You got it.
Put a frog in boiling water, he’ll jump out. Put a frog in cool water and turn on the heat, he’ll sit there and be boiled alive.
That’s precisely how we got into the position we’re in now: everyone wetting themselves over whether their state is a “shall issue” state or a “may issue” state, and feeling happily chuffed when everyone in the state who wants one can get a carry permit - with fingerprints, fees, mandated training, registered address, and all the rest of the State apparatus.
No one seems to question why we need permits to exercise rights bestowed on Man by God.
As if by reflex, everyone now dutifully hies himself or herself off to the authorities to get his/her ticket. It’s a process of slow, but inexorable, desensitization to Second Amendment encroachments by the State.
They’ll never come for the guns. It won’t happen. They’ll tax them. They’ll tax ammunition. If you don’t pay the tax, they’ll put a lien on your house or attach your paycheck. Next, they’ll demand each and every weapon be registered. The registration fees will be “reasonable” at first; but eventually they’ll increase to the point where nobody can pay them.
Numbered records; everything computerized.
Slowly but inexorably, people will simply give up.
Sure, there will be holdouts - but with all the hassles and all the social and financial sanctions, they’ll diminish in numbers by the sheer attrition of ageing and impatience.
Wait and see. Ten years; twenty years. In fifty years, the United Nations will be running the United States, and the constitution - already fallen severely into disuse - will be nothing more than a quaint historical curiosity.
Look around; here, there... Europe, the United States... people don’t WANT to take repsonsibility for their own lives. They WANT Big Brother to run their lives FOR them. Orwell’s vision isn’t something that will overpower the citizenry; it won’t arrive by virtue of conquest or even a growing tyranny; the people will ask for it - heck, they’ll DEMAND it - and they’ll applaud it when it arrives.
Look around, it’s already here. Compare the freedoms Americans enjoyed just fifty or sixty years ago with the present situation. Adolf Hitler on his wildest, most imaginative day, never even DREAMED of submitting the German state and the German people to the sorts of controls which all Americans now take utterly - and blithely - for granted.
Too cynical? Sorry to ruffle any feathers. Just the humble opinion of a newswatcher, after all.
Exactly, that is why all this bravado is so silly, no one will lift a finger, why? there were never be a focus point that causes it, in fact, one might say the battle has already one, it’s only the details that need carrying out. Very well said “Jack Hammer”.