
There are certain advantages to having a senile president, not the least of which is his tendency to unintentionally let the cat out of the bag.
President Joe Biden bumbled through a CNN โtown hallโ event last night, and along with his usual word salads, he appeared to voice support for a nationwide handgun ban.
โIโm the only guy that ever got passed legislation, when I was a senator, to make sure we eliminated assault weapons. The idea you need a weapon that can have the ability to fire 20, 30, 40, 50, 120 shots from that weapon, whether โ whether itโs a .9 millimeter pistol or whether itโs a rifle, is ridiculous,โ he said, adding: โIโm continuing to push to eliminate the sale of those things.โ
Itโs unclear whether by โthose thingsโ the president means rifles and pistols or magazines that hold โ20, 30, 40โฆโ rounds. Bidenโs gun control plan does not express support for a handgun ban, but he does call for a ban on โhigh-capacityโ magazines. Given that state-level โhigh-capacityโ magazine bans outlaw anything that can hold more than 10 rounds, it seems likely that Biden would want the same ban nationally if given the chance.
SEE ALSO: Bidenโs Nominee for ATF Director, David Chipman, Insults Gun Owners
Banning handguns outright would be a far riskier political move. Support for gun control in general has waned in the past year, and opposition to a handgun ban has grown steadily since the 1950โs. Last year, a full 74 percent of Americans opposed such a ban, while only 25 percent supported it, according to Gallup. Thatโs the second-highest opposition ever recorded since Gallup started asking the question in 1959.
Suggesting a handgun ban wasnโt the presidentโs only questionable gun-related comment. At the beginning of his comments on firearms, he made a distinction between โcrimeโ and โgun violenceโ to argue that guns are to blame for the spike in murders over the last year.
โAs you know, because youโre so involved, actually crime is down, gun violence and murder rates are up. Guns,โ he said.
He also appeared to claim sole responsibility for the 1994 โassault weaponsโ ban.
โIโm the only guy that ever got passed legislation, when I was a senator, to make sure we eliminated assault weapons,โ he said.
In reality, Biden was joined by 47 other senators in voting for the legislation, and three former presidents, including Ronald Reagan, voiced support for the ban to get it through Congress.
SEE ALSO: Fact Checkers Call Out President Biden for โFalseโ Statement on 2A
Biden also reiterated his commitment to going after gun dealers across America and made a vague reference go โghost guns.โ
โIโve gotten ATF out, Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. I have them increase their budget and increase their capacity, along with the Justice Department, to go after the gun shops that are not abiding by the law of doing background checks,โ he said. โWeโre going to do major investigations and shut those guys down and put some of them in jail for what theyโre doing, selling these weapons.โ
Biden also admitted (apparently unintentionally) that criminals almost always acquire their guns illegally.
โThe people who, in fact, are using those weapons are acquiring them illegally. Illegally,โ he said.
If Biden knows criminals acquire guns illegally, itโs unclear why he has spent so much of his career supporting gun control measures that only affect law-abiding citizens.
Not surprisingly, neither the attendees nor the moderator, Don Lemon, thought to ask about this clear contradiction. Even if they did, itโs unlikely Biden would be able to form a coherent response.
Crushing it pic.twitter.com/DI21CUSp7k
โ Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) July 22, 2021
And the deep state and our MSM wants you to believe this senile old f*ck got the most votes of any President in our history.
Itโs a clown world for sure.
Love to get up in morning and see what and how Biden has screwed up last night or today. Thatโs if the people holding the keys let him out of BASEMENT. The man has a gift of GAB and I donโt think he knows where he is half the time.
If Biden is this bad now itโs gonna be interesting half way through his shit show. Can you imagine if reporters actually did their job and pressed Biden on making real answers. The guy is crashing and burning even with press allowing him to ride with his training wheels still on. What this guy is doing with our borders alone should have the country in a roar. They are calling on mandatory vaccination for all of us but donโt say a word about the illegals who are INVADING OUR COUNTRY. Biden and his party have divided our country with race, and political driven decisions that eventually are going to draw cultural lines that wonโt ever be fixed.
