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Let us, gentle readers, brainstorm together. For the purposes of this article only, let us assume come January, Joe Biden becomes, for however long, MOTUS–Mummy Of The United States. Let us further assume the underhanded election mechanism that handed Georgia to Biden prevails and hands the Senate to the D/S/Cs. The Mummy has promised the most progressive administration in history, and has, in no uncertain terms, laid out exactly how he intends to destroy the Second Amendment, and with it, private ownership of firearms.
Let us further assume the Supreme Court has been appropriately packed with reliable socialists/communists, so the Second Amendment will continue to exist, but will protect no individual right, and will allow Government absolute power over arms, and every other facet of life. And just in case you’re planning to complain about it, the First Amendment still exists, but now bans “hate speech,” which is anything D/S/Cs don’t want you saying about them, such as their destruction of the First and Second Amendments is tyrannical.
The Mummy promises to do away with “assault weapons” and “high capacity magazines.” His promises on that account are a bit schizophrenic in that he wants “mandatory buy backs”—AKA: theft—but is also suggesting Americans might keep such weapons if they register them under the National Firearms Act, which is a lengthy process requiring a $200 dollar tax for each gun and each magazine, a neat trick because magazines do not have serial numbers, and gun owners will find themselves in the Twilight Zone, paying a $200 dollar, non-transferrable tax for each $20 dollar magazine. How does one reconcile the immediate, moral necessity of getting “weapons of war” off the street, with “keeping weapons of war” on the street so long as government gets to tax them?
Here’s where the real fun begins. You didn’t think D/S/Cs were going to stop with AR-15s and similar semiautomatic rifles, did you? The devil is always in the details, and when the legislative dust settles, any and every semiautomatic firearm capable of accepting a detachable magazine will be banned, because they can all accept “high-capacity” magazines, don’t you know.
They’ll forget all that nonsense about the National Firearms Act, because they don’t want you to have guns at all, so why go to all the trouble of pretending they’re going to allow you to have guns in the first place?
So, by a national date certain, all gun owners are going to have to turn in every illegal gun—that’s just about all of them—and magazine—that’s all of them—and get the government-authorized payment, which won’t be cash, as pathetic as that would be, but a tax voucher, which the IRS may or may not allow you to use on your income taxes, which will surely be raised enough to swallow such a pittance whole by the time April rolls around.
Here’s where more real fun begins. Consider the compliance rate of the New York State SAFE Act, in effect when there was still a Second Amendment. Best estimates are only about 4% of New Yorkers complied with that abomination. Are Americans, with the First and Second Amendments obliterated, suddenly going to discover their inner pajama boy, or are they going to cowboy up and collectively tell Gropin’ Joe and Commie Kamala where to put their gun control laws?
The first crisis occurs when the national date certain comes and goes and Americans obviously haven’t embraced their inner pajama boy. They’re not turning in guns and magazines. In fact, they’re actively taunting selfless government bureaucrats at turn-in centers, making them feel microaggressed against and unsafe. Obviously, they must be racist, white supremacists. Joe keeps reminding us of all the systemic racism in America, but somehow keeps wanting to unify with all those racists.
D/S/Cs are outraged—how dare smelly, toothless, Walmart shoppers–God and gun clingers all–defy their intellectual and moral betters!?—but cooler heads prevail, and the date certain for ending all gun violence is extended another three months. That momentous date passes, and once again, those uncooperative Normals have refused to submit to the dictates of experts, and are saying even meaner things about them.
It is decision time in the new state/national capital of Obama (can’t have anything to do with Columbus in the name of the new state encompassing our nation’s capital). Do D/S/Cs go New York State, proclaim victory, have their media arm lie about the huge numbers of weapons of war that are not being turned in, or do they do what they really want to do: get the Normals once and for all? Which do you think they’ll choose, gentle readers?
By this time, many states and cities have declared themselves Constitution Sanctuaries, places where the unlawful mandates of the State of Obama have no effect. If you happen to live in one of those happy places, life is going to be rather easier than if you don’t. In blue states, a substantial number of police agencies, particularly the state police, will actively assist federal agents in raiding the homes of Americans to seize their guns. But elsewhere, local police won’t play along. They know better. They have to live in their communities, and know well you don’t mess with American’s guns, pets or families.
The feds will not try to disarm criminals in D/S/Cs ruled cities. Foolishly, they will think that too dangerous. They have no idea what danger actually is. It will ultimately be decided that examples must be made, and federal agents will spread out into flyover country to make those examples. They have no idea the maelstrom they’re stirring up.
