1. If the enemy is in range, so are you.
2. Incoming fire has the right of way.
3. Don’t look conspicuous: it draws fire.
4. The easy way is always mined.
5. Try to look unimportant, they may be low on ammo.
6. Professionals are predictable, it’s the amateurs that are dangerous.
7. The enemy invariably attacks on one of two occasions:
   1. When you’re ready for them.
   2. When you’re not ready for them.
8. Teamwork is essential; it gives the enemy someone else to shoot at.
9. If you can’t remember, the claymore is pointed at you.
10. If your attack is going well, you have walked into an ambush.
11. Don’t draw fire, it irritates the people around you.
12. The only thing more accurate than incoming enemy fire is incoming friendly fire.
13. When the pin is pulled, Mr. Grenade is not our friend.
14. If it’s stupid but works, it isn’t stupid.
15. When in doubt empty the magazine.
16. Never share a fox hole with anyone braver than you.
17. Anything you do can get you shot. Including doing nothing.
18. Make it too tough for the enemy to get in and you can’t get out.
19. Mines are equal opportunity weapons.
20. A Purple Heart just proves that were you smart enough to think of a plan, stupid enough to try it, and lucky enough to survive.
21. Don’t ever be the first, don’t ever be the last and don’t ever volunteer to do anything.
22. The quartermaster has only two sizes: too large and too small.
23. Five second fuses only last three seconds.
24. It is generally inadvisable to eject directly over the area you just bombed.

A very good Do It Yourself video on home metal casting.

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Hope you enjoy this fun video.

A handy technique for fast and easy skinning of squirrels. Especially useful for SHTF and TEOTWAWKI scenarios. You don’t want to send half the morning skinning the animals you just took, you want to be able to skin and dress them quickly for the meal, cook them and move on.

And when you are ready to cook those tasty critters here are some suggested recipes.

As a gun owner, a Second Amendment advocate, a Limited Government proponent, and an American Citizen I have a question to all the policy wonks and pundits and government officials popping their heads up on talk shows, nightly news broadcasts, and writing columns in the wake of the VT Massacre:

“Why are you folks all so surprised at all of this?”

Honestly. I can not fathom why any of you, especially those in the halls of academia and power, can not see this shooting was inevitable. This stew of hatred and unbridled animosity has been brewing for several decades now and all of the ingredients are direct results of progressive thought and policy.

The elementary schools, grammar schools, high schools, and collegiate institutions for many years now have been fostering, promoting, and rewarding a student and building their self-esteem not based upon the time tested formula of “excellence of achievement” but on the esoteric and hedonistic notion of “best effort”. The mantra of the school teacher and administration is “As long as you try your best we will never fail you.”

Which is very noble in its intent but generates the exact opposite when actually put into action. The students found that any effort, no matter how small or uninspired on their part, was quickly and uncategorically praised and rewarded by instructor and administration. Soon, students had teachers trained not just to reward minimum effort, but to begin praising the unruly students who did not disrupt the classroom “too much”.

American education became a place to practice and perfect hedonism rather than actually engage children in learning.

And during this process of letting little Johnny feel good about his stupefied arrogance educators began expanding the role of instruction. Not satisfied with letting poor Johnny believe that 2 + 2 = “Range Rover”, Social Commentary and Activism replaced Civics and History in the classroom.

Now teachers were allowed to expound upon any silly pet peeve they believed was “important” for the child to digest. And one of the most egregious lies pounded into little Johnny’s head is that “guns are evil.” Our children grow up with such fear and misinformation about firearms and weapons that it is no wonder that no one even thought about rushing the VT killer in an attempt to disarm and subdue him.

Homeroom wardens of wackiness preach that guns are evil and the mere presence of a gun in a room turns an otherwise normal person into a frothing, rabid murderer with an insatiable bloodlust for carnage. Games and television programs further the twisted image of guns when a “bad guy” is shot with a handgun and the force of the blast propels the perp three feet into the air and 10 feet backwards, oftentimes through a closed door.

Nonsense.

“Pogressive” government officials are not without contribution to this witches brew of mayhem. Passing laws that forbid the mere presence of a firearm where large congregations of people are gathered in relatively small areas is NOT a “Gun Free Zone.” It is a killing field.

Passing illegal law after illegal law restricting, criminalizing, and banning weapons and weapon ownership, the government has lead the charge in creating an environment where it is impossible to properly educate young people (or anyone for that matter) about guns and their proper and safe handling. “Progressive” government officials desire only the confiscation of every weapon and the criminalization of every gun owner. They aren’t interested in education, only indoctrination and domination.

And now that the government has set itself up as the sole watchdog of who and who should not own a firearm can it be any wonder that many, many, many people fall through the cracks of their safety net against criminals owning guns. In their zeal to remove guns from criminals they haven’t the foggiest idea what exactly constitutes a criminal. Especially if that criminal hasn’t yet committed a crime. How can a standard form asking YES or NO questions about someones past possibly help determine if that person is a criminal or has “criminal intent”? In the 1940s, 50s, and 60s a person could walk into Sears and Roebuck and purchase a firearm yet there were no campus shootings or massacres.

All of these ingredients are eagerly and enthusiastically promoted and championed by liberals and progressives. Self-centered, spoiled rotten, ignorant young adults are looking out only for their own pleasure and gratification. And when they don’t get it they haven’t been trained to work harder or try again. Progressives and liberals have convinced everyone (that isn’t male and Caucasian) it isn’t their fault they are idiots or failures. It is America’s fault. It is the white man’s fault. It is the system’s fault that you aren’t comfortable.

