Stupid wrote:jdhz28 wrote:I always wondered how it would play out...if we didn't willingly turn in our firearms. Would some entity go door to door seeking out and forcibly taking them? If so when they came to my house, I would assume my dogs would get maybe one, I think I may be able to get two or three before they got me. If everyone else thought this way, wouldn't they soon run out of people going door to door to confiscate them? I don't see that day playing out in my lifetime, nor do I see very many of our active law enforcement or military that would be willing to execute that task, so who would do it? The UN maybe? I like those guys, that pastel blue stands out really well and would make a very nice target against that red chevron. If, and I feel it is a big if, that day comes, it will be long into the future. I think now they will focus more on chipping away, via magazine capacity restrictions, types of actions available to civilians, and extreme tax on ammunition. So that when that day comes, it will be all that much easier.
Very simply and effectively. Nobody is going to go door to door. Here's how it will play out:
1. They pass the bill.
2. You refuse to register your guns - most of you will because you are law abiding. Only a fraction of people will refuse to register - I'll give it 2% at the high side.
3. They don't really care because a) they don't really know you have them and b) there's no need.
4. If one of you get caught for something silly and they find the guns you didn't register, it would instantly become international news and you would be completely demonized and punished for the world to see.
5. More of you will register again as a amnesty would be given.
By then, it is done.
With all due respect, I don't think you know what you're talking about. Let me get the "law-abiding" part out of the way right up front. Martin Luther King Jr. broke all kinds of laws during his civil rights ministry, and he got arrested for it. But MLK did these things
because it was the right thing to do. He was derided by many for his "trouble-making," but today that trouble maker has a national holiday named after him and streets named after him in every major city. Nobody remembers the "law-abiders" who opposed him, because they have been properly relegated to the ash heap of history. Mankind is certainly capable of writing perfectly evil laws. When this happens, the
Right Thing to Do may very well be illegal. Corrie ten Boom broke the Third Reich's laws when she hid Jews and sheltered them from the evil of the "Final Solution." There is such a thing as a higher morality which surpasses legality. If ever called on to decide between obeying the law and surrendering to evil on one hand, and breaking the law and fighting for good on the other hand, Heavenly Father please help me to always decide in favor of what is right—even if it is illegal. If you agree to obedience to evil and unjust laws, then you are no better than those who turned in runaway slaves or ratted out Jews to the SS.
"They" may well pass a registration bill, but the vast majority will refuse to register them. A
few will......that small percentage that agrees with
you. More AR15s were sold in the past 2 weeks—at twice the normal market value, I might add—than in the prior 2-3 years. All those people didn't buy guns at massively inflated prices so that they could register them. They bought them precisely to get them—and squirrel them away if necessary—before the nation's quislings make it impossible to buy more of them. You want to see what registration would look like here? Look no further than Canada, where the vast majority of firearms which were supposed to be registered never actually were.......because their owners simply refused to cooperate.
I will not cooperate either. Most of those whom I know will not cooperate either. The ones I know who probably will, are either democrats, or who simply think like you do that the end is inevitable so there's no point in resistance. To either group, the gun-grabbers or the ones who would surrender without a fight, I would quote Samuel Adams:
Samuel Adams wrote:"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen."