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Daily Beast: Obama, Hillary Toying With ‘Civil War’ Over Gun Confiscation
Breitbart ^ | 11/02/15 | AWR Hawkins

Posted on 11/03/2015 5:10:27 AM PST by Enlightened1

On November 2, The Daily Beast pointed to recent statements from President Obama and Hillary Clinton regarding the implementation of Australian-style gun confiscation and suggested “civil war could erupt on American soil” if any administration actually tried to confiscate privately owned firearms.

The Daily Beast theoretically agreed that “confiscation on a massive scale” may be “the only way to solve American gun violence,” but they pointed out that it was not realistic and suggested Hillary risks causing irreparable divisions by talking about confiscation then mocking gun owners as conspiracy theorists waiting for “black helicopters” to come take their guns away.

According to The Daily Beast, confiscation was workable in Australia because there was no Second Amendment and the government only had to take 650,000 guns. That is a far cry from the “350 million” believed to be in Americans’ hands.

Yes, “350 million.”

But even more important than the number of guns is the depth of American “devotion” to them. And The Daily Beast observes that it is this devotion–this dedication to the philosophy and tradition underlying the right to keep and bear arms–that turns the mere mention of confiscation into something that could literally rip the country apart.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: 350million; banglist; bits; civilwar; confiscation; cwii; guncontrol; guns; styf; tyranny
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1 posted on 11/03/2015 5:10:28 AM PST by Enlightened1
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I wonder where they came up with the 350 million firearms number?


2 posted on 11/03/2015 5:11:44 AM PST by Enlightened1
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What is up with the ““” whenever we post an article lately?

It was never an issue in the past?


3 posted on 11/03/2015 5:12:59 AM PST by Enlightened1
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I can shoot down black helicopters....


4 posted on 11/03/2015 5:13:34 AM PST by Feckless (The US Gubbmint / This Tagline CENSORED by FR \ IrOnic, ain't it?)
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To: Enlightened1

They probably had to include all the guns that liberals own but didn’t want anybody to know about ;- )


5 posted on 11/03/2015 5:13:41 AM PST by Lake Living
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6 posted on 11/03/2015 5:15:15 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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It’s not mindless tradition - it is that we understand that we have the right to self defense, both from individual criminals and from a Totalitarian government. And a sign of a government headed to Totalitarianism is the desire to disarm the populace.


7 posted on 11/03/2015 5:16:18 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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Gun confiscation - never happen.


8 posted on 11/03/2015 5:17:01 AM PST by Jack Hammer
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It’s known, and supposedly JohnRob is working on it, from a post I saw from JimRob. It really is an annoyance.


9 posted on 11/03/2015 5:17:26 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Travis McGee
Short video by yours truly.


10 posted on 11/03/2015 5:17:34 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Enlightened1

One commentor thinks the police won’t come for our guns. Oh yes they will. Or the military. That’s more complicated.


11 posted on 11/03/2015 5:18:21 AM PST by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: Enlightened1

“Silly Back Helicopters” = “If you like your plan you can keep it.”


12 posted on 11/03/2015 5:19:06 AM PST by gaijin
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“The prospect of confiscation—as much as it might, theoretically, reduce drastically or even eliminate gun crime altogether—is simply impossible in the United States.”

A world without gun crime is not necessarily a better world.

In an unarmed world, thugs can count on numbers, size, or training to conduct home invasions of occupied homes, in the certainty that they are safe, and they do exactly that in disarmed liberal nations. In an armed America, thugs can never be sure whether an old man or a tiny woman can take them down permanently. We don't have a lot of home invasions with occupied homes. God bless Samuel Colt and the rest of America's gun makers!

13 posted on 11/03/2015 5:19:55 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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I love those articles recently in the news about many in Europe now complaining that they have few weapons with which to defend themselves from the invasion of muslims that’s going on there because they “don’t have a 2nd Amendment like in America.” Gun confiscation will be the libs “reason to be” gong forward. Heaven help us if Hillary gets in the WH.


14 posted on 11/03/2015 5:20:04 AM PST by Lake Living
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A line given to me by a wise man that is often appropriate for these sorts of comparisons between the U.S. and Australia, and also for Canada is the following:

“You have to uderstand, they never had a revolution.”

It makes a difference in the mindset.


15 posted on 11/03/2015 5:21:03 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: Jack Hammer

Gun confiscation - never happen.

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A president named Barack Hussein Obama - never happen.


16 posted on 11/03/2015 5:23:11 AM PST by Qiviut
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I think the 350M is way low myself. Who is actually going to do this confiscation? The Military? The Police? Both aren’t that stupid.

Bands of volunteer liberal activists going door to door? Yeah, sure. Just try it.

And which judges are going to issue the warrants to do house to house searches?


17 posted on 11/03/2015 5:23:58 AM PST by rbg81 (is pr)
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To: Lake Living
Gun confiscation will be the libs “reason to be” gong forward.

I think the left is getting close to trying confiscation. Once healthcare insurance collapses and we go single payer, gun confiscation will be the issue and will lead to bloodshed IMO.

18 posted on 11/03/2015 5:25:43 AM PST by IamConservative (There is no greater threat to our freedoms than Bipartisanship.)
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To: Enlightened1; Travis McGee

Don’t think for a second that the police and yes, the military, won’t come for gun confiscation if they’re ordered.

Dot-mil is paid by dot-gov. Dot-mil will ALWAYS obey Dot-gov.

Kent State. The Bonus Army. The Whiskey Rebellion. The Civil War.

Yeah, they’ll do it.


19 posted on 11/03/2015 5:27:00 AM PST by Old Sarge
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People need to be less afraid of saying this “out loud”.

Attempted gun confiscation is a declaration of war on the citizens of America.


20 posted on 11/03/2015 5:27:48 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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