the back of the grip in order to get better purchase on a magazine that is stuck firmly in the gun because of a double-feed malfunction. You can’t clear that malfunction until you get the mag out and if you’ve plugged that hole, you’ll be sorely taxed to remove it. And before some of you think, “but you said Glocks don’t malfunction!” remember that while the Glock seldom if ever malfunctions when properly run, a person can easily induce a malfunction if they’re not doing their job properly.
You don’t need a flared magwell. If you think you need one, it means that you don’t train enough and even with that useless gadgetry you will still suck at speed reloads. The base of the Glock’s grip is just fine for performing a speed reload; it’s you that is flawed. Train to become flawlessly automatic with your reloads. I work reloads into every aspect of my training, even training that is 100% about trigger discipline. Reload the same way every time (more on this in the next article, on recommended practice).
I recommend that you do not replace your takedown bar with one of those extended trapezoidal versions. The extended sharp corners will catch on everything. It’ll also likely destroy your holster. Takedown is not something that has to be done under pressure in fractions of a second. Keep your stock takedown bar and learn to use it well.
Some folks like to have an extended slide-stop lever, mostly because they prefer to use it as a slide release. A primary problem with the extended versions is that they are more easily engaged by a proper grip on the frame and prevent the slide from locking back on the last round of a magazine. I recommend against needing an extended lever and recommend 1) never using it as a release, and 2) learning to use the stock lever well if you do want to use it as a release.
As for maintenance, I’ve written extensively elsewhere on this topic, but can say that several parts in your Glock require regular replacement based on round count. Primarily, replace your recoil spring assembly every 5,000 to 8,000 rounds, your trigger spring every 10,000 rounds, and your slide-lock spring every 10,000 rounds. There’s more you need to replace, so learn when and how to do so.
Conclusion
Your Glock pistol is only the “perfect hobby kit” if you know what needs to be modified, and how, and it’s even better and easier if you know how to do these things yourself. I hope you found this article useful in highlighting those modifications that are efficacious and those that are potentially harmful. I also hope you take time to learn how to perform these operations so that you can extend the joy of owning a Glock pistol to more than just training with it.
In the next article, I’ll discuss some necessary skills and advisable training drills for acquiring and improving your manipulation and defensive skills.
Publisher’s Note: In case you missed it, the Mango Emperor is no friend of private guns as no political wing of the Uniparty in the Offal Office has been friendly to private weapons ownership since the RedDR administration. Comrade Trump has done more to harm private weapons ownership than the entire occupation of the Awful Office by the Obamunists. We now discover that America’s largest weapons prohibition organization in the private sector, the NRA, is rife with corruption, outrageous fiscal mishandling and a rather cozy relationship with an organization that contribute to the Bolshevik wing of the Uniparty. And now the NYC Progressive says this at a presser:
“I’d like to think about it. I mean nobody’s talking about silencers very much. I did talk about the bump stock and we had it banned and we’re looking at that. I’m going to seriously look at it. I don’t love the idea of it,”
Like most everything else he does, there seems to be no intellectual nor moral underpinning to any of the garbage that dribbles audibly from his pie-hole. As if the 1934 NFA monstrosity doesn’t do enough damage in what it requires for a private human on the tax plantation in America to get a suppressor…
And then he nominates a mouth-breathing coproach from the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) to be the next commissar of the incompetent and fetid swamp directorate, the BATFE. This organization has always been hostile to all aspects of private weapons ownership.
Like almost all badged Orc leadership in the US, the eradication of private weapons ownership as advocated by their political masters is the final goal. There is a reason why coproaches tend to shoot on sight any human with a gun America no matter the circumstances. The International Association of Chiefs of Police, the Major Cities Chiefs Association, and the National Sheriff’s Association all support weapons control, but, again, the leadership tends to come from large cities which haven’t grasped the connection between strict gun control and higher rates of violent crime.
Here is John’s guest post here at the Green Dragon Tavern…
The second part of Andy’s Glock series will be published on Monday.
You now have 592 days of shopping until the next shambler-in-a-suit stumbles into the Offal Office and the Deep State slips their fist in their ass and meat puppets the march to communism. -BB
“Buy the best. Pay cash. Take delivery.” – Max Blumert
“If you have a 10 dollar head, buy a 10 dollar helmet.” – Bill Buppert.
My buddy Mosby over at Mountain Guerrilla has been writing quite a bit about gear lately and I’ve enjoyed it. It’s something different for a change. I have been following the articles not necessarily to learn about his opinions on gear per se, (largely because I pretty much already know what he is going to say) but more to witness the reactions from the Lumpen-Patriotariat on the blogosphere.
Bitter polemics often ensue amongst folks without real world experience. These folks are no different than WorldNet Daily and Daily KOS readers who are flinging rhetorical Starbucks lattes and Chick Fil-a sandwiches at each other over identity politics and culture/social justice war hysterics without any conception of actual freedom or with any critique of power.
