Posted on 12/31/2012 9:54:19 AM PST by marktwain
Let me explain, gun grabbers, how your confiscatory fantasy plays out. Let us imagine for a moment that a sweeping gun control bill similar to the one currently suggested is passed by the House and Senate, and signed into law by a contemptuous President.
Perhaps 50-100 million firearms currently owned by law-abiding citizens will become contraband with the stroke of a pen. Citizens will either register their firearms, or turn them in to agents of the federal government, or risk becoming criminals themselves. Faced with this choice, millions will indeed register their arms. Perhaps as many will claim they’ve sold their arms, or had them stolen. Suppose that as many as 200-250 million weapons of other types will go unregistered.
Tens of millions of Americans will refuse to comply with an order that is clearly a violation of the explicit intent of the Second Amendment. Among the most ardent opposing these measures will be military veterans, active duty servicemen, and local law enforcement officers. Many of these individuals will refuse to carry out what they view as Constitutionally illegal orders. Perhaps 40-50 million citizens will view such a law as treason. Perhaps ten percent of those, 4-5 million, would support a rebellion in some way, and maybe 40,000-100,000 Americans will form small independently-functioning active resistance cells, or become lone-wolves.
They will be leaderless, stateless, difficult to track, and considering the number of military veterans that would likely be among their number, extremely skilled at sabotage, assassination, and ambush.
After a number of carefully-planned, highly-publicized, and successful raids by the government, one or more will invariably end “badly.” Whether innocents are gunned down, a city block is burned to ash, or especially fierce resistance leads to a disastrously failed raid doesn’t particularly matter.
(Excerpt) Read more at bob-owens.com ...
Gun registration is gun confiscation:
http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2012/12/gun-registration-is-gun-confiscation.html
Expect a rash of boating accidents...
These people should be looking over their shoulders everywhere they go.
This is not going to bode well for them. But hey, go ahead.
From the article:
“While the Secret Service will be able to protect the President in the White House, he will not dare leave his gilded cage except in carefully controlled circumstances. Even then he will be forced to move like a criminal. He will never be seen outdoors in public again. Not in this country.”
You mean the 0ne would have to give up golf? That won’t be pretty.....
www.zjstech.net/~ddixson/Unintended_Consequences.pdf
There’s something deeply gratifying in reading this piece. I doubt it happens. Hoping it doesn’t, but I think there are enough people who enjoy liberty that they won’t give it up without vengeance.
I posted this yesterday:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2973374/posts
Gun confiscation is like making cars illegal to drive due to drunk drivers killing an estimate of 16,000 people killed...
Or Abortions - that kill an estimate of 1.2 million babies a yr...
But oh no...can’t have a weapon in the house that is similar to that of a soldier’s M4...
Great post...I hope this doesn’t happen and WASH DC concentrates on national debt and the future of the Republic that is the US...(HOPE) is the key word...
First and formost the military is about to be bankrupted and defunded by the same arrogant elitists trying to take our freedom.
Secondly, and most importantly, the hostile nations salivating at the demise of the USA.
The unknown factor of outside influence is what will tip the scales one way or another.
Many in the pentagon will sacrifice Dear leader for their families safety when the threat from without grows.
I posted this yesterday:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2973374/posts
Gun confiscation is like making cars illegal to drive due to drunk drivers killing an estimate of 16,000 people...
Or Abortions - that kill an estimate of 1.2 million babies a yr...
But oh no...can’t have a weapon in the house that is similar to that of a soldier’s M4...
Great post...I hope this doesn’t happen and WASH DC concentrates on national debt and the future of the Republic that is the US...(HOPE) is the key word...
No law can overturn the Bill of Rights. The only thing that can change the 2nd amendment is another amendment.
Henry Bowman will be VERY VERY busy feeding the hogs.
One could always just start handing out the goodies to the local urban outdoors-men.
They don’t have a couple of generations to wait. We are on the threshold of individual manufacturing of weapons as easy as downloading a file and printing it out. Obviously this is not mature today, but it won’t be too many years for the costs to come down and for the technology to spread and go through rapid improvement. The traditional regimes of manufacturing control and distribution control won’t work against this.
That’s a pretty good article. Thanks!
Exactly. The aim is to kill off the mind-set and thinking behind gun ownership. It is to kill independent, self-reliant, empowered thinking and behavior via law. It seems to have worked well in Kalifornia.
The people and organizations doing this told us in the 50s and 60s how they would take us down from the inside, via the schools, media, and courts. Then they started doing it. The symbol of the firearm is about the last source of resistance to their takeover. The very idea of firearm ownership is itself a major thorn in their side, even if an individual doesn’t even own a firearm.
I think it’s safe to say weapons manufacturing will be the keystone of the revolution in 3D printing, just as porn was the primary driving force in the creation of the internet we know today.
“First and formost the military is about to be bankrupted and defunded by the same arrogant elitists trying to take our freedom.”
Yes and this happened in Germany (1918), Russia (1917) and France (1788) and if you know history that did not bode well for elitists. It is tipping that way.
“We are on the threshold of individual manufacturing of weapons as easy as downloading a file and printing it out.”
I think this one would do it. Note that in one configuartion this is both an additive AND a subtractive CNC device. It would take more than one file, but with this, both the plastic AND the metal parts can probably be done on one machine. The only thing that probably can’t be done with this is the barrel.
http://store.qu-bd.com/product.php?id_product=45
I wish I could have taken mine in the boat......they were all stolen...Darn it.
“Secondly, and most importantly, the hostile nations salivating at the demise of the USA.”
In all liklihood, foreign powers would stay out (with troops and substantial support to one side) as they did in CW1; it’s always better to wait for the outcome before intervening in a civil war.
However, I would not rule out covert support for the rebels. If China wants to invade Taiwan and expand its influence in the Pacific, a US CW2 is great. China could further destabilize the US by demanding payment on our bonds. Russia may seek to expand in the artic and may actually to fund the independent Alaska independence movement with arms and supplies.
Once these things are seen by the military, a coup become a distinct possiblity. What happens after that is anyone’s guess. But, that being said I would certainly take my chances on a military dictator over 0bama. 0bama has an evil streak as evidenced by the fact that he has no problems with the death of US diplomats and border agents if it serves his purposes. So, IMO, 0bama does have the personality charcteristic needed to carry out the murder of Americans.
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