Disarm America? Here's how [liberal wants Nazi type search of every household in the U.S.]

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ^ | April 29, 2007 | Dan Simpson

[EricT.]

What a moron. What makes Dan Simpson think that gun owners would take this lying down. I suspect that civil authorities as well as the gun grabbing goons involved in confiscation would find themselves to be targeted by gun owners. I mean targeted in the literal sense. Such attempts at disarmament would precipitate a civil insurrection. There is no way the gun grabbers would live to see such a hare brained scheme to completion. Just my opinion but with tens of millions of gun owners a significant percentage would resist to the death.

That was pretty much what I was thinking, too. Not only will many citizens defend their rights, they will pro-actively remove the threat to those liberties. That means that gungrabbers of all stripes will not be safe...anywhere.

Sounds like it might be a good opportunity to prune some dead wood while we are at it, too.

[secretagent]

What a gov’t can do is say “yeah, go ahead and keep your guns ... but you can’t buy any more ammo and reloading components”. Over time ammo will be as expensive as cocaine and no one will ever go and shoot what they have, if they have anything at all.

Depressing but true. They'll ban all firearm sales to civilians as well.

[hoppity]

I think The Gipper said it best:

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”

[Centurion2000]

Now, how would one disarm the American population? First of all, federal or state laws would need to make it a crime punishable by a $1,000 fine and one year in prison per weapon to possess a firearm. The population would then be given three months to turn in their guns, without penalty.

The disarmament process would begin after the initial three-month amnesty. Special squads of police would be formed and trained to carry out the work. Then, on a random basis to permit no advance warning, city blocks and stretches of suburban and rural areas would be cordoned off and searches carried out in every business, dwelling and empty building.

And civil war would begin almost immediately. Cops on these task forces will become the highest mortality job in the nation.

Can you see them trying this in South Central LA or Texas for God's sakes? These cops would get wasted on sight.

[BlazingArizona]

The real headline:
Why People No Longer Buy Newspapers

[Chewbacca]

I can just see a lot of police officers and politicians getting their homes burned down and vehicles set on fire if this was ever implemented.

[Beagle8U]

This sounds exactly like a plan Rooty Ghouliani would dream up.

[raftguide]

“Still, like frogs in a slowly boiling pot, we surrender right after right, community after community and principle after principle, to the treasonous left without so much as a stern warning.”

My thoughts exactly. We talk tough but how many among us, faced with the loss of our freedom to keep and bear arms, would actually point a loaded gun at the liberal’s thugs robot and pull the trigger?

[raftguide]

Looks like the Elian Gonzales kidnapping on the cover.

[edh]

but....but....our “fine” city was just voted “most livable”???? That has to count for something, right??? ;-)!

[JillValentine]

The cover was actually designed several years before the Elian incident. The author, John Ross, when questioned about it, commented that life imitates art.

[TFFKAMM]

As I often say to my liberal friends:

"If you LIKE the War on Drugs
You'll LOVE the War on Guns!"

(Weirdly enough, a few of the lefty types I know are themselves cop-hating, gun-owning anarchists who'd probably fight just as hard against this sort of police-state insanity as any Freeper. Politics makes strange bedfellows indeed...)

[ASA Vet]

By the third town you will find more and more guns piled up for confiscation.

By the third town you'd hear the 2nd shot heard around the world.

[clooney4824]

I just emailed the retard and told him “just try and take my gun,you idiot”. And I am a 67 yr old female.

[epow]

This is a favorite dream scenario of the gungrabbers. They probably have a major league wet dream every time they let their imaginations run wild with crap like this. But that's all it is, it won't come to pass in our lifetimes IMHO.

The Congress that passed such a law and the president who signed and enforced it would be thrown out at the next election, and the politicians know it.

[Dr.Zoidberg]

The civil war for this country would start at that point!

If that didn't get the job done in short order, the resulting guerrilla war would last for decades.

[Mariebl]

Before we get too depressed, let's stop and visualize that animated map of the U.S., the one that shows the change in CCW(carry concealed weapons) laws over the last 15 years. < br>
That's reality--state after state allowing guns back into the hands of law-abiding citizens. (I know, 'allow' isn't the right word, but it's a start in the right direction.) This article is just one old guy making remarkably poor use of the First Amendment.

And, as more people get CCW permits, and violent crime goes down, and no 'crazed citizen-with-permit shootouts' happen, we get more ammunition to use in debates with the other side.

[bootless]

SHALL. NOT. BE. INFRINGED.

Is he willing to give up the First Amendment, too?

What a load of very un-American crap.

[bootless]

He hasn’t been to the UK or Australia lately, has he?

[epow]

I am sure you don’t need me to tell you about the outrageous price increases for ammo (approx 300% in the past 2 years)

That's primarily due to the unprecedented increase in the market price of metals such as copper, zinc, and tin and the alloys that are made from them. I don't believe this has anything to do with the government making ammo more expensive or reducing the number of privately owned guns. It's mostly the fault of higher demand for those metals caused by the rapidly growing industrial capacity of China, India, and other former 3rd world nations that are fast becoming manufacturing powerhouses. Copper futures, which is needed to make brass cases, primers, and copper jacketed bullets, are at an all time high and still rising. So don't expect to see any cheap ammo or brass cases anytime soon, or probably never.