That would be nice! Government reduction in action. How it will be done would be quite different.
First there would be the voluntary turn-in which will fail. Then the ATF will descend on the various FFL license holders and rescind their licenses and collect up all of their sales paperwork which then give them the address and names of gun-buyers/owners.
That’s when the hue and cry will become intense. After that all bets are off, unlike in Soviet Russia when the KGB came for the “dissidents” one by one we now have better communication methods. And yes, the Government CAN turn off the internet and cell phones etc., word of mouth still exists and rumors and gossip still seem to travel at the speed of light.
I wonder if the media would be invited to come along to record Uncle Joe and Aunt Edna’s home being raided by SWAT and their bodies brought out in body-bags because they were “Evil” gun owners. How will that play in the community? Who would be next? At what point will the body count exceed the number of children and adults at Sandy Hook Elementary in whose name this is being done? When would the tables turn on the grabbers? When would the Civil War start?
I wrote the following for another thread last week before Sandy Hook occurred, it seems even more prescient now.
I’ve been thinking about the possibility of an upcoming civil war. Any thinking, feeling human being should be scared out of their wits of the thought of one. With that said though... I have to admit that it’s pretty much inevitable. There is too much anger, too much hatred, too much loathing that has been building up for years now.
How it will start I have no idea, but unlike the last time it won’t be a war between the states. This time it will be a war on a true civil scale, neighbors or neighborhoods against each other, the citizenry against the bureaucracy. I feel that once it starts it will be true anarchy before the sides coalesce.
Historically most civil wars are instigated by the intelligentsia and some of the “upper crust” who for various reasons want to put themselves up even higher on the ladder looking down at the peons they have fooled into supporting the. In many ways this one is going to come about the same way. The College Professors who promote Marxist ideas, the MSM journalists and commentators that spread the ideas even further by slanted or even false news stories and memes.
And finally by our own elected officials and unelected bureaucrats in government. They do it by making up even more oppressive laws and regulations and turning the government into a “protection racket” demanding more and more money and resources all of the time to feed it’s unending appetites.
So how it will start is still unknown, how it will end is also. All I do know is that no one will emerge unscathed if it does.
I agree with you entirely which is why anyone but a sociopath would stop “nudging”. Zero isn’t just any old sociopath. He wants to see if he can out do Uncle Joe, Mao, Hitler, all of them. Sort of like a high school punk who puts “anarchist” on his FB page wants to see if he can do better than Kleebold. Sick bastards, all of them.