Soon Civil Rights Will Only be for the Rich

What a rewarding day this must be for “conservatives” who voted for Biden because they wanted to punish Trump. Biden just banned the importation of Russian-made ammunition. Never-Trumpers must be rejoicing as they contemplate what may turn out to be a permanent ammunition shortage, accompanied by prices that make 9mm look like .50 BMG.

Prices were already insanely high before Biden acted. The other day I saw an ad bragging about 9mm selling for about $27 per box. The last time I bought 9mm, I paid $7.35.

Anyway, wonderful work, Trump-haters. At least you have a president who doesn’t hurt your feelings.

Pro-civil-rights news outlets are claiming Russia made about 40% of the ammunition currently offered for sale in the United States. That’s a pretty high percentage to lose. The market can’t absorb that kind of hit during an ammo glut. It certainly won’t be able to do it during a severe shortage.

There are people who like to brag that they don’t buy Russian ammunition. They claim the quality is low and the steel cases hurt their guns, and they say the ban will not affect them. That’s a ridiculous position for a number of reasons.

1. The quality isn’t low. Commercial Russian ammunition is reliable and safe, and the primers are not corrosive. Low-priced Russian ammunition may not be as accurate as top-shelf products from other countries, but generally, this is true of cheap ammo regardless of where it’s made.

2. Contrary to keyboard-warrior scuttlebutt which is peer-reviewed at barbecues by individuals under the influence of Shiner Bock, the steel-cased stuff does not damage firearms.

3. Now that Russian ammo is disappearing, people who used to buy it will start competing with snobs for ammunition made elsewhere. That ammunition, which is already overpriced and in very short supply, should become much more expensive and harder to find. The only people who won’t be affected are the few individuals who are hoarding enough ammunition for a lifetime and who don’t lose their stashes to theft or fire.

4. It doesn’t matter that Russian manufacturers aren’t big factors when it comes to many calibers. A panic caused by a ban applying to any category of ammunition will drive people to stock up on every other type.

Russian ammo kills countless deer and other game animals every year, it’s perfect for people who use a lot of ammo practicing for armed confrontations, and the Russians make deadly, reasonably priced rounds for taking out home invaders. Anyone who thinks Russian ammo is garbage and serves no useful purpose in the hands of a discriminating consumer is living in a fantasy world.

The price of 7.62x39mm has already gone way up, and the ink on the ban is barely dry.

I decided to pick up another box in this caliber, as well as what should be enough .22 LR to get me through a year. I paid about 10 cents per round for the .22 shells. That’s not great, but it beats paying twice as much, the way people were a few weeks back.

Biden’s excuse for the ban is that the Russians are making neurotoxins and infringing human rights. It is believed they poisoned a dissident named Navalny.

When I heard about the ban last night, I got very angry at Biden. I could not help myself. Obviously, this ban has nothing to do with intelligent or principled political tactics. If we cared about human rights, we and the rest of the world would have blockaded China a long time ago. The Chinese have a huge system of political prisons, they have legions of slaves, they harvest organs from dissidents, they occupy Tibet, they persecute Christians, and they’re destroying the Uighurs. Biden isn’t banning Chinese goods.

Biden isn’t concerned about human rights or the manufacture of a little bit of poison. He’s probably trying to show his conspiracy-addled supporters he’s standing up to Trump’s alleged puppetmaster, and he’s pumping up his base by striking an extremely damaging blow to our exercise of our civil right to keep and bear arms.

Our big imports from Russia are oil, precious stones and platinum, iron and steel, fertilizers, and inorganic chemicals. How can ammunition be a priority?

Biden will be happy to let his order expire as early as 12 months from now, provided the Russians do things like promising not to make nerve gas, letting us inspect, and paying restitution to Mr. Navalny. There is no way they will do any of those things. Maybe they would be more malleable had we stopped buying steel and oil, but Biden doesn’t have the guts or integrity to go after those things, and I don’t think he wants to. I think this whole thing is an anti-freedom scam. I believe Biden and his leftists pals wanted a way to make the ammunition shortage worse while appearing to stand up to Putin. I think Biden would be extremely disappointed if Russia caved in.

The news for shooters isn’t all bad. Biden also released a gigantic, multi-billion dollar store of excellent American weapons and ammunition, and he gave it away to anyone who wanted it. Unfortunately, it’s in Afghanistan, and the people who took it are Taliban soldiers. Here they are, wearing our uniforms and carrying our rifles while they make fun of us.

If that photo doesn’t break your heart, you should be deported.

Those things on their heads appear to be night vision systems, which cost US taxpayers as much as a nice used car. Presumably, if the Taliban can figure out how to use them, they will employ them to shoot collaborators and whichever Americans are unfortunate enough to remain in the country too long.

Destroying a rifle or a night vision system is not hard or time-consuming. It can be done in a few seconds. Bend the rifle’s barrel in a vise and throw the monocular at a concrete floor. Done. Our troops and Afghan friendlies could have been ordered to do it before Afghanistan collapsed. Somehow, this was not a priority to Biden, but he had time to plan a cowardly attack on our civil rights.

I was angry about the ban, and I even said some nasty things about Biden, but after I corrected myself, all I felt was a sense that the world was in the process of collapsing.

Back in 2015, I dreamed the rapture had come. I heard a long, low, loud blast from an enormous horn, and I started floating up through the ceiling. I knew everyone on earth could hear the horn. I was not scared, but I felt a heavy sense of how serious the moment was. It was extremely sobering. I felt vicarious dread on behalf of the unprepared world. Last night after reading about Biden’s pandering ban, I felt the same thing.

