“....The author of the article blatantly wrote it to elicit exactly the responses it’s getting...”
The author is an idiotic jerk who actually thinks he’s safe in his mountaintop Mexican hideaway while insulting American gun rights advocates.
IMO the responses are not what he expected. There is serious discussion about armed citizens resisting a tyrannical government, including issues of logistics, feasability, and the often assumed omnipotence & omnicompetence of the forces of state power.
The consensus appears to be that:
The government’s task of disarming the public will be extremely difficult to execute.
Individuals are vulnerable regardless of which side they are on.
Incremental incursions on personal freedoms appear to be the government’s only usable methods to disarm.
The sheer number of privately owned firearms in America, unique upon this Earth, makes civilian disarmament highly problematic for those who wish it.
In fact, I’m not as scared as when I wrote that earlier post. Not nearly so at all.
;^)
Your #545: Well said! That enumeration is dead on.
“...In fact, I’m not as scared as when I wrote that earlier post. Not nearly so at all....”
Recognizing that it’s a possibility, you prepare as best you can against the possibility of it, and move on with your life - like we do with everything else.
Yeah, it’s alarming; but there’s nothing any single one of us can do to prevent it if it happens except react, and then maybe go proactive.
Live life each day, know what you intend to do or not do ahead of time, and control what personal spheres of influence you can control.
Things fall as they will, the world moves as it will, and we all have the part to play in it that God set before us.
At the end of things, all we can do is say “I did my duty.”
Your points about the consensus are spot-on.