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| The disarming of America |
| 2007-04-27 |
| HT: captainsquartersblog.com Severely EFL ...Now, how would one disarm the American population? First of all, federal or state laws would need to make it a crime punishable by a $1,000 fine and one year in prison per weapon to possess a firearm. The population would then be given three months to turn in their guns, without penalty. Hunters would be able to deposit their hunting weapons in a centrally located arsenal, heavily guarded, from which they would be able to withdraw them each hunting season upon presentation of a valid hunting license. The weapons would be required to be redeposited at the end of the season on pain of arrest. When hunters submit a request for their weapons, federal, state, and local checks would be made to establish that they had not been convicted of a violent crime since the last time they withdrew their weapons. In the process, arsenal staff would take at least a quick look at each hunter to try to affirm that he was not obviously unhinged. ...The disarmament process would begin after the initial three-month amnesty. Special squads of police would be formed and trained to carry out the work. Then, on a random basis to permit no advance warning, city blocks and stretches of suburban and rural areas would be cordoned off and searches carried out in every business, dwelling, and empty building. All firearms would be seized. The owners of weapons found in the searches would be prosecuted: $1,000 and one year in prison for each firearm. Clearly, since such sweeps could not take place all across the country at the same time. But fairly quickly there would begin to be gun-swept, gun-free areas where there should be no firearms. If there were, those carrying them would be subject to quick confiscation and prosecution. On the streets it would be a question of stop-and-search of anyone, even grandma with her walker, with the same penalties for "carrying." ...That is my idea of how it could be done. The desire to do so on the part of the American people is another question altogether, but one clearly raised again by the Blacksburg tragedy. Dan Simpson, a retired diplomat, is a member of the editorial boards of The Blade and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Scratch a liberal, sniff a totalitarian... |
| Posted by:Dave D. |
| #16 There is nothing on earth that motivates me more to buy guns and scads of ammunition than tripe like this. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-04-27 23:54 |
| #15 I'm arriving at the conclusion that this is a very broad satire. It just has to be. Isn't it....? |
| Posted by: Jonathan 2007-04-27 20:33 |
| #14 the poor cops would be the ones suffering the backlash, unless someone were to, say, ....actually notice and record who's behind it. "Making a list, checking it twice..." |
| Posted by: Frank G 2007-04-27 19:45 |
| #13 Glenmore, your post reminds of a Chris Rock bit. He talked about $500 bullets. "Man, I'm gonna get a job and get some money and kill you!" That sort of thing. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2007-04-27 19:08 |
| #12 The Blade is a liberal rag. This article represents the wet dream of some gun grabbing liberal nitwit fuzz head who is not in touch with reality. At first I thought this was a Scrappleface but alas. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2007-04-27 18:58 |
| #11 An America in which the 2nd and 4th Amendments to the Constitution have been flushed down the shitter (along with, as an inevitable consequence, the 1st Amendment) would not be an America worth living in. If I have to die-- or kill-- to prevent it, I will. It's as simple as that. |
| Posted by: Dave D. 2007-04-27 18:34 |
| #10 This is a smokescreen. No records exist for too many guns, and a lot of those gunowners will bury Grandpa's Garand in the backyard before turning it over to anyone. I suspect the way they'll actually go is through ammunition. No Second Amendment issues. Ease into it by imposing ever-increasing taxes - "to offset the medical costs of treating gunshot wounds." Eventually ban ammo (and powder) sales outright (corporations are lots easier to control than individuals.) It won't be long before shooters either run out or get out of practice. Criminalize black market like they do drugs - soon the good people will be in jail, or disarmed. Watch this prediction. It's a sneaky tactic - just the sort of thing you would expect from the government. Fight it as you can, but expect sooner or later it will get ugly. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2007-04-27 18:27 |
| #9 Bring it on, Danny boy! I've got some 7.62 x 39 just waiting to ventilate you from hell to breakfast. What the sons of whores advocating this stuff don't understand is that the day this happens is the day that CWII starts. I'd fight to the death to keep my guns because I'd know that if they killed me in the fight, it would at least be a quick and relatively clean death. Once they take your right to defend yourself, you're living in a Clockwork Orange world, where you'll still die, but it will be slow and very horrible. Think of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom. If I go, it won't be quietly. I promise I'll be taking some of the bastards with me. |
| Posted by: Mac 2007-04-27 18:19 |
| #8 And what's this idiot planning to do with all the lgeal concealed carry states and all the legal gun-toting citizens therein? C'mon, you Nazi! Just try it. You want to start a war? 'Cause that's just what you'd be doing. Americans wouldn't tolerate this for a second, but some of these weasels just don't seem to understand exactly what it is that would happen if they tried this kind of stupidity. |
| Posted by: FOTSGreg 2007-04-27 15:59 |
| #7 I'd bet that this guy has called a dozen different people "facists" this week, and all without a trace of irony. |
| Posted by: Mark E. 2007-04-27 15:27 |
| #6 But fairly quickly there would begin to be gun-swept, gun-free areas where there should be no firearms. Just like the Virginia Tech campus. |
| Posted by: eLarson 2007-04-27 14:47 |
| #5 Guy's like this are the reason people own guns... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2007-04-27 14:43 |
| #4 And before anyone starts to hyperventilate and think I'm a crazed liberal zealot wanting to take his gun from his cold, dead hands, let me share my experience of guns. Actually, you sound like a Nazi disguised as a crazed liberal zealot wanting to take somebody's gun from his cold, dead hands. Since I don't even own a gun, could I have a job on the home invasion squad, kicking down doors and rousting those pesky gun owning citizens. Shaking down granny and her walker sounds like fun too. Could I shoot her in the head with her own gun if I found one on her? That'll teach her... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2007-04-27 14:42 |
| #3 And how many people would be met with a shotgun at the front door when they tried to take the guns? |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2007-04-27 13:48 |
| #2 What communist instruction manual did the author lift this from? |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-04-27 13:38 |
| #1 This is one of the dumbest posts I've ever read. Imagine the beaurocracy involved in getting everyone to hand over their guns. "Whoops, my guns were all stolen, I didn't report it because I didn't notice until I had to turn my gun in." Well Officer Fred, seems that 98% of the list has had their weapons stolen recently. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2007-04-27 13:32 |