Posted on 08/31/2019 5:41:10 PM PDT by Boomer
I see and hear a lot of talk about how a national gun registration and/or confiscation would be the trigger that would spark a second American Revolution, as patriots rise up to resist the jackbooted thugs who are going door-to-door taking away people’s arms.
I have bad news for everyone who’s waiting for national registration or a mass confiscation so they can get their armed rebellion on: a national database of gun owners already exists, and a national confiscation effort will never happen. Ever. Instead, you’ll hand over your firearms peacefully. All of them, even the ones you paid cash for to some random guy on Armslist in the dead of night.
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The Stamp Act was passed in 1765, ten years before the Shot Heard Round the World. Those who chose to profit by supplying the required stamps were, to paraphrase one of my favorite movie lines, were "unofficially discouraged" from helping the British Parliament tax the colonists.
Matters continued to deteriorate until a group decided that the Tea Tax was unjustified and destroyed a shipment of tea. The response by the British government eventually led to the occupation of Boston and the confiscation of arms which precipitated the shooting war.
In order to eject the occupiers from Boston, the revolutionaries STOLE the big guns from Fort Ticonderoga, dragged them cross country to Boston, and convinced the forces occupying Boston to leave the city.
It was the experience of our Founders in having to steal arms to eject a tyrannical government which eventually led to the ratification of the Second Amendment. It is the duty of every patriotic American to resist confiscation and pledge their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor in pursuit of maintaining our liberties and opposing the depredations of a tyrannical government.
I’ll hand them over muzzle first right after I empty them.
Among many preparedness items in my home is a neighborhood map. I have every home marked as patriotic, neutral, or leftist. That is among the most important things I need to know about my neighbors.
Answer: Just hide the arms in very secret areas. That is all.
Indeed. They will goad the idiot pubes to do it for them.
Recall how they got the Brits to turn in their guns and what happened afterward?
Isabel Allende in her book, “Paula”, wrote about the resistance to her grandfather’s Marxist regime in Chile.
The resistance stopped deliveries into the big cities by sprinkling the roads with nails.
Re: 150 million doors
I lived in a rural community in which nearly every family was armed. Our town had **no** police force. We had a contract with the county force and that county police force was minimal. On the rare occasion of a serious crime the county called in the state police to do the investigation.
Essentially, the citizens policed themselves.
If there were gun confiscation, I seriously doubt that the tiny number of county police officers would cooperate and it would be an impossible task even if they wanted cooperate.
This explains the purpose of big art. It's a psychological surreption of power.
Maybe Roger Kimball's magazine or Roger Scruton has an essay in this vein, but I'm afraid there are precious few "conservatives" who have time for a philosophy of art.
You could glean some ideas from the Southern Agrarians, maybe from Richard Weaver, certainly from Donald Davidson (The Southern Tradition at Bay), but not specifically on this point, a point which may be the common sense conclusion after reading political writers like Vaclav Havel, von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Robert Tucker, and a good many others.
1. If you believe that bunch of Bovine Scatology , then I can sell you some bridges in NYC. 2. If the Government really had that type of technology (Which they don’t) they would have done it already. 3. The DemocRATS will say and do anything and everything to disarm God-Fearing Law-Abiding AMERICAN CITIZENS since we are the ones who are a danger to them and their allies. (I.E. The Criminal, Illegal Alien and Terrorists that they need to create more Laws against us but that they and their allies will not follow as they are above the law.
This is a good point. There is a whole segment of the population with little or nothing to lose. And that population is the patriot seniors.
The strong arm that they will put on the seniors is through healthcare. "I'm sorry, Mr. Jones but we will not be able to treat your cancer because it shows here that you own a gun."
This puts the seniors in the "I'm gunna die anyway, I'm got nothing left to lose."
Seniors also know that complaining to a store clerk is not as good as complaining to the store manager." Efforts will be taken where they will do the most good.
Update: A number of commenters are misreading this article. The headline doesn’t say I’ll hand them them over — it says you will. And yeah, I’m trolling you a bit with the tone of this piece by saying what you “will” and “won’t” do, but it’s because I’m trying to slap you awake. The main point that’s being made is this: if you’re waiting for a door-to-door confiscation, or even a national gun registry, then you’ll be waiting forever.
The government "might" use underhanded tools they alone have like freezing your assets, taking your children from you, finding other ways to strongarm you into giving up 'your' guns without them ever coming to your house to take them. They 'can' use the law for nefarious purposes. We've seen them do it in the past. The Patriot Act is one biggie.
I believe the author's purpose is as stated; to wake people up from thinking jack-booted thugs from the government will be sent to our homes. They won't. They will use the force of law because they make the laws. It won't happen overnight either but they can attempt to do it like this. If they do then the already happening civil war will be taken to the next level. You can guess what that might be. I'm not sure this would be called a civil war; maybe more like revolutionary war II or simply Freedom War 1. Now if we are fighting antifa and other commie left wing groups at the same time then it will also be a civil war.
“I, AB, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.” This section does not affect other oaths required by law.
The oath of office has been taken by millions of people form the President down to the lowest government employee.
Thank you. These are writers I will explore.
Thank you.
When my husband and I travel we enjoy going to the galleries.
The only purpose of the government and university museums is to shock, offend, and shove a finger in the eye of the museum attendee. We have completely given up on them. Why pay money and waste the time of our precious lives to see this offal?
Is it any wonder that enrollment in university art programs is declining and atelier attendance is soaring? I don’t think so.
Again we agree but how many of those government employees take that oath to heart since thousands, probably tens of thousands, are woke radical leftists like Lois Lerner and James Comey? Those two are just the tips of the icebergs. Even when I was in the military I could tell a lot of my fellow enlisted men and women were using their military service as a means to an end. I’m pretty sure they didn’t take their oaths as seriously as you and I did. I don’t fault them for using the military as a stepping stone; but I know their heart wasn’t into it. Most of those who were drafted in wars probably didn’t take their oaths seriously either. A lot of them in their 60’s and older still wear a pony tail to show their rebellious nature to the military while at the same time milking it for everything they can.
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