There is a maxim that used to be tossed around the training industry. I first heard it from the late, great, Paul Gomez, but I believe Massad Ayoob is the originator of it. It’s the hierarchy of Mindset, Tactics, Skills, and Gear. In the Threeper milieu (but also in most of the general firearms culture as well) we see this flipped on its head. All people want to talk about is gear. They may talk about skills secondarily, but heaven forbid having to demonstrate those skills on demand. Whereas gear, can just be a show and tell.
Publisher’s Note: Andy was kind enough to start this series on the fighting pistol for ZeroGov. I have owned and carried Glocks since 1991 and I have been sold on them.There is nothing close to the interoperability among models and the ability to downsize cheaper (now) .40 S&W models to 9mm [G23 > G19 and G22 > G17]. Like the AR platform, controls tend to be platform agnostic and the same training curve is available across the Glock spectrum for novice and expert shooters. Like the Toyota Landcruiser, their aesthetics come from the form following function in such a simple and elegant platform.
“Eighteen years and 250,000 rounds later, after immersion in both fresh and salt water dozens of times; being tossed into the sand, dust, snow, mud and grit; being presented from a holster and fired constantly in temperatures ranging from sub-zero to over 100 degrees; and even being left on the bottom of the ocean for six months, my conclusion is that the test Glock 17 is without a doubt a heck of a pistol.”
My time with a 1911 when I was on a Pacific Regional Navy Rifle and Pistol team cured me of any ambition to ever own a 1911. We will not solve that fight here nor do I care to. If you have a reliable 1911 and that is your fighting sidearm, there are legions of blogs and books that will assuage and entertain that confirmation bias.
Skip, our Village Armorer, has also been rocking the Glock nearly as long as me and has built several of the 80% Glock lower builds with terrific results.
Enjoy. -BB
For the past handful of years, I’ve been training with my Glock pistols several days every week, firing up to 40,000 rounds a year through Glock pistols alone. Almost all of that has been with my carry gun, a Gen 4 Glock 19. Today I own several G19s and a couple of other Glock models. These constitute the entirety of my pistol collection; save for a couple of curiosities I’ve picked up over the years. All other pistols I sold because they held no purpose for me.
I did not start out owning and shooting Glocks, but I soon learned and amended the error of my ways. I’m not blind to other popular pistol models, however, as I have also spent the past few years putting a different pistol model through its paces every month in my capacity of writing firearms reviews for my local indoor gun range’s blog. In doing so, I’ve put hundreds and even thousands of rounds each through Walthers, Sig Sauers, Caniks, Tauruses, Kimbers, Rugers, Springfields, Smith & Wessons, CZs, FNs, Colts, Brownings, Sphinxes, Hudsons, H&Ks, Remingtons, and likely others; in most cases, several models from each of these manufacturers.
All of that is to say that I’ve not lived my shooting life in a unidimensional Glock box. I’ve spent copious time with other models, often in extended use and always with careful examination and deliberate or unconscious comparison. With few exceptions, Glock pistols are superior in many discrete, substantive measures and always superior in the overall comparison of substantive measures.
Note, however, that this evaluation is firmly couched in the context of a fighting gun. I do not care about a target gun or a competition gun or a range gun. I evaluate every feature and overall package exclusively in the context of a fighting tool that one carries all day every day in the course of normal, everyday activities in public and private. I have almost no regard for specialized pistols made for something other than the job of assuredly stopping violent people or animals so that I and those I love can escape their violent intent.
My G19 is the pistol I carry in public and private, the one I use in at-least-thrice-weekly training, the one I used in target competition, and the one I use in run-and-gun competition. It is the only pistol to which I entrust my life.
A little objectivity, please.
Now, many intelligent and discriminating folks won’t simply rely on someone’s experience and hard-won insights and take them at face value. I’m a stranger with a stranger’s opinion. Fair enough. Luckily, there are a great many others in the world who extol the virtues of Glock pistols and there are several objective measures that qualify a Glock pistol’s quality and explain its widespread popularity among responsible folks and experienced warriors who get to choose their own tools.
The primary reason that Glocks are the most popular choice among trained individuals whose lives depend on their guns is Glock’s incomparable reliability. There are no pistols on the planet that have taken as much abuse and grime and time between cleaning and lubing and still functioned perfectly as Glock pistols. In fact, they’re deliberately engineered to stay in the fight despite imperfect or even awful conditions.
I’ve seen top-tier instructors who have deliberately not cleaned or lubed their Glocks for many thousands of rounds just to see where the failure point would be. The lowest round count I’ve seen documented was 7000 rounds without cleaning or lube for a Glock 19, by instructor Kyle Defoor. He said that at near 7000 rounds it began to cycle a bit more slowly and get the occasional stovepipe (tried and failed to find that Instagram post from a few years back).
