{"id":5644,"date":"2015-06-03T19:00:55","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T00:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=5644"},"modified":"2015-06-03T19:00:55","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T00:00:55","slug":"where-have-all-the-rifleman-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2015\/06\/03\/where-have-all-the-rifleman-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Where have all the Rifleman Gone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/05\/colonial.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5652\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/05\/colonial.jpg\" alt=\"colonial\" width=\"276\" height=\"182\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\"><em><strong>\u201cMake good scouts of yourselves. Become good rifle shots so that, when it becomes necessary that you defend your families and your country, you can actually do it!\u201d-\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><strong>Baden-Powell, founder of Boy Scouts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Men trained in arms from their infancy, and animated by the love of liberty, will afford neither a cheap or easy conquest. &#8211;<\/strong><\/em><strong>\u00a0Declaration of the Continental Congress, July 1775.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\"><em><strong>The Russian invasion of Finland in 1939 (\u201cThe Winter War\u201d) gruesomely demonstrates the way a <\/strong><strong>small force of righteous and determined men,<\/strong><strong> armed only with rifles, can embarrassingly frustrate a much larger, even mechanized, force.\u00a0Precise rifle fire from well-trained Operators, using guanine battle rifles, is still the deadliest force in warfare, even today! &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><strong>John Farnam<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">The <strong>DUTY<\/strong> of the responsible armed civilian since this country&#8217;s inception was to be a <strong>RIFLEMAN<\/strong> first, above all else. If you ask me, we have become a Nation way too obsessed with handguns. Let&#8217;s get back to our roots and put the priority back to becoming\u00a0<strong>RIFLEMAN<\/strong>\u00a0first; and a Handgunner second. Both are a highly perishable art form, so we need to do two things consistently: First,\u00a0<strong>PRACTICE!<\/strong> Like Brad Pitt&#8217;s character <em>Aldo the Apache<\/em> said in Inglorious Bastards: &#8220;You know how you get to Carnegie Hall don&#8217;t ya?? \u00a0Practice.&#8221; and Secondly, Support organizations that are ensuring this Rifleman legacy continues on to the next generation&#8230;Encourage people to\u00a0Invest in America&#8217;s Rifle Legacy, and it&#8217;s Survival: Support and Get Involved with the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deathfromafar.com\/info\/AppleseedSwatArticle.pdf\">Appleseed Project<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>and the<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/thecmp.org\/\">NRA CMP<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Stay Alert, Stay Armed and Stay Dangerous!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMake good scouts of yourselves. Become good rifle shots so that, when it becomes necessary that you defend your families and your country, you can actually do it!\u201d-\u00a0Baden-Powell, founder of Boy Scouts Men trained in arms from their infancy, and animated by the love of liberty, will afford neither a cheap or easy conquest. &#8211;\u00a0Declaration&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1405,1247,1286,10,404],"tags":[1472,1473,1474,1475,78,1476],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5644"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67970,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5644\/revisions\/67970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}