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...

[Blood of Tyrants]

Understood.

[Quickgun]

Lets see, from all I’ve been able to find out, it will be OUR side driving those Abrams.

[Lazamataz]

Oh, and by the by, Mr. So-Called-Historian: Abram tanks are not plated with Kevlar. Kevlar is a flexible fabric intended only to be employed in low-performance personal body armor. Abram tanks are plated with Chobham armor, a proprietary mix of ceramics and high-performance, specially hardened steel.

[Alaska Wolf]

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

We already have plenty of gun regulations. Why do you believe we need more, James? Liberals have repeatedly shown that there can never be enough government control.

[Temujinshordes]

A historian should be aware of Partisans, be they French, Russian, Yugoslav, or other nationality. Check how many German divisions were tied up in the Greek mountains by armed civilians during WWII. Does any government entity really want to go up against resolute and popularly supported “Chetniks” or “Chindits” in the U.S.? If so, they had better rethink that strategy.

[Dead Corpse]

There are literally thousands of illegal gun laws on the books now. But MORE is f*cking “reasonable”?

Ah... No.

[TigersEye]

All they have to do is drop a smart bomb on your house from high above and you're done.

And they are going to do that in urban and suburban neighborhoods all over America and say "oh, well" to all the lib/Dem collateral damage and the 0bama Zombie 51% are still going to love 0bamugabe?

OK, perfesser, I'll grant you that ridiculous position and simply respond 'if that's how it is then it's time to stash some real arms like Ma Deuces, RPGs, MANPADs and IED-making supplies and when the gooberment starts dropping Biden Bombs we wipe every single commie like you off the face of the planet.' And without even asking them my Marine friends absolutely agree.

[Miguel Alberto]

Exactly. We are about to be kicked out of Afghanistan by a bunch of savages...and one spineless Hawaiian. The author also assumes the entire military would go along with oppressing fellow Americans. I think he is in for a bit of a shock.

[muawiyah]

Basic IRA rule ~ we all look alike anyway

[muawiyah]

The area that can be controlled by one tank is, suffice to say, insignificant. That’s not what they are for!

[rolling_stone]

http://www.reporterherald.com/opinion/letters/ci_20869675/legalizing-marijuana-makes-sense-state

yeah while we are at it legalize marijuana and take away guns...

[2ndDivisionVet]

Exactly, but I wasn’t going to drill down that far into his screed. Also, Chobham is reactive, whereas Kevlar, of course, is not.

[VRWCarea51]

Dear James, I trust you will be the first to load into the box car when they “relocate” the intellectuals?

P.S Enjoy the shower!

[2ndDivisionVet]

They are coming out of the wood work:

Hitler Gun Control: U.S. Pro-Gun Advocates Have More in Common With Hitler Than They Think
http://www.policymic.com/articles/22692/hitler-gun-control-u-s-pro-gun-advocates-have-more-in-common-with-hitler-than-they-think

[Lazamataz]

Gentle correction: Chobham is not reactive. It mimics some of the effects of reactive armor, by redirecting some of the energy of a HEAT round against the shaped charge jet itself (when the ceramic shatters into dust), but it is not truly reactive. As one poster put it:

Thats why you'll see soldiers riding on top of an M1 but never a T72 -the top of the T72 is covered with explosive reactive bricks.

[eXe]

“paranoid” Seems to be the lefts buzzword on this issue. If you say you want to be able to defend yourself against tyrants you are “paranoid”. If you want to carry a gun so you will be able to defend yourself against an attacker you are “paranoid”

They need to wake up, its not 1994, that worked back then for Clinton to get his failed AWB passed but it wont work now.. it snot paranoia, its reality.

[Clock King]

Not total confiscation means 99%. The 1% crowd will be allowed to keep their guards and weapons.

[Clock King]

The entire 2nd paragraph show this “historian” to be nothing of the sort. All you have to do is look a the UK and Australia. And Obama and Holder have already stated they will not enforce laws they personally disagree with, and they will use executive order to circumvent Congress. This author is a fool.

[2ndDivisionVet]

An Israeli full colonel told me it was, but I believe you.

[castlebrew]

Anyone who says they support the 2nd Amendment, but thinks we don’t need “semi-automatic weapons armor-piercing bullets” is either a collaborator with the regime, or has coconuts for brains (h/t The Great One).

More likely the first choice of the two...