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==Continuing Influence on Modern Survivalism== | ==Continuing Influence on Modern Survivalism== | ||
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Mel Tappan (1933 - 1980), full name of Melrose H. Tappan III, was one of the founders of the Preparedness movement.[1] He was the editor of the newsletter Personal Survival ("P.S.") Letter. 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 survivalists to promote the idea of Vote with your feet strategic relocation to a "free states" from a liberal "death spiral" Nanny state-Police state (See Blue state - unfree states). Like James Wesley Rawles and Joel Skousen, Mr. Tappan advocated survivalist retreats in lightly populated rural regions in .[2][3]
Contents
Books
- Survival Guns Paperback: 480 pages, Paladin Press (November 1, 2009) ISBN 978-1581607192
- Tappan on Survival Paperback: 218 pages, Paladin Press (July 1, 2006) ISBN 978-1581605099
Continuing Influence on Modern Survivalism
Mr. Tappan's works see influence preppers 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 into print. Mr. Tappan's books are published by Paladin Press.
See also
- Preparedness and Survivalist retreats
- The Eastern American Redoubt - Cumberland Gap Kentucky
- Police states-Nanny states 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 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
Template:Second Amendment groups
Other Related Articles
- Firearms
- Gun control:
- Essay:List of celebrities against Second Amendment - always Liberal Elitists
- Big Government: 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 citizens via the Police state: Globalist-United Nations-Statist-Socialist-National Socialist-Communist
- Second Amendment
- Essay:Why do conservatives own firearms? -- According to Thomas Jefferson it is as the final deterrent against potential Tyranny of government
- Buy Precious metals (that is Copper-jacketed lead and Firearms)
- Boston T. Party’s State Firearms Laws Rankings from Boston's Gun Bible
External links
- Mel Tappan search on Duck Duck Go Privacy search engine
References
- ↑ http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=950&dat=19810331&id=ixsMAAAAIBAJ&sjid=61kDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6691,4779572 Accessed December 27, 2014
- ↑ [http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/532445.html Mitchell, Dancing at Armageddon, excerpt Accessed December 27, 2014
- ↑ 160 word Fair Use quotation from 848 pages of firearms 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
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