• JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    So buy a rifle, find a place to practice with it, and practice every day you can afford to. The best thing right now is to start preparing. Is your pantry stocked for at least a month? Is your water supply dependent on electricity? Right now is time to be building community networks, designating roles and leadership, defining goals and abilities, and practicing marksmanship. If you think you’re going to be able to carry on a guerilla insurgency and also lay down suppressive fire, you’ll be hearing your rifle click by the end of the week. Learn to make quick, accurate shots, and leaving the area immediately. Practice pop up shots, limit scope time, learn to scope with both eyes open. I can’t help but assume so many of the pudding heads screaming for Americans to start killing officers have very little or zero firearms experience and absolutely no tactical or combat experience outside of COD

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      21 hours ago

      Gonna be honest, I don’t have what it takes to be on the front lines of any conflict. My body is not made for sustained action. This is medically probably not remediable. The biggest thing I’d be able to do in a firefight where anyone needs me to move around extensively and still be useful is take a bullet meant for someone more capable.

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        20 hours ago

        Taking a bullet as a shield is not your best use. Most of the real work will be behind the line. Organizing food, munitions delivery, just being an available part of the structure will be more useful than any triggerman. And as an able-bodied, hot blooded young-ish man, it is my fucking honor to take your place on the front line if you are willing to do the actual hard work of supporting the fighters. My body for yours brother, and anybody else’s willing to commit to the cause. I am really afraid this shit is going to get bloody before it gets better. I hope that Lemmy’s defederated nature allows us to effectively use it as a method of insurrectionist communication. We’re going to need it.