The ultimate weapon is what resides between our ears

My mother (Constance Helmericks) told me stories of these people (Native Alaskans). There was an old man who had never owned a rifle. He caught seals with a hand-made net under the ice. He was eaten by a polar bear.

Another old man had an ancient, single-shot .22 rifle to hunt grizzly bear with. He would lie on his stomach on the tundra in the path of a browsing bear and move his hand to imitate ground squirrels.   -Jean Aspen

Let me preface my comments by stating that there is a 10%-to-20% chance that one of these stories is an exaggeration. Native-Americans have been know to string Europeans along.

Polar bears hunt seals. That is what they eat. Anything on the ice other than a larger polar bear is dinner. The first Alaskan native was putting himself in harm's way every time he went on the ice and triple-so when he was near seal air-holes. He did this knowing the risk because he had to feed his family.

The second Native Alaskan was using his body as bait. He was flipping and swishing his hand like the rapid stop-and-flit of a ground-squirrel, one of the grizzly bear's favorite foods. He was probably behind the top of a rock-pile where ground-squirrels like to nest. He waited until the bear was SO CLOSE that he could not miss hitting him in the skull where he knew the bone was thin and the brain was close beneath...say from a distance of ten or twenty feet.

Contrary to popular belief, grizzly on the the tundra "barrens" do not grow very quickly. Food is scarce and of poor quality. Hibernation is long and the season when food is readily available is short. A ten-year-old interior/tundra grizzly might only tip the scales at 350-to-400 pounds. Pretty much 2X Dick Butkas with regard to size and attitude and sporting ten, 3" long claws and jaws that dwarf a pitbull's.

The point is that some men will step-up and do whatever it takes to feed and protect their family. It might only be one-man-in-five or one-man-in-fifty. But we are out there. Depriving men of technology will not stop us.

The first example was hunting 200 pound seals on the arctic ice under the noses of polar bears with a net woven from whatever fibers he could find (1940s!). The other was assassinating 400 pound grizzly bears with a gun most modern sportsmen would consider inadequate for any game larger than raccoon.

Remember 9/11?

The attackers used weapons (passenger aircraft) supplied by the US to attack iconic landmarks. We did not even recognize aircraft as weapons before the attack.

Rabid Progressive might be able to make conventional chemical propellants and commercially manufactured ammunition illegal or unobtainum, but it will not make a difference. The people they oppress will improvise, adapt and overcome.

For example, every fully-charged battery in this picture contains 65% of the energy in a Claymore mine.

That is right. The lithium-ion batteries on these puppies can hold 900,000 Joules of energy and TNT tops out at 4000 J/gram.

From the Progressive perspective, the most compelling reason to NOT go all-electric is that the batteries are the equivalent of blocks of C4 scattered on the street, free for the taking.

Admittedly, petroleum fuels are even more concentrated but they must be intimately mixed with air and contained to produce an explosion. Air being 3/4 nitrogen dilutes the effect. The energy in the batteries is separated by only a few thousands of an inch of permeable membrane. It does not take a lot of heat and/or "rapid mixing" to cause an explosion.