This administration is good at the emotional game. They will make examples of people and use others to do their dirty work. They control the media. They will make people who protect themselves as kooks or extremists and get woman to worry about their children or loved ones. There will be people who will defend themselves but they know that and will use that to their advantage.
I'm not in any way advocating people to give up their guns but I am looking at how this administration works and how people can cave into pressure. It's just something we have to prepare for.
For our own defense, we must not act alone. We must have the locals on our side. The left knows that too and is working hard in trying to make the average citizen look like they are deranged in the eyes of the police, soldiers, etc. When the police or military sees the average person as the enemy, game is over. Look at how they are war gaming this with the FBI making the Tea Party as a terrorist group in their simulated training.
I completely get it, dragon, and I have no doubt we’re on the same intellectual plane on this discussion. My point here is that for all of the bluster the Feds are blowing, they’re not contemplating the costs in both dollars and lives that it would cost to implement such a scheme.
I’m done hiding, and I’ve made it abundantly clear even to my cousins who are both LEOs that I would have no problem taking their lives if they marched to illegal orders from an illegal law. They’ve assured me that most LEOs would not abide and would certainly be more concerned for the health and well-being of their families over the orders from their CO.
People can be cowed into doing anything. The old quote is prescient (paraphrasing): Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. People are comfortable with their iPads and iPhones, their flat screen TVs and cable, their leased Mercedes and their cushy government jobs. None of that means anything in the face of losing your life, but in the charge of defending yourself or your family against those who would do you harm either immediately or at a future point, you are justified in fighting them to the death and should die assured that the Lord will receive you for doing the same.