However, one must be careful with drawing a direct analogy. Those guns facing capture by the Brit government were aggregated in one known spot and had to be either moved to a new location or defended with force.
On the other hand, the situation today is quite different, there are millions of guns in question and they are nicely scattered and distributed around the country in places largely unknown to the gun-grabbers. That makes for a very difficult task for the lefties.
The best strategy at this stage for 2A supporters is to use civil disobedience to prevent the gun-grabbers from knowing where they are -- any regulations which call for gun registration must be ignored by all gun-owners.
Civil disobedience is a very powerful tool - it pushed the British out of India and gained civil rights for blacks in the South. It also ended gun registration in Canada.
Very good point & right you are! And lobby, lobby, lobby our state legislatures/ governors. It’s a different world from the American Revolution & the War of Northern Aggression.
The left never thinks things through. Well, other than to connive their way into getting what they want. That’s why the (unintended) consequences are always so devastating.
Yes, but like most tools it has limitations.
No one now, nor likely in April 1775, wants to start shooting their fellow citizen. But there is only so much civil disobedience before Liberty is forcibly removed, or forcibly preserved.
The choke point today is FFLs: the source of new guns & ammo is licensed dealers, who can be hassled into oblivion. Yes that leaves lots in private hands, but the dynamics change when there are just no more gun shops.
Communists and leftist dictators don't give a damn about civil disobedience. Such protests only work on men who have hearts, and who are basically good. Leftists laugh at such pathetic displays of resistance.
Go ahead and stage a peaceful protest in the public square when the federal jackboots show up to disarm your town. You and your fellow pacifists will be hauled off to Obama's FEMA gulags, never to be seen again.
So what EXACTLY do you have in mind?
Will I have to miss work? If your plan is for this weekend, I can't make it because we're heading up to the university to see our son.............
Can you postpone it till next weekend? I don't think our other son has any hockey plans for then...........Oops, wait a minute, we're going to the Detroit Auto Show on Saturday.
Is Sunday good for you?
They know it - that's why when the Gandhi of Gun Rights emerges, they'll perform a Ruby Ridge on him.
Civil disobedience has to be organic and leaderless - like the Tea Party in the beginning (remember how terrified the Left was of them, at first...)