Guys, you need to read the comments on Twitter, via the link that Gunsamerica gave us at the end of this article. They are truly priceless and bring back hope that it is more people than just us on this website thinking the same about Biden and his constant babbling about everything and nothing. ๐ My grandfather is 12 years older than Biden and I can guarantee you that he is much smarter than this man, especially when it comes to well-thought and clearly spoken sentences.
Yet, all kidding aside, having a man like him having all the power truly concerns me and I sometimes already make references between him and Romeโs 3rd Emperor Gaius Caligula. Especially when in one of the videos he says about the rights: โThe most important one is the right to vote. Thatโs the single most important one. And your vote counted and counted by someone who honestly counts it.โ Yeah right, and these words come right from the mouth of a man who rigged the last votes so heavily, because otherwise he would have lost! I am sorry, Mr. President, but you are a complete liar and you know that.
Do you mean Iโm 46? No Joe, your the 46th President of the United States. You mean Iโm the President? Well Joe, not really.
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It was Nancy and not Ronny who backed the assault weapons ban, remember he had Alzheimerโs and the White House kept it quite while he was in office and then the information was released after his death. So this babbling perv will have his backup taking over before his second year in office. Well it may make for some interesting news to see him start sniffing children and women again but I donโt think his handlers will let it go that far.
Babbling, bungling, stumbling, mumbling, fumbling, and now crumbling. A virtual disasterโฆ
Biden, your shooting blanks. you will never get our guns. were not stupid like Venezuela or cuba or any other country who gave up there guns without a fight. I wonder how many guruses wants to come and collect our guns without being shot. uummm. I would not want that job.
I read a lot of comments just like this but most of these valiant keyboard warriors would give up their firearms with little resistance. As soon as the g-men show up on the porch, most of these battle-softened gravy seals will give up every firearm they ever owned.
This is not meant as a personal attack against this commenter moon. Maybe moon will be different and really will give react to these collections or buybacks with violence. But statistics are not in favor of such an outcome.
You know nothing of which you speak.
If you waited until they were coming door to door to fight against private gun confiscation then it is too late. One would need to be involved in other tactics to prevent firearm confiscations.
I am hoping the State governments would be fighting with the people against this. The only time firearm confiscations have been successful is when the State authorities have done it on their own or cooperated with the Federal authorities like in California.
Blue Dog- I agree. Though I donโt want to see guns banned, having worked for Federal Intel organizations over 24 years, I can assure you the Fed has more games than Mattel to make your existence sub optimal. If you donโt agree, talk to our Northern neighbors (Canada) as my friends there who trained American agents after 9-11 have been crushed by an unrelenting antigun push. The best way to fight anti-gun movements is the legal way, which is why the NRA exists.
On this one BD has a point, the LE person at the door is NOT the enemy and nothing will be accomplished by making a last stand. The fight will be won or lost in the courts and ballot boxes. You can go under ground with you โcontrabandโ but the 2A will have been lost. The enem that is acknowleged in our Oath of Alligence will NOT be knocking on our doors, they will be pulling the strings behing the scenes.
He doesnโt even sound like heโs shooting blanks. He sounds like a dud primer, like when you pull the trigger and you get nothing. His mouth is moving and sounds are coming out but he make no sense whatsoever.
I used to think it was comical listening to his blunders but now Iโm actually in fear. In fear because this clown is president of the US. He has no clue on how to handle his own mouth and thoughts when speaking, so how does he think he can handle any issues facing our country? Simpleโฆ.he cannot!
It is true that most โgunโ crimes are executed because of illegal arms possession. So, targeting law abiding gun owners will do absolutely nothing to reduce โgun crimesโ. There are much bigger issues currently at hand, such as our economy and borders, the issues that the Dumbocratโs themselves created. And, are now creating a gun issue. If Trump was still in office, I know we would not be in this terrible shape that we are currently in. Biden, go home, if you can remember where you live.