What can you do when the boys and girls in black tacticool outfits show up at your door? Tell them to do to hell and get off your property? Won’t work. People wiling to obliterate any part of the Bill of Rights will be equally happy to obliterate the whole thing. Even if they maintain the fiction they need warrants, they’ll have a stack of fill-in-the-blank warrants, signed by corrupt federal judges. They’re coming in, and they’re going to trash your home because they can, and if you give them the slightest excuse, they’ll kill you and yours, because they can and because they’ve been told to make examples. The honorable feds are long gone.
Do you band together with other patriots and hide your weapons, or do you make a stand, then and there, make them pay with their lives for taking yours? Or do you work with others, and when the feds show up in your town, ensure they find themselves, everywhere, surrounded by superior firepower? Do you demonstrate exactly how impossible it is going to be to intimidate honorable, patriotic Americans, and how impossible they’re going to be to rule?
But that would be threatening federal agents! Right. And your point is?
Central Montana: A caravan of federal agents on the way to a ranch harboring a suspected arsenal of illegal weapons of war is ambushed from long range. The engines and tires of their vehicles are destroyed, forcing the agents to walk 28 miles back to civilization. The attackers are never seen. When the agents return for their vehicles, they’re gone and are never found. Rumors they became part of a mine reclamation project are never confirmed.
Western South Dakota: An attack team of 10 FBI and BATF agents arrived at the home of a local resident suspected of owning multiple illegal firearms found themselves surrounded by many times their number. Local law enforcement did not answer their calls for reinforcement. They were forced to disarm and leave all of their equipment, but were allowed to leave town and warned never to return.
Central Kansas: A joint task force of federal agents planning raids in the area awoke at 0300 to find all of their vehicles in their hotel parking lots ablaze. So much of their equipment was destroyed, they were forced to cancel their plans.
North Texas: A task force of 20 federal agents sent into the Dallas/Ft. Worth Metroplex to conduct raids disappears and is never heard from again. Whether they simply deserted or were killed and disappeared is never confirmed.
Any tyrant will find the ingenuity of Americans to be virtually limitless. Would Americans avoid killing the federal agents sent to kill them? At first, but blood would inevitably be drawn, and when that happened, the response potentiometer would be turned from 1: “live and let live” to 11: “kill them all.”
Inevitably, any tyrannical government would be forced to use military assets—drones, attack helicopters, armored vehicles, tanks, against Americans. Would they find sufficient military members willing to kill fellow Americans? They would find some. D/S/Cs have spent decades replacing real warriors with diversity warriors, but NCOs would determine the degree to which they could field forces. IF the NCOs aren’t all in, armored vehicles just aren’t going to work, spare parts aren’t going to be available, “Darn Colonel, but the electronic locks on the ammo lockers aren’t working!” and military members are simply going to go home, taking their equipment and knowledge with them.
But no one could stand against a modern army! Spoken like a Leftist idiot with no idea of the limitations and vulnerabilities involved, to say nothing of history.
Smart D/S/Cs will never push the envelope so far. They would understand their limitations, and would understand should they start spilling American blood to seize American’s guns, Americans are going to come after them, their families, their property and their fortunes. Are they really stupid enough to think Americans, when they’re killing their families and friends, would meekly submit and consider them somehow out of bounds? D/S/Cs are bragging about lists. Normals can make them too.
They’re that stupid.
Let us hope, gentle readers, none of this comes to pass. Let us hope our constitutional republic prevails. But if it does not, let us be prepared to show our would-be D/S/C rulers what it means to take on Americans. It will likely be their last lesson.
No, actually… the only lesson is the one you will recall in War Games.. the lesson is, “the only way to win is not to play the game” cause no one will win a civil war.
Dear Doug:
Actually, the right side won the Civil War, and that side generally did have malice toward none and charity toward all. Should there be a second, and the wrong side win, they’re already demonstrated there will be malice toward all and charity toward none. There are indeed winners, and it’s of supreme importance those on the side of the Constitution prevail.
I have No idea where you draw this conclusive bumble. IF there would be a civil war in the country it would not in the least follow anything resembling that other Civil War. There would be NO “returning” to some Constitutional period from the past you think was best. In fact… we are of similar age… and any civil war will pretty much guarantee that seniors will go first… and I don’t care if you have an entire armory in your basement.. you only have two possible trigger fingers, a couple legs that may or may not have age slowing them down… an one life that will likely succumb to some disease sure to run rampant with all the death and destruction destroying sanitation. Think of it this way.. how many pills you take each day to put off loss of mobility or a slow death? You might feel great now…
But.. let’s forget about you for the moment. What happens to your family when you end up less-than-healthy?