In my own near-170,000 rounds through Glock pistols, I have experienced zero—not one—malfunction in a G19, G17, G30, G30s, or G43 that was not due to a faulty aftermarket component or a part that I should have replaced thousands of rounds beforehand. The full extent of my Glocks’ malfunctions includes four instances:
two occasions of a stovepipe due to 1) an aftermarket recoil spring that quickly broke (only ever use Glock stock components) and 2) where my G19 recoil spring was long past its useful life and should have been replaced 2-3k rounds before,
a new, poorly cerakoted slide that had cerakote in the slide-rail channels, which occasionally prevented the proper loading of the first round of a magazine – until after about 400 rounds had been cycled,
a broken magazine-catch spring that I should have replaced about 10k rounds before.
That’s it. Not a single one of those had to do with a responsibly maintained Glock pistol failing to work—in ~170,000 rounds and none of them were the Glock’s fault.
Publisher’s Note: I have been scarce in writing since I have been on vacation. I have reading some good books that I will be talking about in future posts.
Less than 612 shopping days until the next empty [pant]suit shuffles into the Offal Office. Prioritize your training and your purchases with that in mind.
Remember, a gun cannot be violent, therefore, there is no gun violence.
Tick tock.
One benefit of the new millennium is the communists have become much more bold and confident in their control to advance their deepest held beliefs in the public sphere. The faculty lounges are filled with disenchanted feminists who waddle into the professors’ lounge, park their brooms on the rack and step over to the cauldron with other miserable wretches to conjure new ways to make government supremacism a reality. I can’t making any of this shit up and it is hard to understand that my tax dollars were thieved to subsidize this kind of Marxoid swill.
Hence Comrade Sophie Lewis has articulated out loud what many totalitarians in the last hundred years have daydreamed about: abolishing the family to sunder capitalism. Rosemarie Ho [irony abounds] interviewed her about last month:
“I sat down with her over a cup of tea at The Nation’s offices and talked about why rethinking gestation is central to an emancipatory politics, how we can use surrogacy to subvert oppression, and what kinship beyond possession, beyond capitalism, beyond patriarchy could look like.”
They talk this way, they really do.
If you can read the entire article without an air sickness bag, good luck.
And keep in mind, a publisher edited this and went to the trouble to publish and promote this.
I’m so sick of this pseudo-scientific crap, these social analyses pulled so easily from the ass of the Neo-Marxist. Pretentious fabrications like “heteronormativity.” This is why I pull away from socialism and communism. Marx and Engels have nothing to offer our age.
I stand my my notion that private guns are infinitesimally less damaging than government guns informed by shooters who believe this poisonous alien bile.
If you want some incredible insight into the communist project, Dalrymple’s tour guide of hell on Earth from thirty years ago offers a raw and personal insight that is hard to beat and eminently readable.
On a personal note, my youngest boy rotates back to the states in three months, can’t wait. We have a lot of lost time to make up. He is a world class shooter. His squaddies call him Jason “Fucking” Bourne. Range time!
Skip, the Village Armorer, is up at the Overland Expo showing off his extraordinary Toyota Landcruiser and trailer build. Custom fab and very thoughtful engineering. -BB
I would have never guessed I would be fighting against the mass appeal of communism again in my lifetime [I am in my late fifties]. Mind you, my definitional standard for what makes a communist may be more broad than the accepted constructs by “polite society”. I suggest that every government supremacist no matter their perceived affiliation along the cleverly manipulative falsehoods of the bidirectional nonsense of left and right ends up in the same continuum as the aspiring communist sympathizer. There are individualists and collectivists but nothing in between, all collectivists are naturally interventionists and through their simpleton conceptions of employing violence to form society, they set the conditions for leviathan states that snuff out every aspect of liberty and freedom informed by atomized moral volition.
The alt-right clown posse even flirts with the alt-Marxian visions of the national socialists and the Mussolini-style state corporatists.
By employing political frameworks that put homicidal violence brokers in empty suits in positions of power over vast swaths of humanity, they shape the conditions for the gulag states that modern education and technology enables.
I have said before that if the federal government in the US were forbidden from stealing a single dime from its supplicant populations it would wither and die and further, if it was unable to transfer a single ruble of its stolen booty to the vast government enstupidation factories from K-PhD, communism would die on the vine in the west as a “rational” framework in a generation. The education complex in America is the primary communist software virus hothouse in the US if not the west.
All the privation, starvation, death, caging and destruction of communism is a feature not a bug.
For one to be a champion of communism in 1919: existentially naive and stupid but mildly excusable.
2019: Criminal intellectual negligence and a death fetishism. Communism is a cargo cult.
Politics never delivers freedom because one can’t eradicate cannibals by eating them.
The nationalists tend to have it backwards and they are presently repelling most collectivists but gaining a following as an alternative but they are not a path to freedom.
