Now to play devils advocate here, I have to say some if not most of these post about fighitng to the death are probably BS and posturing "in front of the boys". Im know there are some here who would make the last stand, but I think most here would hide them and either work for a legal solution or work with the "resistance. But I strongly doubt the people talking about going out in a "hail of bullets" will be able to pull the trigger when the time comes. I have BTDT and when the bullets start flying all the "talk" goes out the window.
I think pmb44 is correct here. There's a lot of tough talk in this thread about standing one's ground and doing the "patriotic" thing. I just don't see that happening. We haven't gotten to the point we're at in this country without the tacit consent of the public, including us, the gun owning public.
With every new law and restriction that has come down the pipe, we have stood by and taken our lumps. We have agreed to grind off our bayonet lugs, and we scour the countryside for pre-ban magazines.
We've dutifully complied with all federal, state and local laws and we boast of our law-abidingness here on the pages of this forum. We have signed out Form 4473s and submitted our FA-10s. We chastise others who suggest that they would not do the same.
We are the proverbial frog in the sauce pan, now about two-thirds boiled. But we only complain that the water's getting warm.
If outright confiscation should one day come to Massachusetts, and elsewhere, it will not come in the form of a jackbooted thug kicking down our door and menacing our grandmother with an automatic rifle. At least not at first. Confiscation will come in the form of a bland bureaucratic order that all black rifles of a certain make and model are now deemed illegal and must now be destroyed, turned in, or sold out of state. A deadline for compliance will be made public.
Owners of said weapons may be notified in writing on the basis of existing registration documents. Or they may be left wondering whether the government knows what they have. Do they have the 4473s, the FA-10s?
When the knock on the door comes and you say your guns were lost in a fishing accident, you'll be subject to arrest for failure to report lost or theft.
No one will bury guns in the back yard, much less scatter metal shavings around the back forty to thwart the agents of the law. No one will mount an armed resistance to a search warrant served on their property. No one will die gloriously in a hail of federal gunfire.
Well, maybe a few will. And they will be soon forgotten by the RKBA community.
Someone mentioned Carl Drega. What about Linda Hamilton, up in North Adams? She waited for the rallying cry to be sounded and for rescue to come from the RKBA community. And she couldn't even rustle up a few bucks to defray legal costs. So she got railroaded, lost her case and committed suicide. Where were the "patriots" then?
I've spoken here before about Waco and Ruby Ridge. These things happened, they were state-sponsored atrocities, and were allowed to stand. Who, born after 1980 or so even remembers?
I hope that DC v. Heller will be successful and will start to turn the tide back toward the intent of the Second Amendment and the enforcement of our constitutional rights. But that's just one battle in a long war, a war which we have been losing since at least the Sullivan Act and NFA34.
With the growing movement toward internationalization, regional economies, and increasing encroachments on US sovereignty, how much longer will our Constitution even be recognized as the law of the land?
Tough talk. That's a lot of what I read here. When you have to choose between everything you have; your life, family, home, job ... and armed resistance against a tyrannical power, how many will choose to fight?
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