Hand in hand with the crass hedonism taught in schools and promoted in the secular culture is moral relativism. Anything that makes you feel good IS good and anything that keeps you from feeling good MUST be bad. Kids aren’t prepared for the truth that life is sometimes uncomfortable. They aren’t warned they won’t always get what they want. Children aren’t prepared to have to work HARD for their rewards.

They are told if you don’t get what you want it is ok to lash out in anger. To do violence and harm to those people and institutions perceived to be holding them back. Don’t worry! The progressive will try to “understand” what all the rage is about. The progressive won’t lay blame at the feet of the perpetrator. In the liberal world view blame is pre-assigened to Conservative White Male Christians. THEY are the source of all the woes in the world, globally, regionally, socially, and even personally.

Now we mix all this together. The crass hedonism and moral relativism taught in the school system. A culture programmed to automatically fear handguns and hold in scorn those who legally and safely wield them. An inability (nor even desire) to distinguish Right from Wrong, and a society ready to cringe at the mere mention of the words “personal responsibility”. An entire campus filled with thousands of people completely defenseless, and you WANTED it this way (Virginia Tech spokesman Larry Hincker was happy to hear the bill was defeated. “I’m sure the university community is appreciative of the General Assembly’s actions [defeating House Bill 1572] because this will help parents, students, faculty and visitors feel safe on our campus.”)

All those ingredient add up to Cho Seung-Hui.

So my question again, everything you progressives have done you have done with eagerness, dogged determination, and self satisfaction. Why are you so surprised that this has happened? Isn’t this what you wanted?

1. Banning guns works, which is why New York, DC, & Chicago cops need guns.
2. Washington DC’s low murder rate of 69 per 100,000 is due to strict gun control, and Indianapolis’ high murder rate of 9 per 100,000 is due to the lack of gun control.
3. An intruder will be incapacitated by tear gas or oven spray, but if shot with a .357 Magnum will get angry and kill you.
4. A woman raped and strangled is morally superior to a woman with a smoking gun and a dead rapist at her feet.
5. When confronted by violent criminals, you should “put up no defense — give them what they want, or run” (Handgun Control Inc. Chairman Pete Shields, Guns Don’t Die - People Do, 1981, p.125).
6. The 2nd Amendment, ratified in 1787, refers to the National Guard, which was created 130 years later, in 1917.
7. The National Guard, federally funded, with bases on federal land, using federally-owned weapons, vehicles, buildings and uniforms, punishing trespassers under federal law, is a “state” militia.
8. These phrases: “right of the people peaceably to assemble,” “right of the people to be secure in their homes,” “enumeration’s herein of certain rights shall not be construed to disparage others retained by the people,” and “The powers not delegated herein are reserved to the states respectively, and to the people” all refer to individuals, but “the right of the people to keep and bear arm” refers to the state.
9. “The Constitution is strong and will never change.” But we should ban and seize all guns thereby violating the 2nd, 4th, and 5th Amendments to that Constitution.
10. Private citizens shouldn’t have handguns, because they aren’t “military weapons”, but private citizens shouldn’t have “assault rifles”, because they are military weapons.
11. In spite of waiting periods, background checks, finger printing, government forms, etc., guns today are too readily available, which is responsible for recent school shootings. In the 1940’s, 1950’s and 1960’s, anyone could buy guns at hardware stores, army surplus stores, gas stations, variety stores, Sears mail order, no waiting, no background check, no fingerprints, no government forms and there were no school shootings.
12. Guns are so complex that special training is necessary to use them properly, and so simple to use that they make murder easy.
13. A handgun, with up to 4 controls, is far too complex for the typical adult to learn to use, as opposed to an automobile that only has 20.
14. Ordinary people in the presence of guns turn into slaughtering butchers but revert to normal when the weapon is removed.
15. Guns cause violence, which is why there are so many mass killings at gun shows.
16. A majority of the population supports gun control, just like a majority of the population supported owning slaves.
17. Most people can’t be trusted, so we should have laws against guns, which most people will abide by because they can be trusted.
18. The right of Internet pornographers to exist cannot be questioned because it is constitutionally protected by the Bill of Rights, but the use of handguns for self defense is not really protected by the Bill of Rights.
19. The ACLU is good because it uncompromisingly defends certain parts of the Constitution, and the NRA is bad, because it uncompromisingly defends certain parts of the Constitution.
20. Police operate with backup within groups, which is why they need larger capacity pistol magazines than do “civilians” who must face criminals alone and therefore need less ammunition.
21. We should ban “Saturday Night Specials” and other inexpensive guns because it’s not fair that poor people have access to guns too.
22. Private citizens don’t need a gun for self-protection because the police are there to protect them even though the Supreme Court says the police are not responsible for their protection.
23. Citizens don’t need to carry a gun for personal protection but police chiefs, who are desk-bound administrators who work in a building filled with cops, need a gun.
24. Trigger locks do not interfere with the ability to use a gun for defensive purposes, which is why you see police officers with one on their duty weapon.
25. Handgun Control, Inc. says they want to “keep guns out of the wrong hands.” Guess what? You have the wrong hands.

You can find the original, uncut, at geoffmetcalf.com