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The quote of the day is presented by Guns.com.

What you’re reading is mostly agitprop, advocacy and push-polls.

The arguments for a ban on “assault weapons”— a purposefully elastic phrase that allows the liberal legislator’s imagination to run wild — is centered on aesthetics, on the false claim that the AR is a “weapon of war,” and on the firearm tastes of a handful of deranged, sociopathic murderers.

Democrats and their allies like to mock these sorts of arguments as nothing more than semantics; mostly because they need to conflate and euphemize terms to make their arguments work. It’s how they generate favorable polling. I’m sure you’ve heard about the popularity of gun-control measures. But like “Medicare for all,” and other vaguely positive sounding policies, once voters learn what specifics entail, those numbers tend to settle along the usual partisan lines.

If you think you’re going to have overwhelming support for “mandatory gun buybacks” when people learn that you’re really talking about “the confiscation of 20 million guns,” you’re fooling yourself.

– David Harsanyi in Dems Propose First Gun Grab Since Lexington And Concord

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  1. I’m still waiting for someone to explain to me how the government can “buyback” something they never owned in the first place!!

    • The government owns everything and only allows you to possess whatever personal belongings they see fit.

        • You have got that backwards. The Greed Monger Businessmen (Founding Father Swap Rats) fked the American people out of a Democracy, a Parliamentary Government, and enslaved them to rich and the powerful by establishing the most corrupt country on the planet that was founded for the greedy rich and by the greedy rich and in the beginning even denied everyone the right to vote. Now our votes count for nothing anyway so why did they even bother to give us the illusion of voting?

        • Corruption creates poverty, not prosperity. Third world countries are poor because their governments are extremely corrupt. America is rich because it’s far less corrupt. Americans have the highest standard of living in the world, well above that of the parliamentary states in Europe.

          Democracy didn’t work out too well for France a few years later.

        • quot———————-Gov. William J Le Petomane says:
          September 8, 2019 at 09:07
          Corruption creates poverty, not prosperity. Third world countries are poor because their governments are extremely corrupt. America is rich because it’s far less corrupt. Americans have the highest standard of living in the world, well above that of the parliamentary states in Europe.

          Democracy didn’t work out too well for France a few years later.—————-quote

          As usual the Conservative mind has it backwards and lives in the past. The Average French laborer makes way more money per hour NOT including his state paid for benefits. Like $33.00 an hour on Sundays in the Paris area. And they have true democracy while we do not. They elect their president through a majority vote and in case you have forgotten that is true democracy not a fake one like we have where the rich and powerful control who becomes president through the corruption of gerrymandering and the criminal Electoral College.

        • I have noticed the many parallels in history as to where we are now. It all boils down to control and nothing more.

        • Left a reply saying there are many parallels in history as to where we are now. It’s all about control, nothing more. My comment was placed below one of Vlads rants and makes me sound if I agree with him which I never do. Wanted to clear that up.

        • quote——————-jwm says:
          September 8, 2019 at 09:22
          Hey, vlad. Shouldn’t you be in Hong Kong executing folks for waving the American flag?—————————-quote

          It is precisely because Hong Kong students were given a Liberal American Style uncensored education that they are now able to “think for themselves” and able to have the willingness and desire to challenge authority and reject any conservative dogmatic propaganda. Without Liberalism there would be no Hong Kong Protests. We American Liberals also rioted at Kent State in 1970 against the Conservative Nazi’s who were supporting the U.S. Government’s subjugation and mass murder of the people of Vietnam. History repeats itself on the other side of the world.

        • I’m willing to concede that Vlad may be right about France and other European “democracies”….. but they don’t have a second ammendment, so they suck…… oh!!…and the Vietnamese killed more Vietnamese than we did. We were over there to save Vietnamese. The Kent State students didn’t think American blood was worth spilling to save any Vietnamese. Don’t try to reframe history. If “we” cared about Indo China we never would have left it in the hands of genocidal commie factions that slaughtered each other whole sale after we left re: Chinese/Vietnamese war 1975 and Vietnam’s Vietnam i.e. Cambodia.

        • Not willing to concede the “France remark to Sad the Impaler. Vlad cites gross wage and completely ignores that fact that the French government confiscates over 75% of that wage for “taxes.” The net income of French workers is less than half of a US worker – even before considering how expensive basic’s are in France!

          The socialist worm has produced another false argument!

        • That is IT’S job and it does it soooooooo well… Keep up the good work Vlad and remember “Inquiring minds” can’t wait for your next fucked up rewrite of eveything from the founding to current events, the entertainment factor is priceless… Yes Vlad even an expendable idiot like you serves a purpose..

