Opinion
Ft Collins, CO –-(Ammoland.com)- Our “Unarmed Forces”.
When a Marine Rifleman, of any rank, painstakingly trained in the Art of Combat Marksmanship, starts believing and spouting anti-gun drivel, it is a yet another sign that this Civilization is in serious decline.
Secretary Mattis said last week:
“Most active-duty troops along our border do not carry firearms.
When they were tasked with protecting CBP (Customs/Border Protection), they will probably use shields and batons.”
“Shields and batons?”
Our glorious US Troops “protect” our borders with shields and batons? Once again, what is most disturbing is this conspicuous, and all-consuming, lack of trust in our magnificent troopers.
We have been long-assured, ad nauseam, that these troopers have received, at extravagant expense, the best weapons training in the world. Accordingly, they can competently go armed anywhere, we’re told.
But obviously, from Mattis on down, no one really believes that.
The uncomfortable truth is: They are all afraid of guns. Even our officers and staff NCOs are deployed, placed in harm’s way, unarmed. They don’t even carry pistols.
A disgrace, and an extremely dangerous one.
“When you cannot get a loaded gun in your hands within five seconds of perceiving a deadly threat, you’re submerged in self-deception, and the fact that you have a gun ‘somewhere in your life’ is probably meaningless and irrelevant.
The first five seconds are more important than the next five hours.
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He is referring to the personnel deployed to the southern U.S. border.
If you travel to a lot of these third world toilets, you will find the police are armed and the military is armed and these people will shoot you because they
are not that well trained or that smart. The only thing they know is kill first don’t worry about the questions.
TM’s comment above is I believe correct. Several hundred unarmed civilians rushing across the border certainly looks like a deadly threat to me, and would warrant a judicial use of force, even deadly force to protect our troops who belong where they are against civilian invaders (what else would you call them) who do not belong there. All this said, the real issue is the problem of granting asylum or visas to anyone we don’t want in our country. And why would we want these folks in our country. Whatever problems they have where they come from are not ours… Read more »
This is to TM. I am a veteran. I carried the M 14 many years ago. Your comment is spot on. A standing army in time of peace on US soil is anathema to our founders’ principles. Gen. Mathis is doing the correct thing. We may have a border conflict, but it is not war despite the overuse of this hyperbole. Lets not everyone jump on blah blah phobia as the reason for our warriors being unarmed in this situation.
The political climate of today’s America is a mess. We have brothers against brothers. Our Military leaders are constantly undermining our President. This is primarily due to what people think is the “right” thing to do. We as a country seem to think that the rights of one are more important than the many. Our Congress and Senate have such a distaste, no a hate, for our President that they would cutoff their nose to spite their face. Our country is not necessarily in a spiral downward, but we are certainly spinning out of control. It seems that our leaders… Read more »
Between his love of trannies, to his disobedience to Trump’s order to deescalate Syria, to this bizarre fear of deploying U.S. troops to the U.S. border to actually defend the U.S. border, Matthis is making himself a disgrace.