When all politicians give up armed private & government security Iโll lock up my firearms. Until then Iโll keep them handy just like in 1776.
The senile president lost the election last year and ran away to Florida to hide from prosecutors and because his diapers are cheaper there.
Babbling, bungling, stumbling, mumbling, fumbling fool. Trump runs circles around any challenger, any day, on any subject. You foolish idiot liberals are all alike. Just come and get them. They will be served up with hot lead, brass and maybe a bit of teflon. Quite tasty for liberal gun grabbers, Forest!
Please come try. I look forward to dying killing democrats.
as long as the banks own weapons and ammo companys nothing will change.
โCome on manโ isnโt that what he always says. If you get the guy that stacks of palettes and he gets pallets from all of his guys they can stack them to the moon and then there will be guns on the moon. And then no aliens will be safe
So above someone mentioned them trying to take away our โฆum toys. Did you know that in 2013, read below
In January 2013, as the nation still mourned the Sandy Hook massacre, ๐๐๐ฐ ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ค ๐๐ญ๐๐ญ๐ ๐๐ง๐๐๐ญ๐๐ ๐จ๐ง๐ ๐จ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ง๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐งโ๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ข๐๐ญ๐๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ ๐ฎ๐ง ๐๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ซ๐จ๐ฅ ๐ฅ๐๐ฐ๐ฌ
https://hudsonvalleyone.com/2016/07/07/massive-noncompliance-with-safe-act/
Hereโs the gist. Just so you know itโs a Felony for noncompliance.
โThe NY SAFE Act defines assault weapons as any rifle, pistol or shotgun that uses a detachable magazine and has one of a laundry list of โmilitary features,โ including flash suppressors, folding stocks, bayonet lugs and heat shields. The law banned new sales of assault weapons in the state and required current owners to register the firearms with state policeโ
After an almost 6 yr battle and FOI request, the data was released.
โ
โThat data shows massive noncompliance with the assault weapon registration requirement. Based on an estimate from the National Shooting Sports Federation, ๐๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐๐ข๐ซ๐๐๐ซ๐ฆ๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง ๐๐๐ฐ ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ค ๐๐ญ๐๐ญ๐ ๐ฆ๐๐๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฅ๐๐ฐโ๐ฌ ๐๐ฌ๐ฌ๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ญ-๐ฐ๐๐๐ฉ๐จ๐ง ๐๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐๐ซ๐ข๐,
๐๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ฃ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐๐,๐๐๐ ๐ก๐๐ฏ๐ ๐๐๐๐ง ๐ซ๐๐ ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ซ๐๐. ๐๐ก๐๐ญโ๐ฌ ๐ ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ข๐๐ง๐๐ ๐ซ๐๐ญ๐ ๐จ๐ ๐๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ ๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐๐๐ง๐ญ. ๐๐๐ฉ๐๐ง๐ง๐ ๐ฌ๐๐ข๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ก๐ข๐ ๐ก ๐ซ๐๐ญ๐ ๐จ๐ ๐ง๐จ๐ง๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ข๐๐ง๐๐ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฅ๐๐ฐ ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ ๐จ๐ง๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐๐ ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐๐ซ๐ฉ๐ซ๐๐ญ๐๐ ๐๐ฌ ๐ฅ๐๐ซ๐ ๐-๐ฌ๐๐๐ฅ๐ ๐๐ข๐ฏ๐ข๐ฅ ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐จ๐๐๐๐ข๐๐ง๐๐,
(Posters Note. He says Civil Disobedience. I say the people said โMolon Labeโ, Or in French Eff YU.)
given the high level of interest and concern about the law on the part of gun owners.
โItโs not that they arenโt aware of the law,โ said Capanna. โThe lack of registration is a massive act of civil disobedience by gun owners statewide.โ.