        • quote———————GeorgiaBob says:
          September 8, 2019 at 11:41
          Not willing to concede the “France remark to Sad the Impaler. Vlad cites gross wage and completely ignores that fact that the French government confiscates over 75% of that wage for “taxes.” The net income of French workers is less than half of a US worker – even before considering how expensive basic’s are in France!

          The socialist worm has produced another false argument!————–quote

          Wrong again. Its not 75 per cent. Its closer to 53 per cent. And the rich are taxed heavily in France while in the corrupt U.S. the rich pay no taxes. You also conveniently ignore all the social benefits that are paid right back into the pockets of the French. They do not go bankrupt over drug and health care while we do so who has the better country. They also get subsidies on rent if low income and exemption from income taxes . So who has the better country to live in? Answer. They do.

          While the French are renowned for their burdensome taxes, it turns out that a record low number of people will actually pay income tax this year. Here’s why.
          A report revealed on Tuesday that almost nine million French people will see their taxes decrease this year, meaning many workers will sink below the lowest income tax threshold.

          That means that in total, only around 16 million French people will be paying income tax this year.

          Although while they won’t have to pay income taxes, they haven’t gotten away scot-free, of course, as the French government already deducts a healthy amount of social charges directly from workers’ pay packets.

          This figure – which represents 46 percent of the country’s total workers – is enough to be a record low, down from 46.5 percent in 2015, 47.5 in 2014, and 52.3 percent the year before.

          The Socialist government has made several cuts to taxes in recent years to benefit the country’s worst-off workers in the hope that it will boost their popularity among the left.

          The cuts include the removal of the lowest tax band at 5.5 percent, which is the reason why many low earners in in France don’t pay income taxes.

          The 2016 budget also included a reform that meant another 1.1 million households would not be paying income tax.

          On Thursday, Finance Minister Michel Sapin chose to remind voters that out of 17 million tax-paying households in France, eight million will have seen their income taxes reduced, some to the point where they don’t have to pay.

          As a result of the cuts income tax in France now only generates €70 billion for the government, much of which is being stumped up by the country’s wealthiest workers.

          Around 10 percent of tax payers cough up around 70 percent of the tax receipts, while the country’s richest one percent account for 45 percent of income for the taxman.

          Sorry Jethro try again.

        • Sad one who likens himself to a historical figure that enjoyed sticking things up people’s rear ends, You Lie. Simply put – you lie. The national government of France has about twice as many “tax means” as the US. Even the poorest immigrant on government aid pays out almost a third of the funds they are given in various retail taxes. (note that cigarettes /now including gross photos of diseased organs on the package/ are taxes by stamp and retail add on by federal authorities, taxed by federally mandated “local” seller’s tax and by local retail tax – and cigarettes are very popular with the French poor). Milk costs over $10 a gallon – 70% of that is tax, beef is over $40 a pound – and almost 90% of that is tax. The French people pay the extreme majority of their income in taxes – reasonably estimated to be over 95% for the rich and no less than 53% for the indigent!

          Tell me another lie!

        • quote————————-California Richard says:
          September 8, 2019 at 10:25
          I’m willing to concede that Vlad may be right about France and other European “democracies”….. but they don’t have a second ammendment, so they suck…… oh!!…and the Vietnamese killed more Vietnamese than we did. We were over there to save Vietnamese. The Kent State students didn’t think American blood was worth spilling to save any Vietnamese. Don’t try to reframe history. If “we” cared about Indo China we never would have left it in the hands of genocidal commie factions that slaughtered each other whole sale after we left re: Chinese/Vietnamese war 1975 and Vietnam’s Vietnam i.e. Cambodia.—————-quote

          No we were not there to save Vietnamese lives as we murdered in cold blood over 3 million Vietnamese civilians.

          U.S. Greed Monger Criminal Businessmen were well aware that the French for 85 years raped the economy of Vietnam by raping the rice profits ( 1/3 of the worlds total) as well as raping the profit of the natural rubber industry (2/3 of the worlds output). Our invasion in Vietnam was for the same reasons all aggressor nations start wars of rape, pillage and conquest and that was for blind greed and power over another nation.

          And you speak of the Vietnamese/Cambodian War. The Vietnamese were the international hero’s of that war as they stepped in to stop the genocidal murder of the Cambodian people by Paul Pot who was a nut case if there ever was one while the U.S. sat by and did nothing because their was no profit to rape in Cambodia.

