What we have now is a lot of people knowing their rights and no one doing anything to protect them.
We really are too nice a people, we put up with so much outrage and just take it. I wonder when the first citizen will kill a gun confiscating LEO and if we would ever know it happened. Probably would if the practice spread, it could turn into a mini war. I'm not hoping for this by the way; I hope it doesn't happen.
Here's a an interesting hypothetical, if battles did break out between people fed up with the gun confiscation, and the feds, would the feds know to back down and go away? Or would they have to show who's the boss ala waco? And if they did the latter, how does that bode for the rest of us? How long would it take before our own people in N.O. are termed insurgents and terrorists because they don't want to leave their property or be disarmed? Is it our government anymore if that were to happen?
The gummint knows our rights as well, and it is not doing anything to protect them either. Isn't that what it is hired to do?
To be clear, we installed gummint to protect our right to protect ourselves -- not to protect our lives.
The immediate solution to this fiasco is to call for the dis-armament of all gummint employees, federal, state and local.
It's time for the people to resume the responsibility of protecting ourselves, our property, and our neighborhood. We've been out of the loop too long and have suffered the consequences of our laziness and dependence on gummint far too long.
If that is not evident to all by now it will never be.