Posted on 11/28/2017 7:42:34 AM PST by marktwain
The Boston Globe recent ran an article where it acknowledged the obvious: the long term goal of the gun control movement (recently relabeled as “gun safety”), is to confiscate a large number of Americans' firearms.
The Globe has almost everything else wrong in its article, but they are honest about the desire for gun confiscation.
In other words, the proposals aren’t just difficult to enact in the current political climate; their practical effects would also be quite limited. On occasion, though, leading Democrats will make oblique reference to a more sweeping policy change: seizing a huge number of weapons from law-abiding citizens.At a New Hampshire forum in the fall of 2015, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton spoke approvingly of an Australian gun buyback program that collected more than 650,000 weapons — a buyback that, she neglected to mention, was compulsory.
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The logic of gun control lies, at bottom, in substantially reducing the number of deadly weapons on the street — and confiscation is far and away the most effective approach. Is there any conceivable turn of events in our politics that could make confiscation happen? And what would a mass seizure look like?
Then the article goes on to praise the imposition of extreme restrictions on gun ownership in Australia, and to put forward claims that the restrictions “worked”. Those claims are easily countered. That is not what we are dealing with here.
Ultimately, the Globe admits that massive gun confiscation is not possible, at least now, at least not directly.
Why are so many people on the political left willing to consider confiscating guns, in direct violation of the Constitution, with the obvious high costs, high risks, and low chance of success? Here are some
(Excerpt) Read more at ammoland.com ...
“If you think the 3 percenters will passively wait for confiscators to come to their door, once hostilities start, you are not looking at a reasonable reality.”
Smart gun-grabbers would be wise to STFU, lest they get on someone’s list before a confiscation order...because afterwards, such lists won’t get revised except to note those who had given up the ghost.
You sir are exactly correct.
The large majority will knuckle under like the sheep that they are and comply with the jack boots and hand over their 2nd amendment rights. “I’m not gonna lose my family and freedom over a couple handguns.”
WHATEVER.......
However There will be 1-3% that will damn the torpedos and make war on the very people who would take away our constitutional rights. Real Americans in my book. If the govt wants a war, they will attempt to actually confiscate our firearms.
That may be the type of preliminary warning some gun grabbers will need.
Why excerpt the article? I can’t go to that domain here at work. Oh, well, bookmark for later.
A German Orthodox Jew would fit as well as the Indian in that poster.
Ammoland does have an email list as well; frequent and good info.
People will ask: “So, you’ll shoot the police that you say you support if they try to take your guns?”
No need to. You disable their cars with gunfire. It can be done from the woods beside every road in America. One shot, one disabled police car and no unneeded deaths or injuries to potentially friendly police. I don’t know about where you live, but where I do, no police cars = no police, the area patrolled is too big for foot cops. A bullet through a radiator takes that car off the road for a day or more. A damaged engine block? even longer.
Your county or city cops with 20,30,50 cars all in with radiators shot out or damaged engines? You are now out of confiscators.
I’d still bet only the 10% of cops that are “ true believers” would take on the suicide mission of confiscating guns from citizens anyway.
yes, I believe that is true.
they would be required to use forced labor on day 2
The American Revolution was a civil war.
Definition of civil war:
noun
a war between citizens of the same country.
There have been LOTS of civil wars in history; the American Civil War (1861 - 1865) to which you are referring, the English Civil War (1642–1651), the Russian Civil War (1917 - 1922), etc. So no, I did not get my wars mixed up as I was using the term “civil war” generically and not referring to a specific war.
My comment was intended to show that such attempts to confiscate firearms will provoke a civil war and that Americans have already successfully fought against those that would take away our firearms.
Boston!
How about pressure cooker confiscation?
(idiots)
“The first night the tickets were written, the politicians who voted for the new law had their windshields smashed in their own driveways. The law was rescinded and so were the tickets the next day.”
http://www.keepandbeararms.com/information/XcIBViewItem.asp?ID=1604
“our county or city cops with 20,30,50 cars all in with radiators shot out or damaged engines? You are now out of confiscators.”
“Quemadmoeum gladis nemeinum occidit, occidentis telum est” —� Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 bce to 65 ce)
Social visionaries don't like to be reminded that there's real dirt under their feet and that the pawns they're counting on are real people who push back. These are "revolutionaries" who apparently think that once they pass a law everyone will fall in line. That is a blind spot of shocking proportion. If the Australian experience is any guide we won't see any eruption of violence, we'll see an eruption of civil disobedience and gun owners who go underground. Some of this is already taking place in California. It doesn't turn out to be liberal fantasy-land because it never was.
I further predict advanced cases of lead poisoning amongst the ruling classes.
One individual with a rifle can alter the course of history.
Not every weapon is a firearm. Some if us can be very creative. Artists conducting a symphony of pain.
It will resemble “Irish democracy,” but with a decidedly nasty edge.
"...FMCDH..."
Thanks for the history lesson, I stand corrected.
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