What would you do if the government came to take your guns.

[Roland Deschain]

People talk all the time about nazi Germany, and how the first thing they did before the big war etc., was take the firearms from the people. So we are citizens in the USA, and people fear the same could happen here. Just for fun, please dont let it come true, if that were the case, what would you do?

[jktseug]

This is a hard subject, but it might depend on how they try and take the guns. Do they change a law that blanket bans all guns, do they declare martial law, is there a disaster, financial meltdown. Do they come to the doors or have drop off points. I think if they did it a certain way, most people would be willing to turn them in without thinking about it.

On a national scale it would be hard to do it. On a local scale, would you be willing to be sent to prison for not turning it in, but not having enough people to back you up to start a revolution?

[Snurd]

Ummmm.... What guns?


(Sent from iSnurd)

[faydee]

Ummmm.... What guns?


(Sent from iSnurd)

exactly...

[Roland Deschain]

Ok, so hypathetically if any of us had guns, which none of us do, then would you give them up or fight. If you had them come to your door and want them by force? Oh and you knew they were coming door to door.

[UtahCFP]

The Internet is written in ink.

[Roland Deschain]

So basically we are being watched and we shouldnt talk about such things. Oh crap, my tin foil hat just fell off.

[faydee]

So basically we are being watched and we shouldnt talk about such things. Oh crap, my tin foil hat just fell off.

i'm pretty sure no one is going to borrow you theirs...

[smo]

As a wise man once said,
I lost all my guns in a tragic boating accident...or was that all my boats in a tragic gun accident? Either way, I wish I had some...

[sarahbn]

As a wise man once said,
I lost all my guns in a tragic boating accident...or was that all my boats in a tragic gun accident? Either way, I wish I had some...

That's why I don't have any boats. You can lose your guns in them too easily.

[Roland Deschain]

I read a little bit on the katrina gun grab. Does anyone here have any first hand knowlege if any of the stories are true?

It is a lot disheartening if they are.

[jktseug]

I read a little bit on the katrina gun grab. Does anyone here have any first hand knowlege if any of the stories are true?

It is a lot disheartening if they are.

That is why we have some new laws that limit the government from doing that, especially during an emergency.

[dewittdj]

Boat accident, avalanche, snow storm, flood, freak tornado, wild pygmies, zombies, loaners that were never returned, "Gee I can't find it, it must have been stolen!!!", "I turned them in to the government official that just left moments before you arrived!!!", etc.

Luckily, not all of them are registered, many have been given away as gifts, several have been fired to the point of destruction, and several were hidden so well that I can't remember where I put them. I'll start looking just in case!

[forgotenpast]

I should never have got an english mastiff, he eats everything, how he digests metal is beond me

[FrankenHollow]

I read a little bit on the katrina gun grab. Does anyone here have any first hand knowlege if any of the stories are true?

It is a lot disheartening if they are.

Yes, many of those stories are true.

My unit spent 28 days running search and rescue, relief, transport, and medical missions after Katrina. I believe our mission numbers were: 137 "saves" (rescues), 948 transports (relocated, but not in eminent danger), ~1,300 PAX ("taxi service" from the Superdome), 78,000 lbs of cargo (food/medical/cots/blankets/clothing/etc), 23,000 bottles of water, 7 dogs, 2 chickens, and 1 sheep ( ).
(Pulling those from memory. I could be off a bit. If I remember tomorrow, I'll see if I can dig up one of my awards that shows the figures.)

We started out in Mississippi (where the people needed help the most), but politics, due to unjustifiably inflated media coverage, got us sent to New Orleans.
Katrina was just a Hurricane.
Katrina in New Orleans, on the other hand was A) a bunch of idiots that demanded help after refusing to leave. B) something that brought out the true mentality of residents and government officials. And, C) a giant, racially-driven nightmare for rescuers/first-responders.

However, the weapons confiscations were absolutely unjustified and never should have happened. They were taking weapons from the people that needed them the most, leaving those people vulnerable to the mobs/gangs that the government should have been paying attention to. (True mentality of the government officials....)

Please don't let me go any further on the subject of Katrina. I'm very opinionated on this matter, and can go on for days about the people of Mississippi (and other parts of Louisiana) being ignored, New Orleans getting an inordinate amount of media coverage, and just how ridiculous our interactions with many of the "victims" were. There were people in New Orleans that deserved to be rescued, but most of them needed a few swift kicks to the head.