“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.” ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
When they come for the guns we might as well go down fighting, because they're eventually going to kill us anyway.
There are 100,000,000 gun owners in this country. The math is promising.
Imagine if the cops were ordered to start confiscation of weapons in Everytown, USA. Then imagine if there was 250 teams of men and women who decided to shoot one policeman in their city/town/community each day until confiscation of weapons halted. How long do you think it would be before you wouldn’t be able to find a single solitary cop IN UNIFORM anywhere? Would you drive an official cop car on patrol if you knew someone in your town was going to use it as a target that day?
Those are the things my local cops discuss. Interesting, huh?