Posted on 01/11/2013 5:13:44 PM PST by 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...
(Excerpt) Read more at reporterherald.com ...
back off, i’m a historian.
big whoop.
All Mr Ure is doing when writing this trash is getting his name on a bunch of people’s lists.
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.
Leaving guns lever & bolt action rifles & single action handguns - and muzzle loaders - as the only weapons available to the public.
What an idiot.
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Some EOs don’t mean large-scale compliance
Yep.
If Jews in Germany had the same arms as the govt does anyone really believe there would have been gas chambers?
Madison, Federalist Paper #46.
Literally.
Let's try repealing a few instead, and see what happens.
*** 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
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.
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.
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.
Read all about it:
What Good Can a Handgun Do Against An Army?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2312894/posts
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.
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.
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