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'''Mel Tappan''' ('''1933 - 1980), full name of Melrose H. Tappan III''')(1933 - 1980), is considered to be the "grand daddy" of the [[Preparedness]] movement<ref>http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=950&dat=19810331&id=ixsMAAAAIBAJ&sjid=61kDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6691,4779572 Accessed December 27, 2014</ref> as was the editor of the newsletter ''Personal Survival ("P.S.") Letter''. Tappan wrote He was also author of the [[Survival]] books ''[[Survival Guns]]'' and ''[[Tappan on Survival]]''.

A graduate of [[Stanford University]], Mr. Tappan was one of the earliest [[survivalist]]s to promote the idea of [[Vote with your feet]] [[strategic relocation]] to a "[[Essay:Free_States_Movement|free state]]s" from a more [[liberal]] "death spiral" [[Nanny state]]-[[Police state]] (See [[Blue state]] - [[Essay:Free_States_Movement#Naughty_State_List|unfree state]]s). Like [[James Wesley Rawles]] and [[Joel Skousen]], Mr. Tappan advocated creating [[survivalist retreat]]s in [[population density|lightly populated]] [[rural]] regions of the United Statesin .<ref>[http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/532445.html Mitchell, Dancing at Armageddon,] excerpt Accessed December 27, 2014</ref> <ref>160 word [[James Wesley Rawles#Quotes_from_Other_Online_Sources|Fair Use]] [[quotation]] from 848 pages of [[firearm]]s and [[Second Amendment]] details: [[Boston T. Party]] ([[Kenneth Royce]]), ''[[Boston's Gun Bible]]'', [[Wyoming]], [[American Redoubt]] [[Javelin Press]], 2002, 2009: p. 10/1. ISBN-13: 978-1888766066, http://javelinpress.com/bostons_gun_bible.html, https://www.amazon.com/Bostons-Gun-Bible-Boston-Party/dp/1888766069</ref>

* ''[[Survival Guns]]'' Paperback: 480 pages, Paladin Press (November 1, 2009) ISBN 978-1581607192https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1581607199* ''[[Tappan on Survival]]'' Paperback: 218 pages, Paladin Press (July 1, 2006) ISBN 978-https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1581605099

