It is December 7, Pearl Harbor day. There remain many timeless lessons of preparedness from this pivotal historical event. One of those many is, keep monitoring your radar and when there is a blip thereon, don\u2019t ignore it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Another is one we\u2019ve seen repeated of late. Consider the 2022 invasion of the Ukraine, when that nation only then rescinded its anti-gun policies and feverishly, desperately, armed its citizens with true (fully automatic) assault rifles, which helped a rabbit of a country hold off the Russian bear. When the BBC interviewed me in my capacity as president of the Second Amendment Foundation after the atrocity at the school in Uvalde and asked me almost contemptuously, \u201cWhat is the validity of the Second Amendment in the 21st<\/sup> century?\u201d my answer was simple: \u201cAsk a Ukranian.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n We saw it again on October 7 of this year, when Hamas invaded the kibbutzes: those who were armed at best fought off the attackers and at worst, made them pay a terrible price in blood for every innocent they slaughtered, while the unarmed were hopelessly overwhelmed and savaged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n December 7, 1941, Pearl Harbor. Did you know that the last invading enemy pilot to die was killed on American soil by an armed American citizen?<\/p>\n\n\n\n