Posted on 08/01/2011 9:32:52 PM PDT by Kartographer
I am speaking of PEER PRESSURE. The constant harping by those that love us, to “give in”, for the good of the all. How do you think they will come at us, directly? It is much easier to have “spies” within our circle of trust, that first report our activities, then direct action to “save us” from the direct action. People will tell where the guns are, then plead for you to just put them in the “gun lockers” provided by the govt. The penalty for not complying will be both loss of weapons, and loss of freedom. So they will be in fact “helping you” as they see it.
Yes, and the sheeples don't even know what a huge trick has been played on them.
I remember having a long, drawn out debate with my sister about Socialism within our government. I tried to show her that nothing in our Constitution gives the federal government the power to take the property of one citizen and give it to another.
Now, understand that this is a woman who is in her late forties, but she was thrown for a loop by the fact that the government has no such authority, and further, that the Constitution is something more than a quaint old document that is little more than an historical curiosity today.
I think you’re projecting your own fearful mindset onto your fellow Americans.
Not everyone is as afraid of big brother as you are, nor would most people succumb to the frightened pleadings of their paranoid relatives to “give up your guns”, as you imagine they would.
If that were true, big brother would have rounded up all the guns a long, long time ago. They’ve never attempted such a thing, because they understand the American character a bit better than you do, and value their lives.
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