        • “A report revealed on Tuesday that almost nine million French people will see their taxes decrease this year, meaning many workers will sink below the lowest income tax threshold.”

          It’s a great way to spin declining income. Too poor to pay taxes is not a good thing.

        • The science is settled. All of the scientific computer models prove we agree per cent. Do not be an agreement denier.

        • Master Troll Level 92 achieved!

          Well done! You have mastered the ability to post conflicting information that confuses the whole room. Your speed is increased +1 and your magic is increased +3.

          You have earned the Bronze Derp Wizard badge.

          Keep playing.

        • So VLAD thinks they were taught the same garbage which produced him? Completely ignoring the fact that liberal doesn’t mean or refer to what he thinks it does, you would think the obvious would be a give away. They aren’t gender confused losers running around with blue hair while burning the American Flag. Vlad, really how are you this dumb?

      • quote————The government owns everything and only allows you to possess whatever personal belongings they see fit.—————quote

        100 per cent true.

        • All too often this is true. Not right, but true. Our oft ignored founding documents place individual freedoms over government power, but there will always be those who advocate for the power of the state over the individual. Those people need to be lined up against a wall and summarily executed IMHO.

        • I got pulled over last week and the cops asked me if the meth in the trunk belonged to me and I told them it belongs to the government but they arrested me anyway.

      • Some religions believe that God owns everything, and you have to return everything to God when you pass. Looks like the state has replaced God as the new religion.

        • I normally like to watch the “hey you’re a troll” interactions others have with you for entertainment, but I have to agree with you on this.

          When America was a more agricultural (small town) centered society generations ago, the Christian church was expected to be the source of help for the community. That, and family.

          Both Federal and State government has successfully completed their plan to supplant this system and become the “God” for society. They take usurious taxes and provide services (such as welfare) and have become the “womb to tomb” supporter for a large portion of community.

          This has brought us to today’s generation of Leftard snowflakes who believe the Gov is the end-all-be-all source of happiness and security.

        • I think it’s more accurate that a small group of people have successfully taken the reigns of the Federal Government, and the state govts by default, and are using our governments to achieve their ends.

        • quote—————Pg2 says:
          September 8, 2019 at 11:16
          I think it’s more accurate that a small group of people have successfully taken the reigns of the Federal Government, and the state govts by default, and are using our governments to achieve their ends.—————–quote

          No small group of people, every Industrialized Nation on Earth is now Socialistic some more than others and surprise, surprise that includes the U.S. its just that we have not yet achieved what all the other Socialist Nations have had for decades.

        • States have been trying to usurp God since Nimrod. The pharohs claimed to be gods. So did the Ceasars. It used to be that if you were down on your luck and couldn’t feed your family you went to your church and asked for help. Now you turn to the government. One way or another, God has to be replaced for an all powerful state to exist.

        • Someday we will complete Obama’s goal of destroying the US economy and making this country a socialist paradise just like Venezuela and Cuba.

        • Vlad, some truth in your lies….the same group does control the levers of most governments worldwide. The ability to make governments dependent on your currency with interest gives them nearly unlimited global power.

    • I’ve said before that it’s not a “buyback”. It’s a bribe on the taxpayer’s dime. Pay no attention to the language used by the gun grabbers.

    • Why don’t we just buy back all the guns in Afghanistan. They have only a tenth of what our gun per capita is. We could save a whole lot of money.

    • ” I’m still waiting for someone to explain to me how the government can “buyback” something they never owned in the first place!! ”

      It’s pretty simple really. In the liberal weltanschauung, the collective is everything, the “common good” reigns supreme, and the individual serves the needs of the state. Thus, all property is collective property. You never owned it, you just thought you did. As far as the gun-grabbing liberals are concerned, you should be grateful they’re offering you anything at all.

    • Obviously you are not well read. Many States and City’s have done this. No one needs an AR15 to hunt or protect their family with. If you do then I suggest you move.

      • As long as racism exists, and others have access to that level of firepower I do and will continue to arm myself with weapons of war. I stopped a guy from killing a woman last month with my AR, and come to find out he’s connected to at least fourteen missing women from Tinder. All guns kill, we are a deadly species, don’t pretend we’re not.

      • Dear Stephanie,

        1. Who the hell you think you are to tell me what I do or don’t need?!

        2. The Constitution includes Bill of Rights, not Bill of needs.

        3. Semi automatic rifles like AR15 are great for self defense. They are also used widely for hunting, though they are relatively underpowered.

