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Boston Globe: Gun Confiscation is Needed… and Impossible
Ammoland ^ | 24 November, 2017 | Dean Weingarten

Posted on 11/28/2017 7:42:34 AM PST by marktwain

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To: Noumenon

One individual with an FN Model 1910 pistol chambered for the .380 ACP can alter the course of history.


61 posted on 12/01/2017 3:37:11 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Blue Jays

“We would just return to an overturned house where the authorities have already advised the press about ”weapons, child porn, drugs, and ISIS literature” discovered via an allegedly lengthy investigation.“

That one will work twice, maybe three times tops.

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62 posted on 12/01/2017 3:39:17 PM PST by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
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To: Blue Jays
FReepers often have husbands/wives/boyfriends/girlfriends/children/families/pets/homes/jobs to consider.

There are enough who are old and retired and divorced/widowed, with nothing else to do but lie in wait from a slight distance, to rapidly diminish the ranks of the confiscators.

63 posted on 12/01/2017 3:48:54 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Lurker

"...That will work twice, maybe three times, tops..."


Do people in Pennsylvania really know what is happening in Colorado on a daily basis?
Do people in Maine really know what is happening in Iowa on a daily basis?

My sense is they would do things like this slowly and piecemeal, not in some massive sweep that would raise attention.
Lots of people think three guns and 100 rounds of ammunition is an “armory” and they would likely sell that exact story to a handwringing public.


64 posted on 12/01/2017 6:18:45 PM PST by Blue Jays ( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
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To: DuncanWaring

Indeed. Highly recommend Barbara Tuchmans “The Guns of August” if you haven’t already read it.


65 posted on 12/02/2017 6:46:02 AM PST by Noumenon ("progressive” describes the progression of a terminal disease.)
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To: CatOwner

“In my dreams, I see politicians giving most Americans the middle finger.”

They will not do so without consequence.


66 posted on 12/02/2017 6:47:57 AM PST by Noumenon ("progressive” describes the progression of a terminal disease.)
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To: Sasparilla

“They would run out of “confiscators” before the end of the first day.”

Almost as fast as they’d run out of the ones who sent them.


67 posted on 12/02/2017 6:51:24 AM PST by Noumenon ("progressive” describes the progression of a terminal disease.)
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To: marktwain

As a nation we are slipping down that rabbit hole faster each day.

‘They’ have often opined that ‘ejecting’ 15 million ‘illegals’ would be an impossible task while suggesting that removing weapons from some 200 million residences is not only possible, it is imperative.

These are the same people that ‘argue’ no sense in drilling on the ‘North Slope/Arctic Ocean/Virginia Coast’ because it will be at least 10 years before it would show a difference. (OF COURSE that was 30 years ago and ‘they’ are still playing ‘switch’ with their thumbs).

All of this strarted going back to the Middle Ages when some wag priced gas at .019 per gallon and convinced ALL (even us) to say gas is up or down to 1 cent.

Ayn Rand hit it correctly, make enough laws and you can turn EVERYONE into a criminal.


68 posted on 12/02/2017 7:17:04 AM PST by xrmusn ((6/98)""If the earth were flat, cats would have pushed everything over the edge by now")
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To: Noumenon

Read it about five years ago.

Fascinating.


69 posted on 12/02/2017 7:30:51 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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70 posted on 12/02/2017 7:32:16 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: xrmusn

Ayn Rand hit it correctly, make enough laws and you can turn EVERYONE into a criminal.


We are there right now. It is what this whole Muller insanity is about.

I have more hope now than I have had in 40 years. President Trump seems to keep pulling victory after victory from the swampy mess.

Perhaps he is a Machiavellian Prince that will do what is necessary to save the Republic.


71 posted on 12/02/2017 7:34:58 AM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: taxcontrol; Kenton
CIVIL WAR

Probably still the biggest oxymoron going.

However

While the 'small crowd' of people let out a 'silent scream' while others give their 'unbiased opinion' and raise the 'unconsciousness awareness' of the 'wise fools' that believe in a 'working vacation'

While the 'larger half' of the 'militant pacifists' create 'loyal opposition' to the 'living dead' as the 'humane slaughter' creates an 'impossible solution' in the 'historical present' results in a 'friendly takeover' or 'civil war'.

72 posted on 12/02/2017 7:46:44 AM PST by xrmusn ((6/98)""If the earth were flat, cats would have pushed everything over the edge by now")
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To: marktwain

Yes, Ms Rand was very perceptive in her writings of over half a century ago.

She has to take her place in history with Jules Verne, Chester Gould, Al Capp and a handful of others that basically foresaw the future and had the ‘courage’ to publish and spur it along

Very few among ‘us’ could foresee Dick Tracy and his wrist radio, Nuclear Submarines etc etc etc

Al Capp also pointed out what a politicized society would look like with the likes of Moonbeam McSwine/Sadie Hawkins (feminist movement) the Shmoos, (Johnsons great society as the shmos would just reproduce themselves in whatever YOU wanted as a ‘good government’ should)


73 posted on 12/02/2017 8:04:14 AM PST by xrmusn ((6/98)""If the earth were flat, cats would have pushed everything over the edge by now")
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To: xrmusn

Rudyard Kipling, for Gods of the Copybook Headings, deserves a prominent place on your list.

http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poems_copybook.htm


74 posted on 12/02/2017 11:53:24 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: DuncanWaring

Yes, and ‘Tommy’ is probably more meaningful the ‘older’ it gets.

Should have an R Kipling day once a quarter or so - so all his insightful work can be appreciated....


75 posted on 12/02/2017 1:08:13 PM PST by xrmusn ((6/98)""If the earth were flat, cats would have pushed everything over the edge by now")
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To: DuncanWaring

Yes, and ‘Tommy’ is probably more meaningful the ‘older’ it gets.

Should have an R Kipling day once a quarter or so - so all his insightful work can be appreciated....


76 posted on 12/02/2017 1:21:22 PM PST by xrmusn ((6/98)""If the earth were flat, cats would have pushed everything over the edge by now")
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