You can keep your guns. But, you will pay dearly and eventually have them confiscated anyway

News and thinking | 15 January 2013 | Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

That is may summation. All that is left is the suffering of persecution by the few righteous who are left.

[JRandomFreeper]

I can only be killed once.

Despair is a sin.

/johnny

[Jonty30]

This is exactly how it will happen. It will be such a gradual process that most wont notice, until it is too late.

[Lurker]

Bearing arms is not a privilege.

[halo66]

Creeping Socialism

[DJlaysitup]

This is exactly how it will happen. It will be such a gradual process that most wont notice, until it is too late.

My guess is it will go back and forth for decades...lotsa money to be made by politicians on this issue.

[Orange1998]

The loss of freedom happens slowly until its too late.

[JRandomFreeper]

Lots of nervous nellies around here are dying a thousand deaths because of their fear of what might happen, though.

/johnny

[Jonty30]

It will depend, partly, on how fast he can convince the Supreme Justices to retire. If he can get two, it may be over, because who are you going to appeal to?

[mike_9958]

“lotsa money to be made by politicians on this issue.”

Good observation and I would add lawyers to that as well.

Actually I think this is driven by lawyers - it makes no sense otherwise. Even the optics are stupid, particularly if there is one more shooting this year all of these people who “fixed” the problem will look silly.

[JRandomFreeper]

The loss of freedom happens slowly until its too late.

It's never too late for freedom.

/johnny

[JRandomFreeper]

because who are you going to appeal to?

God.

And my sense of what freedom is.

/johnny

[dragnet2]

This is exactly how it will happen. It will be such a gradual process

Of course it will.

Like cars...How in hell did they get Americans to pay to re-register the same damn vehicles over and over and over and over and over instead of only when they change ownership?

What an epic, coast to coast government conjob.

[Just another Joe]

Guns? What guns?
I lost all my weapons in a tragic boating accident on Crater Lake. ;^(

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Bearing arms is not a privilege.

Yes, per the 2nd, you are right. However, government is turning it into a privilege. Thus, the post was written the way it was written. What is happening is clearly a violation of the 2nd Amendment. So, when is anyone in leadership going to step up and DO something about it? Crickets chirping....

[cripplecreek]

Agreed.

[cripplecreek]

Funny thing about lost weapons. Ben Frankin indicated to the british that the same would happen in 1766.

Q. Can anything less than a military force carry the Stamp Act into execution?

A. I do not see how a military force can be applied to that purpose.

Q. Why may it not?

A. Suppose a military force sent into America; they will find nobody in arms; what are they then to do? They cannot force a man to take stamps who chooses to do without them. They will not find a rebellion; they may indeed make one.

Benjamin Franklin, Testimony Against the Stamp Act (1766)

[KittenClaws]

I don't think We The People need anyone in a “Leadership position” to do or say anything.

We are the People. It is Our Constitution.

The three branches of government serve at Our Pleasure. That is all we need to Remember and to stand by.

[JRandomFreeper]

So, when is anyone in leadership going to step up and DO something about it?

So, when did free men require a leader to do anything?

Just don't comply. It's pretty easy. Millions of criminals already ignore those laws.

/johnny

[skeeter]

Infringe: (transitive and intransitive verb) encroach on somebody's rights or property: to take over land, rights, privileges, or activities that belong to somebody else, especially in a minor or gradual way

If that %$#@ John Roberts doesn't have a Websters Dictionary I can send him one.