Posted on 12/21/2019 6:04:21 AM PST by Eddie01
Same logic applied in the Salem witch trials in the late 1600s in Massachusetts.
One of the methods used to determine whether you were a witch or not, was for the religious leaders to throw the bound suspected witch, weighted down with rocks, into a pond or river.
If the suspect floated to the surface and managed to survive, they were considered guilty and burned at the stake.
If they drowned, they were considered innocent. But, unfortunately, they were also dead.
100% of those subjected to this test were drowned and considered innocent.
This is how liberals look at the innocence or guilt of their political opponents, including the uber-liberal prime minister of New Zealand, who ordered the gun confiscation.
Unintended consequences of not-so-well-thought-out policies. Classic liberal logic.
***inability to enforce its buyback scheme on a lack of gun registration.***
Any wonder why Thomas J. Dodd and Emanuel Celler were demanding “Gun Registration” back in the 1960s?
Dodd later wrote the 1968 Gun Control Act, some say an almost carbon copy of the 1938 Nazi weapons Act.
My next t-shirt...
“I didn’t buy it from you, so you can’t buy it back.”
**They collected. 47,000.***
Well, that is 47000 rifles the Chinese army and navy will not have to face when they decide to move in!
What? How can you say that?
We stopped the flow of cocaine, heroin, fentanyl, and wetbacks when we wanted to, right??
Oh..wait...
And in Europe...
“Anyone posting a placard the Germans didn’t like would be liable for immediate execution, and a similar penalty was provided for those who failed to turn in firearms or radio sets within twenty four hours.”—RISE AND FALL OF THE THIRD REICH by William Shirer. Page 782 my copy. Simon and Schuster. 1960
I would suggest the sell out owners would have turned out to be an unmotivated opponent. Invaders are certainly facing a very motivated (ie dangerous) opponent in those who refused. I’m pretty sure any invader would (or should) factor that into their plans.
The term “buy back” insinuates the government owned them in the first place. More leftist lingo.
What’s a gun??
Anyone who doesn't think the Left and the Democrat Party would not implement such measures today is a fool.
“Bolt a piece of pipe on to a 2x4 and call it a rifle.”
I was sent to my grandfather who was in charge of Christmas. After constant pleading, he finally gave his consent to open one present—but it had to be smaller than a shoe box. Defeated, I went back to the tree. There on a branch was a small, heavy box with my name on it. Sure enough, it was a box of .22 long rifle cartridges. I was in heaven. I was going to get my rifle.
I immediately besieged my family to let me open “the present” right away. This went on until the morning of Christmas Eve. Finally I wore them down. My dad and my uncle let me open the big one! It was, as you describe, a piece of pipe tacked on to a slightly shaped bit of 2x4 for a stock/butt and nail bent for the trigger guard. Naturally I flew into a rage, took my “present” down to the coal cellar and destroyed it.
If I could go back in time, I would really like to watch my dad, uncle and grandpa all laughing their butts off. Yes it was cruel, but it really was funny.
I did get my .22 after Midnight Mass.
Damn I didn’t think I left any room.:)
If it's anything like what took place in Australia, most of them will have been rusty .22LR plinkers that barely worked, if at all.
How do you buy back something that was never yours?
Well at least you scored. I got my Chipmunk .22 when I was none or ten what living in deeply forested acreages; single shot and you had to pull the cocking bolt back for each shot. I still have it.
Mine was a J.C. Higgins semi auto. Had a red ribbon like sling that disappeared into the stock when not in use. Mine, alas, was stolen many years ago.
Molon Labe’ baby, Molon Labe’.
Good luck with that.
I still have my JC Higgins .22 auto; was the first rifle I bought on my own (with dad signing of course) came with a Ted Williams scope. I refinished the stock so it’s more in line with what wood stocks are today - flat, no shine.
“Seems to me like an estimated 1/3 success rate is pretty successful. Waaay more than I thought they would ever get with them not knowing who actually has them.”
Why would you believe anything from these lying Nazi scum?
“Or they kick it in at 3AM in a no-knock raid.”
What makes you think that the Nazi gun-grabbers won’t be attacked and disarmed in their homes at 3am?
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