Mr. Tappan's continue to be influential with works see influence [[prepper|preparation advocates]] s more than three decades after his untimely passing. In 2009, ''Tappan on Survival'' was re-published as a new edition with a foreword written by [[Bruce D. Clayton]]. As of December 2014 it ranks in Amazon's top 90,000 books (out of more than 5 million titles.) The seminal work ''[[Survival Guns]]'' is also back in into print.Mr. Tappan's books are published by [[Paladin Press]]. ==Articles==  ==Quotes==*  ==Incremental Gun-Grabbing of the Police State - Nanny State==According to Mel Tappan, [[liberals]] and [[socialist]]s support so-called "common sense" measures - a "good first step" of the [[Police state]] - [[Nanny state]]. To a [[conservative]] [[citizen]]-[[prepper]]-[[patriot]] [[Oath Keepers|Oath Keeper]] and to the [[Bill of Rights]], this is "[[incrementalism|death by a thousand paper cuts]]". (See [[Essay:List of celebrities against Second Amendment]]) Mr. Tappan supports the [[Second Amendment Foundation]] and this video, which is the formal response to [[Hollywood values|Hollywood]]'s [[Demand a Plan]] [[gun control|gun-grabbing]] [[propaganda]] video. The video shows one of the main differences between [[liberal]] [[gun control]] [[Nanny state]]s ([[Blue state]]s) and [[conservative]] and/or [[libertarian]] [[Second Amendment]]-supporting "[[Essay:Free_States_Movement|free state]]s" ([[Red state]]s). This video shows why [[conservative]]s and [[libertarian]]s "[[vote with your feet|vote with our feet]]": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBelF4UddcY<ref>As of December 8, 2014, there are 60,819 views on [[YouTube]] of [[Second Amendment Foundation]]'s ''Equal [[Gun Rights]]'', Online. Published on Feb 24, 2013. http://equalgunrights.com and http://saf.org. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBelF4UddcY.</ref> == See Also ==* [[Preparedness]] and [[Survivalist retreat]]s* The Eastern [[American Redoubt]] - [[Cumberland Gap]] [[Kentucky]]* [[Police state]]s-[[Nanny state]]s violate the [[United States Constitution]]-[[Bill of Rights]] (especially [[Second Amendment]] and [[Fourth Amendment]]) and [[Citizen]]'s [[Unalienable rights]] by not upholding their [[oath]] to support and defend the [[Constitution]]. ===Related People===* [[Stewart Rhodes]] founder of [[Oath Keepers]], [[Montana]]* [[Kenneth Royce]] ([[Boston T. Party]]) of [[Free State Wyoming]] and author of ''[[Boston's Gun Bible]]''* [[James Wesley Rawles]] of [[The Survival Blog]], [[New York Times]] best-selling author of [[How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It]], [[American Redoubt]] [[Idaho]]* [[Jack Spirko]] of [[The Survival Podcast]], [[Texas]]* [[M.D. Creekmore]] of [[TheSurvivalistBlog.net]], [[Kentucky]]* [[John Jacob Schmidt]] - [[Radio Free Redoubt]], [[Idaho]]* [[Alex Barron]] - [[Charles Carroll Society]], [[Idaho]]* [[Ragnar Benson]] - Prolific [[:Category:Preparedness authors|Preparedness author]]* [[Joel Skousen]] - author ''[[Strategic Relocation - North American Guide to Safe Places]]'' and [[World Affairs Brief]], [[Utah]]* [[Alex Jones]] - [[InfoWars Nightly News]] and [[Prison Planet]], [[Texas]]* [[Chuck Baldwin]] - [[Liberty Fellowship]], [[Montana]]* [[Dave Duffy]] and [[Claire Wolfe]] of [[Backwoods Home Magazine]], [[Oregon]]* [[Paul Wheaton]] - [[Permies.com]] [[Permaculture]], [[Montana]]* [[Nutnfancy]] - Nutnfancy YouTube Firearms Channel, [[Utah]]* [[Essay:List of celebrities who support the Second Amendment]] - usually [[Conservatives]] or [[Libertarians]] ---- ===Related Movements and Organizations===* [[Free State Wyoming]]* [[Essay:Free States Movement|Free States Movement]]* [[Vote with your feet]]* [[Free State Project]]{{Second Amendment groups}} ----===Other Related Articles===* [[Firearms]]* [[Gun control]]: ** [[Essay:List of celebrities against Second Amendment]] - always [[Liberal]] [[Elitist]]s** '''[[Big government | Big Government]]''': [[Liberal values|Liberal]] [[ObamaCare]]-[[Common Core]]-[[Social Security]] [[Welfare state]] leads to [[Nanny state]], leads to [[Gun control]], [[Militarization of police]], [[Asset forfeiture]] and Domestic [[mass surveillance]] of law-abiding [[citizen]]s via the '''[[Police state]]''': [[Globalist]]-[[United Nations]]-[[Statist]]-[[Socialist]]-[[National Socialist]]-[[Communist]] * [[Second Amendment]] [[unalienable]] [[Gun rights]] versus [[Liberal]] [[Gun control]]* [[Essay:Why do conservatives own firearms?]] -- According to [[Thomas Jefferson]] it is as the final deterrent against potential [[Tyranny]] of [[government]]

According to Mel Tappan, * [[liberalsEssay:Invest_in_tangibles#2._Defense_and_Security_.28.22Bullets.22.29|Invest in tangibles: Firearms]] and - buy [[socialistPrecious metal]]s support so-called "common sense" measures - a "good first step" of the (that is [[Police stateCopper-jacketed lead]] - and [[Nanny state]Firearms]. To a )* [[conservativeBoston T. Party]] ’s [[citizenState Firearms Laws Ranking]]-s from ''[[prepperBoston's Gun Bible]]'' --[[patriotVote with your Feet]] * [[Oath Keepers|Oath KeeperJews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership]] and to the ** [[Bill Essay:Jews and Gun Control - Fear of RightsFreedom or Freedom from Fear]], this is "[[incrementalism|death Essay:Why Jews Hate Guns - Are they right]]* ''[[You & the Police!]]'' by [[Boston T. Party]] a thousand paper cuts.k.a.[[Kenneth W. Royce]]"* ''[[One Nation, Under Surveillance - Privacy From the Watchful Eye]]'' by [[Boston T.Party]]