Posted on 04/29/2007 7:22:34 PM PDT by grundle
When people talk about doing something about guns in America, one of the points that comes to the fore is, "How could America disarm even if it wanted to? There are so many guns out there." Today I want to address the question of "how" -- if we decided to. Since I have little or no power to influence the "if" part of the issue, I will stick with "how."
Now, how would one disarm the American population? First of all, federal or state laws would need to make it a crime punishable by a $1,000 fine and one year in prison per weapon to possess a firearm. The population would then be given three months to turn in their guns, without penalty.
The disarmament process would begin after the initial three-month amnesty. Special squads of police would be formed and trained to carry out the work. Then, on a random basis to permit no advance warning, city blocks and stretches of suburban and rural areas would be cordoned off and searches carried out in every business, dwelling and empty building. Thoroughness would be at the level of the sort of search that is carried out in Crime Scene Investigations. All firearms would be seized. The owners of weapons found in the searches would be prosecuted: $1,000 and one year in prison for each firearm.
Clearly, since such sweeps could not take place all across a city, county, state or the country at the same time, guns would move. But fairly quickly there would begin to be gun-swept, gun-free areas where there should be no firearms. If there were, those carrying them would be subject to quick confiscation and prosecution. On the streets it would be a question of stopping and searching anyone, even Grandma with her walker.
(Excerpt) Read more at post-gazette.com ...
That was pretty much what I was thinking, too. Not only will many citizens defend their rights, they will pro-actively remove the threat to those liberties. That means that gungrabbers of all stripes will not be safe...anywhere.
Sounds like it might be a good opportunity to prune some dead wood while we are at it, too.
Depressing but true. They'll ban all firearm sales to civilians as well.
I think The Gipper said it best:
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”
The disarmament process would begin after the initial three-month amnesty. Special squads of police would be formed and trained to carry out the work. Then, on a random basis to permit no advance warning, city blocks and stretches of suburban and rural areas would be cordoned off and searches carried out in every business, dwelling and empty building.
And civil war would begin almost immediately. Cops on these task forces will become the highest mortality job in the nation.
Can you see them trying this in South Central LA or Texas for God's sakes? These cops would get wasted on sight.
I can just see a lot of police officers and politicians getting their homes burned down and vehicles set on fire if this was ever implemented.
“Still, like frogs in a slowly boiling pot, we surrender right after right, community after community and principle after principle, to the treasonous left without so much as a stern warning.”
My thoughts exactly. We talk tough but how many among us, faced with the loss of our freedom to keep and bear arms, would actually point a loaded gun at the liberal’s thugs robot and pull the trigger?
but....but....our “fine” city was just voted “most livable”???? That has to count for something, right??? ;-)!
The cover was actually designed several years before the Elian incident. The author, John Ross, when questioned about it, commented that life imitates art.
"If you LIKE the War on Drugs
You'll LOVE the War on Guns!"
(Weirdly enough, a few of the lefty types I know are themselves cop-hating, gun-owning anarchists who'd probably fight just as hard against this sort of police-state insanity as any Freeper. Politics makes strange bedfellows indeed...)
By the third town you'd hear the 2nd shot heard around the world.
I just emailed the retard and told him “just try and take my gun,you idiot”. And I am a 67 yr old female.
The Congress that passed such a law and the president who signed and enforced it would be thrown out at the next election, and the politicians know it.
SHALL. NOT. BE. INFRINGED.
Is he willing to give up the First Amendment, too?
What a load of very un-American crap.
He hasn’t been to the UK or Australia lately, has he?
That's primarily due to the unprecedented increase in the market price of metals such as copper, zinc, and tin and the alloys that are made from them. I don't believe this has anything to do with the government making ammo more expensive or reducing the number of privately owned guns. It's mostly the fault of higher demand for those metals caused by the rapidly growing industrial capacity of China, India, and other former 3rd world nations that are fast becoming manufacturing powerhouses. Copper futures, which is needed to make brass cases, primers, and copper jacketed bullets, are at an all time high and still rising. So don't expect to see any cheap ammo or brass cases anytime soon, or probably never.
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