In 2012, it won't matter what this administration thought it could do or not do to gun owners, because it will no longer be in office. Any such move to confiscate all guns, if they were dumb enough to try, would have to be done during a second term, when they no longer have to worry about reelection. However, their ham-fisted mismanagement of the Executive branch, not to mention their attempts to nationalize industry, banking, and healthcare, will all see to it that they will not get reelected. And they couldn't try such a draconian response to the 2nd Amendment between now and 2012 because they would get slapped down by the SCOTUS and they would lose a reelection.TXlaw1 wrote:I've been a life member of the NRA for about 30 years. But I can't agree with their optimism when viewed the eyes of reality and growing dissent with the current administration.
I can't read your mind but it seems you think "emergency powers" will not be declared and enforced by federalized forces in the future because the Supreme Court has declared we have our right! (And I agree that some or most LEOs, even if federalized, will not act unConstitutionally). However, there are other forces available that have no allegiance to our country and to our great Constitution that can be imported and will do what ever the "powers that be" direct them to do. And armed men in the street will be no match for the armaments they could employ.
Furthermore, as Chicago has recently demonstrated in response to the Supreme Court decision, there are plenty of politicians who have not respect for the rulings of the Supreme Court as it has no enforcement power. No justice in a black robe will be in the streets of Chicago making the feds or LEOs uphold their ruling(s). Rather, they must depend on the Executive Branch. And in the current situation it seems to have folks who don't intend to enforce the laws and even the decisions of the Supreme Court. They seem to be determining what that laws are for themselves. So why should we believe that there is little threat of gun confiscation in the future, particularly in "emergencies" that can be unilaterally declared under Executive Orders with no judicial review?
How I'd like for your version of the state of our right to keep and bear arms to be true - not only today but in the future when the stuff hits the fan. I guess we'll just have to disagree and do it agreeably. Time will tell.
So I'm with seamusTX. Whatever possibility exists of such a thing is so minuscule as to be WELL outside the realm of likelyhood.