        4. Even if they were not, it doesn’t matter. We, the People have the right to keep and bear arms useful for service in militia. This right is protected against any infringement by the highest law of the land – the US Constitution. No buts, excepts or howevers.

        5. Don’t let gun grabber’s lies blind you. Over 99 percent of murders in America is commited with different weapons than rifles. AR 15 style rifles are only fraction of the remaining 1 percent. Recent semi auto rifles gun grab is not motivated by efforts to save lives, but to take power away from the population. If you really care about saving lives, your time and effort will be better spent elsewhere.

      • FREE education, GUARANTEED jobs, FREE medical care, GUARANTEED housing, FREE food and a GUN-FREE environment are nothing new to the USA- this was the birthright of many Americans in the Democrat controlled South in the 1800’s.

      • Oh, yeah.

        That 0.2% of the population that make up law enforcement and the 0.37% of the population that are active duty military and the 0.24% in the reserves couldn’t even take on concealed carry permit holders that make up 6% of the population let alone the 40% of the population that are gun owners.

        They’ll spend all of their time and resources protecting their high tech weapons while we try to steal them.

        I always wanted to add a UH-60 to my collection.

        • AH64-E

          I called the FAA to complain about helicopters coming and going from a local, (less than 2 blocks away), restaurant. The kind lady told me that helicopters can come and go from wherever they want.

          So now I want an AH64.

        • I would estimate that the members of the most popular gun club in my small little town have squirreled away somewhere in the neighborhood of 3 to 4 million rounds of ammunition. Good luck getting them to simply give it up. No matter how many helicopters the army sends against them, flown by their sons, daughters, brothers and sisters.

        • “I called the FAA to complain about helicopters coming and going from a local”

          You don’t get to control the airspace, even above your own private property. That’s why you aren’t even allowed to shoot down your neighbor’s drone that’s spying on you.

        • “I called the FAA to complain about helicopters coming and going from a local, (less than 2 blocks away), restaurant.”

          Don’t hate Tom, get rated and you can be that guy flying overhead. It’s what I did.

      • The Hairy Kameltow has already made an agreement with the Guardians of the Universe to confiscate all the guns when she gets erected in 2020.

    • quote——————The earth is the LORD’S and the fulness thereof…HE told me to buy an AR15.————quote

      What other voices in your head have you heard recently???

        • I know right? The voices in my head tell me to do stuff every day and then they say “you will be sorry” and they are right every single time.

        • ^^Okay, now this is not the original Vlad^^.

          It’s like a game trying to find the “real” Vlad and separate him/it from the impersonators. But don’t get me wrong…keep impersonating. Reading the comments is what draws me here to this site, more than the actual articles. 🙂

        • Ya hunh! I am so the orginal Vlad Tepes. The one with the stupid picture just started posting a few months ago. If you look at my older posts you will see I have never used a retarded picture like him/it.

  2. “If you think you’re going to have overwhelming support for “mandatory gun buybacks” when people learn that you’re really talking about “the confiscation of 20 million guns,” you’re fooling yourself.”

    The delusional dreams of the Leftist elite of both parties and will kick off the biggest party since 1776 but then they never learn from history.

    Speaking of the history they never learn from,the kick off to the revolution was instigated by the crown, when it went to collect the peoples arms and munitions in Concord and Lexington,keep your powder dry and party on.

    • The French will not step in to save your ass this time in a new revolution. You will be on your own and no match for black shirted robotic storm troopers in helicopter gun ships.

      • Don’t you have something to do like sorting socks or rubbing your tummy and patting your head? You seem to have more words in reply than the author has in his story.

      • We know where all of the “black shirted robotic storm troopers in helicopter gun ships” are. We know where every military base, armory, etc are. There are over 20 million veterans in the United States today. We know how to fly those planes, helicopter gun ships, operate tanks, etc. If it ever leads to that, the military bases and armories will be hit first.

        You do know that, right?

        • The people flying those helicopters are our sons, daughters, brothers and sisters, and even the guy who lives next door to me. Good luck getting them all to shoot us. Things just don’t work that way. Eventually it collapses on itself. Violently.

        • quote———————-We know where all of the “black shirted robotic storm troopers in helicopter gun ships” are. We know where every military base, armory, etc are. There are over 20 million veterans in the United States today. We know how to fly those planes, helicopter gun ships, operate tanks, etc. If it ever leads to that, the military bases and armories will be hit first.

          You do know that, right?————-quote

          Don’t make me laugh. A bunch of old doddering re-treads hobbling along on canes against well armed young men brainwashed to act and not think. I might also say updated or changed equipment changes so fast you probably would be at a loss to find out how to even start the machines of death up let alone use them. And for everyone you did steal a thousand would be coming after you. You would last seconds not even minutes.

