[Introductory Proviso: The following essay on possible gun confiscation is a purely conjectural gedankenexperiment about the future that extrapolates from recent history and current trends. Nothing herein is seditious (per 18 U.S. Code § 2384), nor a call to arms, nor a threat to our government or to any individual, agency, or group.
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400 million privately owned firearms in the U.S.? That is a number that ought to give left-leaning gun grabbers pause for concern. They would be fighting an internal war for the next few centuries trying to collect up firearms. Moreover, firearms are a big business.
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Just recall that until the Anbar Awaking, the allied intervention in Iraq was going no where. It wasn't till the locals decided it was in their interests to cooperate that the momentum shifted. No way those who dream of grabbing will be able to stabilize the country after commencing the program, unless they intend to go full Mongol. Of course, that breaks the leash on the other side's self restraint as well.
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'400 million', perhaps but that really only represents LEGALLY transacted weapons. How many men brought functioning souvenirs back from the multiple wars of the 20th century. There was also quite the scandal back in the 80's when it was discovered the Marine Corps was losing/could not account for an enormous number of weapons. No doubt some went on secret trips, but it's still safe to say no where near all. 400 million? I think that a rather optimistic number, for the NYT at least.
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Fascinating reading, Silentbrick. The companion piece, Bracken: When The Music Stops – How America’s Cities May Explode In Violence, is also thought provoking. Given Tommy Robinson's current adventures — may he be released before his fellow inmates beat him to death — one wonders how it would be rewritten for England now.
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"The grim work of execution will be done in two shifts, on consecutive mornings. I shall outlive Dennis by twenty-four hours. At times like this, I almost wish I believed in an afterlife, like those fools deluded by the opiate of religion"
delicious, SB
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When the Music Stops assumes that flash mobs will be active for days or weeks. I think cell phone coverage would be radically curtailed in a fairly short time. It might even be possible to cut service selectively. (no service for number X or any of the numbers X has called) In any event, coordination of such mobs would become harder. That doesn't change the overall picture much--the mobs will still be there, just not as flexible. Police will still be overwhelmed.
With no food, there will be attempts to migrate--mobs with women and kids too, and stolen or hijacked cars driven out into "wherever away from the city", probably in groups to provide reinforcement since they are unlikely to know or trust rural folks. So you'll have bands of rural bandits as well. (Maybe they'd start out as supplicants, but they wouldn't end up that way.)
Disruption causes jobs to go to hell in a cascading way, and some of the same shortages that hit the inner city first, will start to hit the suburbs.
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05/28/2018 15:58 Comments ||
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Imagine the Boer War but with 10 times the number of Boers.
[DAWN] PAKISTAN usually features in the headlines of Italian media for stories related to terrorism and religious extremism, but that hasn’t been the case lately. It is, instead, stories of violence against women that have brought the land of the pure under the spotlight once again. Stories that depict an image of Pak women as weak victims, abused and tortured physically and mentally by patriarchal families and a compliant society.
If you ask anyone in Italia if they know any famous Pak women, they won’t hesitate in naming Malala Yousafzai ...a Pashtun blogger and advocate for girls' education from Mingora, in Swat. She is esteemed as an ambassador of international good will, even though she can't go home lest some fellow in a turban shoots her in the head again... , Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, Benazir Bhutto
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It leads Italians to look down on Pak culture, tradition, and, worst of all, the people, making the process of integration even harder.
Maybe they also read about Pak grooming gangs in Britain?
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You could have left it at “Italian media accurately depict Pakistani and Muslim culture”.
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...a Pashtun blogger and advocate for girls' education from Mingora, in Swat. She is esteemed as an ambassador of international good will, even though she can't go home lest some fellow in a turban shoots her in the head again...
