Do you honestly believe the government has the manpower to conduct 150 million house to house confiscations? Well, they don’t.
Do you honestly think 150 million gun owners would sit quiet, waiting their turn, for the goon squad to knock on their door? Some would, but many would consider such actions by the government as an act of war against the people, and would act accordingly.
The Framers instinctively understood that the only sure protection against tyranny, was to ensure the populace was armed. They were correct.
The whole ‘American Experiment’ would have been crushed out of existence long ago, were it not for the fact that we are an armed people. Our guns are the ONLY thing that has stayed the tyrants’ hands.
Exactly!
When the”Nazis” bombed Pearl Harbor
They said
“A rifle behind Every Blade of Grass”
I’m on a jelly roll.
What makes you think that I believe differently than you do? I agree with everything said in your post (well, except that I don’t think that there are 150 million gun owners...I think that it is between 110 and 120 million. However, the same conclusions result from those numbers as yours, so it doesn’t really matter that much.
I’m fond of a particular meme that I saw a few weeks back:
“Look at how the government treats us when there are 400 million guns in civilian hands. Now consider how they would treat us if we had no guns.”
Washington was right - “Government is not reason, it is not eloquence — it is force. Like fire it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master; never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.” Government WANTS to be our master, and the ONLY thing preventing it is - as you mentioned - the fact that we are armed to the teeth and CANNOT be made into slaves if we don’t allow it.