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There Would Be Civil War If Serious Attempt Made To Control Guns. (Original Post) TheMastersNemesis Feb 2018 OP
maybe it's time lapfog_1 Feb 2018 #1
Not really. Gun control would simply die in Congress like it always does. hack89 Feb 2018 #2
Let them try. Moostache Feb 2018 #3
Right Firestorm49 Feb 2018 #4
Oh please kcr Feb 2018 #5
And that's their wet dream. Initech Feb 2018 #6
Most gun owners are just talk anyway. world wide wally Feb 2018 #7
And there's not that many of them gratuitous Feb 2018 #8
if somehow they did the government will mow them down Fullduplexxx Feb 2018 #9
No there wouldn't Downtown Hound Feb 2018 #10
No on is afraid of the Fluffy Flotilla, mostly a bunch bloated mouth breathers. uponit7771 Feb 2018 #11
We fought one Civil War so all Americans could live free flotsam Feb 2018 #12
NRA out of Washington forgotmylogin Feb 2018 #13
Then it has to start at home. hunter Feb 2018 #14

lapfog_1

(29,205 posts)
1. maybe it's time
Thu Feb 15, 2018, 11:59 AM
Feb 2018

they won't win. Most are rank amateurs.

After a few hundred are taken out by professionals, most of the rest will surrender their guns.

hack89

(39,171 posts)
2. Not really. Gun control would simply die in Congress like it always does.
Thu Feb 15, 2018, 11:59 AM
Feb 2018

the reason politicians fear the NRA is that they bring the votes. There would be immense pressure on politicians from pro-gun states - they will not commit political suicide.

Moostache

(9,895 posts)
3. Let them try.
Thu Feb 15, 2018, 12:05 PM
Feb 2018

Seriously, if armed morons with shotguns, rifles and pistols in the hinterlands really believe that they can withstand a direct assault from an attack helicopter with Hellfire missiles, a Stealth bomber strafing, an Abrams tank barrage, or a special ops unit attack...be my guest...I'll set the over-under on their survival at about 6 seconds.

These gun humpers threatening armed insurrection can all take a massive bite of my shit, swish it around and swallow. Fuck them and their precious guns. I want the military that has been sucking my tax dollars for decades to do something that I would actually support for a change - put them down like rabid dogs and forget their pathetic lives ended in suicidal idiocy.

I want a law passed that has nothing to do with guns rights....I want a law that says any NRA members in a place where mass shootings happen are required by law to clean up the bits of skull and bone and flesh and blood at the scene with their bare hands and some paper towels, they are responsible for cleaning the floors and windows and walls of the accumulated carnage, and they are required by law to view the bodies and wounds of every victim. Then they can go home and look at themselves in the mirror and vomit to their heart's content. I don't want their fucking guns, I want to stir the tiny vestiges of humanity in their black souls to make them regain an ounce of empathy and human understanding that armor-piercing bullets fired at 100 rounds a second are not a "right", they are a "symptom" and if you have the disease, you need treatment to cure you of the affliction.

Firestorm49

(4,035 posts)
4. Right
Thu Feb 15, 2018, 12:07 PM
Feb 2018

This is very unfortunate, but probably true. The same goes if the unpopularly elected dunce in the WH and his entire cabinet of communists are thrown out of office. Victory may not be as sweet as we would like. Watch you 401Ks.

kcr

(15,317 posts)
5. Oh please
Thu Feb 15, 2018, 12:11 PM
Feb 2018

Fantasy tough talk from a contingency that benefits from a political system that makes it almost impossible to effect change and enjoys outsized political influence disproportionate to its actual population. If this weren't the case, they would lose and there wouldn't be a damn thing they could do about it, just like most of the rest of the civilized world.

Initech

(100,079 posts)
6. And that's their wet dream.
Thu Feb 15, 2018, 12:16 PM
Feb 2018

Alex Jones loves this idea and actively fantasizes about it. The gun humpers are preparing for the most extreme end times scenarios they can think of. Any excuse to use their toys out in the open.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
8. And there's not that many of them
Thu Feb 15, 2018, 12:23 PM
Feb 2018

Certainly far fewer than the NRA and their Russian bankrollers would have us believe.

Downtown Hound

(12,618 posts)
10. No there wouldn't
Thu Feb 15, 2018, 12:29 PM
Feb 2018

Remember how right before and after Charlottesville, all the Nazis were screaming about a race war and saying their time had come? A few weeks later they tucked tail and ran after the backlash came. Same thing would happen if these idiots ever followed through on their threats.

At the end of the day, gun humpers are both outnumbered and outgunned by the military, the police, non-psychotic gun owners, and the general public at large that would not put up with their terrorism.

uponit7771

(90,346 posts)
11. No on is afraid of the Fluffy Flotilla, mostly a bunch bloated mouth breathers.
Thu Feb 15, 2018, 12:31 PM
Feb 2018

I'm more afraid of my kids schools being "one of the ones"

flotsam

(3,268 posts)
12. We fought one Civil War so all Americans could live free
Thu Feb 15, 2018, 12:39 PM
Feb 2018

I have no problem with a second so all Americans can live.

hunter

(38,316 posts)
14. Then it has to start at home.
Thu Feb 15, 2018, 01:20 PM
Feb 2018

Much like campaigns against drunk driving or cigarette smoking in public places.

I have no trouble telling gun fetishists their habit is dangerous and disgusting.

Within my family fools and their guns are soon separated.

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