“The price of freedom is the willingness to do sudden battle anywhere, any time and with utter recklessness.” ― Robert A. Heinlein

Independence Day and Patriots Day are pretty much the only two holidays I take seriously. And, in my opinion, both (esp Patriots Day) are best observed by exercising your right (and duty) to spend time with your favorite freedomstick and work on your skills. Its also a good time to ruminate on the liberties that we (in theory) have that separate us from those cucks in the UK and Commonwealth who get jail time for ‘disruptive’ Facebook posts or saying the quiet parts out loud.

The difference, to me, between the two holidays is that Patriots Day is about remembering the grim reality that sometimes the only solution to a problem comes from blood being spilled and unpleasant choices being made, whereas Independence Day celebrates the success that came from it. Kinda like the difference between Veterans Day and VJ/VE Day.

While you can defend your interests with dad’s .30 carbine or grrandma’s .32 Iver Johnson (which still puts you miles ahead of those metric-using cucks). why would you if you didn’t  have to? And you don’t have to. Don’t think for a minute that if AR-15s and Glock pistols were available 250 years ago that the guys in the field wouldn’t have been all over them like fat kids on ice cream. Most of the world can’t have access to these marvels of modernity..you do. If you don’t have a good semi-auto rifle and a quality pistol (or five), then get out there, show some respect to history, and buy them. The most patriotic thing in this world is an Independence Day sale at your local gun shop. Tell them George sent you.