I love it. You really think given that resistance people will willingly give them up.
2 things Iโve noticed.
Massive gun and ammo buying,
And huge amounts of PVC pipe being bought with caps of all sizes and lengths. Hmm, I understand itโs waterproof to whatever depth.
โthereโs uncle Joe
heโs moving kind of slow
at the juctionโ
Law abing and the hobgoblin โWHITE Supremistsโ will be the targets but NOT gangs. How many cities in the US have been destroyed by the now vilified White culture and Western values?
Maybe if the diverse populations of the US need to find a common cause we can start by focusing on dangerous arms of the power elite like the CIA, NSAโฆ
I donโt know if you remember the โLUBYSโ Massacre in 1991? Here are the basics.
๐๐ก๐ ๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐ฉ๐๐ญ๐ซ๐๐ญ๐จ๐ซ, ๐๐๐จ๐ซ๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ง๐ง๐๐ซ๐, ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฏ๐ ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐ข๐๐ค๐ฎ๐ฉ ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฎ๐๐ค ๐ญ๐ก๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ ๐ก ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ง๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ง๐๐จ๐ฐ ๐จ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ซ๐๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐๐ง๐ญ. ๐๐ ๐ช๐ฎ๐ข๐๐ค๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ฌ๐ก๐จ๐ญ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ค๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ฉ๐๐จ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐, ๐๐ง๐ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐จ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ซ๐ฌ.. Quick Wiki link t tell you the story. Listen I know no one has time for U TUBE vids. Watch this 5 minute vid. I Beg of you. It will change your life.
The womans name is Dr. Sussana Hupp. She was there that day with her parents celebrating their 47th Wedding anniversary. OK.
๐๐ก๐ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ญ๐๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐๐ฒ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐๐๐จ๐ซ๐ ๐๐จ๐ง๐ ๐ซ๐๐ฌ๐ฌ, (๐๐ง๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐) ๐๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ข๐๐ข๐จ๐๐ฒ ๐๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฌ๐ข๐ณ๐ ๐จ๐ ๐ ๐ฆ๐๐ ๐๐ณ๐ข๐ง๐.
I implore you to watch this. It will become part of any argument u have with nitwits in the future.
https://youtu.be/FgrIsuO5PLc
Steve
Wow! I canโt imagine how terrifying that would be. That poor woman.
Well, anyone who could sit through such an occurrence and NOT be terrified, is probably a batwing crazy as the guy doing the shooting! What struck me was the courage that woman had to stand up against all those rich politicians and tell her story without any fear of recrimination whatsoever. She is to be commended for such bravery, I imagine that, had she still had that weapon in her handbag and her story was as true as it sounded, lives would have been saved that day.
Come on Uncle Joe, you must have forgotten the Second Amendment. Just try and take our guns, youโll be sorry !!! The Second Civil War will wipe you Liberals all out of existence
I concur. Although multiple current events and scenarios plant the seed of civil war, I think that attempted confiscation of weapons from law abiding citizens will be โthe straw that broke the camelโs backโ. Many Americans are ignorant (as in uninformed). They believe everything they see on televised news programs, or what they read in the papers, all of which are controlled by entities that support our disarmament. When it is time to give up their guns, theyโll finally catch on. Defunded police departments, exploding crime rates from unfettered illegal immigration and pandering to ANTIFA/BLM will all contribute to Civil War II in America.
Come on Uncle Joe, you must have forgotten the Second Amendment. Just try and take our guns, youโll be sorry !!!
Has anyone ever thought to look at portfolios of all the legislators in favor of banning firearms and the hot rhetoric against 2A. It is know that Sorosโ and others are heavily invested in firearms, ammuntion and related industries. This is the same as Obama , Joe hollers loud about bans and he already has surpassed Obama as greatest gun salesman in the US. Like they say follow the money.. They have lied to us about everything else why should this be any different. Our โrepresentativesโ have ceased to represent us the citizens and are only representing what will enrich them the most. We can only hope that the oldest ones in the group expire naturally and at a quick paced they are all passed their spoilage date and a few new ones were rotten in the package when elected.
