The actor Matthew McConaughey starred as the lead male role in the 2016 movie “The Free State of Jones.” He played the real-life Confederate soldier Newt Knight, who, after deserting the failing Confederate army, returned to his home in Jones County, Mississippi. War widows and orphans were trying to survive without husbands and fathers, and now the local Confederate state militias were seizing (stealing) the food, supplies, and anything else not nailed down to allegedly support the dying cause of the South.
In one scene, Newt Knight is checking on a neighboring farm wife/widow only to discover that the local food-stealing militia is on its way to rob the woman and her children. McConaughey’s character, Newt Knight, organizes the desperate farm family into an impromptu resistance fighting force. When the looters in uniform showed up, everyone on the farm was standing in the front yard waiting for them with a firearm in their hands. Including the youngest daughter, who could barely raise a single shot pistol, but she held her ground until the uniformed bandit trash left in fear of their lives. Of course, they threatened to return better-manned and better-armed to force the potentially starving family to comply.
Never underestimate the power of a family-size group of people, all armed with rifles pointing in the same direction, supporting the cause of defense and resistance to evil.
There are a lot of Americans who are not gun people. They have no interest in hunting, and they do not want to own and shoot firearms just for the sake of shooting. And there are some who truly do not believe in the private ownership of firearms. Those are the ones who get to their cell phones the fastest to call for armed help to demand instant response in times of crisis and need.
I suggest there needs to be another group of armed Americans. The American family unit that may never hunt or own firearms to just shoot, but the American family that organizes all family members to have a rifle in waiting to defend their home in case destructive evil shows up at their front door.
If every adult and child over the age of ten has a rifle assigned to them and practices loading and shooting that rifle, you have created a family-friendly home defense force. Teach the more responsible younger children how to reload.
The major suggestion is to standardize the make, type of rifle, and caliber of the cartridge.
This column is not for the current gun owners of America. Those of you who have lots of “Black Rifles” hi-capacity handguns and pump action fighting shotguns are not really going to get much out of this concept. This column is for the non-gun owners who want to remain on the “surface of society” as non-gun owners but want to be somewhat ready for the day evil arrives suddenly and 911 is not working that day.
The Henry 22 mag rifle is my recommendation for arming in mass the currently unarmed American family. These rifles are lighter than their counterpart lever actions chambered in centerfire cartridges. Most hold 10 or more rounds of ammo and a 22mag round coming out of a rifle barrel will ruin a four legged deer or a two legged “walker’s” day.
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Henry Golden Boy 22 WMR (22 Mag) Brasslite Blued Lever Action Rifle - 20in - Brown | Sportsman's Warehouse | $ 599.99 | |
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Henry Repeating Arms Pump Rifle Walnut .22 Mag 20.5 Barrel 12-Rounds | GrabAGun | $ 546.99 | |
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Henry H001TM Frontier 22 Mag 12+1 20 Black American Walnut Lever Action Rifle | BattleHawk Armory | $ 636.00 $ 478.58 | |
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Henry Classic 22 WMR (22 Mag) Blued Lever Action Rifle - 19.25in - Brown | Sportsman's Warehouse | $ 519.99 |
Small-framed adults and older children can easily raise and fire the Henry 22mag. Even the little farm daughter in “The Free State of Jones” could have laid a Henry 22mag lever gun across a window sill and presented a menacing presence while delivering suppression fire to support the family in their home defense needs.
You can buy and shoot for training a lot more 22mag ammo over any centerfire cartridge. A box of 50 rounds of 22mag weighs much less than 50 rounds of 30-30 or 357 mag. If you have to shoot and move and keep moving to survive than 22mag ammo is easier to carry on the run.
The Henry 22 mag Mare’s Leg is a great back up piece. Not really a handgun but much smaller than a rifle. The enclosed 12.5 inch barrel greatly enhances the velocity of the 22mag over the same round fired out of a revolver.
If every member of your family has a Henry lever action 22 mag rifle assigned to them and they know how and when to use the rifle, your family’s chances of survival in time of crisis just went up by a multiple factor.
Envision the concept of multiple Henry Golden Boy lever action rifles chambered in 22mag in the hands of Jewish-American Families in time of crisis. Gives enhanced meaning to the term “Never-Again.”
There are other guns and other cartridges that can and should be used to Protect and Provide for your family if the world becomes an ugly place. Most people do not really think that will happen on “their watch”. I hope they are correct. These people do not tend to prepare for the unexpected or want anyone to know they may even be concerned about a “crisis”.
This is where picking one firearm and one cartridge that a non-gun person can handle with limited training and then plus-up their family’s ability to contribute to the defense of the home front with their own Henry rifle in 22mag. This means you are serious about getting ready and staying ready. Doing this and not being intimidated by your “tool” of preparedness–your family’s collective group of the one rifle and one cartridge concept to defend the day.
Windage and Elevation, Mrs Langdon….windage and elevation, said John Wayne in the 1969 movie “The Undefeated,” during a scene where women and children fought alongside their men folk against outnumbering odds of evil.
Protect and Provide with a little family coordination.
About Major Van Harl USAF Ret.:
Major Van E. Harl USAF Ret., a career Police Officer in the U.S. Air Force, was born in Burlington, Iowa, USA, in 1955. He was the Deputy Chief of police at two Air Force Bases and the Commander of Law Enforcement Operations at another. He is a graduate of the U.S. Army Infantry School. A retired Colorado Ranger and currently is an Auxiliary Police Officer with the Cudahy PD in Milwaukee County, WI. His efforts now are directed at church campus safely and security training. He believes “evil hates organization.” vanharl@aol.com
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