        • Glad T has made statements ad nauseam on the topic of “gun ships” and “black suited soldiers”, I’ve responded to these posts in the past with the reality of US citizens and/or gun owners should this occur, yet he never reply.
          The troll know as Vlad T is just like an annoying little child, he makes outlandish statements, then never responds to when the replies point out the absurdity of his posts.
          VT has fallen to the classification of “Time Bandit” IMHO. His posts are not worth the time it takes to read them.

        • Thank you for your support. It is commenters like you who make all my hard work worthwhile. I know my leadership is important to you and I will keep trying to educate everyone by copying and pasting to the end.

        • LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

          “”” I might also say updated or changed equipment changes so fast you probably would be at a loss to find out how to even start the machines of death up let alone use them””””

          you have OBVIOUSLY NEVER been in the military!

          the army is still using the rifle they had in the early 60’S!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
          the ‘Marines ‘just Barely’ got rid of the M60 tank from the 60’s
          the air force still flys f16’s from the same era!!!
          B-52’s anyone??

          need I list any more??

      • I know the truth about history because I watch documentary movies all the time. I have seen the one where the robots dressed all in black confiscate all the guns. The robots are coming and you will be like “Hur Dur the robots took our guns!”.

      • You mean the chicken shits that hiked up their skirts and invited the Nazis in to do as they pleased, the same French people that bitch today if they have to work more than 30 hours a week or someone threatens to take some of their FREE shit.. The French of today are not the same people that held such a hatred for England that they would assist a rogue group of misfits overthrow the authority of one of the periods super powers… You might keep in mind that there are some bad actors out there that would try to take advantage of a Civil War in the U.S. to further their own efforts to overthrow our Republic.. (but, of course you ARE aware, after all you represent them, although not very well)

      • Do you have any specifics from your actual experiences in asymmetrical warfare, or are we supposed to just take your word for it as a Chairborne Delta Seal Ranger?

        • Dude, Vlad has seen and done it all. I’ve yet to not hear a cool story from that bro regarding everything from machine guns to buying guns from multiple drunks at the bar. We are lucky to have such a wealth of knowledge willing to share it with us like it or not.

  3. I don’t think we will ever get a real “assault weapons” ban again. Not anytime soon at least. We need to watch out for bills expanding what qualifies as a prohibited person and red flag type of laws.

    Not to forget 80% receivers and private sales or lending your friend a gun are things I could realistically being infringed in our current political climate. Be ever watchful of people who say they are on our side and I think we can minimize it.

    Punish everyone for something an individual did. It’s how they teach kids to think in public school. Someone attacked you? Well you are just as bad for fighting back if not worse than the bully. Collectivist nanny state thinking.

    • Agreed. When the previous AWGB went into effect in 1994, America was different. Since it expired in 2004, half of the nation has tilted toward strengthening gun rights, and (so far) 15 have successfully passed permitless carry.

      A federal AWGB would meet with severe resistance from multiple states, and some would outright ignore it and refuse to enforce it.

    • You mean like Washington’s I594 ? Which has yet to have had anyone prosecuted under that statute? Anti’s scream victory about it, ” we closed the gun show loop hole!!” but in truth, its a toothless law. Most normal, reasonable people selling a firearm privately do it through a reputable gun shop anyway. What was in force previously regarding private sale and transfer was a disaster. At most 594 streamlined and legitimized private sales. Families will still pass on firearms without nanny state oversight.

  4. It’s not for us it’s for Republicans to worry them to the point where they betray us and go along. The best example was when President Bush issued a import ban of what was loosely defined as Assault Weapons. The latest is Lt. Governor Dan Patrick vowing to stand up to the NRA and end Private sales between strangers in the state of Texas. So it works, unfortunately.

  5. How soon the Far Right have forgotten Waco. David Koresh had converted fully automatic weapons and they did him little good against armored flame throwers. What make you think that you would be anymore successful.

    • vlad. Serious question. Whether you’re a troll. A bot. Or a serious leftist. Have you taken into account that like Lord Haw Haw in ww2 you’ve focused the hatred of an entire nation on yourself. You’ve become the voice of lunacy and treason.

      Do you imagine this will end well for you?

      • It will end well for decent American people when they rid themselves of the scourge of the jack booted Gangster Criminal Republican Party.

        • I’m trying to picture McConnell, (not really my favorite) traipsing around in black jackboots. It’s just not working. You really think he has a few in his closet? Troll.

