Posted on 12/19/2012 9:01:37 PM PST by djf
Yep. Believe what they do, not what they say.
The point is that they don't need to incarcerate millions, just enough examples.
The lefties and the press will allow people with "arsenals" to be arrested, look at how they demonize gun collectors. Anonymous informants can't be wrong,...or plants. Observe the "wrong address" drug raids, and how no "good guy" cops speak up mentioning "we were wrong", nah, the occupant was breaking some "reasonable" law. Remember ATF raided Waco with the press present, because UPS delivered an inert joke hand grenade.
Including spouses and children of current government workers, various current and past LE officials, veterans, military, even Congress itself?
You seem to forget the Arkancide list from the Clinton years. Were women, children and girlfriends off limits?
I don’t think so.
Care to rethink?
See #23.
A long time ago, a bunch of troops were ordered to search for and confiscate weapons.
They were met at a bridge by a group of rag-tag local folks who were determined to not let them do it.
The troops were devastated.
It was Old North Bridge, near Concord, Massachusetts.
The first battle.
The first shots of the first revolutionary war.
Even if a cop or soldier took guns successfully from the first few homes, a phone call down the street would get him killed and the guns returned to the rightful owner. No cop or soldier makes enough to know he’s going to die...
Government attempts to intimidate the population with shows and demonstrations of force will be applied blindly and indiscriminately. That's bad because innocents will be punished along with everyone else. The government goons will succeed in creating more enemies than friends. Liberals and Leftists will be targeted because this is now a civil war. It will not be pretty and there's no guarantee that Obama’s thugs will prevail.
These gun confiscation orders will come down AFTER possession has been outlawed by the Congress and signed by the President, and that could easily happen if the GOP loses the house.
Additionally, SCOTUS is looking at overturning the past individual right in favor of the left's collective right for the military to have your gun. If Roberts backstabs like Obamacare, 2A for the people is entirely gone.
Those 500,000 would already be felons for NOT turning in their guns, they'll get no help from anybody.
Even if Congress outlaws just one model of firearm as an "assault weapon", the first arrest will go to court and run the risk of SCOTUS eventually overturning the individual right, in which case all guns are by government permission and whim. When the left has the power to deny permission on whatever offends them what happens?
Civilians should be allowed to have whatever weapons law enforcement is allowed to have, for the exact same reasons law enforcement has them.
Either the world is dangerous, and people can arm themselves as they see fit, or it is safe and we can have law enforcement unilaterally disarm “because nobody needs a weapon like a........”
This is the fundamental flaw in the liberal gun grabbing argument.
In todays environment police are arming themselves with every MORE potent weapons, including sniper rifles, automatic weapons along with armored vehicles.
Why should law-abiding citizens not be allowed the same tools as the police?
Couldn’t get through, but I tried.
Merry Christmas, Friend!
All were wrong, all were disarmed and three imprisoned and exterminated over 150 million good peaceful citizens.
And we gun owners don't have the good press that those citizens had.
Merry Christmas to you.
“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
XLENT QUOTE!
Been probably 20 years since I read that. Should read it again.
He made me pull my head out of my nether regions 30 yrs ago. Truly a great man.
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Bullshit..... LEO....ALL LEO have been enforcing blatantly unconstituonal
laws and regulations for decades. When they are offered the choice of
enforcing any new anti 2A laws and unemployment they will do what they
have always done....tell their massa’s who sign their paychecks “yessa bossman, right away”.
I’d have NO problem taking out anyone with a blue helmet who came for my guns.
F the u.n.
98% of LEO’s will do what they’re told and not even complain much. If you’re relying on cops to protect you or your rights, you’re naive. Besides, direct confiscation is unnecessary. A $10,000/yr possession tax enforced by the IRS with compounded penalties would scare 90% of the guns out the hands of Americans. We’ve seen from obamacare that the SCOTUS will stomach any sort of tax.
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