Posted on 01/02/2013 9:13:50 AM PST by RoosterRedux
It could be that the Second American Revolution is also caused by gun control. So Congress and team Obama had better think this thing out, and not go off half cocked!
Just sayin’.
The American serfs have had far more serious reasons, than gun seizure, for an armed revolt this past 100 years...It hasn't happened...
The colonists lived under a minor level of tyranny when compared to that we, as a Nation, have accepted since 1906.
Gun seizures will occur within a couple of years and it will be messy, but there isn't the 10%-15% of the current population required to ignite a revolution as there was in 1775.
No dictator in history has held the mechanisms of total population information and control control that are now in the hands of those who rule us.
Like frogs in increasing hot water, Americans are weak and pliable.
That said (and I certainly don't know), weapons may be the last straw...because when we give them up, we are defenseless at last.
That's the first emotional response.
But there's an intellectual response, as well.
None of us lives forever. Nor do our children.
When faced with a moral dilemma I often take refuge in The Golden Rule; that is, do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Knowing that disarmament will certainly lead to slavery, what do you hope your neighbor does when faced with the threat of losing his family to gun confiscators? We outnumber the confiscators by perhaps 100 to 1 or more.
What did our soldiers do when landed on the beaches of Normandy? Did they hide in the dunes because caring for their families was so important that they personally could not afford to die? Or did they risk the loss of what was probably most important to those families to carry the battle to the enemy?
If there is a Second Civil War, there will be plenty of opportunities to feign cowardice, so that the ultimate sacrifice costs the enemy as much as possible.
If you are so unfortunate as to find yourself beset by confiscators and your death would not diminish their strength, then surrender to fight another day.
But recognize that true cowardice would consist of knowing that the confiscations are taking place and doing nothing when there is a chance of costing the confiscators dearly even at the ultimate cost to yourself.
To paraphrase General Patton, "Nobody ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making somebody else die for HIS country."
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