I’d have substituted “cop” for “government” – we know the government would do it if it could – but otherwise, a fair point.
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They say that Louis XIV had the inscription Ultima Ratio Regum cast into all the cannon of the French Army. It means “The Ultimate Argument of Kings,” and that always struck me as one of the most honest and up-front things any ruler or would-be ruler ever said. “We can dress it up prettier than this, but when it comes down to the unvarnished truth this is what it’s about: You’ll do as I say or I’ll send my goons to kill you.”
I thought about that for a long time. If there’s an ultimate argument, it seems only logical that there must be an ultimate answer. For years I thought the ultimate answer must be the bullets in my rifle, but it never seemed quite right. I’ve got bullets – he’s got frigging Cannon Balls. I mean, if there were three hundred million rifles throwing bullets at him, then maybe. But we all know that’s not going to happen. So if there’s an ultimate answer to his ultimate argument, it sure as hell ain’t bullets.
It finally came to me – and that’s when I abandoned the city and most of my stuff, and gave all that was behind me a good stiff Randian Shrug.
The ultimate answer to kings is not a bullet, but a belly laugh.
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I believe you had it right.
The “government” might make the decision to do it, but they’ll defer the messy job to the cops who will be “just following orders”.
That’s why I practice my draw and shoot a couple hundred times weekly even when driving the tractor here on the farm . They may get me but I ain’t going alone.
We have seen this time and time again this past month. Governments can’t control themselves, they love power. The police will do what they are told right wrong or in different.
Ayep…
“Government” may order it but it’s cops who will do it. I suspect a fair number of them understand the concept of “voting from the rooftops” and those who don’t will be offered an opportunity to learn about it.
The sad thing is I know some of those guys and they’re totally half-assing that. So my question is if the deputies and the department generally are doing as little as possible as they can to enforce it, why are they even bothering to be out there? The whole beach shut down is simply to keep people from LA County from overwhelming the beaches in other counties. I don’t think the department brass realizes that by having cops out there doing stupid stuff like that it’s seriously degrades public trust in them. I mean heck I was a cop and now I regard law-enforcement with a suspicious angry ire.
Yea, I have to laugh at all of these fools that think LEO’s are gonna fall in line protect their 2nd Amendment rights when they eventually implement gun control or confiscation.
Agreed. Regrettable but true.