While parallels to the situation in Ukraine are understandable enough to make with this new move to recruit civilians into the defense equation, the biggest similarity (and biggest mistake) is, both nations waited until the wolf was at the door to start the process. [More]
Once again, citizen disarmament is proving destructive to those who presume to hold a monopoly of violence.
A bit closer to home:
After starting out as a nation of riflemen, by the 1840s, much of the northern states saw a flood of Irishmen fleeing from the Potato Famine who had never been allowed to hold a firearm. A large number of those either enlisted or were drafted into the Union Army.
This is one reason why 30 thousand Federals could and did engage 20 thousand Confederates…
And lose.
It doesn’t matter if you’re an Irish immigrant in the Union Army, a New York City desk cop, a Ukrainian farmer, or a Taiwanese fisherman, if you can’t hit the broad side of a barn, from the inside, you’re just making noise and wasting ammo.
Hits count.
Exercise the right your forefathers died to buy you. Learn how to actually use that rifle stuffed in your gun safe.
“Project Appleseed can help transform you from a person with a rifle into a principled and skilled Rifleman.”
Get thee to an Appleseed!
https://appleseedinfo.org/
It’s always worth remembering that the #1 reason the NRA was founded was to provide the civilian training to would ensure we were never again embarrassed by the level of so-called marksmanship exhibited by the raw Union troops in the Civil War.