        • quote———————-Mike V says:
          September 8, 2019 at 09:44
          Who do you identify as “decent” and “American”?————quote

          Anyone who would dare to ask that question is shouting that he is not a decent person or an American because decent people do not have to have my post explained to them, as they can see what has happened to them under the corrupt regime of the Gangster Criminal Republicans. The Republican Criminals have already reduced their health care benefits because they are prostitutes of the Insurance and Drug Companies. 20 million people have now lost their health care with the weakening of Obama Care. And they are going bankrupt every day because the Republicans refuse to regulate the crooks in the Drug Industry and Insurance industry. And their children are being gunned down at school weekly during every school year. The Criminal Republicans have refused to enact gun control laws and refused to spend any money on school safety programs to protect children from assault by nut cases.

        • Decent people would never dare question my leadership. They know it is best to keep there mouths shut and not listen to the fringe minority and there wrong speak. The newest scientific polls prove that 87 per cent of the readers of this blog want me to be the only one allowed to make comments.

        • Is it just me, or has Vlad T (with Kong pic) gone totally out of his mind with his posts today.
          No attachment to reality.

        • QUOTE——————Dude says:
          September 8, 2019 at 10:53
          “Who do you identify as “decent” and “American”?”

          CNN——————-QUOTE

          I knew if you tried hard enough you would eventually post something truthful.

        • Dude you just cannot handle being wrong can you? Or being told how narcissistic you are. When asked how you determine who is a “decent American”, because you literally talk shit about EVERYTHING American, you cannot even answer without trying to make it a personal insult. You need to chill the fuck out Vlad. No need to write today’s rabble in your manifesto. It’ll all be okay man, just calm down.

      • JWM, I’m waiting for ‘vlad’ to throw out there “Running-dog capitalist” to complete his self-illusion…

        • The full phrase is “Running dog lackey of the capitalist imperialist war mongerers” That is what the little monkeys in the top of the tree screech when they see a big cat prowling around at the base of the tree.

    • Because trying to utilize heavy force against the entire population is not going to work. Using it against one family holed up is different.

      • “All right, they’re on our left, they’re on our right, they’re in front of us, they’re behind us…they can’t get away this time”
        —- Chesty Puller

    • “How soon the Far Right have forgotten Waco”
      “VLAD, VLAD, Vlad… No one has forgotten Waco, the problem with your contention is that people like you think people like me are of that same mindset as a dumbass like Koresh… I fought against a guerrilla contingency, hit and run, keep moving use the enemies weapons, use stealth, have patients wait for that most vulnerable target and I was a quick study, learning THEIR ways and adapting… Koresh had limited supples, a finite number of fighters to cover WAY too much area to defend and it STILL took 51 days and the lives of 4 FBI agents AND finally burning the fucking house to the ground in spite of having ALL of the U.S. governments rescources available. So how do you think this government would fare against hundreds of idividual WELL trained equally armed, highly mobil and extremely motivated militia groups that have been forming, meeting and training since the 70’s not to mention the groups of survivalist/preppers that your kind like to make so much fun of.. Do tell us Vlad, how long will you survive when we shut down your power grid and the trucks stop delivering to your local grocery stores… Your “superior intellect” will not feed you or protect you from the things that go bump in the night….

      • Sorry my glazed eyed person who delights in distorting history. The Feds deliberately held off all those days. They could have at any moment simply dropped a bomb on the house and that would have been it but the Branch Davidians were White People and that would have not gone over well. Remember the Black family that had children with them and the Police Helicopter that dropped a bomb on them and blew up their house. The Police did not play around with them because they were Black. Or have you conveniently forgot about that incident.

        • Sometimes my hands cramp up from all of the copying and pasting I do. That is when I like to distort history or just make things up and tell whatever lies I can dream up.

        • Vlad, you said “but the Branch Davidians were White People”
          Ooops, sorry Vlad caught you skewing the facts once again to fit YOUR truth….. Sorry.
          In 1993, there were just over 120 members living at Mount Carmel. The majority were American (84); 31 were British, five were Australian, two from Canada and one from Israel.HOWEVER, they were a MULTIRACIAL community with many members of mixed ethnicities.
          That’s okay my mind numbed friend, you live to lie again, keep up the entertainment…..

