28th Amendment Started: Includes "banning civilian purchases of assault weapons"

Bongo Lewi said:
I've been to Anne Frank's home and Amsterdam. Where she hid for two years until being ratted out. Ironically by a fellow Jew who believed it was in their interest to do so.
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Racer88 said:
Perhaps you live in a blue state with onerous laws already... and it's easier to simply concede and convince yourself defeat is inevitable.
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Nope. Gun law in NC is favorable. I've have lived in a few places where it isn't. I could walk to Virginia. That is one of the latter.

Regarding non-compliance, it kind of reminds me of what Margaret Thatcher said about socialism. She said it sounds great until you run out of other people's money. The same goes for ignoring the law. Sounds bold and ballsy. Until you go to prison. Lose your freedom, job, family, home, eat lousy food and get your ass beat every day. Sadly, it's not like it was in the colonial times. The English would promptly hang you for sedition, treason, or whatever they decided you did that was not in the interest of the Crown. At least it was over quickly.

No sense in beating a dead horse as they say. Everybody's opinion is clear. I'll be paying close attention to this election cycle because the result will tell me how soon new or revised regs will become law vs. weak ATF rules. So I can plan accordingly. With a House and Senate majority for 4 or perhaps 8 years, it may be ok. After that, when the power again shifts left, as it always does, the axe will fall.

Or the Second Red Wave also fails to happen. And the bad news comes faster. While I'm waiting, I'll dust off my lever action rifles.
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Well, this has been fun! I'm surprised no one mentioned the Tomahawk.

I never welch on a bet. When the waiter asks, no matter what cut of meat you desire, he serves up the New World Order. It's kind of like the Old World Order. As Judge Smayles said to Spaulding... "You'll get nothing and like it".

Who knows... I could be completely wrong about the financialization of the global economy through the World Bank, regulation and restriction of speech through the concentration of media ownership, corruption of the criminal justice system, mass surveillance, endless war, shifting the education system from teaching fundamentals to dogma, population control, elimination of borders as a precursor to forming unions to replace sovereign nations, and an all-encompassing propaganda that creates a cult of personality around puppet world leaders that ideologizes world government as the culmination of mankind's progress.

There are no signs of any of that. Probably my imagination. Besides, if this were true a bunch of aging, unorganized men with small arms would stop tanks, drones, robots, helicopter gunships, and an overwhelming force with limitless logistical support.

After all, the good guys always win.
 
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Bongo Lewi said:
There are no signs of any of that. Probably my imagination. Besides, if this were true a bunch of aging, unorganized men with small arms would stop tanks, drones, robots, helicopter gunships, and an overwhelming force with limitless logistical support.

After all, the good guys always win.
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I think you underestimate a soldier's/sailor's/airman's value of his/her family. We know where they live. ;)

I do wonder how so much shit can go unanswered before the fan turns on. It is somewhat of a Catch-22. If the old men TRY to organize, they'll be labeled as domestic terrorists or a right wing militia. A bunch of men are still locked up for protesting a stolen election. Drumming up bogus charge after charge against a former president obviously overstepping authority. SOMETHING has to give and bodies need to DESERVEDLY drop to save this country. But who or how? 🤔 🇺🇸
 
Bobster said:
I think you underestimate a soldier's/sailor's/airman's value of his/her family. We know where they live. ;)

I do wonder how so much shit can go unanswered before the fan turns on. It is somewhat of a Catch-22. If the old men TRY to organize, they'll be labeled as domestic terrorists or a right wing militia. A bunch of men are still locked up for protesting a stolen election. Drumming up bogus charge after charge against a former president obviously overstepping authority. SOMETHING has to give and bodies need to DESERVEDLY drop to save this country. But who or how? 🤔 🇺🇸
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I have heard that story before. As much as I would like to believe law enforcement and military personnel would collectively mutiny and refuse to follow orders, I don't believe that would happen. It's not impossible, but unlikely.

When has that happened on a huge scale? In the French Revolution, Bolshevik revolution, and the Cuban revolution, an established military and police joined the civilian insurrection. The rise of fascism took a different path. The militaries of Spain, Germany and Italy simply obeyed the new political parties in power. Why did they do that? Because they believed the hype that their leaders were acting in the best interests of their country. At the time, that appeared to be true. After Stalin killed an estimated 11 million of his own people, why did the Soviet military not turn on him?

Coups happen all the time in Africa, but those are most often long-standing tribal conflicts. They fight over economic power, not political philosophies. How people behave in times of political upheaval is not as black and white as many think it is. There are a lot of factors. You see this up close and personal when you work in Foreign Service. Anywhere there are humans, there is some degree of chaos.

Government officials and military personnel take an oath to defend the Constitution. But they are not empowered to interpret it. There's the rub. You make a good point about resistors getting jailed or unfairly prosecuted. Most revolutions take many years to fester. But the tipping point only happens when a majority are literally eating dirt and see no better alternative other than revolt. That is not going to happen in the US.

I don't want to branch off into a thread about Trump, but I do wonder if the left has finally shit the bed. If he is convicted he will transition from being a populist conservative agent of change to becoming a martyr. That fire will be very difficult for the left to put out. Personally, if I were pulling those strings from the liberal side, I would make sure he is acquitted.

Disagreeing with the politics of the day is nothing new. It angers and frustrates us. But anybody who says they are willing to die for the cause is either a liar or a fool. Most of them can't explain what their cause is. Liberals are no exception. Rebels without a clue, as Tom Petty once sang.

The infuriating liberalism we are witnessing now will pass. It always does. The pendulum predictably swings the other way. But at the same time, nothing ever stays the same. The culture changes, and we long for the good old days and simpler times. That is the human condition: birth, learning, emotion, aspiration, morality, conflict, and death.
 
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