Will firearms disappear in America?

[Dr. Tad Hussein Winslow]

I am very glad you are optimistic. I hope you are right. You may be. As I said, "most likely"..... For NOW, the pendulum is swinging in our direction in the US of A.

 

[Nolo]

I'm just wondering (quite honestly) what rigid underlying trend you're looking at that allows you to make predictions so far ahead...

But to illuminate my view of things, the homeschooling movement, the charter school movement and the voucher movement are gaining steam. These will have a huge impact on the (true) education of future generations. And, in turn, RKBA. The US public school system's days are numbered.
Namecalling appears to have died down, maybe this thread will actually return to rational discussion and debate.

 

[guntotinguy]

if they really want them,they will have to come and take them.

Yep..and isnt it said that a country who allows people to have firearms are called citizens?And those who do not the populus is called 'subjects'?

I would like to believe that we Americans,by legal means and by right of voting would never let this happen,yet it is IMO that Americans in our beloved country needs to wake up and start being a little more positively active...

 

[Nolo]

I would like to believe that we Americans,by legal means and by right of voting would never let this happen,yet it is IMO that Americans in our beloved country needs to wake up and start being a little more positively active...

Agreed. But they are.
We are.

 

[BillyBothHands]

There is another surge of new gun owners again right now. It seems to come in cycles. At the gun shops, my ranges, and gun shows(all DFW area) I'm seeing more and more new shooters/buying first gun folks around. I've given more advice and basic safety lessons in the past 6 months than I have in a really long time. Just as an interesting observation, I'm seeing a lot of women 35-50 handgun shopping. I've seen a great deal of them accompanied by a son/daughter who already shoots (which is awesome, how cool would it be to turn it around and teach a parent how to shoot!) I've also a lot of our younger Troops that are coming home and buying because they previous to enlistment they had no experience and now they are hooked. We still have a long hard road in front of us, but all said it seems to be a pretty healthy climate. I see fewer of the 'extremist make us look like fool' types at gun shows and the new shooters present seem to have the good sense to stay away from their tables (that makes me smile).

 

[LKB3rd]

Rights do not disappear just because they're unpopular, even if the poll is correct.

This is an excellent point. So many people believe that we live in a democracy. this is wrong. We have a constitutional republic, where you have rights even if you are the only person in the world with your opinion. Our system was designed to protect the rights of a minority from being trampled.
Now, we all need to go out and spread the word on this. Don't let people get away with calling our system a democracy, because in a democracy, a 55 percent vote can take away our rights as gun owners.

 

[VegasOPM]

Disappear?!? Not likely. There are over 60,000,000 gun owners in this country that own somewhere between 200,000,000 and 1,000,000,000 guns. Even if they were made illegal tomorrow, they aren't going away.

 

[MT GUNNY]

I think its just the opposite. Since I became Politically aware about year and a half ago, Ive seen allot of gun politics happening. Mostly good, and some bad. Is it just me? thinking that we are going through a Gun Revolution of sorts.

 

[mbt2001]

We just one the biggest RKBA case ever, we have been gaining ground on CCW and RKBA since the 90's... Texas has so many people re-upping for CCW permits and applying out right that it has caused a stall in the system. They had to get more people to handle the backlog.

I think the party has just started.

 

[Lady with a Gun]

If the leftists were able to completely close down all firearm manufacturers and collect all the firearms, now in civilian hands, the only result would be the start of clandestine manufacturers. They would not be making ordinary civilian firearms. It is a far simpler manufacturing process to build firearms on the order of the STEN gun, than to build any other kind of firearm. Why? The STEN gun is not dependent upon the close tolerances needed for a locked breech firearm.

BTW: The STEN gun is a submachinegun.

 

[762 shooter]

Thankfully there are so many guns in this country that in any possible scenario, no one or no group could hope to get rid of them.

They may be outlawed.
They may be confiscated.
They may be demonized.
They may be the unholy tools of the antichrist.

But they will always be around.

Make sure you got some of one kind and some of another.