        • quote———————MADDMAXX says:
          September 8, 2019 at 12:55
          Vlad, you said “but the Branch Davidians were White People”
          Ooops, sorry Vlad caught you skewing the facts once again to fit YOUR truth….. Sorry.
          In 1993, there were just over 120 members living at Mount Carmel. The majority were American (84); 31 were British, five were Australian, two from Canada and one from Israel.HOWEVER, they were a MULTIRACIAL community with many members of mixed ethnicities.
          That’s okay my mind numbed friend, you live to lie again, keep up the entertainment…..——————————quote

          You did not finish your comment i.e. every damn one was WHITE.

        • You did not finish your comment i.e. every damn one was WHITE. Vlad you moron, what part of MULTIRACIAL do you NOT understand… At least 20 of the 82 that DIED in that shithole were BLACK and there were other people of color among the dead as well. Stop getting historical fact confused with your made for TV truths, they are not the same thing in spite of your deluded “follow the leader” “do as the leader says” insistance that the lifetime channel can tell no lie and if you are so weak minded as to believe the ATF and the FBI are reticent to open fire on someone just because they are white then your delusion is indeed terminal and ALL hope for you is lost…

        • You are being very unfair. I lie for a higher purpose or a get money to get drugs to get high purpose. If you are going to bring up facts and evidence to prove I am lying I may as well not even try. Except it says in my contract I cant quit and I do not want to be Clintoncided if you know what I mean.

    • Your assumption that all gun owners are “far right” is laughable. Bottom line is very simple, crimminals do not obey the law. Period, full stop. When the once law abiding gun owners are made into crimminals, the only thing that will stand in the way of the destruction of the demonrat, liberal, snowflake ideology will be OUR morals, not your opinions or feelings. We defend your birth right to sound like a jackass, but if you think for one second that once we are made crimminals we will continue to “play nice”, you are every bit as delusional as you sound. Im also curious as to whether or not YOU plan on being the first one through the door on these confiscations, because a “buyback” will NEVER work! A simple search of compliance rates across the globe is ample evidence of this. Quite honestly, you could lose without a shot being fired. We are the people that fix your cars, grow your food, transport the goods you need, and will EASILY maintain control of the spaces between your urban liberal slums that will gradually and inevitably implode upon itself. I would wager that one Winter would be all it would take to cut your “forces” in half. The other half would kill each other or starve. One last thing, we are a democratically elecected constitutional republic, just for the record.

      • quote—————-Im also curious as to whether or not YOU plan on being the first one through the door on these confiscations, because a “buyback” will NEVER work! A simple search of compliance rates across the globe is ample evidence of this. Quite honestly, you could lose without a shot being fired. We are the people that fix your cars, grow your food, transport the goods you need, and will EASILY maintain control of the spaces between your urban liberal slums that will gradually and inevitably implode upon itself. I would wager that one Winter would be all it would take to cut your “forces” in half. The other half would kill each other or starve. One last thing, we are a democratically elecected constitutional republic, just for the record————quote

        Your response is the typical Right Wing Fantasy. Sorry to bring you down to reality but your friends and neighbors 67 per cent of which do not own any guns would turn you in faster than a cat can scratch his ass. Your a rapidly disappearing minority. And I would not have to be the first one through the door. I could just sit back and watch the fun on TV or my computer as the Fed’s make short work of the few die hard’s that held out. The rest would go in the survival mode and throw their weapons out onto the streets for the jackbooted men in dark sunglasses which would be supervising the front end loaders scooping up all the banned weapons to be melted down ala Australian style super melt downs.

        quote——————One last thing, we are a democratically elecected constitutional republic, just for the record————————-quote

        Another one of your fantasies. The U.S. has never had a shred of democracy. The Government is controlled by the Rich and the Powerful and was founded by them and for them. They control you and determine who you will vote for by the nefarious methods of gerrymandering and the criminal Electoral College none of which has a shred of democracy in it and never has.

        • While a valid point regarding neighbors, you obviously have no idea where I live. All but one of my neighbors actually own more guns than I do. Of course, now that they are waking up they are well on their way to out pace me since my money is going to relocation out of a liberal s*i*hole state. You make the assumption that I fantasize about it, I certainly do not. I’m well aware of what confiscation would lead to, you however do not. Since you acknowledged that you will have no skin in the game and will watch from your computer(not sure how when the grid goes down…lol) your opinion is moot. And your delusion has completely consumed you. I am well aware of three things 1) confiscation WILL lead to another domestic war (nothing civil about it), 2) there will be massive bloodshed on both sides 3) I will not survive it. Certainly nothing to fantasize about, so it probably high time you stop. Regardless of what you believe regarding what the US government is/was/will be, or any other in the world for that matter, your logic is flawed by lies you believe to be true. In some form, I’m sure mine is as well. Hopefully, the war will be brief with minimal losses. As long as libturds continue to drive wedges, it will be inevitable. Never underestimate a person with nothing to lose. Im off to my range now, so while you you watch your computer thinking you won’t be affected, I will be ready to stand my ground until I can’t. Good luck!

