This kind of sums it up. Wish i had said it.

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"The society of late twentieth century America is perhaps the first in human history where most grown men do not routinely bear arms on their persons and boys are not regularly raised from childhood to learn skill in the use of some kind of weapon, either for community or personal defense - club or spear, broadsword or long bow, rifle or Bowie knife. It also happens to be one of the rudest and crudest societies in history, having jubilantly swept most of the etiquette of speech, table, dress, hospitality, fairness, deference to authority and the relations of male and female and child and elder under the fraying and filthy carpet of politically convenient illusions. With little fear of physical reprisal Americans can be as loud, gross, disrespectful, pushy, and negligent as they please. If more people carried rapiers at their belts, or revolvers on their hips, It is a fair bet you would be able to go to a movie and enjoy he dialogue from the screen without having to endure the small talk, family gossip and assorted bodily noises that many theater audiences these days regularly emit. Today, discourtesy is commonplace precisely because there is no price to pay for it."

Samuel Francis
 
Today, discourtesy is commonplace precisely because there is no price to pay for it."
Whether a Bank Teller a Waiter or ess, Store Worker , or whom ever. People do stuff because they got away with it the Last time.
My life is simple....An Insult Unanswered Is The Mother Of Another. I'll Not be talked down to our laid hands on.Period!
 
Bud....please read Jeff Cooper's book.....To Ride, Shoot Straight and Tell The Truth. You will like it.
Have. Unfortunately, I loaned it to someone some years ago. For the life of me, I haven't the faintest idea who it was.
"The society of late twentieth century America is perhaps the first in human history where most grown men do not routinely bear arms on their persons and boys are not regularly raised from childhood to learn skill in the use of some kind of weapon, either for community or personal defense - club or spear, broadsword or long bow, rifle or Bowie knife. It also happens to be one of the rudest and crudest societies in history, having jubilantly swept most of the etiquette of speech, table, dress, hospitality, fairness, deference to authority and the relations of male and female and child and elder under the fraying and filthy carpet of politically convenient illusions. With little fear of physical reprisal Americans can be as loud, gross, disrespectful, pushy, and negligent as they please. If more people carried rapiers at their belts, or revolvers on their hips, It is a fair bet you would be able to go to a movie and enjoy he dialogue from the screen without having to endure the small talk, family gossip and assorted bodily noises that many theater audiences these days regularly emit. Today, discourtesy is commonplace precisely because there is no price to pay for it."

Samuel Francis

Incidentally, Mr. Francis is a graduate of UNC Chapel Hill hahahahahahaha.
The "is" should be "was".
 
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Exactly why I STOPPED. Missing an original copy of Cooper's Principles of Personal Defense.
Whether a Bank Teller a Waiter or ess, Store Worker , or whom ever. People do stuff because they got away with it the Last time.
My life is simple....An Insult Unanswered Is The Mother Of Another. I'll Not be talked down to our laid hands on.Period!
My dealings with Billy have been few. However, if I ever got in a situation again where the shit hits the fan, I hope he'd be standing alongside.
 
Whether a Bank Teller a Waiter or ess, Store Worker , or whom ever. People do stuff because they got away with it the Last time.
My life is simple....An Insult Unanswered Is The Mother Of Another. I'll Not be talked down to our laid hands on.Period!

Same. I treat everyone with exactly the same civility & courtesy they show me. Put yer hands on me & I'm gonna break pieces offa you till you desist.
 
As Robert Heinlein put it, "An armed society is a polite society"

Even with his diversions into oddness Heinlein really did have his head screwed on right about a lot of stuff.

Even his less mainstream taste for polyandry/polygamy actually makes a certain amount of sense if you're primarily interested in building family units that can take a death or two. He even showed how they can go wrong in Friday.
 
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Explain Chicago? :)

Chicago isn't an armed society. Two minority groups have weapons: the gangbangers and the cops. Everyone else is unarmed and stuck in the middle of their spats, criminal activity and posturing.
 
For an abject failure at life, I have moments of clarity and do indeed nail it.
Anyone with clarity of thought is not an abject failure in life.

My flesh and my heart fail; But God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
~ Psalm 73:26
 
Anyone with clarity of thought is not an abject failure in life.

My flesh and my heart fail; But God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
~ Psalm 73:26

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
 
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Even the most casual observation of your posts here puts paid to your stopped clock argument, brother.

Yeah you're probably right. I'm just a miserable bastard this week is all. Thanks for the heads up.

Now if I could find a paid career as a forum commentator if be golden. Alas even my commercialish ideas never seem to actually pay, I just see them in the market a while later. Or before lol
 
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