And you talk about “winning” something?
Dear Doug:
“Conclusive bumble?” Well, you brought up the movie idea war is unwindable. How, exactly, did I misrepresent the outcome of the Civil War?
I do not advocate a Civil War, far from it. Unfortunately, there are many who, in their ignorant hatred and bloodthirsty stupidity, would welcome it. I suggest only if it cannot be avoided, it be won by humane, rational people, and the union restored to the greatest degree possible.
Certainly, such a war would be tragic and horrific, but there are things worse than death, which is one of the founding understandings of America, and a principle for which we have fought since then.
No, Mike.. I think you mention it because it’s the primary reason for justification of the Second Amendment… which then somehow, justifies a civil war if there’s a hint of a contrived threat to take your weapon… or control its use. In the meantime, it’s always good to keep the feeling alive by playing dress up to look like GI Joe commando, or some SWAT/militia nonsense, prancing around brandishing some nasty looking “non-assault” assault weapon over your shoulder as if you were ready to fight something somewhere. So.. everyone goes to war over gun ownership or it’s regulation?
Dear Doug:
Not quite. Should we go to war, it will be because we know what happens to a free people that allows themselves to be disarmed.
Kind of reminds me of Francis Marion and the British Army…
Time to say, “No!”
Or crawl away and leaves your grandkids enslaved.
Dear mobiuswolf:
I fear we will have to make that choice in the not too distant future.
Seems so.
It was really easy to make people wear stupid little masks, and stay home. It was pretty damned easy to close restaurants, bars, churches, and schools. California even made people stay off the beaches. Inland cities banned folks from taking their kids to open air parks. As much as I would like to think otherwise, making people give up their firearms may be a lot easier than anyone imagines. It would spell the end of a glorious era of mankind, but I’m skeptical whether Americans are up for the fight. I hope I never have to experience the collapse of the Republic. It will be a sad day for the world and all her inhabitants. God Bless America.
So.. what you are saying is that American freedom is all abut gun ownership? If you lose your guns it’s all over?
That is precisely what I am saying. If you don’t understand how important guns are to keeping the balance between law abiding citizens and non law abiding citizens, and corrupt governments then you haven’t been paying attention. Read the history of Athens Kentucky, maybe you will understand.
I apologize, for my inaccuracy in my comment above. The incident happened in Athens, Tennessee, not Kentucky. year 1946
The 2nd Amendment protects all the others; that was the intention of the Bill of Rights. The Royal Marines following the orders of the King to confiscate musket, powder and canons. They started in Charlestown and later orders had them moving on to Concord, engaging the colonials at Lexington on the way. This was in April 1775, over a year before the Declaration of Independence. The Founders learned from that and gave us the 2nd Amendment to counter the power of government. Shaye’s Rebellion later proved again that the people needed the ability to resist government and signaled the end of the Articles of Confederation.
Dear Alan Reasin:
Yes.
I think what is being said is: Once the citizens are disarmed the tyrants will have complete control of their subjects.
Firearms primarily make it possible for private citizens to protect themselves and their families from criminals that would do them harm. More often than not, governments have proven again and again to become criminal in their behaviors. God made man, Samuel Colt made them equal.
Dear Frankenwelder:
Indeed, which is precisely why every despot in history has disarmed their people, and why the Founders wrote the Second Amendment.
“So.. what you are saying is that American freedom is all abut gun ownership? If you lose your guns it’s all over?”
what we’re saying doug is that we know what happens after the disarmament. we’ve seen that movie and we ain’t going back.
we’re also saying that the we have been the only “reasonable” side in this argument since the day machine guns were regulated. we are the only side that has given up anything in this debate and enough is enough. no more fees, no more taxes, no more giving up legally purchased/owned property because “the children”. you can all stuff it. period.
So.. again.. it’s all about fear of somehow losing your guns, or someone limiting how you want to pull the trigger, and what trigger you are allowed to pull… and you are willing to go to some level of “war” over that? Mike calls that “normal Americans”. Rather makes me a bit scared that you all are “normal”. Look… I own guns, and until recently when I renounced being a registered Republican-refusing-Trumplicanism, I had been a Republican all my life. You’re complaining about what you.. gun lovers.. have sacrificed under some perceived “iron boot” of never-gunner legislation? Where’s your leadership? Certainly LaPierre’s NRA has not done a damn thing to promote firearms ownership other than spreading fear to get money for his spending abuses. You.. “we”.. have NO national leadership to organize a public awareness marketing campaign about the “good” things of gun ownership other than this constant blathering about the Second Amendment when there’s a school shooting or random sniper. The “fight” is not with the government but with the public… and constantly following the fear that you are going to lose your guns. Jeez. Find someone who can identify your “enemy” so you know who to be pissed at.
