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Gentlemen, IMHO this is not an attack, but very clever satire. The author clearly shows how oppressive to human rights 'disarmament' of US citizens would have to be.

The anti-gun types are shrieking now about government tracking of overseas phone calls - how will they feel when guys with body armor, MP5s and flash-bang grenades come busting into their condos without a warrant, rummaging through their closets and wrinkling their Armanis?

I agree with Jack. I don't think the author is serious, rather he is trying to be thought provoking.

Without being so naive as to suggest that "it can't happen here" because anything is possible, it is very unlikely that it would happen here. Our history is very different from that of other nations who have so willingly (and foolishly) surrendered their natural rights to their governments for the sake of false security.

I believe in the rule of law no less than any other American, however, far more than the Constitution would stand between what is left of the true Americans in this nation and these "special squads" (shades of the firemen in Fahrenheit 451).

If anything approaching this very simplistic plan where to come to fruition, it would take very special squads to fend off those intent on defending and preserving the freedoms once bought through the blood of their forefathers. No police force would be up to that task, it would take an army.

The resulting carnage, in comparison, would likely make the War Between the States look like child's play and such a conflict would likely have far more serious ramifications for the future of our nation than the War Between the States. The battle over this natural and inalienable right would embolden certain States, and those States with large urban populations that wished to submit to the tyranny would have to fight citizens in suburban communities block by block and those in rural communities in conflicts that would resemble those conflicts portrayed in the movie Red Dawn. God help those who assumed they would be in control of a population content to await surprise raids only to find themselves on the wrong side of a counter offensive.

Even assuming for the sake of argument Americans have lost their way and such a scheme was accomplished...look to how capable our government has proven in enforcing other laws of prohibition...those against alcohol, illegal drugs, and immigration.

If anyone thinks the editorial presents a viable plan that person is living on another planet, or I am not living in the country I think I am. More likely we will lose our rights in very measured small steps under the guise of regulation and over the course of several generations.

Less than 100 years ago one could go to their hardware store and purchase a Thompson submachine gun. In 1967 one could mail order a firearm. We accept such restrictions that limit our access as reasonable because they do not prohibit our owning the weapons we desire. In time, only "good firearms" will be available to us through very limited highly controlled distribution networks, and then in the fullness of time, there will be few if any good firearms and few if any licensed distributors.

Doug

Well if a total gun ban is half as effective as the ban of alcohol was, honest people are screwed. I think I stay semi honest and safe. The government can not ban anything and do it well. Booze, drugs, illegal imigrants and now they want a crack at guns. They would have a better chance of banning stupid. Opps, is that stupid with one "L" or two "L's". Two now that I consider the point.

Offensive, adle-brained liberal confiscatory rot. He should not be a citizen of this country. Chops --- and yes, from my cold dead hands!

Such a plan was executed in the communist countries before and after the WWII . They collected all firearms, but did not stop there. They burned all books of a different ideology, killed all people and ideas of a different flavor, took properties and lives in the name of equality and whatever. These people were more equal than anybody.

Has to be a satire unless he presumes the US citizens are willing to forgoe multiple constitutional rights and willing to stand for the creation of a bunch of jack booted Federal gestapo units while at the same time being disarmed. Further, if we assume the Feds would stick to the legal requirement to fairly compensate citizens for the confiscation of property, the estimate of 240 million guns times a modest average of approximately $500 each would make the compensation costs alone about $120 billion. Guess we could also give up Medicare and Social Security for awhile to pay for it.

This guy managed to advocate violation of at least a third of the bill of rights in one article.

The country he envisions is not one where I want my family or myself living.

Why not!
We are at the door step of a new Pan-American States.
Si - its in the works now!
Don't want any cowboys defending their home and land.
They'll need the land for homes, homes for the illegals, and homes for homeless - your place will do just fine, amigo!

Guys he is being sarcastic!!! What he's bascially saying is you would have to trash the entire constitution in order to get those guns and leaving us with a question "Would it be worth it"???
All the best

The alternative of dealing with "mental cases" doesn't seem quite so daunting when you look at the actual operation of gun confiscation. I think he was just pointing out how bad gun confiscation would actually be in terms of a reality rather than a panacia. The follow on should be "What is required to identify and sequester those that pose a threat to society?"