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The Attack The Attack by Kurt Schlichter
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“You cannot reason with people who think it is justified to rape and mutilate and murder and broadcast it on the internet.”
Kurt Schlichter, The Attack
“Intel told us the guy got up at the crack of noon, so we were hoping to take him fast and clean while he was getting ready for another day of being a useless piece of trash.”
Kurt Schlichter, The Attack
“was not. I finally got home, locked myself in my house, and got out a golf club to brain anyone coming in. No one came that time, but I was done being a victim. Once things got under control, I replaced my nine-iron with a nine-millimeter. I have been a prepper ever since. I learned about guns, of course. I learned to shoot, then to make my own ammo, then to gunsmith. I learned survival medicine – I am basically an EMT. I learned about food in an austere environment, and how to get safe water. There is this whole plethora of skills our pioneer ancestors knew, but we forgot. We outsourced them to other people, which is fine – when everything works. When it doesn’t, then you have a problem.”
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“I do not deny that I ignored the law, but what is the law but a tool to make the lawmakers rich and everyone else poor?”
Kurt Schlichter, The Attack
“Americans are a dangerous people when attacked,”
Kurt Schlichter, The Attack
“Some folks thought we were overdoing it, and I get how they might think so. But I worked with risk in my career. It’s not just the chance of a bad thing happening you need to consider. It’s how bad the thing is. It’s basically one times the other. A big risk of something small requires the same level of protection as a small risk of a big thing.”
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“I was hunting terrorists, and there was no bag limit.”
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“is that a business’s proximity to government is inversely related to its efficiency in a theoretical free market, thereby requiring ever closer proximity to the government. What it really means is that the closer you are connected to the government, the worse your business will be as a pure business and the more you will have to glom on to the government to keep making money.”
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“Yet the FBI was oriented away from these threats and onto “white supremacists” and “domestic extremists” who did things like attend school board meetings.”
Kurt Schlichter, The Attack
“The border was not merely open, but the United States government was effectively assisting the people breaching it.”
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“and the kids. I see them a lot, mostly on weekends. After we divorced, she married a guy who had been a soldier. That’s good though, you know, because if there’s trouble he can be there to protect the kids.”
Kurt Schlichter, The Attack
“Disasters make us who we are. Natural and unnatural.”
Kurt Schlichter, The Attack
“in the military if you are not there fifteen minutes early you are late.”
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“Supply and demand is a thing.”
Kurt Schlichter, The Attack
“in the military if you are not there fifteen minutes early you are late. I”
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“civilian “assault rifles” are not actually assault rifles in that they are not automatic weapons.”
Kurt Schlichter, The Attack
“in reality they often came up against trained American civilians armed with AR-15s and other rifles thanks to your Second Amendment.”
Kurt Schlichter, The Attack