Seymour Flops
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I guess I spoke to soon to say that we all seem to agree.They would have to do it in phases, geographically. If the mayor of Chicago or Baltimore directed their police tactical units to go door-to-door through middle and upper class neighborhoods confiscating legally owned guns people who live in say, Pittsburg or Harrisburg or rural Tennessee would not lift a finger to stop them or help out their fellow Americans whose guns were being taken. Such an operation would give the government overall great confidence in proceeding with gun confiscation in other cities and counties. Rural counties in red states would be especially vulnerable. Lets say the sheriff of some rural red county in Virginia sent the county SWAT team door-to-door demanding citizens' legally owned firearms. Further, let's say enough Virginians resisted that the sheriff needed to call in the ATF or FBI or other federal agencies for assistance. All those Virginians who used force against law enforcement to save their guns would be treated like Randy Weaver or the Branch Davidians. Very few if any fellow legal gun owners living in other states or counties would come to the rescue of those Virginians. Essentially, if our government confiscated guns by one city, county or region at a time they could absolutely get away with it and next to no one would try to stop them.
Your plan, like many liberal ideas, seem directed entirely at the white middle class and the white working class. That's one of my many beefs with so-called "sensible gun laws." Would the Mayor of Chicago or Baltimore sent police tactical units to confiscate the guns from drug gangs? Is even mayor Mayor Lightfoot that stupid?
I'm not sure that I can agree that no one would come to the rescue. Remember Cliven Bundy?
That wasn't even about taking guns. It was about who Bundy had to pay grazing fees to, the state or the feds.
But I appreciate your giving an answer. So, you would include guns carried by the private security of upper-class people? What is your plan for taking those, along with the gang guns?