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There’s simply no way they could ever disarm the American people, unless the people did so voluntarily.
There’s not enough bag-pipe players to handle all of the police funerals that would result from the attempt.
Yeah, Prohibition worked so well. The war on drugs ended drug use, right? We only have legal immigration.
I have long thought that it is not the actual physical disarming of the population that would be our undoing.
It is the brainwashing of younger generations and the erosion of independant spirit and plain old guts that is the greater danger.
We can already see the great success liberals have had in creating a dependant, compliant, mostly urban culture who think it is extreme to own guns and to expect government to honor the Constitution and govern within its bounds.
I have had some friends who were US Army EOD, Explosive Ordnance Demolition, that most people think of as “bomb disposal”. However, to dispose of strange bombs, an expert needs to learn everything there is to know about bombs and their use.
So at least in this EOD unit, they had a running competition of the thought problem, “How to neutralize a major city for under $500.”
This was very good training, as they would learn where a “hostile” bomber, if he knew what he was doing, would plant his bombs. Thus they would know where to look to disarm them.
But I mention this because this would also be the means used by a hostile government to gain martial law control over one of its own cities, if it chose to do so.
Cut off the water, power, communications, access, food, fuel, etc. Starve the people out. And those that wanted to leave would be outprocessed a small group at a time, to insure that they were “acceptable”, by whatever criteria that government wanted.
This would be the vast majority. The remaining minority would be much easier to deal with through force of arms.
I agree with Rawles. The thing to be really worried about is the grid going down. That is likely to happen sometime soon. If you are not actively working toward an alternative energy system you will be sitting in the dark crying in your cold beans. Your life will be a misery and probably short.
On second thought maybe it wouldn’t be so hard to disarm Americans as we thought. If the DHS went about it the right way, they just might get by with it. I mean after all we allow them to fondle and molest our Mothers, Wives, Daughters, all women for that matter as well as children everyday and we don’t say or do a thing to stop it.
We play by the rules and trust them to do the same. Problem is, they don't and won't.
It is only impossible if every minion sent out to collect the firearms is shot.
Maybe foreign troops would be willing to lend a helping hand.
With all due respect to Mr. Rawles, how many other things have happened in the past 3-4 years that we said could never happen? With the MSM firmly on the side of the progressives/socialists, a massive PR campaign could be launched that would put the anti-tobacco campaign to shame and it would be neighbor turning against neighbor, all in the name of being a “good citizen.”
Remember those speed cameras that were all the rage in Phoenix a while back? People who were simply EMPLOYEES of the camera company were more than willing to threaten and intimidate motorists in spite of not having any authority to do so. There are plenty of people just like that who would gladly snitch on their family members or relatives for...oh....I don’t know. A tax break from the IRS, maybe? (Don’t forget who just hired thousands of new IRS agents and the hundreds of shotguns that were purchased by the IRS.)