The price of admission for that Ride is Steep…one must count the costs and really evaluate where their Priorities lay, at the end of the day. What is the Price of Freedom, and how much do you value and believe in it?
Yes, most Americans aren’t ready to take up arms against the government.
And even if this law is someday overturned they still have registered.
These people stood in lines too.
They failed at the federal level, so they push at the state level bcause they know it can be done since th NRA will not be everywhere.
Until the people of a state which wants this nazi bs passed push back, nothing will change.
In full disclosure, I registered my guns in Hawaii. I didn’t consider it a big deal since I was military, but it was an experience. When I would be in the Honolulu Police Station I would hear, almost every time I was in there (registering pistols required 3 visits each) that the police were acting like Nazis and this was a blatant infringement. I heard old Hawaiian Uncles yelling through the glass at the LEOs “Haoles don’t want us being able to protect ourselves. You never have.” I loved putting my address on my paperwork and then handing it over, while jokingly daring the overweight Hawaiian desk commandoes to storm a Marine Corps base to get my Glock.
My point? Don’t think the people registering their weapons are sheeple. They have families, livelihoods, etc. As was mentioned, they have too much to lose. I highly doubt they are just going along with what their TV says without any input of their own. What else are they going to do? Shoot up the registration center? Not comply - risking a felony conviction?
I have a CCW and I’ve also registered my NFA firearms. I’m no dummy, I know I’m already on tons of “lists”. So are each and every one of you. If there was a national or state firearm/AW registration, I would comply. I suspect all of you would, too. One need not look any further than how you applied for a license to carry a handgun (shutup Vermont, Arizona, Alaska). Why not just carry a handgun without a permit?
Its for the kids guys…the kids…
How any gun owners still live in Conn. is beyond me, haven’t they had pretty strict gun laws for some time now?
Too many states have been given up as “lost causes” and the prevailing thought is challenging the law in court is counterproductive because there is a 100% of failure and that would just incite leaders in free states to start enacting more bans. Thus, the only course of action is to stem the tide and throw money at politicians who will vote against such laws. Unfortunately, it seems like it’s going to take a sudden declaration of martial law and door to door warrantless searches to get many organizations’ attention in the commie states.
Exactly. The whole “molon labe/cold dead hands” thing has been done to death and has become mostly just a caricature. There isn’t going to be a broad-based uprising against the government over this issue, especially not if they continue their incremental approach and do it a piece at a time.
That would seem to be the plain truth of it. Just like the old story of placing frogs in a pot of water and gradually turn the heat up, they’ll never notice.
I seem to recall reading somewhere that around 70% of all Americans are at any one time using some form of government assistance, be it Medicaid or Medicare, Freddy Mac or Fanny May, student loans, food stamps, research grants, farm subsidies, etc, etc.
And then there is this: Survey: 96 percent of Americans have received government benefits
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/09/26/do-96-percent-of-americans-receive-government-benefits/
It’s more taxation. A money grab. More and more. With every new levee imposed on the working class (the very people who can least afford more taxes), our freedoms are placed in jeopardy; Either you pay the levee placed on gun ownership or you suffer legal action taken against up to and including forfeiture of property and freedom. I see tax $$$ at the root of this.
They couldn’t be bothered to stand in line to vote, or to line up at the lawyer’s offices to sue that bastard state into the Stone Age. These people are too dumb to breathe.
http://www.politico.com/2012-election/results/president/connecticut/
Almost 42% (650,000+) of the voters voted for someone other than Obama.
45% of the voters tried to elect a GOP or Libertarian candidate for Senate. (Actually, a higher percentage of voters in Connecticut voted for the other guy for Senate, than voters in Pennsylvania did! The GOP candidate got 44.59% in PA)
And 485,000 voters voted for the GOP candidate in House races.
Lawsuits have been brought up challenging these laws.
Where are your sources that none of these people have done anything? Why are you writing them off as “dumb” because they are outnumbered? When Philadelphia and Pittsburg begin outnumbering your little Amish community’s votes, I suspect you will be singing a different tune, yellowfin.
It’s pretty simple when you think about it. No forcible uprising for gun rights will ever work. The sheeple will demand it be put down. Wisdom comes in knowing when to hold them, which ones to give up, when to bury the rest and when to dig them back up. Only when the .gov has gone so far as to outrage the moral conscience of a great majority can you take the government back by force. Even then, it will be ugly and messy. 
Need to also take into consideration the shift in strategy from the leftist (win at the state level) and the amount of money and staffing that is flowing in from out of state.
RE: The whole “molon labe/cold dead hands” thing has been done to death and has become mostly just a caricature.
The most ardent of anything rarely advertise it. Molon Labe became a caricature as soon as bumper stickers were printed. Take a look around (maybe even in the mirror) most folks fancy themselves as having skills, yet don’t put the work in on a weekly / daily basis; are overweight, inable of running for 60 sustained minutes, inable of manipulating their own body weight repeatedly; incapable of land nav, basic com’s, don’t have beans bullets and band aids cached and ready to roll. It has ALWAYS been lip service by the widest swath that claim it. And ‘they’ K N O W I T.
RE: I wonder how many Molon Labe bumper stickers were in the parking lot?
Conversely, I wonder how many NFA owners within the greater community would fail to see the folly of failure to comply should this be instituted in their locale? By extension, given the activities of the NSA - unless you bought it locally, for cash, from a true stranger, with zero paper work, and zero meta data - conceptually you’re still on record.
Moving forward, since we know the plan is to work at the state level - instead scratching our heads incredulously at how this happens in states half way across the country from ourselves, we need to contribute money and time to help them, and at the same time make sure it doesn’t happen to us.
Are the politicians and their security also participating in the registration process? Who is excluded? If/when confiscation happens would they also be included in the door to door?
The beliefs held by many on this forum, and similar, are a tiny minority of the population, especially “globally”. Many view “people like you” as a relic that time has passed by. Your sense of honor, commitment to your beliefs and your incessant ranting about limited government, your “rights” and the Constitution are bumper sticker slogans to be ridiculed in polite conversation.
You, like the dinosaurs, are becoming extinct, and a new world is taking shape where you will be a martyr that civilized people talk about at their cocktail parties. You’re a curiosity, a novelty, but you also have teeth! In time, you’ll be defanged, and either you’ll comply, be beaten into submission or be huddled in the dark stroking your prized possessions that have been outlawed by the civilized citizens of this nation.
Or maybe I’m wrong…
I’m not sure that the Molon Labe crowd necessarily are all preppers or claim to be. Honestly, I wouldn’t know. Other than this forum, I have no experience with people in either group.
That’s partly it, and partly practical matters. During the 1770’s, communication with the King took months. Colonists had time (and distance) to plan, coordinate, protest, etc. Even the 1860’s had that luxury.
Try and do that today, and you’ll likely be tracked by the NSA and passed on to the local PD, who will come down on you with a vengenance. Then you’ll be held up in the media as a radical domestic terrorist, your ammo fort and weapons collection displayed for all to see, and your rights stripped. An example will be made of you to break the will of others like you. Sure, this person may take down a cop or two (like Dorner did), but when all is said and done, most of society won’t be able to relate to him/her.
Until Americans reach the point where enough of them are willing to go this route, and have effective organization, a revolt can’t/won’t happen.