Posted on 12/23/2012 1:26:07 PM PST by upchuck
Ordinarily, I'd agree that THIS is no time to be arguing gun control. With the pain still intense in Connecticut, there should have been a truce declared, to allow for grieving. But the plain truth is, those who declare that a good crisis must not be wasted, jumped the gun (as they usually do) and began a nationwide PR war through the national Mainstream Media to bring as much pressure to bear as they possible could on our government for laws to ban certain guns, eventually ALL guns in the hands of US civilians.
To those on the political and those pushing gun control -- in the childish naivete -- You need to understand two things: One -- Americans are NOT going to give up their guns! That's one. Number two is this: If you really want to begin a civil war in this country, continue your efforts to take those guns and you will most certainly have one, and I do not think you have any idea, any inkling, of just how ferocious and brutal such a war can be.
If you thought for one moment that American gun owners would assume the fetal position and begin sucking their thumbs -- please allow me to disabuse you of that monstrously mistaken assumption!
For the past four years gun owners across America have been planning for just such a move by the gun control crowd. They have been purchasing weapons in record numbers and they have created secret caches of both weapons and ammunition that you simply will not believe. I'd go so far as to say some are even "leaning forward," eager for the chance to protect the US Constitution.
Look. Trying to confiscate Americans guns will erupt in pitched firefights, gun battles, between American civilians and government law officers. The government will, as Charlton Heston famously stated, have to "pry the weapons from their cold dead hands." Heck, the government might actually get away with a couple of such encounters before the backlash begins. But it will begin -- and when it does, there will be hell to pay. In the end, it will be the end of the United States as we know it.
Understand. There are some states that will move to secede rather than obey federal laws that force their citizens to disarm. Other states will arrest and incarcerate federal officers attempting to disarm that states citizens within the physical boundaries of that state.
I just don't think the gun control folks are thinking with their brains. They exude emotion -- PURE emotion, and a dangerous lack of common sense. What they are pushing for will bring nothing less than wreck and ruin to this country.
Do you realize that the number of armed American hunters, alone, surpasses the numbers of all the standing armies of the world -- combined? Deer hunters in just one state, alone, number more than the armies of Iran, France, and Germany combined! SOURCE: http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1889966/pg1 Do you realize that a HUGE proportion of them are veterans of the finest military on the planet?
And don't think you can just track gun hoarders down and arrest them. It took the US military TEN YEARS to find Osama Bin Laden -- and he was one man! Try rounding up millions. Can you see the nightmare?
A law that would try to confiscate guns in America would, like Prohibition, suddenly turn America into a nation of criminals. The Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution, and the Volstead Act caused multiple deaths. "Effective enforcement of the alcohol ban during the Prohibition Era proved to be very difficult and led to widespread flouting of the law. The lack of a solid popular consensus for the ban resulted in the growth of vast criminal organizations, including the modern American Mafia, and various other criminal cliques. Widespread disregard of the law also generated rampant corruption among politicians and within police forces." SOURCE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition_in_the_United_States
Banning so-called assault weapons (otherwise known as "scary looking" weapons) does next to nothing to reduce gun crime. "The Justice Department’s interviews also showed so-called “assault weapons” are not a major cause of gun violence. Only about 8 percent of the inmates used one of the models covered in the now-expired assault weapons ban... ." Read more at: http://www.wnd.com/2004/12/28253/#Kfd7EWciAw0jzwQi.99
Consider this: "Meanwhile, a study released by the Justice Department suggesting background checks at gun shows would do little to keep firearms out of the hands of criminals.
The study noted the number of criminals who obtained guns from retail outlets was dwarfed by the number of those who picked up their arms through means other than legal purchases. The report was the result of interviews with more than 18,000 state and federal inmates conducted nationwide. It found that nearly 80 percent of those interviewed got their guns from friends or family members, or on the street through illegal purchases." Read more at: http://www.wnd.com/2004/12/28253/#Kfd7EWciAw0jzwQi.99
As I write this in my office, behind me on my desk are five containers of ammunition from 30 caliber to 12 gauge double-ought buckshot. Leaning against the wall is one of my guns -- well within arm's length. Visitors to my office think nothing of it. It is a way of life. I began shooting at the age of six. I am always armed -- either with an "edged weapon" or a firearm.
Let's be clear. ASKING gun owners to give up their guns is insulting. DEMANDING that we give them up is going to get someone hurt.
I realize the words above are strong. That is intentional. I am trying to convey to gun control advocates and the Mainstream Media the seriousness of what they are doing and the indelicate manner in which the are approaching the issue. DEMANDING that an American citizen give up a constitutional right is bad enough, but demanding that he give up a constitutional right upon which his freedom and his very life may depend is the ultimate insult and is nothing less than an assault on the constitution itself. This we cannot, we will not, abide.
