When armed men show up at the door with a list of your weapons and demand you turn them over, most people will comply. Because, in that situation, they are getting the guns one way or the other, and the question is do they also take you with them because you resisted.
When they come for your guns, your only options are to shoot it out and die there, or let them take them and live another day. I really think most men will choose life. It's sad because when they come back the next time, it's to take the whole family away to the camps.
I really think most men will choose life.
Thats irrelevant because even a tenth of one percent of these encounters leading to force-on-force, and deaths, would lead to immediate sick outs on the teams doing the collecting.
They'll instead normalize "mental health crisis holds" on firearms owners. All it will take is a single anonymous complaint. Owning too much ammunition will be seen as "pre-operational planning" (potential terrorism). Buying too much ammo, or accessories will likewise be red flags and require a hold, a form filled out by both the clerk and the customer, an approval wait, etc. More and more professions will screen out employees with firearms. They'll use liability. Insurance. Restrictions on when and where you can carry or even transport. People fighting wrongful detainment for justfiable use of a firearm (self defense) will report experiencing "random freezes" on their bank accounts, which the banks (if you can even get ahold of them) will take forever to respond to, and dismiss as "technical issues", resulting in people unable to pay their attorneys.
There are about five billion methods the regime and its long term culture can use to go after firearms and owners. In fact I see this "door to door" meme spread so often, I'm starting to think the regime spreads it themselves.
Why? Because it makes you complacent. If your definition of "gun confiscation" only comes in one preconceived package, then you'll always be looking for that as your go signal, as your greenlight to action. Meanwhile firearms rights are slowly being eroded and taken from you right now beneath your very nose.
Don't assume it'll be a knock at the door. DO assume it will be ammo that continually becomes more and more unaffordable and further limited in supply every year until instead of ten stores in your area selling ammo, theres only one official place. This and a million other things that will "nudge" you, and the next generation, into giving up the culture itself of gun ownership.
Until in 10 years time, maybe 20, public firearm ownership will be but 1% what it is today.
> In fact I see this "door to door" meme spread so often, I'm starting to think the regime spreads it themselves.
That's how they did it elsewhere. I forget where it was, but the example I remember they went door to door, asks the man of the house for the guns. The man refuses, they shoot him dead and turn to the son. Bring us the guns. The son usually turns in the guns.
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