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Originally Posted by u crank
I'm not talking about rights. Taking 200 million or so guns away from their owners is impossible. How would you do it?
A civil war may be the result of an attempt to disarm the populous, but what happens before that? And again there is the examples of failed attempts to subjugate smaller and less well armed nations. Ask the American gun owners on this forum what would happen. It would be messy. I think it would be almost impossible.
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Well it depends on how far things would escalate and who tyrannical the government is.Saying it could not and would happen here is just ignorant.Unlikely? Yes, but possible? Absolutely.
Lincoln launched a war of aggression that cost 800,0000 americans their lives, ruined an entire area of the country, left millions homeless and impoverished, scarred emotionally and physically,Lincoln suspended habeas corpus , jailed his critics for simply speaking out against him among his many other crimes. All over slavery which was on it's way out anyway.
All it takes is the wrong person in charge. I could see an unlikely but possible scenario of economic collapse(which will happened if we dont change course, could be 10, 20 years) leading to widespread unrest and with the wrong politican like BHO or worse in office, perhaps lucky enough to have a majority and shoving some wild anti gun legislation down our throats they way they did obamacare or the way the PATRIOT ACT was passed in the wake of 9/11.Then suddenly, any citizen caught with a firearm after so and so date is a felon.All depends on timing and how tyrannical said leader is willing to be. Don't say things like this won't happen, they have, Lincoln and civil war are prime example.