You know the other day my brother asked me what I would do if they banned some or all of the guns I own. I told him that my first instinc, not being married or having kids to worry about, would be to call the media as well as the local law enforcement and tell them, I own guns, and our consitution says that "the right of the people to KEEP and BEAR arms SHALL NOT be INFRINGED" and that any so called "law enforcement" officials that attemot to come and take my guns will be met by resistance, and that they can have them when they pry them from my cold, dead, hands (y'all seen the scene in Red Dawn where the enemy soldier is prying that 1911 out of the dead hands of an american, right next to a 'cold dead hands' bumper sticker? haha). I would also attempt to assemble as many likeminded friends/family as possible to meet such a threat head-on; hoping that LE or US military would not be willing to actually shoot law abiding citizens who did not commit any crime other than to excersize their natural and consitutionally protected rights. I consider any LE official or organization, or state/local/national bureau or body or court, that flagrantly violates the plain language of our costitution and our natural, god given, and consitutionally protected rights, a rouge official/group that any citizen, but especially a patriot, is honour bound, and morally permitted and even required, to resist in any way, unto death if neccessary. LIVE FREE OR DIE! Now I am aware that many people, having more family resposibilities, may face tough choices in how to do right while miminizing the risk to their family, and I am also aware that the sentiment exressed in the motto LIVE FREE OR DIE! is an increasingly rare one, yet in my study of history I feel that it is better to meet evil head on at the first availible opportunity, and not to hide or try to remain "under the radar" and hope you as an individual can escape the evil that befalls your neighbors. I have been reading The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, and I cant help but conclude that many, many, german citizens who were otherwise decent people took the easy way of avoiding possible retaliation from the nazis by not speaking out against them when they were coming into power, and the longer the people who didnt actually agree with the Nazis waited, the fewer of them there were, and the Nazis continued to consolidate and increase their power. By the time some of the germans got around to doing something about hitler (nearly ten years after they had formed a comspiracy, and eleven years after hitler came in to power) it was too late to change anything, and the unsucessful bombing was followed by all the opposition being rounded up and shot. In some SHTF scenarios, you and your family MAY be well served by a policy of bugging out and lying low until the storm blows over. A SHTF scanarion which is caused by an external war or terrorist atack, or natural disaster, might be solved without YOU standing up and sticking around to do something about it. However if the situation is one where we continue to lose our rights to an increasingly all powerful government, then hoping you can avoid trouble by dissapearing and/or hiding your guns is wishful thinking. The most the people have to do to really bring about a totalitarian police state in this country is to move slowly. If they ban the guns and a lot of the sheeple turn theirs in to be melted down (looks like pretty much all of them did in Britain), and the rest of us stash ours, then they have effectively won. I mean, if something drastic happens in a short time, then maybe we could fight back with stashed ammo and guns... but what happens in ten or fifteen years, when the ammo is getting old, and so are us who know where it and the guns are stashed, and no one has been able to get to the shooting range and practice in ten or more years, and our kids dont know how to shoot, etc. ? So if they come up with british style gun control here, I figure my best bet is not to submit (never!) and also not to try to keep 'under the radar', but to IMMEDIATELY and PUBLICLY stand up and declare that I am armed and I believe in the consitution, and I WILL NOT go quietly into the night, and hopefully I wont be alone, and hopefully the LEOs will not want to shoot first, and hopefully the politicians will have second thoughts when they discover that at least 1% of americans arent sheep, and we will not let the wolves eat us and out neighbors without the wolves getting bit back. Now if the issue were allowed public discussion, and a proper majority of the citizens in the US desired, and voted for, the repealment of the second ammendmant, then I wouldnt have any legal standing to resist gun control laws, but I dont think that will happen. And if it does, then maybe I will move to switzerland or something. But when politicians violate our rights and lie about it claiming our rights dont exist or that is is worth trading them for security, then I am not going to go along with it. I am not going to go and violate the current laws by building somethig illegal like an "illegal copy of an imported semi auto assault weapon" (meaning a FAL or an AK or whatever without thge proper number of US made parts) or build a machine gun or SBR or anything, even though I believe those laws are unconsitutional, but if they decide the guns I already own are going to be banned and confiscated, and I WILL resist. JMO, YMMV, hope yall give this some thought.
