“If you think the 3 percenters will passively wait for confiscators to come to their door, once hostilities start, you are not looking at a reasonable reality.”
Here’s the thing: right now, most criminals are pretty stupid. Pass a confiscation order camoflaged as a law, and you will make criminals of some of the smartest and most skilled people in the nation. I think that the gun-grabbers understand that it doesn’t take a lot of them - 1% of 1% (one in 10,000) - to make life very short for most of them and their sympathizers/supporters. The ranks of Leftist politicians, Leftist police chiefs, Leftist media people and Leftist academics would decline precipitously in a very short time, when push came to shove with a very smart, talented, equipped and motivated enemy...that they, themselves, would have created.
Smart gun-grabbers would be wise to STFU, lest they get on someone’s list before a confiscation order...because afterwards, such lists won’t get revised except to note those who had given up the ghost.
There was a town that made it illegal a few years ago to park a motor home or camper in the front of house. They sent an employee to write $500 tickets. The first night the tickets were written, the politicians who voted for the new law had their windshields smashed in their own driveways. The law was rescinded and so were the tickets the next day.
That may be the type of preliminary warning some gun grabbers will need.