A note to our national legislators. Those of you supporting gun control legislation should understand it will be a career-ending move on your part. We will brook no such unpleasant nonsense from you.
Gun owners did not seek this fight. We most certainly did not initiate it. Too, we are sick, ad nauseum, of your continuous attacks on our way of life, on our constitutional as well as God given rights as American citizens, and we are sick, beyond words, of your elitist attitude.
As red-blooded Americans have done throughout our history, we will avoid a fight for as long as it is practicable to do so. But when the fight is brought to us we WILL engage with our considerable resources with one goal in mind and that is the utter defeat of our adversary, and a guarantee that the conflict will never be resuscitated, EVER, again.
"Molṑn labéis" ( Molon Labe) is a classical expression of defiance reportedly spoken by King Leonidas I in response to the Persian army's demand that the Spartans surrender their weapons at the Battle of Thermopylae. I am seeing more and more e-mails and commentaries on blogs, all over the Internet theses days, close with these two words of defiance. It has quickly become the signature phrase for gun control resistance.
So what does "molon labe" mean? Well, it is an invitation -- and a challenge -- all rolled into one. From the original Greek molon labe means: "Come and take 'em."
Since self-defense is a God-given right I would add a second phrase of recognition one which my Confederate ancestors affixed often to their missives: "Deo Vindici," which means: "God is with us."
This is a struggle gun owners of America did not seek, do not want, but -- intend to win decisively.
J. D. Longstreet
oops forgot to mention katrina.
***** “I will not comply.” ******
I’m on the LIST too.... same thing with OBAMACARE
Prison is my Retirement Plan, Healthcare and Food...
I will do that before Welfare, Foodstamps or SS
TT
Like I mentioned in another post ... while the liberals were teaching their kids to protest the military we were teaching ours to serve. Something to think about.
It would be “4th generation warfare” not a battle of numbers and better weapons. First rule of warfare identify your enemy....why take on an army when a dirty dozen is all that is necessary? No organization or communication required just several (or many) like minded individuals acting alone would be difficult to find and catch with no ties or connection to each other. How many are waiting for the first spark? How many recently trained snipers and IED veterans from the middle east are returning to this changed country and don't like what they see? The a$$ clowns inside the beltway are showing their utter ignorance and Utopian unrealistic idealistic “feelings” which will get trounced by reality.
An organized march on DC might give them a clue. Let the grabbers stand up to real American Patriots (wear american revolution costumes or camouflage) in person and tell them they want to take their guns. I'll be the old guy selling the Depends to the grabbers and other clueless liberal pu$$ies.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unintended_Consequences_(novel)
but the obama put homosexual in the military and the leadership has been infested with non-merit promoted and the quota (low competence) political correctness hires. (see abugrabe etc.)
One man with a rifle can change the course of history.
I will give up my guns, write me a tax free check for $1,000,000 for each and every one.
Maybe, but all I hear from my son is how much they (him and those in his unit) hate Obama. Not a very scientific study, but gives moment for pause. In any case they are not taking Georgia guns anytime soon.
we are talking about politicians who want to build a “demolition man” joy joy eutopia.
One major weakness of the eliminationist monsters inhabiting the White House is that they're impatient. They can almost taste the absolute power - the power to kill without consequence - that they are about to achieve.
Another major weakness is their blindness - fatal blindness to, and complete lack of comprehension of the core values that animate many of us: faith, family and freedom. These are things worth fighting for. They are also things worth dying for if it comes to that. Those who presume to rule us are godless monsters who care for nothing but the raw, naked exercise of power. The power to kill without consequence.
Unfortunate, but true. If you review the history of citizen disarmament by governments in the twentieth century, you'll find that more people died as a result of that, than any other single cause.
People need to think about that before willingly surrendering their weapons to their local cops or any other government agents.
Don't forget that the left has undone a lot of excellent upbringing by indoctrinating our kids in the public schools. It happened to me, but thank God my parents' brand of home training was stronger. I had something to fall back on later in life that a lot of kids don't.
The left cares not one whit about the children of this world. If they had their way these children would have been dead six or seven years ago in the womb. (or out, depending on which gruesome method they chose). They’re not above making money off these tragedies either. Bob Geldoff comes to mind with the song “I Don’t Like Mondays” which glorified a school shooting incident.The left makes me more ill with each passing day
When will we call it what it really is... TREASON & SEDITION, to call for the banning of any weapons, it to attempt to negate the Constitution.
Not being a Constitutional Scholar, but have a healthy respect for history.
It sure sounds like treason to me.
A timely, assertive piece of writing. Thank you, sir, for posting.
You’re welcome.
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