I love how they want all this dangerous forceful action done by the two organizations that they hate so much, the police and the military.
It never ceases to amaze me how these liberal coward sheep never ever learn from history when only the police and military have the guns. Like most things in their lives they simply cover their ears and yell so they can pretend bad stuff doesn't happen.
Well yeah.
I've said on more than occasion here that I've got friends who are police officers; hell - I've got one buddy who works for TSA and another who works for CPB, (customs & border protection). My son's a veteran, so was my father, and now that I'm living down here I shoot with a lot of active and retired military. We live pretty close to Fort Stewart and a high percentage of my development is either active or retired military - these are my friends and neighbors.
But - I'm Jewish. My mother fled Austria as a child, and some of my family disappeared. My godparents had serial numbers tattoed on their forearms, hid food in odd places in their house and made their living as stamp dealers - you could stash a million dollar's worth of stamps in an envelope inside your jacket and run.
That's not some distant past history that happened to other people.
That's my maternal grandfather that I never knew. That's my Uncle Arthur and Aunt Trude who were always a little "different".
NEVER AGAIN isn't some cutesy saying to me. It's personal.
And firearm ownership is a lot of things to me. It's pins, plates, USPSA, IDPA, skeet - all the fun things I do with my wife and friends. It's fun at the range, it's trying to shoot better.
But it's also studying the applicable laws and thinking about what it would mean to shoot someone who was trying to kill me or someone I love. It's machining out an 80% lower because this is another firearm that the ATF doesn't need to know that I have. And it's thinking about the fact that people in this country think that the ATF need to know about every firearm that I have - and that I disagree strongly with them.
It's looking at the current political climate and shaking my head in disbelief - because I'm not going to disarm myself. I am not going to be a victim. It is not governmnent's job to protect me, and they can't. And in the worst possible case - not only won't they protect me - they'll be the ones killing me.
When you say that can't happen - tell my grandparents that.
I'm not getting on the train.