Posted by
Lord Archaleon on Monday, November 19, 2007 6:48:47 PM
I am paying close attention to the second-amendment supporters right now. They are barking, and they are known to bite when they're barking isn't heard. Among the comments I'm hearing, people are saying the American Revolution started because of gun control.
The very idea of boundaries and grievances may cause the free world to plunge into a new age nightmare very soon. In the past, England's government punished anyone who asserted their rights, their boundaries. With SCOTUS preparing to rule on our 2nd amendment rights, our leftist politicians and judges are about to be tempted with turning America into a fascist empire.
1. If SCOTUS rules that government can illegalize firearms,
2. If federal government then illegalizes firearms,
3. If the feds enforce~ such a firearm ban,
-or-
3. If the feds have to overturn state laws to enforce the firearm ban,
...the crime which ensues will destroy America. The government will have signalled for total anarchy. Every criminal will invade every decent person's home, probably looting and running to another state that has gun protection, thinking they can get away with it. Those of us who live with liberals will be in extreme danger.
I came up with a survival strategy. My mom is too old to be involved in this kind of showdown, and so she needs to be protected. I can pretend to be a home invader, a muslim terrorist in the spirit of the revolutionaries who pretended to be native american terrorists, and then I can blow away rioters and dodge the law afterwards. That way, my family won't get arrested for owning guns. It's a one shot deal, but it's worth it. Mom is worth it ten times over twenty.
We have Stand Your Ground laws here in SC, and so unless the Feds enforce a firearm ban, I probably won't have to worry about these consequences until liberals outlaw guns. But in other states where such legislation doesn't exist, we can expect full blown riots and looting by the criminal element. Maybe if SCOTUS makes a bad decision, these states will demonstrate the consequences sufficiently to cause America to rethink things...and we won't have to have a civil war.
I know the Democrats get into office by support from anti-American groups, but just like they left their anti-war crowd whining, they hopefully are sensible enough to not cross this boundary. I'm kind of optimistic about them. They may be crooked, but they're not idiots. They couldn't gain a thing from enforcing a gun ban except the kind of totalitarian power and revenge that third world dictators strive for.
Would these criminals try?
The question for us then is whether today's Western liberals are that craven. They may perceive that they can maintain a grip on that power because of the size of our current government and it's military technology. It would be terrible for conservative revolutionaries to be pitted against military conservatives, but the left may reasonably perceive the potential losses as an effective way to reduce the size of the opposition, increasing its own leverage.
Waco reminds us that liberals are willing to use the military against the populace. Hurricane Katrina reminds us that liberals are willing to seize guns during a disaster. It's not a stretch to predict the inevitable outcome of criminals testing our rights. However, since most criminals and leftists are cowards, I can't see them passing this law without the antichrist himself at the wheel and lots of popularity.
...which brings us to Hillary. If the anti-war crowd wasn't enough popularity to get Democrats to pull in Iraq what they did in Vietnam, then I see no reason to fear them seizing our guns. The world may publicly blame America for Iraq's chaos, but the world knows it needs our intervention to keep the oil industry going. The left just seems to be legitamizing itself by trying to discredit us. Career politicians...that's all.
They're corrupt. They're embarassing. They're not going to destroy themselves. It's when liberals run a country's majority when some psycho gets in office, and that's when government undermines the fundamental principles of civilization. We're half and half here in America.