As time has gone on, I don’t know if I agree. I think a lot of this will be veiled by politically-correct speech. People will be guilted into giving up their weapons. At some point, neighbors and children will be asked to give up information on their friends and family.
If the states don’t start standing up for their citizens, they’re going to become irrelevant. That’s really my biggest fear at this point. We are relatively insulated from the Feds unless and until the states just roll over to their demands.
I love my governor, Scott, but he’s not shown me that he’s willing to fight “city hall,” if you will.
All of this is underway already. Obama doesn’t have the military, so I don’t personally see anything happening by force. The armed “wannabes” at DHS and other alphabet agencies are not trained urban fighters, they’re desk jockeys for the most part, and they won’t last long against a pissed off and well armed citizenry.
So, the left will use what the left always uses: Informers and guilt and political correctness to achieve what cannot be done by force. It will take another generation or two, but they mean to make it happen. Some of the nonsense in Common Core is frightening, but they are indoctrinating our children and there doesn’t seem to be a way to stop it. The second amendment, and the Constitution itself are particularly targeted in that curriculum.
We’ve had soldiers die on foreign soil to protect our rights. I suppose if it came to gun confiscation, some of us will die on our doorsteps doing the same.
One of the first things I learned at my sainted mother's knee was OPSEC.
Don't tell anyone anything they don't need to know, especially about the stuff you may have (or anyone else in the family), especially arms and other things of value. You never know who might be listening in, and even worse who'll go flapping their lips all over town or worse (social media).
I taught my kids and grandkids exactly how many people it takes to keep a secret: "One. Any more, and it isn't secret any more."
If it happens within these walls, it stays here. It ain't nobody's business but our own. We'll solve our problems with as little outside "help" as possible.
Beware of school assignments which want a floor plan, want to know what you own, ask about guns, or income level, or valuables, or how many TVs you have. That ploy goes back to the '60s. I drew up a fine floor plan. I don't know if anyone ever built a house like that, but I never lived in it.
Encourage your kids to do the same, teach them to resist peer pressure. Teach them right and wrong, and 'mom's simple rule': "When you doubt something is a good idea, don't do it."
'Guilting' is only a cheap PSYOP to deprive you of something you need not feel guilty about in the first place--know it for what it is. Learn to resist other people taking you on a guilt trip--especially when it is fueled by their fear or envy.
It doesn't bother me to go against the flow. I have been right before, when all around me doubted that.
Besides, if the current fad is to disarm, I think you'll find the normal rebelliousness of kids will make them want to do just the opposite.
As for us older buzzards, I worked for it, I bought it, and as far as I am concerned, it's grandfathered in. I'm not giving anything up that was legal when I got it without a fight.