Dear Doug:
The enemy of every American ought to be anyone, foreign or domestic, that would diminish our individual liberties. That used to be considered a non-controversial position, “normal” if you will. Oh, and you haven’t been following Gropin’ Joes explicit promises to confiscate guns? You haven’t taken the links I’ve provided to his campaign website that outlines just that?
I’ve been on the Biden site and read his program… and I’ve not seen a thing about “confiscating” weapons in that list of gun “stuff” he wants to do. Yes.. certainly a big wish list there of gun control.. especially on assault weapons. But the list is a far cry from getting all that passed and winning court challenges. If that idiot LaPierre would quit blowing the money on personal fun maybe some of that can go toward the legal battles.
Dear Doug:
Mandatory gun “buy backs” are not, to your way of thinking, confiscation? As to court challenges, you’re also aware of D/S/Cs intention to pack not only the Supreme Court, but the lower federal courts, prosecutor’s offices, and states attorneys general?
Why are you so afraid of this kind of rhetoric, by different people, in fact? My God.. Trump has instilled such fear in his supporters. Jeez, man.. Trump has done way more “court packing” than anyone in recent history… and it’s done nothing for him so far. States’ attorneys general? You back to this secret deep state conspiracy thing where one entity can control individual states? You just read/hear this stuff from others with biases and assume it’s a real threat and just run with it all?
Mandatory gun buy-backs? Common sense alone doesn’t make sense on that given the immense amount of logistics involved, enforcement impossible, and accountability equally impossible. Not to mention, where’s the money.. and time… coming from to pay for all this? That’s assuming this even clears the court challenges to begin with… in each state. We are in the middle of a pandemic and an economic crisis and a collapsing health system… on top of other priorities. No time for this kind of thing in a four year term… presuming there’s even a wide ranging desire to do it.. which there isn’t.
Dear Doug:
Fear of rhetoric? Who exactly is trying to eliminate the First Amendment?
A gun buy back would be federal; state courts would have nothing to do with it. And as the D/S/Cs have consistently said, they intend to pack the Supreme Court to avoid annoying impediments like the Constitution. they’re more than willing to steal a presidential election. They won’t acknowledge any other legal or moral barriers to their desires.
Indeed, the logistics of national gun seizure would be daunting, but no less deadly to those they would kill to work their will. After all, they’re willing to bankrupt the nation in pursuit of global warming. What’s a few more trillion to disarm the Deplorables?
Actually, I read these threats from D/S/Cs themselves, and from Joe Biden. When people tell you they’re coming for you, and are seizing the power to do just that, it’s always wise to believe them.
the IDEA of being able to own the means to defend one’s life, loved ones and legally owned property is what the argument is about doug. sorry you can’t get that. to quote something i read, “if you need a disarmed population to govern; you suck at governing”
There’s blathering of emotion for decades regarding people mumbling taking guns away after some random shooting. Who.. in power… has made any serious effort (meaning, a matter of policy) to take your guns away? Gun control on some level.. oh sure. But “gun control” is not taking away your guns so you can’t protect your family. I know, I know.. like many who follow this blog there’s people with itchy trigger fingers because Trump lost and no court in the land (even the one’s Trump stacked with his “loyalists”) is signing on to deny the election results… so everyone has to lock & load now. Sheesh.
Dear Doug:
Well, decades ago, Diane Feinstein admitted if she could get the votes, she’d take everyone’s guns. Innumerable D/S/C politicians have said the same thing, overtly and covertly since. And now that it looks like they may be able to fraudulently seize the Senate, many more of them are overtly saying just that, including Biden and Harris. You really missed all this all these years?
There’s been “gun grabbers” in politics for decades… and we all still have our guns. I see nothing new with this crowd. I see nothing to fear. I will tell you this much… nothing short of disgracing the flag (like Trump hugging it) infuriates me more than seeing clowns with guns, dressed up to look mean and threatening in their camo… prancing around in various demonstrations.. rallies… just because they feel they can. You never saw that public display of what only amounts to “just try testing me” BS when I was growing up. And you are afraid.. it’s all about fear.. Trump is all about fear. It’s a brave new world… and honestly.. the brave I see are in the military, first responders, law enforcement and fire, and in health care. People with guns as a priority in their lives talk big.
