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To: Centurion2000
The thing that should scare her is that passing these laws will precipitate a civil war.

No it won't. In 1776 it would have, but not any more. Let me give you a true, but sad anecdote. In 1776 the population of the colonies was about 12,000,000. When Gage's troops marched on Lexington he was eventually met by an estimated 5,000 militia on his way back to Boston.

In 1776, 5,000 people who were willing to risk their lives for freedom made their way on horseback or walked and ran to confront the British.

In 1996 we had a rally on a Saturday morning in Jan (cold) on the capitol steps in Atlanta to protest gun control. We callled 3500 people who were on the "gun rights activist" list, advertised on the radio and in the suburban papers (no freedom loving individual EVER pays money into the Urinal/Constipation) in an urban area where the population was at the time slightly in excess of 3,000,000 and where there were cars to get you there we had a grand total of 145 people who showed up. Pretty piss poor turnout. So the odds of the masses rebelling is about 50,000,000,000,000 to one.

312 posted on 11/09/2007 12:28:57 PM PST by from occupied ga (Your most dangerous enemy is your own government, Benito Guilinni a short man in search of a balcony)
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To: from occupied ga

Yep. Unless they actually start rounding people up, ain’t much gonna happen.


314 posted on 11/09/2007 12:32:38 PM PST by Dead Corpse (What would a free man do?)
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To: from occupied ga

A protest is not a revolution.


324 posted on 11/09/2007 12:46:51 PM PST by ctdonath2 (The color blue tastes like the square root of 0?)
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