(06-06-2022, 06:51 PM)Snarl Wrote:(06-06-2022, 03:02 PM)ABNARTY Wrote: Circumstances have been cultivated to promote lawlessness. The citizen, left with little choice, must protect themselves. When they do, they face serious legal problems.
What does this picture demonstrate?
Time to realize cops work for the system ... not the taxpayer. If the system is the enemy ... so are the cops.
You can get on your knees and let them take your guns. You can wait (on your knees again) to be arrested for defending yourself. Or, you can fight the system and make the price they have to pay so high they'll surrender. Do not read that as 'quit' ... because one side or the other is gonna be disarmed before the lead stops flying.
The dam sure looks like it's going to burst before too long.
We've been here before, a few times. Every time a school or a party gets shot up by a lunatic, the opposition starts screaming for "gun control", and the armed side reacts negatively to that and starts chanting "from my cold dead hands", and the battle lines are drawn.
I doubt that much will come of it this time, either, other than gun sales shooting through the roof and prices climbing to the sky. Maybe another bullshit "red flag law" as if that's gonna do anything to ease things.
It's the "red flag" laws that really burn my biscuits. since they are promoted by Marxists with the intent of disarming their victims, they target the guns instead of the problem, which is the perpetrators. What you get then is some fucking lunatic still on the loose amongst us, only now more pissed off and even more alienated because they targeted him to take his guns instead of, you know, locking him up away from society for treatment, and leaving his guns where they lay. Both ways separate him from his guns, but only one of those ways actually addresses the problem by getting him out of polite society and into a treatment stage to end the problem.
So now, this further embittered malcontent just uses explosives instead, or maybe takes a trip to the gas station to get some gas and oil and shop rags to fill a few glass bottles with to really tear some shit up.
So by calling for more gun laws, they are really barking up the wrong tree, as it does not address the root problem. Weren't the Democrats once upon a time all about "root causes" in the illegal invasion debate? Well, they failed there, too, and I reckon gave up their crusade against "root causes", because they couldn't figure out a way to address them, and instead elected to go the ineffective route that only exacerbates things and makes them worse.
It may be a little worse this time, since the Democrats perceive themselves to be on their last legs and about to be tossed out of DC on their asses. If their past performance is to be used as a guide, they have no intention of, you know, making their constituency happy, and instead will double down on stupid and try to get something passed before they are handed their walking papers and lose their majorities. That has been their historical pattern, and what gave us the 1994 "Assault Weapon" ban, which was annoying but pretty ineffective.
I live in Virginia. A couple years ago, the Marxists took Richmond by storm and set about trying to disarm us, and there was a grassroots uproar. It made nearly every county in the state a "Second Amendment Sanctuary". The net result was a lot of pissed off constituents, a bullshit "red flag" law, and the elections this past election cycle that tossed them out on their asses and replaced them with conservatives.
This county was the first in Virginia to re-authorize a militia, so that people could take advantage of the military and police exceptions to disarmament. One sheriff in a county east of here threatened to deputize every citizen in his county, for the same reason. The legislature seems to have got the message that the people, and even the cops, were utterly displeased by them, and if they didn't get the memo then, this past election showed them the light.
The sheriff in the last county I lived in - one of the few Democrats I've ever voted for - quit the Democrat party and became a Republican over their dumbassed moves. That created an uproar there, but now several other sheriffs in other nearby counties have done the same thing.
So, at least out here, I'm pretty sure if they ever come for our guns, it will be only feds, and there are only so many of them to go around. they'll get spread mighty thin... especially considering that it probably won't just be individual homeowners they are up against, but instead a coordinated militia who were born understanding guerrilla tactics, and likely more than a few local sheriff's departments to have to contend with. It would be hard for them to mass overwhelming force on a single point target like they have to do to win under those conditions.
I did the math back when we were going all Second Amendment Sanctuary around here, and even if Northam had ordered out ALL of the State Police and ALL of the Virginia National Guard, they would have gotten decimated in pretty short order, because there are just not enough of them to go around considering the number of armed and pissed off citizens here that they would have been up against. Add to that the fact that all of them had to live in the community, and would have found themselves arrayed against their friends, neighbors, and their own families, and I expect their desertion rate would have been pretty high, too. Trump was president then, so if he countered Northam by "federalizing" the guard and ordering them to stand down, it would have even been more one-sided.
And, as you mentioned in another post, creating 100 million armed instant felons with nothing left to lose would not be the smartest thing they have done all week, which is saying something given the fact that they have not done many overly bright things since taking office.
They cannot win, and the sooner they reach that realization, the sooner we can get to the serious business of actually addressing the real problems.
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’