Category Archives: Quote of the Day

I won’t be wronged, I won’t be insulted, and I won’t be laid a hand on. I don’t do these things to other people and I expect the same from them.  John Wayne – The Shootist Long, long ago, on … Continue reading →

Every government can become genocidal. Your best life-preserver is personal ownership of a military-type semi-automatic rifle. Jay Simkin – Author of “Lethal Laws – Gun Control LEads to Genocide”

The ‘private sector’ of the economy is, in fact, the voluntary sector; and the ‘public sector’ is, in fact, the coercive sector Henry Hazlitt – Author of “Economics in One Lesson”  Unless you’re a socialist, then you think that those … Continue reading →

Og the Neanderpundit has taken quite enough of this, thank you I have had my share of people telling me that “if we adopt the tactics of the enemy we become worse than them”. Bullshit. You do what you have … Continue reading →

Today’s quote comes from this very excellent post at the Gates of Vienna Blog The gates of Auschwitz were not opened with peace talks. Holland was not liberated by peacekeepers and fascism was not defeated with a deft pen. Rick … Continue reading →

Continuing on with yesterday’s theme: There is probably no other country that, like Switzerland, gives the soldier his weapon to keep in the home. The Swiss always has his rifle at hand. It belongs to the furnishings of his home. … Continue reading →

Have no fear! I have found a copy of my cut and pasted QotD files that wasn’t on my old PC’s hard drive! There was no Holocaust on Swiss soil. Swiss Jews served in the militia side by side with … Continue reading →

RNS Reader SailorCurt of the Captain of a Crew of One Blog read Tuesday’s QotD and commented on what it said with his first hand knowledge. I can vouch for that. We have marksmanship quals in the Navy but they … Continue reading →

The last one from Mr. Darryl Davis The military does not teach rifle marksmanship. It teaches equipment familiarity. Despite what the officer corps thinks, learning to shoot a rifle is not like learning to drive a car. Instead, it is … Continue reading →

More from Mr. Davis How are we doing with rifle marksmanship? By Vietnam, wasn’t everything beyond 200 meters abandoned to crew-served weapons? During Vietnam, troops pulled back from the line for R&R were tested to reveal that they could, on … Continue reading →