Let's do some pessimistic math:
If we have a one-to-one kill ratio with the confiscators...
...they will run out of LEO's before we run out of patriots. Even if it's a Waco-type slaughter, IF all members are combatants and take at least ONE JBT with them (a-la' the booby-trap-grenade-under-the-body-trick made popular by Red Dawn), eventually the attrition of the confiscators will overrun their training programs. That, and the best shooters and LE types will no longer desire to go into that line of work unless they got paid more. Such behavior on the part of the government would be both financial and logistical suicide.
That being said, While I'm getting on in years and not looking forward to dying, I'm also not looking forward to LIVING in a Tyranny, and would rather die on my feet a free man.
Rules 223 and 308 may need to be applied.
So what if they come for you alone? Take one out on your way to Heaven so you can stand before God and tell him you did your part.
Eventually, enough of these incidents will occur that the mainstream media will report at least one or two...
...and that, brothers and sisters, is when the flag goes up.
Where will you be?
I'll probably already be worm food, so you'll be on your own then.
Molon Labe - Pronounced "Mo-lone La-veh" and means "Come Get Them!"
Quoted from Thefiringline.com:
"Two little words. With these two words, two concepts were verbalized that have lived for nearly two and a half Millennia. They signify and characterize both the heart of the Warrior, and the indomitable spirit of mankind. From the ancient Greek, they are the reply of the Spartan General-King Leonidas to Xerxes, the Persian Emperor who came with 600,000 of the fiercest fighting troops in the world to conquer and invade little Greece, then the center and birthplace of civilization as we know it. When Xerxes offered to spare the lives of Leonidas, his 300 personal bodyguards and a handful of Thebans and others who volunteered to defend their country, if they would lay down their arms, Leonidas shouted these two words back.
Molon Labe! (mo-lone lah-veh)
They mean, “Come and get them!” They live on today as the most notable quote in military history. And so began the classic example of courage and valor in its dismissal of overwhelming superiority of numbers, wherein the heart and spirit of brave men overcame insuperable odds. Today, there lies a plaque dedicated to these heroes all at the site. It reads: “Go tell the Spartans, travelers passing by, that here, obedient to their laws we lie.”
We would do well to emulate those brave Spartans, who found a cause more dear to them than life itself.
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest thing: The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war is worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing he cares about more than his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
--John Stuart Mill
Are we men of principle and freedom? Or are we the miserable creatures who must be protected by those better than us?
We, and we each other alone, may answer that question, alone with ourselves at night.
I know my answer. Do you?
DG
I don't like doing pessimistic math.
When they come, it will be at night when you are sleeping. They won't knock, a flash grenade or worse will wake you. If you move in the slightest, a fully automatic burst from an mp-5 or m-16 will kill you. The pornographer newspaper editor will congratulate the pedophile prosecutor for the smoothness of his planned raid. The 9mm ammo found at your residence will confirm your Nazi/white supremicist connections.
Remember this: Waco was set up as a raid to be observed by the media at an ATF setup and provided communications center for that media. The purpose was to garner increased funding for ATF whose budget was currently under consideration in congress. ATF STAGED A SHOW FOR THE MEDIA, IT JUST DIDN'T GO ACCORDING TO THEIR PLAN. Did the media report this? Not one illegal weapon was ever proven to exist at Waco. Did the media report this? Notice the difference between this and the incessant reporting of no WMD's in Iraq. You will get no help from the media.
Stalin killed 20 million Russians, while the New York Times knew and painted life a a safe workers paradise there. It is okay with the media for any liberal socialist/communist jackboot government to kill any gunowner or used-to-be gunowner, but not Ted Bundy.
Like you, I'll fight, if I can catch 'em sneaking up on me. Otherwise I'll just be murdered.