More on Gun Laws
Disclaimer: I wrote this during commercials while watching Mythbusters and reading about battery technology, so if the logic and structure isn't clear, my bad. I didn't edit it either, and I don't feel like it now.Gun laws are something you need to keep a sense of reality about. Yeah, I get
really pissed when I look at the infinitely unConstitutional measures our various legislatures keep trying to pass, and do manage to pass, but really... getting the guns out of the hands of Americans is an impossible feat for the present.
Look. The RKBA movement is pretty god damn big, full of military personnel and other independent, action oriented men and women that own a lot of guns. Guns aren't just tools to most of them, but a way of life; skill is earned, polished, and honed, all as a matter of pride. We're talking about millions of armed, willing, and ready people here.
People seem to think that as soon as a confiscation/registration law is passed, it's all over. Poof, the guns are gone. Well, that's not how it works. At absolute best the government has, oh, two million or so foot soldiers to try to confiscate the guns from seventy million owners, and if even 10% of those owners resist, the government will be outnumbered rather handily.
Now, I understand that there are a few dozen ways the government could put pressure on gun owners to pretty much ruin their lives until they give up their weapons, but how many people do you suppose will stand for having their lives shut down by control freaks on capitol hill without fighting back? Some certainly would, either by mental weakness or responsibilities to family and such, but it would take only a tiny percentage of pissed off militiamen to force the government to push a police state that would spark a general revolution or recognize the 2nd Amendment affirmed right again.
I think the way the government will ultimately disarm our society is cultural indoctrination in schools, growing whole generations of collectivist anti-gunners. They're working on it right now, perhaps not specifically to remove guns from the hands of gun owners, but to establish a socialist culture. Call me a conspiracy theorist if you want, but I'll just have to turn around and call you a blind sucker.
Read this for a scary view of the future of guns.
I tried to find the sabotage piece by Connie du Toit on our public schools, but I'm not having any luck. I'm browsing her very worthy archives and essays right now, though, so if I run across it I'll update.
