Gun Grab - Boil the Frog Scenario

3/26/18 | self

[Moe-Patrick]

Politicians can pass legislation to ban manufacturing of specific weapon. No confiscation of existing weapon. Public stays calm. Politicians pass legislation to confiscate specific weapon. Some (sheeple) comply. Months later, letters are sent to gun owners requesting compliance. Some comply. Months later, letters threatening fines are sent. Some comply. Months later, warrants are issued and your traffic violation results in a jail cell to which turning in your gun eliminates the fines and jail time. Some comply.

By slowly and discreetly draining individuals financially and emotionally for compliance.....boiling the frog.

[Moe-Patrick]

All change is accomplished gradually. Politicians (both sides) want guns limited, they just haven’t figured out how to do it. Any legislation with the word ‘confiscate’ will be the start of boiling the frog and Americans will allow it to happen.

[Blue Jays]

"...boiling the frog..."

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Moe-Patrick...BobL and I have discussed this likely approach they will slowly utilize.

[Wolfie]

And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956

[freedomjusticeruleoflaw]

From Sandy Hook to Parkland.... This will not stop until America buckles.

[Lean-Right]

To slowly boil the frog, the NRA would
have to be taken out of the pot. They are
the heart of almost every gun owner in
America. A powerful lobbying force, that
up to this point, has managed to keep the
cookfire low enough, that the frogs can
continue swimming. (over five million
frogs in the pot)

[Lurkinanloomin]

They don’t know who has what.

[ExTexasRedhead]

For politicians, it’s all about their own power over We The People. Politicians, the MSM, and the Hollyweird sewer RATs don’t give a damn about gun violence or they would address Detroit and Chicago for starters.

How about a dose of reality?

http://redstatewatcher.com/article.asp?id=122924

[BobL]

Thanks for the ping. The way it works is very simple. They make it a ‘hassle’ to own a gun - be it registration, or requiring it to be locked up, or through high taxes, or through so much liability risk that many owners and especially would-be owners simply figure it’s not worth the trouble. Obviously the crap they’re talking about now (Universal checks, magazine limits, etc.) will have the same effect.

So the numbers decline, and with that, the screws continue to be tightened, and tightened. And then, finally, there simply isn’t enough gun owners to pose political threat to Democrat power. At that point, they FINISH THE JOB - which is to make ownership illegal. They won’t necessarily beat down doors or try to pry them loose from your fingers, but you won’t want to be caught with a now-illegal gun, even in your home, even if used in self-defense - you will spend much more time in jail than the criminal (i.e., Great Britain)...and so it ends. After a few owners are made examples of, the message will be understood - the days of relatively unrestricted gun ownership WILL BE OVER.

As far as the Second Amendment - don’t make me laugh, once the right judges are in place it will be neutralized. Yes, it will still be there, and read the same, but it will carry as much weight as the Soviet Union’s equivalent of the First Amendment (and yes, their constitution promised everyone freedom of speech...but we all know that was a joke).

That’s how you end gun ownership in the United States - one ‘reasonable’ step after another, until it’s time to drop the hammer.

[suthener]

This will happen in my 18 year old son’s lifetime.

[Inyo-Mono]

I think that’s the plan.

[wgmalabama]

Step 3 gets people shot. Plain and simple.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

Talk about a market for underground weapons and ammo and a large variety of lawbreakers ! as it stand now all the politicians have to do is write law that makes you a criminal after the fact

[Moe-Patrick]

Nice post....and very accurate! In hindsight, I wish I had laid it out the way you have. That is exactly how they will do it. I simplified the narrative hoping some ‘frogs’ will realize it is already happening. Increase the discomfort, change the narrative, and enforce the initiative slowly.

I believe too many believe it will never happen because they envision a sudden change. It will happen. Our rights have been decreasing steadily for decades with no reaction.

[BobL]

Thanks, I saw something similar in college at ESU. When I started there we had open drinking and keg parties in the dorms, in public areas of the dorms, despite a 21 year old drinking age. Never an issue. Then they had us get rid of the obvious beer bottles/cans and drink out of non-transparent cups, in our rooms, and no kegs. A year or two later, they had us close our doors to the dorm room when drinking. The next year they enforced the 21 year drinking age, and then finally they simply prohibited it. By the time they prohibited it, the kids affected never even knew that drinking used to be totally unregulated. No pushback, just small steps until they achieved their final objective.

Similar with mandatory seat belt laws. Start with them as ‘secondary offenses’ with small fines, then up the fine, then make the offenses primary, so you can get pulled over for not having a seat belt on. Most people don’t even know that the screws are tightening, until it’s too late to complain.

The Left tried the ‘gun grab’ approach in 1994 with the Assault Weapons Ban and they paid HUGE TIME that November, totally getting their heads handed to them. They know that’s not the way to go...so, just a little at a time, then a bit more, then a bit more...until there’s not enough of us to fight them - similar to the ‘first they came for the...”.

[Elderberry]

Listening to all of you makes me sick. If you believe already that it will happen, then we know what side you are really on when the shit hits the fan.

[TigersEye]

They have been trying to do that for decades. They haven’t been too successful at it.

[Big Red Badger]

I’m with You!

[G Larry]

maybe in 20 years, when my generation can’t shoot straight anymore....

[Ransomed]

We haven’t had even 65% eligible voter turnout since 1908. The % of eligible voters that don’t care about these issues enough to vote on them has outnumbered any single political party for 100+ years. That’s the horrific thing about these vital issues—only around half of those that manage to vote have the right idea about the issue. The other half has the wrong idea. But the ones that don’t care outnumber either group.

Freegards

[Moe-Patrick]

Spot on.....

Likewise, I used to be able to smoke in a building. And like a good little frog in my late twenties, I didn’t bother to vote against ‘banning smoking in the workplace’ and soon thereafter found myself smoking outside in the rain. In time, I could not smoke on the property and endured ‘smoker’ shaming. Before long I could not smoke in a bar. I have friends that won’t even smoke in their own home. Yet marijuana smoking is considered hip and encouraged on every public platform. Why? Keep frogs busy with intoxicants, easier to control. The same applies to drugs, gang violence, single mothers.

For those that believe it will never happen, revisit history. Germans did not kill Jews on day one, it was a gradual indoctrination process over many years.

Add to that, we were told everyone must attend college (to be propagandized by professors and peers). Highschools are now joining the team as are kindergartens. The government, TV, and social media are raising our children. Parents need to intervene.