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All your guns are belong to us!
FMJ
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Government buying back all guns for 50.00 dollars each starting January 1st. 2002.
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It never ceases to amaze me how any self-respecting Jew, or member of any other group who have been enslaved or been killed by the thousands, can be in favor of any laws or rules that restrict their ability to protect themselves and their families.
I have'nt any guns worth $50.00. Maybe a plastic water gun. They better get more $$$$. On second thought they are'nt for sell.
you can be king or street sweeper but everyone is going to dance with the reaper
>>>DOWN WITH BRADY LEGISLATION!!!!!
Death to Tyrants!!!
-Gunphreak
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Too late to negotiate with them, too early to shoot the bastards....
Death to Tyrants!!!
-Gunphreak
Raise our taxes... that's a good one. Almost as if they are wishing another Boston Tea Party.
Death to Tyrants!!!
-Gunphreak
I heard on the radio today a neat little idea,
"The King taxed us two weeks pay out of a year and we went to war with him, now we give 5 months pay to the federal government..."
Death to Tyrants!!!
-Gunphreak
Live for Peace, prepare for War
Death to Tyrants!!!
-Gunphreak
rodney colson
Gun control isn't about guns. It's about control.
Death to Tyrants!!!
-Gunphreak
who knows, maybe the govt wants the guns 'For great justice'
Death to Tyrants!!!
-Gunphreak
What "Great Justice" would that be???
None, actually... but the thread title 'All your guns are belong to us' is a play off of an old sega game, that was horribly translated from Japanese... so much so that many forms of 'All your base are belong to us' (the original quote) have been used on the net for years. 'Do it for great justice' and 'someone set us up the bomb' are others
MY belief (that being this one man's belief), is that the government will never succeed, legally or practically, in taking the guns of the populace. Our representatives can enact laws limiting certain facets of ownership but creative citizens will always find legal ways around those laws. The assault weapons import ban of 1989 and the "evil features" assault weapon ban of 1994 are perfect examples. Just open a Shotgun News or go to GunBroker and see how many now "illegal" guns, magazines, etc., are available for legal purchase.
Certain battles can be expected to be lost, such as the ban on private ownership of Class 3 weapons without full registration. I, for one, don't need a machine gun, because my semi-auto knockoffs of full-auto military rifles would do the trick just fine, should push come to shove.
The problem with the doomsayers is that they GENERALLY (i.e., not in every case, but often) fail to take into account the sheer number of privately held firearms in this country. Consider that number (hundreds of millions?) in relation to the number of police officers and weapons they have on hand. (For the record, I have family members who are officers and very good friends who are officers, and I know for a fact that they would quit before enforcing any law which would require them to take all guns from the citizens they are sworn to protect.) Taking into account such debacles as Waco, Ruby Ridge, the L.A. bank shootout, it is obvious that the number of LE personnel it takes to take down one, two, or even a handful of determined, armed citizens (or criminals, as the case may be) presents a ratio that indicates the job can't be done by domestic LE alone. Who do you think would win?
That leaves the military. Absent a full-fledged insurrection, the chance that politicians will vote to amend our basic constitutional framework, so as to deploy the military to go house-to-house to disarm the populace, is exceedingly small. Am I saying that the National Guard has never leveled arms at citizens? No. What I am saying is that our representatives are, first and foremost, political animals. They recognize that gun owners, as an identifiable segment of the population, are far stronger politically and in spirit than those groups who have been gunned down by the National Guard (i.e., hippie college students, allegedly "wacked out" religious groups, etc.) in the past. With some exceptions, politicians respect the resolve and "teeth" of individual gun owners. This country will have to be torn apart before our government will ever send the military into the cities to disarm the populace.