God bless the pygmies and my Parson Russell.

 

[streakr]

No.

streakr

 

[rondog]

I look at the people around me everywhere I go, and in my opinion, the VAST MAJORITY of them ALL look to be SHEEP, and it scares me.

The numbers of delirious ninnies wetting themselves over this Democratic National Convention here in Denver, and the candidates, is truly upsetting to me.

I fear this country is sliding towards Communism, only under another name and policy manual.

 

[Gunnerpalace]

The "Halo" generation as much as some people deride it here, video gamers in general will be big time gun owners. especially with the realism now, I see a revival of the shootings sports coming.

 

[hotshotshoting]

even if legislature and confiscation existed... you can just imagine how well it will work because it has worked so well for drugs... right? not to mention the fact that you can defend yourself with your firearm its tougher to defend yourself with drugs...

 

[brigadier]

We, and nearly all of the UN countries have adopted a: "talk, don't do" way about us. As long as we gripe and complain about the government taking our rights and don't FORCE stop them, this insanity will continue, with or without the people's consent.
I think we can learn allot from the Russia-Georgia conflict.
All these countries bordering Russia have been playing games and ignoring Russia's threats as the united world has been taught to do. It was ACTION that got their attention.

 

[jonmerritt]

someone fogot to tell DC, that the Heller decision, means, the people, can have guns.

 

[Waitone]

I don't pay any more attention to polls (particularly gun polls) than I do to Wikipedia articles. Too many unknowns about either to trust the data.

 

[moooose102]

the firearms in america, will last longer than we do!

 

[sillpapa]

THINK ABOUT THIS???
All of us MUST stand up for our RIGHT to bear arms . But ther are certain one in Washington D.C . That feel they can take away that right.So think twice when you cast your vote in the upcomming Election
Then think about the Men & Woman who made gave there all so we can BEAR ARMS & BE FREE!!!

 

[wingman]

We have a rising extreme liberal left along with an under educated third world population classic example of a rich/poor society which will work against firearms "legal" ownership. It really depends how political active we are but to assume we have firearms now and so it will be in the future is naive. In my youth I also assumed much of what was predicted was insane but much of it is here and we accept it.

 

[Navy joe]

You last two posters are pure polyannas.

When I said I gave up in disgust, I meant giving up in reading pure nonesense and skipped to posting my post. But thanks for twisting my words and showing your true colors there bud.

The second ammendment was revived by a dam c*** hair, you fool! We are lucky to even have a constitution! It's only because we are louder than the majority that this country even exists.

In otherwords, I am right.

Wow, I am stunned by the convincing carefully crafted argument you have there. Keep up the High Road work there talking about people you don't know.

Here's the problem. We must be victorious always. They must only be victorious ONCE. So listing our victories is meaningless. So far, we are playing defense, and they are playing offense.

I say we're on the offensive. We've got a Constitutional guarantee that is backed by a ton of precedent going back to before our country was founded. Heller is another small piece. We were on the offensive before Heller and will stay that way. As to me being called a fool by you, I actually had some hope that we would have lost Heller in a spectacular manner just so that a fine point would be put on things. Judging by the dissenting opinions the majority opinion if we had lost would have been so anti-American that Ray Charles could have seen it. Thread title was will firearms disappear in America, not will somebody outlaw them and everyone will comply. So, I don't put too much stock in Heller except for that it is an excellently written piece of decided law that will be much harder for future decisions to go against. But I forgot, I'm a fool and you're right.

 

[doc2rn]

The answer is hell no, not on my watch.

I'm with GeekWitha.45 on this one, veterans would revolt!

 

[Wopasaurus]

"You cannot invade the mainland United States.
There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass."

- Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (Japanese Navy)


I hope that this is always true throughout this country's history.

 

[BruceRDucer]

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My point is that means a majority of America believes we need more gun control.---THR member Yo Mama

A shift in thinking has occurred, probably assisted by public education, which is a governmental activity.

Americans no longer believe in government BY THE PEOPLE. They now tend to believe in government by ....the government.