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Originally posted by raskadawg73
interesting read indeed!
tell me, what do you think would/should or could happen if the US Gov unleashed its military in such circumstances against its own people?
interesting
For decades I have heard gun owners claim that the government would never be able to confiscate our firearms because the government would lose too many men. The implication being, of course, that gun owners would actively resist confiscation, even to the point of shooting back. But I believe this thinking is outdated and doesn’t align very well with reality. But before you tell me how big your honor guard in Hell will be when that day comes, let’s think about how the government could really do it.
Suppose, for the sake of argument, the government bans all civilian possession of firearms at the end of this month. Congress passes a total ban and the President cuts his own re-election throat by signing it. Gun owners get some grace period to turn them in, even beyond the deadline, without being charged with a crime. If we use Australia and Britain as examples there will still be a significant number of firearms that are not turned in. Some estimates put the Australian turn-in at less than 25% and the British faired only about 28%. But Australians and the British have long been used to obeying almost every gun control law. Not so the Americans. When laws are passed that we don’t like, we bite. We scratch. We vote. So here we sit after the guns have been collected and the amnesties have run out. Now what? Send out the personnel carriers, swat and shock troops to seize the guns from those militia “terrorists” who refused to turn them in? Don’t be silly.
The government has lots of records about you. If you purchased a firearm since 1968, chances are that they have some record of it somewhere. Most likely, it will take quite some time for them to compile all the serial numbers of “surrendered” guns (surrendered essentially at gunpoint) and cross off the ones you turned in. It’ll take more time for them to attempt to “clean up” their data. Say, about two years, maybe three. Add to that the hordes of people keypunching in hundreds of thousands of sales and registration records from hundreds of gun stores forced out of business. At some point the government decides they have something approaching a “good” database of unaccounted-for guns.
the President cuts his own re-election throat by signing it.
Originally posted by Afterthought
reply to post by lonewolf10
Interesting scenario, too. But,
the President cuts his own re-election throat by signing it.
here's the rub. He doesn't have to worry about doing anything that will harm his re-election because he cannot run again anyways. It doesn't matter if his approval rating gets into the negative numbers, his campaigning days are over. He can do what he wants now and doesn't have to worry if it's popular or not.
On that note, I find it interesting the way he hauled butt back to Hawaii and let the robosigning pen take care of his presidential duties. So, according to the Op's linked article, he's now out of harm's way so to speak in the event that people begin to uprise in the next few days because of something, maybe gun confiscation, that is in the bill that just passed that the Congressmen didn't even get the time to read nor the public. It was stated a few years back that the public would have three days to read all bills before they were voted on. Convenient that this one came down the pike while everyone was drunk and ringing in the new year.