Some gun regulation doesn't mean total confiscation (A new meme?)

The Reporter-Herald ^ | January 10, 2013 | James Ure

[2ndDivisionVet]

To the editor:

A recent editorial called for unlimited gun ownership to defend against the government. I hear this argument a lot, but what good is your AR-15 when you're fighting the full force of the United States military? All they have to do is drop a smart bomb on your house from high above and you're done. You wouldn't even see it coming. Alternatively, they could simply run over your house with a Kevlar-plated M1 Abrams tank, or shell your dwelling from cannons positioned far away.

I support the right to bear arms to protect your home and family against criminals, but your shotgun isn't going to do much against the U.S. Marines. It seems some gun advocates think any gun regulation is the first step to total confiscation of all weapons held in private hands. This is ridiculous and paranoid. Just because some want to limit gun ownership to non-semi-automatic weapons, doesn't mean the next step is a total ban on all guns. Even if there were enough people to support such a drastic measure, which there are not, they'd have to scrub the U.S. Constitution of the Second Amendment. As a historian, I can assure you that such a task would be nearly impossible...

[2ndDivisionVet]

We weren't able to kill all our opponents in Korea, Vietnam, Bosnia, Afghanistan or Iraq. What makes this "historian" think that the US military could do here what they couldn't do overseas?

[RitchieAprile]

back off, i’m a historian.

big whoop.

[Farmer Dean]

All Mr Ure is doing when writing this trash is getting his name on a bunch of people’s lists.

[Robert357]

I always have felt that those who don't learn the lessons of history are condemned to repeat them.

Athens Tennessee is a good example of what armed citizens can do against corrupt politicians. Not the full force of the combined US military, but local government.

It is an interesting story. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5ut6yPrObw And one that should not be forgotten.

[skeeter]

Mr Ure has staked out a 'moderate' position on gun control - he only wants to ban semi-automatic weapons.

Leaving guns lever & bolt action rifles & single action handguns - and muzzle loaders - as the only weapons available to the public.

What an idiot.

[oldenuff2no]

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[muir_redwoods]

Some EOs don’t mean large-scale compliance

[Lurker]

Yep.

[Red in Blue PA]

If Jews in Germany had the same arms as the govt does anyone really believe there would have been gas chambers?

[WorkingClassFilth]

Madison, Federalist Paper #46.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

We already have 20,000 gun laws.

Literally.

Let's try repealing a few instead, and see what happens.

[oldenuff2no]

Our military does not do well when fighting people who are fighting for their freedoms on their own turf. We lost in Vietnam and are now leaving Afghanistan before we officially loose that war as well. When the freedom fighters can hit and then fade back into the local civilian population our military is hamstrung. If it happens here it will be Vietnam X 100. The other thing to take a good strong look at is the "oath keepers" If someone really thinks that US military will kill our own people they better think again. It would be much more likely that the military would depose the new dictator and put our country in the hands of the Leader of the House as our new president.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

*** Just because some want to limit gun ownership to non-semi-automatic weapons, doesn’t mean the next step is a total ban on all guns.***

Nelson T. ‘Pete’ Shields
Founder of Handgun Control, Inc.

“I’m convinced that we have to have federal legislation to build on. We’re going to have to take one step at a time, and the first step is necessarily — given the political realities — going to be very modest.

Of course, it’s true that politicians will then go home and say, ‘This is a great law. The problem is solved.’ And it’s also true that such statements will tend to defuse the gun-control issue for a time.

So then we’ll have to strengthen that law, and then again to strengthen that law, and maybe again and again. Right now, though, we’d be satisfied not with half a loaf but with a slice. Our ultimate goal — total control of handguns in the United States — is going to take time. My estimate is from seven to ten years.

The problem is to slow down the increasing number of handguns sold in this country. The second problem is to get them all registered. And the final problem is to make the possession of all handguns and all handgun ammunition — except for the military, policemen, licensed security guards, licensed sporting clubs, and licensed gun collectors — totally illegal.”

-Pete Shields, Chairman and founder, Handgun Control Inc., “A Reporter At Large: Handguns,” The New Yorker, July 26, 1976, 57-58

[muawiyah]

One would hope.

Fur Shur I don't want him moving in my neighborhood ~ we're already oversubscribed on all sorts of 'target people' ~ one more and we might well tip over.

[FlingWingFlyer]

It seems some gun advocates think any gun regulation is the first step to total confiscation of all weapons held in private hands. This is ridiculous and paranoid.

The jughead doesn't have a very good memory does he? They started out asking people to smoke in the back of the airplane. Now, they'll arrest you if you fire one up out in the middle of the Gobi desert in a windstorm. It's the old "camel's nose" technique. It's better to never let them get started.

[muawiyah]

One would hope.

Fur Shur I don't want him moving in my neighborhood ~ we're already oversubscribed on all sorts of 'target people' ~ one more and we might well tip over.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Read all about it:

What Good Can a Handgun Do Against An Army?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2312894/posts

[FlingWingFlyer]

It seems some gun advocates think any gun regulation is the first step to total confiscation of all weapons held in private hands. This is ridiculous and paranoid.

The jughead doesn't have a very good memory does he? They started out asking people to smoke in the back of the airplane. Now, they'll arrest you if you fire one up out in the middle of the Gobi desert in a windstorm. It's the old "camel's nose" technique. It's better to never let them get started.

[2ndDivisionVet]

"This year will go down in history! For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration! Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future!"
~Chancellor Adolf Hitler

[omega4179]

but what good is your AR-15 when you’re fighting the full force of the United States military?

I will go ask the Viet Cong about that.