Let me explain, gun grabbers, how your confiscatory fantasy plays out. Let us imagine for a moment that a sweeping gun control bill similar to the one currently suggested is passed by the House and Senate, and signed into law by a contemptuous President.
Perhaps 50-100 million firearms currently owned by law-abiding citizens will become contraband with the stroke of a pen. Citizens will either register their firearms, or turn them in to agents of the federal government, or risk becoming criminals themselves. Faced with this choice, millions will indeed register their arms. Perhaps as many will claim they’ve sold their arms, or had them stolen. Suppose that as many as 200-250 million weapons of other types will go unregistered.
Tens of millions of Americans will refuse to comply with an order that is clearly a violation of the explicit intent of the Second Amendment. Among the most ardent opposing these measures will be military veterans, active duty servicemen, and local law enforcement officers. Many of these individuals will refuse to carry out what they view as Constitutionally illegal orders. Perhaps 40-50 million citizens will view such a law as treason. Perhaps ten percent of those, 4-5 million, would support a rebellion in some way, and maybe 40,000-100,000 Americans will form small independently-functioning active resistance cells, or become lone-wolves.
They will be leaderless, stateless, difficult to track, and considering the number of military veterans that would likely be among their number, extremely skilled at sabotage, assassination, and ambush.
After a number of carefully-planned, highly-publicized, and successful raids by the government, one or more will invariably end “badly.” Whether innocents are gunned down, a city block is burned to ash, or especially fierce resistance leads to a disastrously failed raid doesn’t particularly matter. What matters is that when illusion of the government’s invincibility and infallibility is broken, the hunters will become the hunted.
Unnamed citizens and federal agents will be the first to die, and they will die by the dozens and maybe hundreds, but famous politicians will soon join them in a spate of revenge killings, many of which will go unsolved.
Ironically, while the gun grab was intended to keep citizens from preserving their liberties with medium-powered weapons, it completely ignored the longer-ranged rifles perfect for shooting at ranges far beyond what a security detail can protect, and suppressed .22LR weapons proven deadly in urban sniping in Europe and Asia.
While the Secret Service will be able to protect the President in the White House, he will not dare leave his gilded cage except in carefully controlled circumstances. Even then he will be forced to move like a criminal. He will never be seen outdoors in public again. Not in this country.
The 535 members of the House and Senate in both parties that allowed such a law to pass would largely be on their own; the Secret Service is too small to protect all of them and theirfamilies, the Capitol Police too unskilled, and competent private security not particularly interested in working against their own best interests at any price. The elites will be steadily whittled down, and if they can not be reached directly, the targets will become their staffers, spouses, children, and grandchildren. Grandstanding media figures loyal to the regime would die in droves, executed as enemies of the Republic.
You can expect congressional staffs to disintegrate with just a few shootings, and expect elected officials themselves to resign well before a quarter of their number are eliminated, leaving us with a boxed-in executive, his cabinet loyalists trapped in the same win, die, or flee the country circumstance, military regime loyalists, and whatever State Governors who desire to risk their necks as well.
Here, the President will doubtlessly order the activation of National Guard units and the regular military to impose martial law, setting the largest and most powerful military in the world against its own people. Unfortunately, the tighter the President clinches his tyrannical fist, the more rebels he makes.
Military commands and federal agencies will be whittled down as servicemen and agents will desert or defect. Some may leave as individuals, others may join the Rebellion in squad and larger-sized units with all their weapons, tactics, skills, and insider intelligence. The regime will be unable to trust its own people, and because they cannot trust them, they will lose more in a vicious cycle of collapse.
Some of these defectors will be true “operators,” with the skills and background to turn ragtag militia cells into the kind of forces that decimate loyalist troops, allowing them no rest and no respite, striking them when they are away from their most potent weapons. Military vehicles are formidable, but they are thirsty beasts, in terms of fuel, ammo, time, and maintenance. Tanks and bombers are formidable only when they have gas, guns, and can be maintained. In a war without a front, logistics are incredibly easy to destroy, and mechanics and supply clerks are not particularly adept at defending themselves.
Eventually, the government will turn upon itself. The President will be captured or perhaps killed by his own protectors. A dictatorship will form in the vacuum.
If we’re lucky, the United States of America, or whatever amalgam results, will again try to rebuild. If we’re very lucky, the victors will reinstate the Constitution as the law of the land. Just as likely though, we’ll face fractious civil wars fought over issues we’ve not begun to fathom, and a much diminished state or states will result, perhaps guided by foreign interests.
It will not be pretty. There will be no “winners,” and perhaps hundred of thousands to millions of dead.
Yet, this is the future we face if the power-mad among us are not soundly defeated at the ballot box before they affect more “change” than we, the People, are willing to surrender to would-be tyrants.
This is a well written article, well thought out and paints a possibly very real picture of what we have in store for us if we truely want to save our Constitutional Republic.
After reading the U.N. program to end small arms pdf file I cant say that this is a scenario they wouldn’t like to see play out. The U.N. is positioning itself as being the body who has the right to regulate small arms for the purpose of ending small conflicts. From what I understand there are well over a million U.N. troops here in the U.S. Some in the capacity of operating entire bases. I personally know that any given time there are foreign troops training on U.S. soil. Then thers the issue of China. China has written reports to the U.N. claiming that the second amendment is a threat to the saftey and human rights of American citizens. Before you say who the hell craes what china says let me remind you that they hold the power in the hands to drop our currency. They are also buying up tremendous amounts of federal land and in a couple states like Utah and Nevada they are building their self sustaining cities. This is a global attempt to disarm us because we have been sold to foreign interests. Now the bill has come do and the people our traitorous politicians have made promises to want them upheld.
I am ex-military. I can promise you, many soldiers today don’t believe in the government they are sworn to defend. Many are there solely because the military promised them a better life afterwards by paying for their college. I can also say with much confidence, those men and women will not fight US citizens. I personally would have shot an officer who told me to violate the rights of another American… Or anyone else, for that matter. Disobeying an order when the order is unlawful itself it MANDATORY. If they threatened retribution, YOU ARE REQUIRED BY MILITARY LAW TO RESIST AND NEUTRALIZE THEM. That is why we are afforded the 2nd Amendment!!! We MUST be able to defend ourselves from our own military, if someone actually managed to brainwash enough of them into thinking we were the problem. We are not. The problem is we have greedy politicians who are in debt to corporate interests, and they are willing to sell their souls to retain their positions. Some even believe we are the problem and that we are too stupid to be allowed to remain free… The “smart” people in power think they can solve all our problems for us, if we would just cooperate.
Well…. I have one answer to that. F**k them. I honestly believe if we don’t eventually rise up to cleanse the influence of corporate greed and remove the bastards in power now who fully believe they are entitled to run our lives and dictate our rights, there is going to be another American civil war. It won’t be black powder rifles and militias. It will be as our founding fathers fought. Guerilla warfare… And I promise, we the people can be a lot more vicious than You, the government, can suppress. We will destroy you and shit in your graves. Is that too extreme? Well, try us.
Bob Owens is a very well known LIAR and a “wannabe” in the State of NC. Taking advice from a “pen” warrior like him is not the best thing one can do in life. His Revolution? There would be 100 people lined up to “cap” him day one. Live by the sword, die by the sword, or in Bob Owens case “the fantasy or ink Pen.”