What is left? The only way the population could be disarmed would be if the population voluntarily gives up its arms. Hence, the lead entry on this thread claiming a buy-back. If gun ownership were made illegal, would you give up your guns? The politicians, believe it or not, are smart enough to know that passing a law that will never be honored is worse than passing no law at all. Furthermore, much is said about the U.S. Supreme Court not weighing in on the Second Amendment for the last 70 years. The fact is that, if it were to do so, it would recognize that the reference to "the People" in the Second Amendment must be construed in accord with its many prior rulings over the last 70 years, clarifying that "the People" referenced in all of the other amendments in the Bill of Rights means the INDIVIDUAL citizens of the United States. In short, absent abandonment of the rule of stare decisis (meaning a later court's respect for a prior court's ruling on a legal principle) the Second Amendment is fundamentally safe. Again, it would take a widespread domestic insurrection or war on American soil before the politicians and courts of the land would veer so radically. The only people who would voluntarily give up their guns are the law abiding citizens, and the likelihood that the citizenry as a whole would, by law, be required to do so is slim to none.
Nonetheless, I still promote voting, and I still promote membership in an organization to anyone who will listen. I do so because the so-called "fringes" of the Second Amendment are becoming tattered. I enjoy semi-automatic rifles and handguns. I have never committed a crime with one nor do I intend to. I therefore should not have my right to own such firearms taken away because some criminal has not shown the same respect for the law that I have shown. How many rounds my gun will shoot, and what the thing looks like, are not, in my opinion, something that should be legislated. Laws which seek to accomplish these purposes, however, should not be viewed as an attempt to ban all gun ownership, nor should they be viewed as a credible foreshadowing that such a ban is likely. I believe that Sarah Brady and her friends know this, and that's why you haven't seen any major anti-gun legislation in almost ten years. She's shot her wad, so to speak, and organizations like the NRA and GOA have rallied in the individual states.
After all this wind, what's my point? If you like semi-auto firearms, then use the legal processes of voting and group membership to enhance your voice in your government. If your focus is on preventing the government from taking your guns, you're wasting your time. It's not gonna happen.
But, that's just my opinion. As Lee says, tell me if you think I'm wrong. I won't be offended.
Edited by - Rifleman.308 on 08/02/2002 12:16:49
Edited by - Rifleman.308 on 08/02/2002 15:04:38
No, I'm not going to shoot you full of holes, or anything you say, for that, matter. I will, in fact, agree with you on every point.
But while doing so, you are aware there are certain people within our country that have been brainwashed into believing guns are evil, and others that want to keep the normal people, like most of us, in our place. By fixing non-existing problems, like "assault weapon" bans, hi-capacity mag bans, and any other legislation, their intent should be fully displayed.
Whether they'll ever get away with it, that's another story.
Watch the UN, too. Their policies would have us all turning them in, and as long as our country continues involvement with them, we are not out of the woods, yet.
Death to Tyrants!!!
-Gunphreak
Anti-gunners will not rest until all of them are gone except criminals and military/law enforcement have them. Of course, they'll still be there, but we, as people, won't have them. Once a law is made, getting it off the books is next to impossible.
Anti-gunners demonize all guns, also. All actual assault rifles are nothing but trouble in the wrong hands, semi-auto paramilitary guns are assumed to be machine guns, due to their appearance, handguns are the favored tools of drive-bys, robberies, and violent criminals, bolt action rifles are sniper weapons, short barreled shotguns are weapons of destruction, long shotguns cause hunting accidents, and .22s are the most dangerous, because you wouldn't suspect them of being capable of killing someone. Anti-gunners also demonize gun owners, like all of us, and dare put us in the same categories as terrorists, criminals, rapists, thieves and otherwise abusive people.
On our side, all we ever do is demonize antigunners for being idiots who apparently watch too much TV and do too many drugs. We demonize the famous movie actors/actresses, politicians, and activists, because they are hypocrits. Dianne Feinstein of the Sozialist Republik of Kalifornistan, a well-versed anti-gunner, who says she will always fight for the removal of firearms of all types in society, is also the same Dianne Feinstein who is, herself a concealed carry permit holder in Kalifornistan. How about Sarah Brady of HCI, who we all know is doing her part to eliminate guns of all types from society, also, bought a high powered rifle with scope for her son for Christmas in 2000. Rosie O'Donnell, who plays on our alleged stupidity to pump us full of garbage, who knows absolutely nothing about the true history of our country, who with her own sleight of hand writes things as she goes along, who believes all guns are bad, yet she has hired armed bodyguards to protect herself and her family.
Why??
Death to Tyrants!!!
-Gunphreak
Bartman
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