Gun Bill Defeat is Not Enough

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Catherine the Great once demanded of her favorite commander, Aleksandr V. Suvorov, why he had allowed defeated enemy soldiers to escape. "I wanted to kill or capture every last one," he admitted, "but pity stayed my hand."

"You are not known for pity toward my enemies," the Empress replied.
"It was a pity that I had no fresh cavalry at hand," Suvorov explained.

The story may be apocryphal, but it illustrates Suvorov's highly successful principle perfectly: never fight the same men twice. The attack with cold steel involved sharp objects with angry Russian soldiers behind them crashing not into but through the enemy, and it caused the opposing soldiers to turn their backs and run. The Cossacks' horses could run faster, which gave the fugitives no choice but to hand over their weapons and flags if they wanted to live. The word "retreat" was blasphemous, and even the command to halt was reputedly given only on the parade ground. 

Sweden's Caroleans (Karoliner, soldiers of King Charles) also relied almost entirely on offense to overthrow their enemies. Gustavus Adolphus added cavalry known as Hakkapeliitta, from the Finnish war cry hakkaa päälle, or "Chop them up!" This is what we must now do the enemies of the Second Amendment, as opposed to allowing them to survive politically to fight another day -- which the Glorious Leader and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid have already pledged to do.

Incrementalists Must be Stopped: Period.

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