The Arrogance of the Anti-Gunners is Just Infuriating

[Doc Safari]

Prime example:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2...your-firearms/

Boldface mine:

llinois State Sen. Julie Morrison (D) taunted a concerned gun owner during a town hall by telling him she might forgo fining him and simply confiscate his firearms.
The exchange was caught on video by the Illinois State Rifle Association and was tied to proposed fines for keeping commonly owned semiautomatic firearms in one’s home.

The concerned gun owner pointed to SB107 and said the purpose of it was “to take away [his] semiautomatic firearms.”

Morrison then interjected that the purpose was not to take them, but to prevent any future sales.

The gun owner responded by pointing out that the ban on future sales included a fine for current owners who did not hand their guns over. He said, “You want me to turn them over to the state police unless I pay a fine for each firearm and register them, then I get to keep them.”

Morrison concurred, saying, “Okay.”

The gun owner then asked, “If I get to keep it–if I pay a fine and register it–then, how dangerous is it in the first place and why do you need to ban it all?”

People in attendance applauded the gun owner’s point and once applause died Morrison said, “Well, you just maybe changed my mind. Maybe we won’t have a fine at all, maybe it’ll just be a confiscation and we won’t have to worry about paying the fine.”

NRATV’s Cam Edwards commented on the exchange that drew Sen. Morrison into the light, where she openly talked confiscation. He described it as part of a larger “push-back” characterized by Second Amendment Sanctuary declarations in southern counties in Illinois.

My take: These gun grabbers better stop poking the bear. One of these days frustrated gun owners may just decide to start "getting some."

[kerplode]

My take: These gun grabbers better stop poking the bear. One of these days frustrated gun owners may just decide to start "getting some."

Honestly, I doubt it.

[fledge]

Gun owners need to be strategic to help educate and empower people. The votes are there but too many citizens are apathetic about gov, deciding to not complying to ever new laws. Rather than working on changing hearts and minds, they are more eager to play a mix of boogaloo and fudd.

[Firefly]

Know who don’t go to Town halls and attempt dialogue with elected officials?

Thuggies with Dracos.

We need to start learning from thuggies with Dracos.

I cannot recall who said it, and have heard it attributed rightly or wrongly so to Napoleon but..

When people aren’t bitching, moaning, pleading, begging, and bargaining and just get real quiet.....

It means they no longer recognize your real or perceived authority. And that alone is cause for some huge steps back.

[grizzlyblake]

As long as we have a thriving economy nobody will do a thing. Everybody will talk trash on the internet and toe the line as it gets pushed back further and further. How many posts have been on here about shouldering a pistol brace or having a VFG on a pistol AR? The people who pay attention to the laws to begin with are good boys who aren't going to leave their families and good jobs to go start "getting some" as Doc says.

Maybe if the next recession turns into a full fledged depression with people starving in the streets and babies dying from lack of food, and then the gov starts trying to confiscate guns, people will "get some."

I'm sure there's some point on the quality-of-life / political-disagreement chart where guys decide they have nothing to lose by going all Revolutionary, but we are nowhere close right now.

[titsonritz]

never mind

[Firefly]

Morbid thought: I wish for one weekend a year we could drop all elected officials off in the worst possible areas with no protection, no money, no help, and only 2 qts of water and an MRE and see how good they feel about it.

[The_War_Wagon]

Morbid thought: I wish for one weekend a year we could drop all elected officials off in the worst possible areas with no protection, no money, no help, and only 2 qts of water and an MRE and see how good they feel about it.

I think they already made a movie about that - particularly the last 3 minutes.

[lowprone]

Frustrated gun owners should hire Mexican Cartel Sicario's to eliminate those anti gun politico's,
you know the jobs Americans just don't want to do.

[SteyrAUG]

So a big part of the problem is llinois State Sen. (D).

Right or wrong there are just some states gun owners don't want to live in, visit or attempt to drive through. This guy thinks he has it bad because his state requires a "gun tax" for ownership, there was a guy who got nailed driving in NYC with high capacity magazines and defensive ammo and he took something like 10 years and he was just driving through from Point A to Point B.

FOPA should have protected him but it seems like it didn't matter.