Ralph Peters Does Gun Control: Hey Ralph, I Always Thought You Were A Crackpot And Liar
BY Herschel Smith
6 years, 8 months ago
NYP:
What enables this dictatorship of the caliber-iat? A spineless Congress that puts re-election ahead of children’s lives, safe schools and the right to safety of law-abiding citizens.
The irony is that, if only members of Congress banded together against the NRA, they’d quickly find that the emperor-for-life has not only no hunting clothes but an empty magazine, too.
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The NRA’s dire warnings fuel a bizarre, all-too-common fantasy among its acolytes (I’ve been startled by how often I’ve encountered it). The scenario runs that either our government and military will turn on the population in a new civil war, or the government and military will suffer catastrophic failure — at which point our freedom will be preserved by out-of-shape, middle-aged men with AR-15s.
My fellow Americans, if our military can’t protect us, geezers with guns won’t.
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Also in the name of liberty, NRA supporters circulate carefully selected quotes from several Founding Fathers — Jefferson, Madison, Patrick Henry — in support of the notion of a well-armed population.
None of those cited served in the Continental Army that freed us from Britain. Each of them let others do the fighting for them.
Jefferson famously remarked that “the tree of freedom must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots.” He just didn’t want it to be his blood.
And each of those men was a slave owner. I’d take their rhetorical bravado with a very large grain of saltpeter.
Hey Ralph, I don’t cite Jefferson, Madison or Henry to justify my views of liberty, an armed public or the right to either defense of family or the amelioration of tyranny. I go right to the fountain of such rights. The constitution is just a covenant by which we’ve agreed to live together. If you want to break it, thanks for letting me know. I’ll make a mental note of it right alongside your name.
As for whether these men did or didn’t fight in that “continental army that freed us from Britain,” Francis Marion says hello.
Regarding those “middle-aged geezers with AR-15s,” I don’t really think you understand 4GW. In fact, I know you don’t. The U.S. Army is practicing 5GW because they never learned to win at 4GW. But in order to know that you’d have to be a military analyst, and you suck as a military analyst.
I always thought you were a crackpot. Now we have the proof. What are you doing – trying to beef up your creds for a gig at MSNBC or CNN? You never really believed in your oath of enlistment, did you? You knew all along it was a lie, didn’t you?
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On March 21, 2018 at 10:58 pm, MTHead said:
So, if the covenant is, you leave my rights alone. i’ll do the same for yours.
If you decide you can infringe my right to defend myself. You must be O.K with me infringing your right to breathe? Just thinkin.
On March 21, 2018 at 11:00 pm, Pat Hines said:
With regard to Peters claim of credential, I say this. I am a retired Army officer, plus a former enlisted soldier, and give him no space for his spew.
On March 21, 2018 at 11:11 pm, Georgiaboy61 said:
Ralph Peters is what George F. Will would have turned out to be if he’d joined the army, become an officer and made the military his career.
Colonel Peters is being disingenuous if not hypocritical when he slams the Founders, re: “None of those cited served in the Continental Army that freed us from Britain. Each of them let others do the fighting for them.”
Old Ralph neglects to mention that he spent his entire career as an army intelligence officer – a headquarters type who seldom if ever put his miserable hide in the line of fire. In other words, like the perfumed prince that he is – he let better and braver men do his fighting for him.
What a worthless weasel – not to mention a five-star Alpha Hotel.
On March 22, 2018 at 6:15 am, ragman said:
In my field(aviation) Ralphie is a flaming afterburning A H. He is an REMF warmonger that has no credibility in the real world. I really could care less what he “feels” and yes, I’m also a geezer with an AR15.
On March 22, 2018 at 7:28 am, bob sykes said:
Peters is a favorite on Fox, where he generally spews warmongering nonsense. Fox has a whole stable of warmongers, including Bolton and Keane.
On March 22, 2018 at 7:38 am, June J said:
I don’t think Peters understands what he’s advocating by pointing out the NRA membership numbers versus total population percentage. If the small percentage of homosexuals in the country have permission to force their values on the other 98% of the country then that’s the way it works right?
Peters and all the other former military officers who advocate against the 2nd Amendment are domestic threats to freedom and liberty. I don’t care what media outlet they spew from.
On March 22, 2018 at 7:41 am, June J said:
And Peters has quit Fox News calling it a “propaganda machine for Trump.” Pretty sure he’s come completely out of the progressive socialist closet.
On March 22, 2018 at 7:51 am, Fred said:
Everything thing he said is carefully crafted. It’s almost all entirely wrong. It’s propaganda, probably see eye a.
On March 22, 2018 at 8:33 am, Fred said:
“During my career I was “voluntold” to write ground-up Intelligence reporting to higher headquarters. These tasks, though uninspiring at first, would eventually teach me many ways to deliver “secure” messages via plain text or open source communications formats, as well as teach me the way Intelligence personnel conduct predictive analysis in order to synchronize Infantry operations to anticipate enemy actions and get personnel “left of bang”.”
https://survivalblog.com/cipher-security-part-1-east-sierra-sage/
Do you understand?
Ps. this applies to bookface and tube you and gaagle and fox news and all the other leftist intelligence collection platforms. You are the target!
On March 22, 2018 at 11:26 am, jean said:
He sure got a lot mileage off of that mediocre book.
On March 22, 2018 at 12:37 pm, Herschel Smith said:
@jean,
Which mediocre book? He’s written so many.
On March 22, 2018 at 8:40 pm, moe mensale said:
Peters made his bones on Fox. Now it’s time to cash in on it. CNN will love him.
On March 23, 2018 at 2:34 am, Ned said:
Another oath-breaking asshole.
On March 23, 2018 at 1:43 pm, Craig said:
Does Peters think that just because Jefferson, Madison, and Patrick Henry weren’t in combat daily they weren’t at risk? They were the very FACE of the revolution, men King George no doubt despised and would have loved dead! Peters is apparently just another petty tyrant.
On March 23, 2018 at 1:45 pm, Herschel Smith said:
@Craig,
I know. That’s the hell of this thing. I cannot bring up everything at once. I have readers for two minutes tops.
But if you’ve ever watched the HBO series John Adams you get a real sense that these men – ALL OF THEM … risked life, property, wealth, reputation and family.
Had we lost, they all would have been hanged as traitors.
Ralph is a pig.
On March 23, 2018 at 2:02 pm, jean said:
the first one was poor, the rest were worse. This may be an inside joke, but I bet his weather forecasts were mostly wrong.
On March 24, 2018 at 5:18 pm, Gryphon said:
Just One More libtard who is Intellectually Incapable of understanding the nature of the “Problem” their desires will Create. They can’t seem to think of Anything but how an Individual or small Group can be readily Defeated by a Larger, more Heavily-Armed Force…. but when You tell them “That’s not what the LWO or Small Group DOES in 4-G War. It’s Not their Function to Engage a numerically superior Force, (Except in an Ambush) but it all seems to go right over their Heads….
Maybe God will take Pity on them for their Ignorance, but I Sure Won’t.
On March 27, 2018 at 1:47 pm, Doug said:
As an old unfit geezer with an AR15 I don’t have to run around with it – have an ‘O3 Springfield as well and still have the pointy thing that attaches to the front end!