6 months in and hasnโt done a thing. Sounds like the previous 40 years he has served himself. Go eat some ice cream, if you remember where to buy it. Leave my rights alone. Uncle Joe bin laden.
Biden is a senile, clueless, liar. Banning guns or high cap mags just ensures only gangs and criminals will have them which he already knows. Anyone who thinks banning these weapons or mags will help or stop gun violence at all, has shit for brains. Just look at Cali, Chicago, New York. Strictest gun laws and worst crime/murder rates. Duh!
Instead, letโs just ban Faux Joe, the fake president, head of the Biden crime family. No fake president has the right or power to tell anyone to do anything.
Forget talking in word salads. This guy needs to be in prison tossing salads for election fraud.
Joeโs brain capacity isnโt much more than โtwo blastsโโฆ..after that, heโs totally empty for the rest of the night
Whatโs needed is a nationwide Biden ban.
Brain dead Biden hasnโt had a coherent thought in years the only thing on his addled mind is that he is going to be famous and will be remembered in history books but he is to brain dead to think about how he will be depicted .
Tyrants will be tyrants. Traitors will be traitors. Puppets will be puppets.
This guy is a total loser ๐๐คฃ
I started the video in the tweet then walked away from my computer. It went through four loops before I realized it. The man is that incoherent.
Perhaps Biden will get rid of BumpStocks??
THEN, he will get rid of the SAFE act, THEN, the tyrant will cancel National Repricrocity which passed in 2017 thru both the Senate and House with their Gun Friendly majorities.
Oh, wait, we were promised these two goodies in 2016, AND they didnโt happen. We only got an executive order ban on a gun accessory by an NRA endorsed, supposedly 2A friendly president; which sets the precedent for more chipping away of our rights.
You are correct Rusty. Trump was no friend of gun rights. Friendlier than Obama and Biden, but still no real friend.
Itโs worth noting that Trump reversed the Obama scheme to empower SSA bureacrats from reporting those receiving benefits who are assissted by a โrep payee.โ Tens of thousands of retirees or disabled who need a little help getting to the bank would have lost their 2A rights. There is already a safety velve in the system to prevent those who are NOT allowed under current laws from legally obtaining guns. The bump stock became a hot button with Trump backed into a corner. If you think there will ever be a stronger 2A and US first Prez anytime soon then you are more optimistic than me.
I have fire semi-auto, full auto and three round burst but never bump stock auto. Where does that rate of fire land between all the legal cases that have argued and established semi-auto as a โcommonโ feature?
It seems to me that to push for the โbump stockโ is to lend credibility to the NFA and all other GCAโs that have followed. A silly piece of plastic to circumvent an already overly complex array of federal laws that have a questionable case law.
I would challege anyone here to show me where the NRA edorsed a โexecutive order ban on a gun accessory.โ As I recall, the NRA advised Trump to avoid the EO and leave the process up to the DOJ and its BATFE branch. Trump could NOT get Dem cooperation for legislation on the bump stocks since they wanted a cause and NOT a solution.
I wish everyone posting would try to follow up on their statements.
The NRA were just โDisappointedโ on our behalf.
They never came out and expressed outright outrageโฆ. Like they did on the proposed m855 ammo ban under Obama. Btw, that โcall to armsโ got the BATFE to back off, and the proposed bs was rescinded.
My point is, that HAD there been a massive outcry against the TRUMPSTOCK BAN, we could have gotten the BATFE to back outa that one, too. The ban isnโt so much about an overpriced piece of plastic, as it is about the precedent it sets in its inception and execution. THIS is exactly the โSlippery Slopeโ that Wayne has been preaching about, but when the time came to make a stand for millions of us donors, he cowered on his yacht.
