Lesson From Israel – If You Get Comfortable With Your Enemy, You’re Dead

[DougC]

"You get comfortable with your enemy, then you are dead. Let me repeat that. You get comfortable with your enemy, then you are dead.

Not carrying a firearm to defend yourself and defend your family in a time of uncertainty, in a time of specific threat like like we’re living in, is the ultimate expression that you are comfortable with your enemy. You are so comfortable with your enemy you don’t feel a need to have some type of defense should your enemy decide that today is the day and you’re it."

 

[Nicholst55]

Agreed. I like the quote attributed to Shaka, the Zulu king: Never leave a live enemy behind you.

 

[Steve In Texas]

"You get comfortable with your enemy, then you are dead. Let me repeat that. You get comfortable with your enemy, then you are dead.

Not carrying a firearm to defend yourself and defend your family in a time of uncertainty, in a time of specific threat like like we’re living in, is the ultimate expression that you are comfortable with your enemy. You are so comfortable with your enemy you don’t feel a need to have some type of defense should your enemy decide that today is the day and you’re it."

Do you have a source for this great quote Doug? It is valid moreso today than at many times.

Complacency kills.

 

[leVieux]

"You get comfortable with your enemy, then you are dead. Let me repeat that. You get comfortable with your enemy, then you are dead.

Not carrying a firearm to defend yourself and defend your family in a time of uncertainty, in a time of specific threat like like we’re living in, is the ultimate expression that you are comfortable with your enemy. You are so comfortable with your enemy you don’t feel a need to have some type of defense should your enemy decide that today is the day and you’re it."

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My point was/is this: Some 30 or 35 years back most Israeli Citizens were well-armed at all times.

Recall all the photos of cafes & parties when they all had Uzi’s in slings all day ? Tavors sitting around their homes ?

Well, someone made a decision to disarm them, despite their being surrounded by bloodthirsty savages intent on murdering them.

WHO, WHY, and What the Hell ?

Insanity !

That ‘’someone’’ needs to be identified and pilloried for doing that!

leVieux

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[baboon]

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My point was/is this: Some 30 or 35 years back most Israeli Citizens were well-armed at all times.

Recall all the photos of cafes & parties when they all had Uzi’s in slings all day ? Tavors sitting around their homes ?

Well, someone made a decision to disarm them, despite their being surrounded by bloodthirsty savages intent on murdering them.

WHO, WHY, and What the Hell ?

Insanity !

That ‘’someone’’ needs to be identified and pilloried for doing that!

leVieux

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I have noticed they are carrying an awful lot of M-4 & M-16 from Uncle Sugar.

 

[DougC]

Do you have a source for this great quote Doug? It is valid moreso today than at many times.

Complacency kills.

Click on blue highlighted text in first sentence to read entire article that I extracted portion.

 

[popper]

US doesn't support UN condemning attack on Israel.

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/un-security-council-resolution-gaza-hamas/2023/10/18/id/1138752/

 

[DougC]

"You get comfortable with your enemy, then you are dead. Let me repeat that. You get comfortable with your enemy, then you are dead.

Not carrying a firearm to defend yourself and defend your family in a time of uncertainty, in a time of specific threat like like we’re living in, is the ultimate expression that you are comfortable with your enemy. You are so comfortable with your enemy you don’t feel a need to have some type of defense should your enemy decide that today is the day and you’re it."

Here is a YouTube podcast from Active Self Protection channel discussing the past and revised Israeli gun laws.





And for more on this topic from the AmmoLand blog;

The horrific terrorist attack on unarmed Israelis near the border of Gaza shows how useful and effective militias can be against lightly armed and armored raiding forces.

The primary advantage of a militia is it is always there. It is reasonably ready to respond quickly. A militia can slow down an attack and defend against a threat until a larger force can relieve it. Police are not equipped or manned to deal with organized raids. There is roughly one police officer per several hundred citizens.

 

[PhulesAu]

Also, "Gun Free zones don't work".

 

[BigRed]

"You get comfortable with your enemy, then you are dead. Let me repeat that. You get comfortable with your enemy, then you are dead.

Not carrying a firearm to defend yourself and defend your family in a time of uncertainty, in a time of specific threat like like we’re living in, is the ultimate expression that you are comfortable with your enemy. You are so comfortable with your enemy you don’t feel a need to have some type of defense should your enemy decide that today is the day and you’re it."

Reminds me too of Aesop's fable "The Farmer and the Viper".

 

[leVieux]

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So, Doug, they haven’t yet learned the lesson ?

leVieux

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