[Shadowstrike]

Scary, but not surprising.

All I do know is that if this were to begin, the streets would run red with blood.

Not everyone in America would act like sheeple.

It would be a sad, sad day.

[Chode]

and they will go after the Randy Weavers and David Koreshs FIRST... and leave the Bloods and the Crips and MS13 for last!!!

[B.O. Plenty]

This guy will no doubt reconsider disarmament when the muzzie knife touches his throat....but alas, it will be too late.

This guy is nuts, pure and simple.

[Jewels1091]

why don’t people like this go live in england???

[11B40]

What a moron. What makes Dan Simpson think that gun owners would take this lying down. I suspect that civil authorities as well as the gun grabbing goons involved in confiscation would find themselves to be targeted by gun owners. I mean targeted in the literal sense. Such attempts at disarmament would precipitate a civil insurrection. There is no way the gun grabbers would live to see such a hare brained scheme to completion. Just my opinion but with tens of millions of gun owners a significant percentage would resist to the death.

[mo]

the sad thing is this traitor sincerely thinks he’s an American......good luck!!!

[Eastbound]

“IF” is the wrong premise to begin with. Where does this loon think he’s living? New Orleans?

[verum ago]

Wait... does this come before or after the author’s fantasy where everyone gets together to burn copies of the Constitution in a bonfire with Königgrätzer Marsch blaring in the background?

[chuckles]

I didn't read where the massacres of the confiscators would make the gubmint impotent in about a week. I believe in 1 city block of my neighborhood, there would probably be more guns than the confiscators have. To disarm my town of about 2500, the gubmint would have to bring in at least 5000 with armor. I'm just not sure they want 10-12-Waco's a week. We only have 150k in Iraq, so even double that with police and the like, you still come up short of about 100 million owners.

They also forget that the locals know who and where the gun grabbers are. We know where their families are. If they are having trouble disarming Iraq, I think they would have more here.

I made the statement about knowing who the gungrabers were and where their families live when Klintoon was prez and a Freeper said "That wasn't very nice to say". If you come after me and mine, it won't be free for you. A few free militia trials and executions for treason and I think they will lose their desire for my guns. Most police and chiefs in Texas don't fear the citizens with guns. I think there will be more people than they realize that took their oath of office seriously about defending the Constitution. My guess is the country would come apart at the seams and it would end in a few days when the folly of their actions were realized. If not, we will just eliminate the Dems and get the country back.

This is the ULTIMATE reason for the 2nd Amendment in the first place. The founders didn't mention hunters, or even home invaders, but they realized a armed citizenry would never allow the country to be overturned by tyrants. ALL of our freedoms come from the 2nd Amendment. Without the right to protect ourselves, we have NO freedom. If somehow they convinced enough people to volunteer to give up their guns, then maybe it would be possible. Just think about Australia or Briton right now. They all feel comfy without any protection, but sooner or later the EU or the government will do something they won't like. They have NO recourse. The military would have to have a coup to stop it. What are the odds?

[69ConvertibleFirebird]

WHile we’re throwing the Constitution out lets prosecute all liberals for their thoughts and actions as well. Make liberal speech illegal! Gee! This is fun!!! (moron, liberal, writer)

[JillValentine]

Read this book, if you haven't already!

[RichInOC]

Mmyeah. Good luck with that.

[SteveMcKing]

"Dan"

[69ConvertibleFirebird]

I e-mailed him the following:

Dear Mr. Simpson,

I read your fascinating editorial and wonder which other parts of the constitution should be discarded. Lets change one word in two of your sentences to see what happens:

The silencing process would begin after the initial three-month amnesty. Special squads of police would be formed and trained to carry out the work.

Yes, lets all follow your lead and make liberal, moronic, speech, illegal (oops... sorry, you go to jail). So what if it's protected by the Constitution. We're enlightened people with better ideas than those on that silly old parchment, right?

Yes, this is all quite like Hitler...

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Nothing new. These same ideas were being floated about in 1968.

Now, let me tell you how it should be done. Give a warning, “Turn your guns by such and such a date or else.”
Then descend on that town with house to house searches. Anyone with a firearm is immediately shot.
Then go to the next town, do the same. By the third town you will find more and more guns piled up for confiscation.

Never discount the influence of a wife on her gun owning husband.

Or the citizens could fire on the “police” doing the searches but then the Government could claim such towns are in insurrection against the Government, then they could bring in the Army to do the dirty work.

[Bommer]

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.

Oh no! Boy if I was a career criminal, I would really fear getting fined and going to jail! What a dumbass!

[swaimh]

Yeah, let’s just get rid of those pesky 2nd and 4th Amendments while we’re at it.

[MaDeuce]

Yes ... a crazy Nazi like scam this lunatic is talking about, BUT, may I point out to you folks something that is beginning to unfold right now across the country.

If you are a gun owner and regularly go to the range and use a lot of ammo, I am sure you don’t need me to tell you about the outrageous price increases for ammo (approx 300% in the past 2 years), especially surplus .223 and .308 and .50BMG (my favorite). But for you who do not shoot regularly this is a very real problem.

Also, for us who reload a lot; brass, primers, power, and even bullets are increasing in cost at geometric rates! There are “shortages” of many common calibers (e.g. 50BMG primers are almost non existent).

What a gov’t can do is say “yeah, go ahead and keep your guns ... but you can’t buy any more ammo and reloading components”. Over time ammo will be as expensive as cocaine and no one will ever go and shoot what they have, if they have anything at all.

One of the big problems is the UN forcing countries to sign treaties saying they will not sell surplus military ammo to the US or any other country. E.g. South Africa did this recently and I believe Spain and Portugal did also.

They don’t have to take our guns, they just have to buy up all of the US production and/or make it illegal to purchase ammo and components.

[Mensius]

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.

But we can't deport illegal aliens?

[Ronin]

Even in the advent of an out-and-out Communist takeover of the country and the willing cooperation of the US Army (which would never happen) this would be a total bloodbath and it still wouldn’t work.

Unbelievable!!!

What fantasy universe is this guy inhabiting. There ain’t no way you could get enough cops to volunteer for this kind of duty. They know they are outgunned.