Dear Doug:
Guns are not the priority. Preservation of unalienable liberties is. Gun grabbers have been largely unsuccessful to date because our republican system has prevailed, but contemporary D/S/Cs are promising to sweep it away, and with it, most unalienable rights. Surely you know no such tyranny can succeed if the people are allowed to keep arms? This is the issue. Will it come to pass? D/S/Cs believe they will soon have the power to do just that, and they are exceedingly overt about their intentions.
Seize the Senate? The conspiracies abound, huh. Try this for some self-analysis.
https://randompontifications.com/2020/12/12/what-makes-conspiracies-so-believable-to-so-many-people/
Dear Doug:
Nice try. Conspiracies are believable because wise people understand human nature. Those with experience in criminal investigation have no doubt about their existence.
Ok.. so let’s explore the “rule of reasonableness”. To have planned any one of the numerous conspiracies surrounding wide spread election fraud would require what? The coordination of hundreds if not thousands across the nation? Just recruiting for that would be monumental.. and getting everyone signed on to keep it a secret… carry the plan out while dodging security cams and “observers”.. not to mention everyone involved would have to swear to keeping quiet and not show up on a news show to spill the beans for fame and glory? What about the tell-all book? This goes way beyond trying to pin this on some localized state attorney general, voting director, some obscure superintendent.
And, in fact, what about the Republican officials… the opposites of the Dem officials… you suggesting a lot of them simply “turned” to the other side? Even if you want to select only those 4-5 swing states.
Yeah… I’m big on human nature as well… and just take a look at Washington D.C., no one can keep a secret, keep quiet… hell, the media knows what’s going on inside the White House nearly as it happens. The place has always leaked. So to presume some secret wide spread coordinated election fraud seems pretty far-fetched to me.
But to the greater question… leading up to the election, in typical Trump fashion, he was maneuvering and preparing to scream fraud from the get-go. The election is barely hours over and he’s blathering fraud…. and there is no way conceivable known to man that he had any inside knowledge that it happened… much less in a timeframe of a few hours. But his base believes it.. and the lemmings line up to kiss the ring yet again. His appointed judges, everywhere, he hoped would be loyal only to him, have apparently sided on the Constitution.
Dear Doug:
As I so often note, you know better. It is not, for instance, necessary for media editors to hold conference calls every morning the better to coordinate their attacks on Trump and normal Americans. It’s just not necessary. They all think alike, hate the same people, have the same goals, and think themselves virtuous for so doing. Even so, they seize on D/S/C talking points and often spout exactly the same verbiage.
The same is true for election fraud. No doubt there was some degree of coordination, but locally, these people have been conducting election fraud for decades. This time around, the Covid hysteria handed them a gift. They all knew what to do, and they had the opportunity to do it on a grander scale then ever before. Again, most coordination just wasn’t necessary.
As for your still claiming there was no fraud..really? Even some of the media has come around to admitting there was massive fraud, but claiming “so what?” and “it’s too late to do anything about it.”
As to who is siding with the Constitution, that would be the states that conducted fair and efficient elections under the Constitution, producing results within a day or so.
Well, ya.. I do think I know better.. just as you think you know better. The impasse. So what you are saying is the the “grand election fraud” is a subliminal conspiracy, with all those complicit acting on their own defiant individual hatred toward Trump.. some in unison.. which all culminated into a perfect storm opportunity for universal fraud begat as a result from the pandemic. And the “they” in all this.. if I grasp your explanation here, is the media… oh, wait.. media editors, which I might guess are “spin masters” who hate Trump?
So.. if I ask you why so many people allegedly hate Trump enough to go through all this, you would respond by saying something like, Trump is on the side of the Constitution.. and making America great again (suggesting those who hate him are not for the Constitution and don’t want to see America great… again).
Did I get all that correctly?
Dear Doug:
“Why so many people allegedly hate Trump”? Are you really unaware of this, or merely ignore it for rhetorical reasons? You’re actually suggesting media editors across the nation don’t hate Trump?
I’m not saying it’s subliminal at all. You may wish to reread my comment regarding that.
If there was no coordination, how is it multiple states suddenly stopped counting at more or less the same time, and immediately thereafter produced hundreds of thousands of ballot for Biden, or do you deny that happened?
Impasse? If you won’t acknowledge objective facts and reality, impasse indeed.
Dear ontoiran:
If you need a disarmed population, you excel at tyranny.