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An interesting view. I suspect that what the left is concerned about is not so much the existence of the firearms, but their legality. Make them illegal or registered, it does not matter. Then it is only a matter of a couple of generations, and you reduce gun ownership to political insignificance without door to door confiscations.

Gun registration is gun confiscation:

http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2012/12/gun-registration-is-gun-confiscation.html

1 posted on 12/31/2012 9:54:25 AM PST by marktwain
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Expect a rash of boating accidents...


2 posted on 12/31/2012 10:02:46 AM PST by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (Some cultures are destined to remain stupid and we need to quit trying to uplift them.)
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These people should be looking over their shoulders everywhere they go.

This is not going to bode well for them. But hey, go ahead.


3 posted on 12/31/2012 10:02:58 AM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal The 16th Amendment!)
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From the article:
“While the Secret Service will be able to protect the President in the White House, he will not dare leave his gilded cage except in carefully controlled circumstances. Even then he will be forced to move like a criminal. He will never be seen outdoors in public again. Not in this country.”
You mean the 0ne would have to give up golf? That won’t be pretty.....


4 posted on 12/31/2012 10:07:16 AM PST by STYRO (Hope you takers don't expect us producers to defend you. War sucks most for the losers.)
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Not unlike the story available here.

www.zjstech.net/~ddixson/Unintended_Consequences.pdf

5 posted on 12/31/2012 10:07:47 AM PST by Paladin2
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There’s something deeply gratifying in reading this piece. I doubt it happens. Hoping it doesn’t, but I think there are enough people who enjoy liberty that they won’t give it up without vengeance.


6 posted on 12/31/2012 10:10:44 AM PST by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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I posted this yesterday:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2973374/posts

Gun confiscation is like making cars illegal to drive due to drunk drivers killing an estimate of 16,000 people killed...

Or Abortions - that kill an estimate of 1.2 million babies a yr...

But oh no...can’t have a weapon in the house that is similar to that of a soldier’s M4...

Great post...I hope this doesn’t happen and WASH DC concentrates on national debt and the future of the Republic that is the US...(HOPE) is the key word...


7 posted on 12/31/2012 10:11:13 AM PST by BCW (http://babylonscovertwar.com/index.html)
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There is a few problems with Bob's vision.

First and formost the military is about to be bankrupted and defunded by the same arrogant elitists trying to take our freedom.

Secondly, and most importantly, the hostile nations salivating at the demise of the USA.

The unknown factor of outside influence is what will tip the scales one way or another.

Many in the pentagon will sacrifice Dear leader for their families safety when the threat from without grows.

8 posted on 12/31/2012 10:11:13 AM PST by exnavy (Fish or cut bait ...Got ammo, Godspeed!)
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I posted this yesterday:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2973374/posts

Gun confiscation is like making cars illegal to drive due to drunk drivers killing an estimate of 16,000 people...

Or Abortions - that kill an estimate of 1.2 million babies a yr...

But oh no...can’t have a weapon in the house that is similar to that of a soldier’s M4...

Great post...I hope this doesn’t happen and WASH DC concentrates on national debt and the future of the Republic that is the US...(HOPE) is the key word...


9 posted on 12/31/2012 10:11:35 AM PST by BCW (http://babylonscovertwar.com/index.html)
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No law can overturn the Bill of Rights. The only thing that can change the 2nd amendment is another amendment.


10 posted on 12/31/2012 10:12:31 AM PST by New Jersey Realist (America: home of the free because of the brave)
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I wouldn't be buying any bacon after this bill is passed and signed....

Henry Bowman will be VERY VERY busy feeding the hogs.

11 posted on 12/31/2012 10:13:17 AM PST by DCBryan1 (Look for the UNION label.....then buy something else!)
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They don’t have a couple of generations to wait. We are on the threshold of individual manufacturing of weapons as easy as downloading a file and printing it out. Obviously this is not mature today, but it won’t be too many years for the costs to come down and for the technology to spread and go through rapid improvement. The traditional regimes of manufacturing control and distribution control won’t work against this.


13 posted on 12/31/2012 10:14:14 AM PST by Dan Cooper
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That’s a pretty good article. Thanks!


14 posted on 12/31/2012 10:14:30 AM PST by Cyber Liberty (Obama considers the Third World morally superior to the United States.)
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Exactly. The aim is to kill off the mind-set and thinking behind gun ownership. It is to kill independent, self-reliant, empowered thinking and behavior via law. It seems to have worked well in Kalifornia.

The people and organizations doing this told us in the 50s and 60s how they would take us down from the inside, via the schools, media, and courts. Then they started doing it. The symbol of the firearm is about the last source of resistance to their takeover. The very idea of firearm ownership is itself a major thorn in their side, even if an individual doesn’t even own a firearm.


15 posted on 12/31/2012 10:18:48 AM PST by CPO retired
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Perhaps ten percent of those, 4-5 million, would support a rebellion in some way, and maybe 40,000-100,000 Americans will form small independently-functioning active resistance cells, or become lone-wolves.

Any "cell" with more than 3 people is inherrantly fragile, and most likely fed-infiltrated.

Shoot, shovel, shut up. Tell no one.

 

22 posted on 12/31/2012 10:50:27 AM PST by zeugma (Those of us who work for a living are outnumbered by those who vote for a living.)
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Not gonna happen. Not saying there won’t be some regs (probably on assalt weapons) but there is zero chance of significant regulation (a good thing). SCOTUS has already ruled on the primary issue, courts are following that ruling, legislatures (for the most part) aren’t regulating guns, it won’t pass Congress, etc, etc, etc.

Furthermore, if anyone thinks that gun owners are going to stand against a government as powerful as the U.S., and be successful on any level, they are under a severe delusion. Most gun owners won’t fight. Only a handful of military would join those that do fight. The government has tanks and drones and ... well the list goes on.

They will not take our guns away. Never gonna happen. But if they wanted to, they could easily do so. This isn’t Red Dawn.


23 posted on 12/31/2012 10:56:01 AM PST by RIghtwardHo
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As a thought exercise i suppose one of the first act of resistance would be the sabotage of the military equipment in the hands of non-military organizations such as the DHS, TSA, city police departments, etc.


24 posted on 12/31/2012 10:58:21 AM PST by WMarshal (Free citizen, never a subject or a civilian)
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STICK TO YOUR GUNS (written by Freeper)
28 posted on 12/31/2012 11:06:52 AM PST by SENTINEL (I lie, I cheat, I steal, I communize, I sacrifice unborn babies, I'm Harry Reid and I'm a mormon)
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" Among the most ardent opposing these measures will be military veterans, active duty servicemen, and local law enforcement officers. Many of these individuals will refuse to carry out what they view as Constitutionally illegal orders."

Bravo Sierra, there's no shortage of LEOs who will gleefully shoot a penned up Golden Retriever so I don't expect any problem getting unconstitutional orders obeyed.

30 posted on 12/31/2012 11:10:43 AM PST by muir_redwoods (Don't fire until you see the blue of their helmets)
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Bob explains that successful rebel operations would by highly publicized.

Knowing the media like we do, we know that such information would be suppressed, especially if the operations were successful.

If anything was publicized it would be nothing but pure propaganda villifying the rebels.


41 posted on 12/31/2012 11:25:18 AM PST by Ajnin (Neca eos omnes. Deus suos agnocet!)
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Well the first thing that would happen is a Federal class action lawsuit alleging 50 million “takings” that would tie-up the entire court system for about thirteen years.


43 posted on 12/31/2012 11:27:22 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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