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	Name:	MAJ USA RET -
	Subject:	The Answer
	Date:	12/4/2009 10:14:47 AM

I remember that training in the late 60s and early 70s (PV2 to PFC then). I also remember thinking how stupid and irrelevant it was. The absolute cardinal rule became “No loaded weapons!” A bullet cannot be un-fired. In crowd control, the rifle is used more like a staff. I had trouble imagining who and how we would arrayed against our fellow citizens. Apparently so did TRADOC. The training ceased.

Please recall that the troops at Kent State felt threatened by the students’ mob mentality and, in those days soldiers were derided... not respected. The first shot was accidental and the volley that followed was instinctive… because of LACK of training… and because they had LOADED weapons.

The purpose of the 2nd Amendment (Article the fourth), is to repel invasion… and tyranny. As you may have noticed lately, our ship has sprung leaks. Our current government neither recognizes the leaks nor that the ship is imperiled. Indeed, our government is making matters worse. The enemy is among us: drug cartels, sleeper cells, terrorists… and our government is absurdly making nice with the enemies foreign and domestic.

This corruption and corrosion may exist in the Capitol and on the left coast, but I don’t believe it exists in the heartlands. That the heartlanders are overtly wrapped in the 1st and 2nd Amendments, should give pause to the enemies… foreign and domestic… and rightly so!