Fighting The War on Terror
Sunday, September 11, 2016, marked the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 Islamic attack on America.
It has been calculated, if you can conceptualize this, that the subsequent cost of fighting the war on terror (WOT) for these last fifteen years has been $30,000,000 per hour.
Something that has apparently not been calculated is an answer to the question: what part of the so-called "success" in interdicting the enemy within our borders is due to our having an armed citizenry? I would guess that a significant reason for the success of our national security is due to our citizen's right to keep and bear arms. How much of the WOT $30,000,000/hour price tag has gone into equipping and helping law-abiding citizens improve their marksmanship skills? Very little—if any.
Instead of government support for armed citizens, we see politicians and misguided faction's within the bureaucracy scheming to disarm the citizenry. And, the cost of fighting those schemes should be added to the overall WOT total, because the same people are paying the bill for it all.
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