Of course, there are other signs of the end and the abandonment of reason. This morning I got up and checked to see if any of my Youtube subscriptions had posted anything interesting, and I saw stories of Australia’s coronavirus ban. I had not been paying attention to Australia and its 25 million people, so I was surprised to see how bad things were.

Evidently, many parts of Australia have been under lockdowns since last year. People are losing their minds. Now that more cases are popping up, the house-arrest rules are getting worse.

I learned that Australia is fining people $3000 to $5000 (70-cent Australian dollars) for doing things like leaving their homes and going for drives…alone! That’s astonishing.

Australians are protesting. Guess what the police do? They arrest the people who coordinate the protests. Not for protesting or bothering the police. For encouraging others to protest! Of course, they arrest protestors, too.

I saw a smug leftist celebrity on Youtube the other day, claiming America was not the greatest country on earth. He issued various criticisms, and he said we were not distinguished by freedom. He claimed 187 countries were free.

To leftists, “free” doesn’t mean what it means to the rest of us. It doesn’t mean you have freedom of speech, except when it comes to the vilest types of sexual obscenity. There are “free” countries where you can now be prosecuted for criticizing homosexuality or pagan religions. Canada is one of them. Australia certainly is not free if you can’t leave your house, can’t protest, and can’t even tell others they should protest.

I can’t imagine being locked in my house for months. Last year, there were times when I couldn’t enter certain local businesses, and I have had to wear masks for brief visits to other businesses, but apart from one excursion outside the state, during which I had to pretend to wear masks for long plane trips, I have never had to give up much freedom. I don’t know how I would stand what Australians are going through.

Freedom is not a luxury. It’s very important. I won’t call it a basic human right, because after what I’ve seen, I’m not sure it is, but it’s not something to be given up merely because you might get a respiratory disease. Australians handed their freedom over, and many Americans have done the same thing and want to force others to follow suit.

For centuries, Americans have had a policy of sacrificing lives–ours and those of our enemies–for freedom. We killed about 200,000 Japanese with atomic bombs in defense of freedom. We firebombed German cities in defense of freedom. We sacrificed 400,000 of our own citizens in World War Two in defense of freedom. When did we become more afraid of sickness than tyranny?

For a long time, I’ve been saying Americans didn’t actually care about freedom. I grew up surrounded by people who enjoyed claiming Americans loved freedom so much they could not bear life without it. Maybe that was generally true at one time; I don’t know. It’s not true now. Some of us love freedom, but many are excited about the prospect of increased control by government and unelected technocrats. A huge percentage of Americans seriously think our keepers should be trusted with everything we have, to the point where “liberty” only means freedom to comply.

If westerners who love to spout off about freedom are imprisoning their citizens and treating them like kids who get caught wandering around without hall passes, simply because they might get a disease that kills a tiny percentage of its victims, you have to wonder what other excesses are on the way.

The ammunition ban, which also applies to firearms, is disturbing for more than one reason. It’s terrible to know that our president is willing to nullify the Second Amendment on a lark, using a constitutional loophole. It’s also disturbing to think about all the freedom-lovers out there who may react badly to this decision. I don’t believe in using guns to fix our political problems, but many people do, and this is the wrong time in history to provoke them.

Store shelves may go dry, but Obama and Biden spurred a prolonged frenzy of buying, and there are more firearms, cartridges, and associated products in private hands than ever before. Conservatives are armed to the teeth, many are at least as highly trained as the police and the military, and they have things like night vision and plate carriers. Even leftists have been arming themselves; hypocrisy is a fundamental part of leftism. If Biden manages to toss the right match into this mess, he’s going to set off a firestorm. In his senility and arrogance, he is willing to toss matches, probably because he lacks the ability to understand what he’s doing. Who knows what he’ll do next? Who knows what Harris will do when he steps down? She has even less common sense than he does.

I think leftists are pulling the tiger’s tail. They are simply not able to fight conservatives. They don’t have as much training, ammunition, or armament. They may think they’ll have the government on their side, but the problem with that hope is that the police and the military are full of conservatives who will revolt and side against them. They’ll have to fight us by freezing bank accounts and keeping us off the web and cell networks. Will weapons like that be useful when people are shooting each other in the streets?

I can’t wait for the rapture. I wish it would come today. I have no intention of joining up with right-wing guerrillas when things go sideways, and I could never help the left. I don’t want to get caught in a carnal battle between two factions which are both controlled by demons. The truth is despised, and only a small number of Americans are led by the Holy Spirit, who is the only author of harmony. Regardless of who seems to win an armed conflict, it will be a catastrophe followed by an era of unending hatred and vengefulness.

I’m not sure why I bought AK-47 ammo yesterday. I’m not going to join in an armed resistance. I suppose it was reflexive. I want to be sure I’ll have enough for target shooting, plus a little for home defense, so the ban made me nervous, but I haven’t fired a round of 7.62x39mm for several years. I will probably have almost all of my AK ammo when I leave the earth.

People really need to get to know the Holy Spirit. They need to be ready for the end, because it looks like it’s almost here. I am highly confident that nominal Christians will be left behind when the rapture arrives. We need to fight anger and unforgiveness. We need to be aligned with God in our hearts and minds.

What Biden has done is a clear, deliberate act of oppression and provocation. If a president is crazy enough to do something like this, at the worst possible time, there is no telling what kinds of surprises the future holds for us.