Looks like it may be testing time for gun owners & so called patriots to finally put up or shut up. Do they have the guts to stand up and fight or are they cowards? Seriously, this will be interesting.
We don't see this much (if any) differently. I closed my OP by saying....
Only about 4% of the banned guns and magazines have been turned in. Surely some of that can be attributed to simply not knowing about the law, or missing the deadline on accident or whatever, but out of the 96% who are now full-on felons, it would seem at least some of them are ignoring the law on some grounds of principle or planning to defend their principles. If anyone wants to know if there's an appetite, any appetite at all, for armed resistance to tyranny, you should be watching CT very closely in coming days and weeks. A little over 200 letters so far constitutes the first shot over the bow of The USS Patriot. I hope she's rigged for engagement.
My point has been that there's going to be bloodshed regardless of what "so called patriots" do or don't do. Every single letter that's been sent so far (a little over 200) was sent to people who declared their ownership and possession of weapons and/or magazines that are now banned in CT. As such, every warrant served will be conducted by SWAT teams who know by their own admission that their targets are armed with "assault weapons." Whether it's an unbending Patriot inside who has planned for the assault on his home, or an innocent person or family whose paperwork just got lost in the shuffle and they have no banned weapons in the house anymore, SWAT's going in HOT. Expecting anything less with the crew that's running the show is just wishful thinking.
"We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately." Benjamin Franklin
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Good advice for citizens in Connecticut who wish to preserve their rights. If an early united and determined front is not presented, then when the leviathan state comes for you, you will be swallowed one by one. Another thought: folks need to be disabused of the idea that if you vote away essential rights and liberties, by whatever margin, that means it's OK. It is deeply disturbing to ponder on how many places in my country I would be considered a criminal.
You may indeed have CT figured out accurately. Maybe there is no organization working underground and planning for the SWAT raids. I have no idea what's true or not in that regard. I do know that the responsibility for any bloodshed that does occur will lie squarely at the feet of tyrants and their enforcers though, and that no amount of state-run media glossing-over can hide that fact nationally in this day of instant internet communications. What happens in CT in coming days and weeks will carry serious implications for how gun-owners prepare and react across the country, because everyone knows that if they get away with confiscations in CT, it's headed our way sooner or later. Either that or full-scale civil war to protect it from spreading our way. Like I keep saying, confiscations represent the Rubicon, and the Rubicon is being crossed as we're typing in here talking about it. It is not an academic discussion anymore.
Hasn't anyone challenged this in Federal Court yet? Injunction? It is COLOR OF LAW!!! File crimminal charge against the Govenor and any one else that trys to enforce it.
I seriously doubt any AG or DA in either Hartford or DC is going to go all criminal prosecutor on Malloy's or the legislature's collective ass, but I'm reasonably sure that some kind of appeal has been sent to SCOTUS. They are hardly an ally though. They are
*the state* every bit as much as Obama, Malloy, Congress or the CT legislature. Orders for confiscations are already being sent out, and presumably, the State Police already have all the tactical assaults planned for completing the confiscations. It's too late to stop at this point, unless the leopards of CT state government change their spots
now.
If gun-owning, principled Americans are "so called patriots" as Ringo says, then that means they're paper tigers. Not a credible threat to the statist tyrants in CT. Obviously the tyrants believe that. I'd say the reality remains to be seen, but if they are indeed paper tigers, SCOTUS are one-ply-tissue-paper tigers! Unless they had the foresight to see that gun confiscations could spark off something that goes completely out of control, and convened in emergency session to do as you suggest by issuing an injunction
right now, it's already too late for them to do any good days or weeks from now.
So the rest of this is not in reply to anyone in specific. I ran across something last night that I found interesting. I have not had a chance to get fully up to speed on all its capabilities yet, or its usefulness as a relatively secure way to communicate across multiple platforms and networks, but
I read about an app here last night that is credited (by that story anyway) with "fueling" the uprising in Venezuela. It was also used extensively in communications across Ukraine. Interesting stuff. Check it out if'n you're of a mind to.
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