What would happen if someone did "come and take it"?

[jmowreader]

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Molon Labe. It's Greek for Fuck the World.

They say it means "come and take it." I like my translation better - it's more accurate. It's the rallying cry of the Gun Humper movement. They put it on signs. They put it on shirts. They use it in their sig lines.

Now I ask ya: If someone was walking through...oh, the area before the security checkpoints at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport...with a loaded rifle and wearing a Molon Labe shirt, and someone really did try to come and take it, how long after the inevitable shooting would it take those of us who don't sleep with a loaded rifle between the sheets to demand this shit be ended - and to vote out any politician who wouldn't?

[Scootaloo]

1. Remember the old version of Red Dawn?

There's a scene, after the invasion, of a bumper sticker saying, "You can have my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead hands!" The camera pans down to a dead man clasping his pistol. One of the invading Cubans bends down and takes it from his cold, dead hand.

Both iterations are silly-ass movies, but they offer some nice underhanded jabs like that to the "militia movmenet" nd these self-proclaimed "Patriots" - the remake openly acknowledges that the "heroes" are terrorists, and that they get their methods from the people the marine in their number was up against in Iraq; thereby casting the iraq resistance in a somewhat different light than it was given by the press at the time.

[aikoaiko]

2. After Sandy Hook and gun control failure, I'm not sure any shooting will do it.

[NutmegYankee]

3. Locking.

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