Gun confiscation in Ten Easy Steps

[Anonymous]

I received this from another Marine and thought it a good one to pass
along. I keep seeing/hearing a mix of rolling eyes and sighs of
disbelief when this gets talked about. Fine. Get off
ABC/NBC/CBS/MSNBC/CNN and MSNBC and simply read the articles on
http://www.drudgereport.com <http://www.drudgereport.com/>,
http://www.lucianne.com <http://www.lucianne.com/>,
http://memeorandum.com <http://memeorandum.com/>,
http://weaselzippers.us <http://weaselzippers.us/> or
http://badblue.bitnamiapp.com/trendr8.htm and see if you don't see the
long thread of permanent gun banning being spun. These aren't articles
written by the host sites, just long lists of articles by the major
newspapers, electronic media and, yes, some bloggers making the effort
to do the research.

Gun Confiscation in Ten Easy Steps

By Steve Sheldon <http://clashdaily.com/author/stevesheldon/> / 1
January 2013

All the time fellow gun owners say things to me like, �Seriously, Steve,
how would they possibly gather up all the hundreds of millions of guns
that are out there?�

Well my na�ve friend, let me tell you how it works.
*Step 1: Create an anti-gun culture and make guns and gun owners the bad
guys at every turn:*
On the evening news, every time a crime is reported, make sure there is
a picture of a mean looking gun next to the chalk outline of a body.
Portray hunters and sportsmen as backwoods unsophisticated hillbillies
and rednecks. Feminize the society, especially the males. Create a
culture where the police* are revered as heroes whose intentions can
never be questioned. Demonize war and warriors. Label gun organizations
�crazed lunatics� and �unreasonable extremists.� Make shooting
restrictive by forcing participants to private ranges, then close the
ranges by legal means citing reasons of safety, nuisance, environmental,
or whatever possible.
Create terms like �assault weapon�, �high-powered sniper rifle�, �guns
off the streets�, �weapons of war� when engaging in the gun debate
making ordinary guns out to have extraordinary functions. Build on this
disinformation by using movies, gaming, and entertainment that creates
the falsehood that guns are capable of doing impossible things like
firing hundreds of times without reloading or overheating or blowing up
a car�s gas tank with the strike of a bullet.
*Step 2: Build �security� systems that make the sheeple feel safe,
giving them a false sense of security and overdependence on police and
government authority while at the same time disarming them.*
Establish gun free zones. Install security cameras everywhere. Place
roving security cars with strobes in mall parking lots. Create
neighborhood watch programs under the careful supervision of law
enforcement insisting that no one be armed and that all incidents are to
be reported to the police. Install and maintain elaborate computer entry
systems in buildings. Establish pat downs at sporting events, etc. Put
�no gun� signs in all public places.
*Step 3: Play soothing music prior to the execution: *
Tell the sheeple that the taking away of their protection is for their
own good. Confuse them with emotional arguments. Convince them that
you�re doing it for the children. Couch it as a safety issue. Use
turncoats to make illogical but emotionally appealing arguments. Tell
them you�re not coming for all the guns, just some of the more evil
looking ones even though they function in exactly in the same manner.
*Step 4: Wait until some horrible tragedy or series of events that make
the sheeple susceptible to emotional arguments and knee-jerk reactions:*
*Step 5: Create a system that makes registration and confiscation simple
and gun ownership very difficult and expensive: *
Close private sales between individuals. Create a national registration
or database that can easily be turned to for confiscation. Create
bureaucracies that are unaccountable to the people and can serve the
purpose of registration, confiscation, and collection. Create processes
so cumbersome that no one would possibly want to purchase and register a
firearm.
*Step 6: Begin the process of making certain kinds of guns illegal:*
Take incremental steps by isolating one group of firearm and pitting its
owners against the �more reasonable� owner. Then continue to redefine
�reasonable� insisting that if this class of firearm or that class of
firearm were �off the streets� then society could be a better place and
our children protected.
*Step 7: Create �buyback� and �amnesty� programs that have the effect of
identifying and confiscating guns that have slipped under the
registration radar.*
*Step 8: Use some kind of national emergency to begin final
implementation once the population has been sufficiently disarmed.* This
can be done through economic chaos or used as an excuse to quell civil
uprising as a result of a variety of circumstances.
*Step 9: Throughout the process, implement draconian fines and prison
sentences for those who refuse to capitulate.* Encourage neighbor to
turn on neighbor and gun owner to turn on gun owner. Reward turncoats
with positions of power or financial gain.
*THIS STEP IS KEY: To those that think, �They�re not going to take my
guns away,� you are a fool. Most people will capitulate when they are
faced with huge fines and prison sentences. *Look no further than the
holocaust less than sixty years ago. These were not guns that were
rounded up and destroyed, but human beings! Does any reasonable person
think that this could not possibly happen again?
And for those of you who think democracy is the answer, Hitler was put
in power through the democratic process and then gained absolute power
though various political moves eventually taking full control of the
government.
*Step 10: Welcome to disarmament!*
My gun owning friends, do not fall for these steps. Resist them at every
turn. Today it�s thirty round magazines, �military looking� guns, online
ammunition sales and registration, tomorrow, it�s full confiscation.
*One final thought: If safety, security, and protection of our children
are really the issues, then why first go after something that is rarely
used in violent crime? Why not start with something that kills far more
innocents every year like abortion, prescription drugs, or automobiles?*
*Don�t be lulled into false thinking. It�s not about safety or
protecting children; there are better ways to protect against random
acts of mass murderers than to disarm law abiding citizens. To quote one
of my favorite bumper stickers, �It�s not about the guns, it�s about the
control.�*
*This is not an indictment against police, as I have family members and
very close friends who are members of the law enforcement community who
believe as I do and are very necessary members of an ordered society.


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