I’ve read the Boston Globe Article “Hand over your weapons”
at least 3 times. Sometimes making it
all the way through, sometimes stopping to ponder how a particular aspect of
the article might look in America. Summarizing,
the writer of the piece writes about the “epidemic” of firearms deaths in the
US, trotting out the tired statistic of 30,000 people being killed (without
mention of the suicides), followed by how gutless politicians are for not being
willing to oppose the 2nd
amendment, though a brave Obama had hinted at it. An example
of how a mass shooting in Australia lead to the country’s mandatory ban on most
firearms, and how the more civilized Aussies endorsed that national feeling of
guilt. Lastly, the gun grabbers here are willing to
endorse confiscation, but the NRA is too powerful and well organized (woos me),
and those yahoos own too many guns, and a one sentence acknowledgement of
mental illness. I’ve attached a link to the
article so you can see if I accurately surmised the article.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2017/11/10/hand-over-your-weapons/6IxJLanMKGak7RvCLipwbN/story.html
I’ve read articles like this for years, but with this
article, my mind keeps circling back to “What would gun confiscation look like
in the US”? A compulsory buy back followed by using illegally kept records from database searches, to surprise
seizures of paper records from your local gun store? The next paragraphs are fiction, it’s how my
mind sees a possible unraveling of events.
The compulsory buyback component would be the same lame
format that some of the big cities have used, and failed at getting guns out of the hands of
criminals. The money they offer won’t
match the value of the guns, because states like NY and CA can’t afford to pay
a fair value of the gun. However, the
state will use the threat of prison time, and fines to attempt compliance. The
resulting inventory of turned in guns will likely mirror the inventories
retrieve in Chicago, and Phoenix-old relics, broken 22s, PVC and wood zip guns, etc… Look
at NY and CA to lead this charge on “buy back” and when that fails, look to
them to jump head long into confiscation.
In my imagination confiscation has a couple of different
looks, one looks like this. State politicians
would order police to confiscate local gun shop records, some records would be
lost in mysterious fires, others would be turned over, computer records, that
by law should have been destroyed, will mysteriously be available to cull
names, addresses, serial numbers etc.…
Names are regionalized and organized for local enforcement if the agency
leadership mirrors the views of the state leaders, else look for state agencies
to enforce the state mandate. Some
cases of Blue flu are reported.
The state initiates limited targeting based on the intelligence
gathered from gun store records, or family turn coats, or electronic
records. Based on the numbers of teams
available for the searches and seizure, CA and NY announce a huge success in
the number of illegal firearms seized, increasing numbers of raids are planned. Illinois polls the questions and contemplates
following suit. The Governors and
allies pose for the photo-op that is used as the front cover of every paper in
the country. The Feds remain mum,
wanting to see how this plays out. Republican
leadership wants to be able to claim “me too” if the raids are well received by
the public. The state realizes that it confiscated about
8% of the firearms it expected, the press provides cover, gun owners are
jailed, jail populations expand, people that had been law abiding have now become
criminal because they believe in freedom that the state no longer supports. The state plans a 2nd round of
raids. Three days later, a second round
of raids is met by limited resistance.
In one instance, a 36 year retired policeman knows they’re coming to his
house. He sits behind the door with
his Rock River AR-15, 30 round mags loaded with XM855. Knowing the tactics, he anticipates the
proper arrival time, partially barricades the doors, he doesn't expect to live through the ordeal. The flash bang is ineffectual because the
retired patriot anticipates and the partially blocked door allows him to
recover in time to head shoot the first 2 men in the stack before being shot
and killed by the third. In his death
the older man becomes a rallying cry, “Remember Bob!” A call
goes out for a suspension of the raids but is largely ignored by the gun
grabbing media and politicians. After
all, it’s the gun nuts that are being killed by the gun, they brought this on
themselves.
Serious push back occurs during the third raid, about 2
weeks later. Now those people that have
been following the reports are banding together and actually creating defensive plans. Blue flu attacks 50% of the LE ranks, and
teams of “gun free believers” are combined from the remaining operators. Some gun owners are targeted and caught in the
open by changing tactics employed by the state – targeted traffic stops to
catch them unarmed, or less armed, But the
raids are still the darlings of the media and the planning is still going
strong. As long as the politicians can
get a photo op beside piles of menacing looking guns, they vow to press
on. The third set of raids are embarrassing for
the state. Armed resistance is up,
patriots surveilling the police watch the Bearcats rollout and put out the call
-1 if by land. A full 1/3 of the raids
are met with resistance, and in some cases are counter attacked. Casualties are high among the police and the
civilian/patriot populace. Horded
tannerite was used to make IEDs and the
homes of politicians, their families and of senor police staff seen on TV are
set on fire. The Governors mansions are fired upon in
retaliation and many “suspicious” packages are found through out the parking garages that service the State’s Congressional buildings. Fire trucks
are impeded in route. The third raid will
be the last. Politicians have no
stomach for being involved in the confrontation they endorse.
No politician will be held accountable for the breach in
constitutional rights, no guns returned, no apologies are issued. A week later, a Kardashian is killed in a
freak accident. The body is not found
for a couple of days, and a small pack of Chihuahuas partially devour the body,
the image is leaked to TMZ, and the country has already forgotten.
Eight months later a young man in Texas, recently off his psych
drugs, kills 6 in a failed attempt to become the greatest killer of all
time. The state confiscates all
property and razes the house, sues the estate and confiscates all insurance
money, all proceeds are used to reimburse the families of the dead for all
funeral costs as far as the money goes. The body is publicly burned in front of the
court house and the ashes and remains are left for the crows and the wind. Texas tells their citizens, that the
surviving family members will be punished for the attempted mass murders of
their family members. Keep your family
in line, or we come for you.
Do the people that believe in gun confiscation think further
out than the act of confiscation? If it
started tomorrow, would they fear a backlash?
It’s High School science people, for every action there is an equal and
opposite reaction. Do they not acknowledge the violence perpetrated
in England and Australia by people with knives?
While maybe the “gun” violence went down, did the numbers of violence,
murder and assault go down, or was the tool being used just changed to a
knife? What do they think will happen? Or do they think we’ll all take the public
transportation down to the park link
hands and sing Kumbaya ( ok, Boulder might)?
