- The adage is true as regards so many rights — they are eliminated not with a bang — but a whimper
Two ~ adjacent~ articles today at Townhall regarding scenarios the left would pursue in order to take away Second Amendment rights.
Kurt Schlichter comes up first with a civil war sort of scenario/analysis regarding any attempt to physically confiscate American citizen’s currently legal weapons. (excerpt)
Why Democrats Would Lose the Second Civil War, Too
It’s obvious that the central tenet of the Democrat Party platform is now hatred and contempt for Normal Americans. Taking their cue from the elites in Europe and Canada who are stripping dissenters of their free speech rights and religious freedoms, the leftist elite is moving to solidify its hold on power here with the eager assistance of tech companies and the moral support of the Fredocons who yearn to return to pseudo-relevance as the ruling class’s slobberingly loyal opposition. In California, the leftist government is practically firing on Fort Sumter. And nationally, these aspiring fascists are especially eager to disarm Normal Americans – doing so would be an object lesson in who’s the boss, as well as solving that frustrating problem of the Normals having the ability to resist.
Probably because I’ve spent time where they actually had a civil war, many people ask me – people whose names you know – whether I think this turmoil will all end in a Second Civil War. They are seriously concerned, and not without cause – the left’s hatred for Normal Americans and its dedication to totally stripping the people who are the backbone of this country of their ability to participate in their own governance is threatening to rip the country apart.
Schlichter goes on to describe practical confiscation and insurrection results, so to speak, and they do not favor leftists. We agree with his able analysis as limited and hypothetical as it is and could possibly add some nuances. But we think the follow-on article by Scott Morefiled the much more likely, and frightening in its own right. But even it does not deal with the myriad of tools big government has. Read the response comment including ours.
Think They’ll Never ‘Come and Take’ Your Guns Without an Armed Revolt? Think Again
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Consider: If rational minds on the Left know all this, to what end are they still pushing for such laws, especially when it’s obvious that they don’t care whether ANY gun control laws are actually enforced. Not yet anyway. (Remember, it’s always conservatives, not liberals, pushing for enforcement of existing law.)
And yet, they do want more and more laws on the books, and the more draconian, obscure, and hard to keep track of, the better. But why?
Here’s the answer, and it should scare every gun owner in the country:
They want to make de facto criminals out of the majority of the gun owning population.
That way, they can essentially pick us off, one by one.
Without necessarily meaning to, Mehta hits on this critical point in his piece: “A national gun buyback law would turn a significant portion of the American people into criminals,” he wrote. “Residents of New York and Connecticut snubbed their new laws … Compliance with the registration requirement has been modest at best, as hundreds of thousands of gun owners in both states refused to register their weapons. So far, then, the laws have been most successful in creating hundreds of thousands of lawbreakers who feel obligated to break the law.”
If liberals are able to pass any sort of “assault weapons” ban, buyback or no buyback, they know they will make criminals out of several million currently law-abiding gun owners. And even if the majority of those gun owners don’t follow the law now, that won’t make them any less a criminal. They just haven’t been caught yet.
But when the ‘right people’ control the levers of power and the ‘right laws’ are all in place, make no mistake – they will be caught.
Here’s the rub. It’s one thing to hold up your rifle and shout “come and take it,” à la Charleton Heston, before thousands of like-minded people. The Feds aren’t going to come to a National Rifle Association convention and start arresting people, at least not yet. And they aren’t going to conduct door-to-door house searches, arresting gun owners and confiscating their firearms, either. Not yet.
But believe me, under the right circumstances and with the right laws in place, the arrests will come. They’ll come when you’re going to work, or to the bank, or to the park with your kids, or a thousand other places. They’ll come after you’ve used your now-illegal AR-15 to defend yourself against a home invader, or if they spot it during a “routine” home search.
Never, ever underestimate these people and the depth of their evil. Remember, the Cheka managed to fill the Soviet gulags to the brim, and yet they did it quietly, with little fuss and even less armed revolt.
And they won’t need to arrest everyone to make the majority obey. No, they only need a few, and word will spread quickly.
So what will you do, dear AR-15 owner, when the ‘Cheka’ comes for your neighbor, and you know the laws are on the books to prosecute? Will a “buyback” and “amnesty” be enough to convince YOU to acquiesce? You’ve got a job, a wife, kids to raise. When they “come and take it,” is your family worth risking?
No, when they take your guns there will be no civil war. There will be no large-scale revolution, because liberals are experts at pushing that Overton Window enough not to shock the system. Like frogs in water that’s about to boil, people won’t jump until it’s too late.
That is why it’s so important to not get complacent and believe a worse case scenario will never happen. That’s why it’s critical to fight the gun controllers’ efforts to change the law at EVERY turn, using EVERY legal means possible.
Long before they “come and take” our guns, and our freedoms.
We think Morefield hasn’t scratched the surface. Sure maybe a few “examples” could be frog marched for the cameras but frankly they might be “cause celeb” resulting in Schlichter’s scenario?? The real scenario is softer but more invasive. Our own DLH has often related similar commentary as was related in response to Morefield at Townhall.
Lunagirl •
Defacto criminalization is the whole point of the bloated bureaucracy. We are all guilty of some regulation written that applies to something somewhere. That’s how they target anyone they want. Find me the criminal and I’ll show you the crime.
Our response to “Lunagirl” :
That is how it will work. And along that line . . . “you want that FHA loan Mr Jones but I see here you have not complied with the Federal Gun Safety (confiscation) act.”
You know the rest. You name the carrot and big government has the stick. Politics is key to preventing this soft confiscation. People who thinks they can vote for Democrats safely are saps.
R Mall
