Any confiscation will be “voluntary.” It will start by a campaign to make people feel guilty about owning certain types of guns. It will then expand to all guns. The state government will continue to use the guilt angle as they enact law that slowly squeeze the law abiding to freely give up their guns. Once in a while there will be a high profile event of confiscation, just to show that it can be done. To avoid a massive shootout, the rest of us need to give up our guns voluntarily. This incident will likely happen in a rural area where things can be controlled better. It would never work in a suburb because it is too hard to control and they would have to deal with neighbors coming to the aid of the target. Think Ruby Ridge.
Once a majority of guns have been collected, that’s when the boot comes down on those of us that refused to comply.
They have already started by demonizing certain types of guns like the AR. They have been setting up voluntary gun points in cities throughout the US. They are using mass media to make guns look evil. Kids are indoctrinated daily about how a civilized society needs no personal protection, 911 is their savior in a crisis. It is all too scripted to be accidental.
OK, let’s assume for a moment that 90% of the 80 million gun owners in the country can be guilted into giving up hunting, giving up protecting themselves or their families, giving up on their Constitutional rights, etc., and turn in their guns.
That leaves 8 million legal gun owners.
Where will the personnel come from to go to their homes and businesses and take their guns?
Also, your guilt campaign idea is, with all due respect, ludicrous. We only reduced cigarette use by convincing people it would kill them slowly, and they’re going to be guilted into giving up weapons that will save their lives? We can’t even eliminate drunk driving after decades of ads focused on the damage caused by it and even a campaign that subtly implied it was OK to smack someone around if it kept them from driving drunk. What will be the ad campaign that makes a strong 2nd Amendment supporter give up his AR? “Look at this carnage caused by a mentally ill person who had a gun he legally never could possess. Since he did this to six year olds, you should give up the rifle you use to shoot tin cans.”
Um...no. Not happening. And please, don’t post back to me as if I said the libs don’t want to take our guns, I know they do, I’m just against coming up with scenarios they will not try and cannot try instead of figuring out what their real next move will be.
Anyone dumb enough to be guilt-ed out of their weapon(s) is probably not bright enough to own one in the first place.