The other point, is if we canโt get National Repricrocity, and suppressors removed from NFA, with a majority in both legislative houses and a supposed 2A friendly president, WHEN are they gonna do it?? (The Dems seem to be more likely to commit political suicide for their causes, like โ94 assault weapons ban, ObamaCare, etc., than our side is to put up a stand. We lost some ground in 2018, anyway. What would it have hurt to push thru a bit of 2A friendly legislation, anyway??)
I think the 2A has become a โsingle issueโ where one side has followers for, one side against, and the โforโ politicians do not want to make real change, cause then they might loose base and/or campaign $$&!!
BTW, I gots lot more to do than look at internet blogs all day. Gotta keep the kids clothes and fed, along with feeding the rest of US/World; please excuse my late reply, what time frame is preferable to you for my rebuttals, I shall try to be more accommodating to your schedule!!!!
โThe ban isnโt so much about an overpriced piece of plastic, as it is about the precedent it sets in its inception and execution.โ
I totally understand that point of view. I am NOT sure what else the NRA could have done under the circumstances. They did NOT want the EO and they did NOT want to turn Trump into an enemy. I suppose the 3 or 4 million members had some varied opinions.
โBTW, I gots lot more to do than look at internet blogs all day. Gotta keep the kids clothes and fed, along with feeding the rest of US/World; please excuse my late reply, what time frame is preferable to you for my rebuttals, I shall try to be more accommodating to your schedule!!!!โ
You did just fine by checking at some poiint most do NOT bother.
โฆ people still think that this puppet thinks for himself? Someone is behind him, behind the curtain of this talking headโฆ
Barrack Obama.
BINGO! Folks we have a winner.
Like Nazi Germany so shall America become.
Take away there rights and freedoms .Phase 1
Install fear in the people.Phase 2
Conquering .phase 3
Total control.phase 4
Population control.phase 5
Well, โSargโ, if that is your prediction for the future of this great country, I sure hope you donโt wind up in MY โfoxholeโ when the time comes to โfish or cut baitโ. You have already lost the hope for continued freedom if that is your mindset.
How about this โpredictionโ??
1. FIGHT for your rights and freedoms from day ONE!! Donโt sit on your flabby fart hole and figure that โsomeone else will take care of itโ.
2. โInstallโ fear in the people??? If you mean โinstillโ fear, then you have a CHOICE to either become fearful or FIGHT the fear and stand up for your rights as a citizen of this great country!!
3. Once you gain control of that โfearโ factor, then you will find out that it was merely a reaction to political threats which always have a finite end to them one way or another. If you want those freedoms and are willing to do whatever is needed to keep those freedoms, then you will be a very difficult man to conquer no matter how hard someone else tries to make you bow down. Why do you think we always have heroes emerge from any confrontation in which our young people are called to defend, whether it be foreign OR domestic??
4. The only way ANYONE can take TOTAL control of ANY country is if the citizens give up their freedoms and bow down to the conquering forces wishing to take CONTROL of that group. History has witnessed such occurrences time after time again. But the times in which the citizenry prevailed were those times when they kept their focus on their freedoms and did what had to be done to retain that set of rights given to them by those who had gone before them and had done what needed to be done.
Do you honestly believe that our Independence and our Rights of governance were drawn up by a bunch of bored guys who one evening got together over a few cold beers and decided to combine their thoughts opinions and draw up a few documents of their combined feelings about how they would like to live and have their families and those who are yet to come would live in this country?? If so, then you need to keep your head down low because, when push finally comes to shove, I am quite confident that the real patriots of this great land we call โAmerica, Land of the Free, Home of the Braveโ, will come pouring out of the mountains and prairies, and fields and cities to band together and fight for what we know in our hearts is the only true FREEDOM under which we deserve to live!
And THAT is MY opinion!
Old OutdoorsGuy you are spot on , Iโd be proud to have you in my foxhole to fight the fight with me and any other patriot.