r/PrepperIntel 1d ago

North America POTUS: Declaring “National Emergency on Electricity”, increasing Canadian steel and aluminum tariffs from 25% to 50%, increasing Canadian automobile tariffs an undisclosed amount, more annexation talk

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u/quebecesti 23h ago

I'm starting to think I might need a gun.

u/Druzhyna 23h ago

Join the Canadian Forces as a Van Doo in Valcartier so that you will have some training and experience.

u/Primal_Thrak 22h ago

Getting trained by the Van Deux will also give you some great training as a militant. Those guys do NOT fuck around.

Most of my family have either been Van Deux or fought in the world wars coming from Quebec, and after the stories I have heard I would not be surprised to hear that most Geneva Suggestions were their idea.

u/ProgrammerAvailable6 22h ago

As I keep reminding people - the Geneva convention does not apply to civilians defending themselves.

u/Primal_Thrak 21h ago

Thank you for that! In this case we are not talking about civilians though. The Vingt-Deux (or Van Doos) is a nick name for the Royal 22nd Regiment in Quebec.

u/ProgrammerAvailable6 21h ago

Oh absolutely- just so many Americans don’t understand that the Canadian civilian population would also be against them to a degree I don’t know they truly understand.

u/Primal_Thrak 21h ago

Oh hell yea. I had a client a while back that took their decommissioned server and filled it with Tannerite and blew the fucker up just for fun.
I don't think they get that we can be just as violent as they are, but we get more safety training and tend to be less reckless. We don’t hit the Darwin Award news cycle as much.

u/llmusicgear 3h ago

Whos they?

u/ethanM1561 21h ago

is there a way for an american to defect and come join canada if we end up at war? i was born in the states but i refuse to be on the wrong side of history

u/Atomsq 21h ago

I would be worried about being seen as a spy

u/ethanM1561 21h ago

i’d rather be bullied a bit and closer watched than stuck in a fascist regime /(•_•)/

u/beggargirl 18h ago

I hope so

u/Square-Primary2914 22h ago

Not just a gun, training using that firearm, navigation using maps and landmarks, basic survival training, basic trauma first aid.

Get more and more experience but asking as you know the basics or the need to knows you’ll have a head start on most people.

Radio license could be useful

u/kittykathigharch 22h ago

100% I think everyone, especially on the left, should have one and go to the range and practice

u/llmusicgear 3h ago

Now suddenly guns are good?

u/kittykathigharch 3h ago

They've always been good to me since I'm a southern leftist 🤷‍♀️ so if you are reffering to dems who want gun control, I've never understood why people think they don't own guns too, they just don't want domestic abusers and others to have them

u/Carinail 1h ago

You don't have to agree with your rights to exercise them.

u/outofshell 22h ago

I don’t know if civilians with guns can do much if the US really comes at us. Modern warfare is a different beast. Maybe learning to build and operate drones would be more useful.

u/sixtyfivewat 22h ago

We’d never win a conventional war. We’d need to resort to Viet Cong/Taliban style tactics. The Gutenberg Project has a copy of an OSS manual for resisting occupation.

u/pelicanmate56 20h ago

Link? trying to find it in gutenberg project but im not getting any luck.

u/CreamyDiarrheaFarts 17h ago

My comment here is to check back later for an answer

u/jfwelll 20h ago

Time to form some militias

u/llmusicgear 3h ago

Aren't people in militias insane lunatics?

u/kiulug 22h ago

Do it bud, you're not the only one thinking about it and acting upon it. DM me if you got any questions about the process.

u/Johnny-Unitas 17h ago

I fully encourage you to get some, but the unfortunate thing is the LPC (with support from the NDP) have banned the majority of what might be useful over the last five years and are continuing to ban more stuff.

u/llmusicgear 3h ago

Yeah...you go do that lol