>>>Two-Thirds of American Gun Owners Would “Defy” a Federal Gun Ban<<<
Which is actually the goal, in my opinion.
The totalitarian state we’re evolving into has learned from the crude examples of Stalin and Mao. A comprehensive ban on many kinds of firearms - but not all kinds - will create an immense population of lawbreakers, including not only those against the law but those confused by its complexity, but they’re not going to round everyone up. There’s no need. It’s a potential weapon that can be taken out and used on a case-by-case basis to promote friends and harass enemies. Stalin was wrong about creating terror. All that is really needed is a sense of confusion, unease and distrust. Sometimes people will be arrested, or fined, or merely bothered, just enough to be in the news or be held up in show trials. With the emotions of the population focused this way, those in power can consolidate what they have and prevent others from taking it away.
On the other hand, we’ll have all the porn we want, and probably enough weed to keep certain sections of the population docile. And it won’t matter if the weed is legal or not, either. That’s another tool that can be used to control people.
Ayn Rand predicted this in a stirring speech within “Atlas Shrugged.” Honest men can’t be controlled, so the state creates lawbreakers where no existed before.
God help us.
The time may come soon to choose to fight for our freedom. To simply lay back and wait until you have nothing left to lose is perhaps not the best course of action, but it is the easiest.
This is not Russia or China. They both have long histories of being subjects accustomed to being told what to do. We, for the most part, are a differeant people. Gun sales should tell you that. Obama and the 'progressives' have no idea of the hell they will unleash on themselves if they try to push this. Many people are getting truly fed up with them.
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.” Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago