Clint Smith is the director of Thunder Ranch, a training facility in the United States catering to military, contractors, law enforcement and armed citizens that want to take their firearms training to a high level. Amateurs need not apply - this place is for serious shooters. Mr. Smith, like many hardened veterans (he served two tours in Vietnam with the US Marine Corps and is considered one of the masters of the shooting arts), has a lot of knowledge to pass on to his students and, best of all, plenty of good one liners. As in, he says, ... "There are some people that need to be shot."
The message president Barack Obama gave in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech in Oslo, Norway this week is a reflection of Clint Smith's thinking. There are people in this world that need to be dealt with violently. As the leader of the United States and the commander in chief of the US military, I am glad he relayed that message to the world.
In November of 1938 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, otherwise known as 'Mahatma' Gandhi wrote a letter to Adolf Hitler and the Jews of Germany. Gandhi believed in 'Satyagraha', or non-violence, and urged the Jews of Germany to resist Nazi aggression through non-violent means and to stay in Germany. As you can guess his letters spurred a wave of worldwide criticism.
We all know the tragic history of the holocaust. It is one of humanity's lowest moments.
6 million Jewish people were killed in the holocaust. That is equivelant to today's entire populations of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island, Northwest Territories, Yukon and Nunavut combined. Gone from the earth through the actions of a government.
The message president Barack Obama gave in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech in Oslo, Norway this week is a reflection of Clint Smith's thinking. There are people in this world that need to be dealt with violently. As the leader of the United States and the commander in chief of the US military, I am glad he relayed that message to the world.
In November of 1938 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, otherwise known as 'Mahatma' Gandhi wrote a letter to Adolf Hitler and the Jews of Germany. Gandhi believed in 'Satyagraha', or non-violence, and urged the Jews of Germany to resist Nazi aggression through non-violent means and to stay in Germany. As you can guess his letters spurred a wave of worldwide criticism.
We all know the tragic history of the holocaust. It is one of humanity's lowest moments.
6 million Jewish people were killed in the holocaust. That is equivelant to today's entire populations of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island, Northwest Territories, Yukon and Nunavut combined. Gone from the earth through the actions of a government.
As president Obama stated this week, there are times when war is thrust upon a nation, when violence will solve a problem. Violence solved Hitler - satyagraha did not. We can never forget this message. As scary as this may be to those of us living in Canada, safe from harms way and viewing the bad things happening in the world from the safety of our warm homes this cold winter, we can never forget that there are people in the world that would kill us if they were given the chance. They would kill us, our children and our neighbours.
Obama may have flowered up the language and stretched out the point, but in Oslo he was telling it like Clint Smith.
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Maybe the president has been taking courses from Mr. Smith. We'll have to wait and see if any of the following language finds its way into Obama's speeches. Purely for reference reasons I have added other Clint Smith jewels:
The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.
Don't forget, incoming fire has the right of way.
Make your attacker advance through a wall of bullets. I may get killed with my own gun, but he's gonna have to beat me to death with it, cause it's going to be empty.
If you're not shootin', you should be loadin'. If you're not loadin, you should be movin', if you're not movin', someone's gonna cut your head off and put it on a stick.
When you reload in low light encounters, don't put your flashlight in your back pocket... If you light yourself up, you'll look like an angel or the tooth fairy...and you're gonna be one of 'em pretty soon.
Shoot what's available, as long as it's available, until something else becomes available.If you carry a gun, people will call you paranoid. That's ridiculous. If I have a gun, what in the hell do I have to be paranoid about.
Don't shoot fast, shoot good.You can say 'stop' or 'alto' or use any other word you think will work but I've found that a large bore muzzle pointed at someone's head is pretty much the universal language.
You have the rest of your life to solve your problems. How long you live depends on how well you do it.
You cannot save the planet.. You may be able to save yourself and your family.
The only purpose of fighting is to Win!
There is no possible victory in defense.
The sword is more important than the shield, and skill is more important than either.
The final weapon is the brain. All else is supplemental.
Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, He'll just kill you.
If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
I carry a gun cause a cop is too heavy.
When seconds count, the cops are just minutes away.
A reporter did a human-interest piece on the Texas Rangers. The reporter recognized the Colt Model 1911 the Ranger was carrying and asked him 'Why do you carry a 45?' The Ranger, Zeno Smith, responded, 'Because they don't make a 46.'
An armed man will kill an unarmed man with monotonous regularity.
The old sheriff was attending an awards dinner when a lady commented on his wearing his sidearm. 'Sheriff, I see you have your pistol. Are you expecting trouble?' 'No ma'am. If I were expecting trouble, I would have brought my rifle.'
Beware the man who only has one gun. He probably knows how to use it!
'The true Soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because He loves what is behind him.' -G. K. Chesterton
A people that values its privileges above its principles will soon lose both.
*****
Maybe the president has been taking courses from Mr. Smith. We'll have to wait and see if any of the following language finds its way into Obama's speeches. Purely for reference reasons I have added other Clint Smith jewels:
The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.
Don't forget, incoming fire has the right of way.
Make your attacker advance through a wall of bullets. I may get killed with my own gun, but he's gonna have to beat me to death with it, cause it's going to be empty.
If you're not shootin', you should be loadin'. If you're not loadin, you should be movin', if you're not movin', someone's gonna cut your head off and put it on a stick.
When you reload in low light encounters, don't put your flashlight in your back pocket... If you light yourself up, you'll look like an angel or the tooth fairy...and you're gonna be one of 'em pretty soon.
Shoot what's available, as long as it's available, until something else becomes available.If you carry a gun, people will call you paranoid. That's ridiculous. If I have a gun, what in the hell do I have to be paranoid about.
Don't shoot fast, shoot good.You can say 'stop' or 'alto' or use any other word you think will work but I've found that a large bore muzzle pointed at someone's head is pretty much the universal language.
You have the rest of your life to solve your problems. How long you live depends on how well you do it.
You cannot save the planet.. You may be able to save yourself and your family.
The only purpose of fighting is to Win!
There is no possible victory in defense.
The sword is more important than the shield, and skill is more important than either.
The final weapon is the brain. All else is supplemental.
Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, He'll just kill you.
If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
I carry a gun cause a cop is too heavy.
When seconds count, the cops are just minutes away.
A reporter did a human-interest piece on the Texas Rangers. The reporter recognized the Colt Model 1911 the Ranger was carrying and asked him 'Why do you carry a 45?' The Ranger, Zeno Smith, responded, 'Because they don't make a 46.'
An armed man will kill an unarmed man with monotonous regularity.
The old sheriff was attending an awards dinner when a lady commented on his wearing his sidearm. 'Sheriff, I see you have your pistol. Are you expecting trouble?' 'No ma'am. If I were expecting trouble, I would have brought my rifle.'
Beware the man who only has one gun. He probably knows how to use it!
'The true Soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because He loves what is behind him.' -G. K. Chesterton
A people that values its privileges above its principles will soon lose both.
1 comments:
Nice post, keep your loved ones close, and your guns closer to protect them.
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