[Capt.Ahab]

My question to the gun grabbers is this.
How are they going to take the guns?
Will the people who advocate gun control be out there confiscating guns? No.
Will the military be taking guns? NO. Many in the military will remember their oath. We also have Posse Comitatus.
Will the cops be taking guns? Maybe. Some will resist unconstitutional orders. The rest will try to confiscate, until there are none left...

There are hundreds of millions of guns in the US. Billions of rounds of ammo. There are 100 million + gun owners in the US.
If only 1% of gun owners resist to the death, 1 million, how long will that last? How long will the public have the stomach to watch 1 million of their fellow citizens die? How many "confiscators" will die?
My point is gun confiscation will never happen. It is already a battle lost. The cat is out of the bag.

We will never be disarmed. Ever.

Any belief otherwise is a pipe dream. Give it up. Never gonna happen.

[brown_thumb]

Originally Posted by St. Phatty

America has a lot of angry people.


The so-called civil court system is very far from a level playing field. Very little gets resolved there. If anything, it just makes people angrier.

Same for the "Criminal" court system.


It's a Harvey Weinstein society - if you're a member of the right demographic group, you can get away with raping 35 women.

If you're a member of the wrong demographic group, your life is destroyed by an arrest for a small amount of Cannabis.


It's basically a Caste system, like India used to have and maybe still does have.

Precisely correct, IMO. One of the USA's and virtually all other countries (probably) is the more wealth and power a person has, the more they can get by with. The poor are screwed.

[brown_thumb]

I'm agnostic so I only post this for Christian peoples who think disarmament of the populous is a wise thing to do. The Bible states as follows...

"He said to them, "But now if you have a purse, take it, and also a bag; and if you don't have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one".
--- Luke 22:36 ---

[aridbud]

My mom always wondered "who is packing" in church. I used to laugh in jest, but see her point. Very sad situation.

[St. Phatty]

I get the impression that in a lot of these incidents, the shooters are taking anti-depressants. i.e. seriously brain-scrambling drugs.

Semi-auto's and full auto's were available in the past - when shooting incidents like this were once a decade or once a year. Not once a month.

What has changed ?


One thing I notice about the shooters in most of the cases is that they are puffy and pasty - out of shape.

What if they had mandatory fitness requirements for people who buy firearms ? Would we have fewer mass shootings - or just shooters with a lower body fat index ?


Or is it related to sexual frustration ? How often does this happen in societies with legal prostitution ? (a theory that doesn't jibe with the Paddock shooting in Las Vegas).


The guy in Texas - he looks like he would benefit from a few bong rips.

[Rubber Chicken]

If you don't think the future will be good, it wont, if you do, it might.

If the mental landscape changed to where being a 'gun person' was an embarrassment of sorts rather then glamorized and made to seem cool.... it's weird how people are proud about their guns.

I don't mean to be negative about many things, but the gun 'thing' in USA, i think the rest of the civil world have one eyebrow raised because it just seems caveman.

[Rubber Chicken]

Originally Posted by St. Phatty

The guy in Texas - he looks like he would benefit from a few bong rips.

[MJPassion]

Originally Posted by St. Phatty

What has changed ?

Entitlement!

[dragongrower]

Originally Posted by brown_thumb

Interesting analogy... and how many countries are willing to do away with their nuclear arsenals? It's simply not going to happen. It seems some here believe in an all-powerful 'New World Order' and placing 'absolute ultimate power' in the hands of a very few? No... I don't think so!!

1. Remove firearms from the hands of good people? It was a local bystander with a rifle who stopped that crazy SOB. Had he been denied ownership of his rifle, that lunatic could have kept going to place after place murdering at will until taken down by police. That bystander... with a rifle... may have saved dozens of lives. Had a few church parishioners been armed, there's a very good chance one or more of them could have stopped that bastard much sooner.

2. Had the killer not had access to firearms then he would have used bombs or some other form of weapon.

3. I find it very disturbing that many folks can't understand these points.

3. And people who do not like guns in everybody's hands probably thinks it is disturbing that you understand it the way you do..

[MJPassion]

Originally Posted by Rubber Chicken

If you don't think the future will be good, it wont, if you do, it might.

If the mental landscape changed to where being a 'gun person' was an embarrassment of sorts rather then glamorized and made to seem cool.... it's weird how people are proud about their guns.

I don't mean to be negative about many things, but the gun 'thing' in USA, i think the rest of the civil world have one eyebrow raised because it just seems caveman.

Guns as a matter of Rights...

You do realize that the only real reason to have guns as a matter of Rights was, as outlined by the framers of the Constitution of the United States of America, for suppressing tyranny in government.

Americans are way past their due date on this point. We should have had another civil war in 1909 when the Government passed the Federal Reserve Act... Among other tyrannical actions.