Comments on: On Exploding Pagers, Gun Rights and the One Ring of Power https://staging.shootingnewsweekly.com/quote-of-the-day/on-exploding-pagers-gun-rights-and-the-one-ring-of-power/ Wed, 25 Sep 2024 22:33:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: uncommon_sense https://staging.shootingnewsweekly.com/quote-of-the-day/on-exploding-pagers-gun-rights-and-the-one-ring-of-power/comment-page-1/#comment-9510 Wed, 25 Sep 2024 22:33:59 +0000 https://www.shootingnewsweekly.com/?p=12964#comment-9510 While firearms provide a level of insulation from bad actors, our ever-increasing use of and dependence on technology make us ever more vulnerable in other ways, as this article suggests. So vulnerable, in fact, that a ruthless evil entity could pretty much bring all of us to our knees without ever having to use firearms, ordnance, armored vehicles, artillery, ships, nor aircraft.

Consider how you might be able to survive for several months without modern technology. That means no electricity, no natural gas nor propane, no municipal water, no sewer, no telephone/cell-phone/Internet, no credit/debit cards, and no access to any money that you think that you have in your bank/retirement accounts. And sooner rather than later, that could even mean no ability to drive a recently manufactured vehicle. Of course if you extend this total technology blackout to several years, it becomes that much harder to survive.

Pro tip: even if you have the ultimate ability to live completely independent of modern technology, how are you going to pay your property taxes in perpetuity and retain unobstructed access to your property if you have no banking available to you and government finally ends use of cash?

]]> By: hawkeye https://staging.shootingnewsweekly.com/quote-of-the-day/on-exploding-pagers-gun-rights-and-the-one-ring-of-power/comment-page-1/#comment-9448 Tue, 24 Sep 2024 17:48:03 +0000 https://www.shootingnewsweekly.com/?p=12964#comment-9448 Yamamoto may not have actually said something about a rifle behind each blade of grass, but that doesn’t make the underlying idea any less true.

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