You can't just say that this thread doesn't belong in the Politics forum because the hypothetical is that the law has already been passed. Gun threads will always come down to politics, no matter what you say. As people have said, politically, it can't be done. If it happened there would be serious and rebellious repercussions.
I voted "other" in the poll because:
I'd sit back and watch as the vast majority of the police force said no, because, even if they supported it, it would be too much risk of life to try and enforce such a law.
You'd then say, well, such people wouldn't be able to handle the US military coming to take their guns.
Wrong.
Because they wouldn't have to worry about the US military, because the military would be right next to such people, protecting them from an unconstitutional law and any police and disloyal(downright stupid) military members that were crazy enough to try.
As I've said before in other gun threads, I know people in the military. I know there would be whole military bases, that if such a law was passed, they would say "hell no" to the government and not enforce the law and would protect gun owners.
Because, seriously, who do you think makes up a majority of the military force in the US? Yes, the kind of people that love guns and will protect the right for them and others to own them.
In order to gain back the military to do what it normally does with it, the US government would have to erase the law and promise that they would never think of passing such a law ever again.
I just don't see how people don't get how this is the only real scenario that would happen if such a law was passed.
PeterMerkin69 said:
Americans are too soft to go to war over a hobby, which is really all gun culture really amounts to these days. There'd be a handful of extremist holdouts in the deep south and maybe Michigan who'd take a few pot shots at the police, and maybe even successfully kill a two or three of them, but tough talk of rebellion would be quashed and within a few days life would return to normal.
Personally, I'd wait for the Supreme Court to overturn whatever decision allowed this to happen and reclaim my weapons or use the compensatory check to replenish my arsenal. Failing that, it's not like they're tracked accurately enough that I couldn't just hide one until the heat was off.
Referring to what I've said above, that just isn't the case. I've got to know way too many gun owners and people in the military to think that the majority people here in the US would just fold under such a law.
It would be the reverse of your second sentence. There would be a small amount of extremist anti-gun people holding out against the US military which the vast majority is made up of pro-gun types. If there ever was a scenario where the US military would turn and over throw the US government if it had to, such a gun ban law would be the case.
