I recently read where there are more firearms....just in the state of Wisconsin, mind you....than in the entire U.S. military.
That’s one, relatively sparseley-populated state.
Let the a**holes try. They will lose. Big time. It won’t be pretty.
See......even we here on FR fall into the same trap. We all say “Well gee golly, the Federal Gubmint has the military on their side with all their HUGE guns and high-tech weaponry and air power and aircraft carriers and.....”.
Yeah...right.
Try to A) get our own military, made up of our brothers, fathers, sons, daughters, wives, etc....to take on their fellow American citizens because of some mulatto, gay, Muslim asshole currently in the Oval Office. Try that....let me know how that works out for ya....and B) try going a level or two lower, no matter how much money you’ve given them to do so, and get local LE entities to enforce this. They don’t have unlimited numbers, they LIVE in their communities, they do NOT want to die, and they are NOT totally stupid. In the big cities, politicians posing as police commissioners will try.....fine. Try it in the rest of the real America and watch your body bags fill.
Then....the sheer numbers. Who in the HELL is really going to be able to enforce such idiocy? Answer: No one. There aren’t enough LEO’s (like all of them would fall in line with the new fascists) to enforce this. Certainly not the so-called “Homeland Security”, or even their cutesy little brown-shirt army they’re trying to raise. What a freakin’ joke.
No, this is a hearts and minds campaign, nothing else. The libs, with AMPLE MSM help, mind you....are failing miserably. This won’t stop them from trying. They know they can never fully control an armed populace, but the bitch of it is.....how can they disarm us without seeing their minions being blown away by the thousands on a daily basis?
Sucks to be a Marxist without the means to implement your plans, doesn’t it?
As has been posted here already, this was essentially discussed by Solzhenitsyn before. Though I believe that nearly all of the military and a significant portion of law enforcement would not comply with orders to confiscate weapons from private citizens, my argument (and Solzhenitsyn’s) does not depend on it. Once the confiscators start dying - and in such a scenario, they most certainly would - the remaining designated confiscators would quit.
It’s as simple as that.