However, talk is cheap. I would have thought that most of them good ol boys down in the area of the Big Easy aka New Orleans would have let the lead fly over that atrocity against the BOR after Hurricane Katrina. Yet they didn't. Why? It's easy to lay your own skin on the line, especially if you live alone and are childless. But when they (whomever "they" might be) come for your guns it won't be at high noon with a lot of pomp and circumstance. It'll be a "no-knock" raid at 0300 HRS and they'll come in hard. Are you willing to sacrifice your wife and kids in the massacre sure to occur once you open fire? If you reply YES at once, you're lying and you haven't thought it thru.
It's really easy for folks like us to declare that When they finally DO get my guns they're going to be WARMER than me! In the next instant I have this image of the rest of my innocent family lying bullet riddled in pools of their own blood and I'm having all too natural second thoughts. So I can honestly say that until I'm faced with the exact moment in time, I don't really know what I'll do. However I do know what I'll be prepared to do. Uncertain outcomes do not negate complete preparations! As my students love to say: You feel me, dude?
I just like to say to them: “ I’m willing to die to protect the second amendment: are you willing to die trying to take it away from me?
Such raids won't occur in a vacuum. A law will have to be passed first, then be on hold a bit while challenged in court with a restraining order. Even without the court thing, you and the rest of us will have warning.
Knowing some of the people on this thread, the SWAT teams will find empty homes, or homes emptied of guns with genuine looking bill of sale for all firearms known by the BATF to be owned by those in the house. Oh, and those who order the SWAT into action will also probably have trouble sleeping, knowing that they and their families are also at risk.
Yep, and I appreciate your candor. All of my friends and family know where I stand, and many on FR too.
I've been in bad situations before, and I'm typing here and now. Sure, it's possible to be ambushed, but I've been in those situations before also.
I'm not a young buck anymore, but nobody leaves this planet alive anyway. I would prefer SCOTUS to uphold the Constitution, but from what I've seen the last 40 years or more, well, you just don't know.
Again, I appreciate your post.
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