One: Once ratified, this list of conditions may only be altered by unanimous consent of all parties governed by this Agreement, i.e. full-time Residents. Full-time residency will be defined by a select panel of full-time Residents who will also establish guidelines for acceptable exceptions for absences.
Two: Every able-bodied Patriot aged 13 and older governed by this Agreement shall annually demonstrate proficiency with the rifle of his/her choice by hitting a man-sized steel target at 100 yards with open sights at the Citadel range. Each Resident shall have 10 shots and must hit the target at least 7 times.
Three: Every able-bodied Patriot aged 13 and older governed by this Agreement shall annually demonstrate proficiency with a handgun of choice by hitting a man-sized steel target at 25 yards with open sights at the Citadel range. Each Resident shall have 10 shots and must hit the target at least 7 times.
Seven: Every child attending Citadel schools — with parental discretion for maturity — shall have as part of every semester's class curriculum basic marksmanship and firearms safety training leading to the proficiency test on the child's 13th birthday as a "Coming of Age" rite of passage (a parent may attend the classes or personally train the child if so desired). Children attending schools beyond the Citadel, or home-schooled, are required to meet the same proficiency standards at age 13.
Frustratingly, while the Citadel's manifesto (it's all manifesto) makes the claim it will be educating not indoctrinating the Citadel's children, a pretty good example of indoctrination might include mandatory rites of passage including (but limited to!) being good at shooting a gun at "a man-sized" target. Also note that one does not actually buy or own property at the Citadel, one leases it from a central authority. So peace out, property rights.Finally, the Citadel Patriot Agreement explains that there actually are enforcers. Busted.Eight: All Patriots, who are of age and are not legally restricted from bearing firearms, shall agree to remain armed with a loaded sidearm whenever visiting the Citadel Town Center. Firearm shall be on-the-person and under the control of the Resident, not merely stored in a vehicle.
This is all fine and mockable and the sort of thing not too hard to find on the internet, thought this particular bit of wingnuttery seems to involve an actual, functioning gun-maker, based for the time being in West Virginia: III Arms, maker of custom AR-15 assault rifles. Interestingly, the whole Citadel gun parade has apparently nothing to do with gun sports or hobbies--not even hunting lip-service--and everything to do with defense in the case of the great SHTF (the shit hitting the fan, duh).This is a common desire in this wing of gun nuttery: things going to hell and having to defend against something. Which is where we hit that wall, of course, the wall that makes the great gun myth unavoidable. Guns are as much a defense against pretty much anything going in the year 2013 as a big stupid stone wall (or a carefully planned series of them, in case you were taking the whole wall feature too metaphorically). Ironically enough, tall stone walls became obsolete as means of defense right about the time gun powder came into use and walls became highly blow-upable, to say nothing of the armed drones soon to be available to any old idiot planning on storming a weak-ass survivalist compound (for what exactly, besides guns from the gun factory?).Twelve: Violations of this Agreement will result in review by an arbitration panel consisting of Citadel Residents with appropriate and proportional disciplinary action taken. The most severe disciplinary action may include the loss of Lease and expulsion from the community.