        • Probably 78 per cent of the American people will cheer and clap while the government slaughters hundreds of thousands or even millions of other Americans who disagree with me. All the proof you need happened at the Bundy ranch when a massive overwhelming force of 300 armed federal agents slaughtered the pitiful handful of 1,000 armed Bundy supporters.

  6. If you click on the cited article, then click on the highlighted word “rare” in paragraph #4, you get this article from Washington Examiner, which is worth looking at for statistics on “Mass Shootings”:
    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/the-myth-of-the-mass-shooting-epidemic

    The cited article is worth reading as well.

    Look folks, this whole Democrat meme about the “epidemic of mass shootings” is pure bovine scatology. Surely, these events are hateful, hurtful and heinous acts, but no Government “buyback” {confiscation masqueraded as a ‘reasonable solution”}, nor any outright ban on any firearm(s) of any sort is going to stop broken, sick people from acting-out violently because our Society is f*cked-up in many ways that affect a tiny percentage of persons who cannot handle it. The vast, vast majority of us deal with the dysfunctions, disappointments and frustrations contemporary Society throws at us without ever having to act-out violently. We are the “sane” ones. No amount Leftist, Democrat propaganda is going to change that.

    …and THAT is why we see through, “gun control laws” as the “way” to stop gun-involved violence, “universal background checks”, “Red Flag Laws” and the host of other Democrat-advocated controls and infringements that are antithetical to the founding concepts of the American Constitutional Republic, personal Liberty and self-determination.

    • quote———————–…and THAT is why we see through, “gun control laws” as the “way” to stop gun-involved violence, “universal background checks”, “Red Flag Laws” and the host of other Democrat-advocated controls and infringements that are antithetical to the founding concepts of the American Constitutional Republic, personal Liberty and self-determination.————-quote

      The Founding Father Swamp Rats if they were alive today would be the very first to ban assault rifles because when they were alive they wanted complete control over the people that is why they refused them the right to vote and that is why they deliberately wrote 2A in as vague a terms as possible so it could be interpreted in 10,000 different ways to keep the people who were in power in power permanently. Down through history this disingenuous 2 A Amendment has been trashed consistently by the courts so they can retain complete power over the people.

      I might add even if you interpret the 2A to mean the individual right to own arms it was never meant to be an absolute freedom that enabled terrorists, nut cases and the Far Right Paramilitary Lunatic Fringe from terrorizing and murdering the general public. No freedom is unlimited and 2A is a good example of that otherwise you could own atomic bombs and poison gas.

      • Terrorizing the American people is antifa’s job. Even if Trump steals the 2020 election by getting more votes than the Hairy Kameltow the robots will take all your guns anyway and the Supreme Court will let them.

      • Wow, you really believe that tripe don’t you? The Bill of Rights does NOT grant anything, its intent was to protect those Rights we are ALL born with from those that would infringe on them, mostly government. Therefore, completely abolishing the 2nd Amendment, or any other Right for that matter, does not remove the Right, only its legal prtections. As hard as it is for you to believe, the people you demonize are the ones that protect you from the ones that actually want do you harm. Nothing proposed will do ANYTHING to stop criminals, because they do not care about the law. Obviously your fear of being a victim is self fulfilling, as you are already a victim of that fear.

  7. Confiscation is just the Democratic candidates playing to their base right now. I am not concerned about that at the federal level (individual states it’s a different matter). Assault weapons bans, “high capacity magazine bans,” UBCs, Red Flag orders, etc…those are what to look out for.

    • That’s the deep states’ ” death by a thousand cuts ” strategy to nullify self protection and the second amendment. In England, a man defended himself from a criminal that broke into his home to rob him. He shot the criminal but did not kill him. The government paid for the criminals’ medical recovery and paid for the prosecution of the victim and sent him to jail. I think this is the strategy here. They know that confiscation will not work but they will prosecute anyone with a firearm when used in self defense to be a deterrent to use or ownership of a firearm.

    • Gee, why don’t we just confiscate all the guns in Afghanistan and Syria. We could save enough money to save the planet from global warming.

  8. Not worried at all. I know that they cannot ban the AR-15 nor can they confiscate them. The 2nd Amendment prevents that. The 1994 ban didn’t completely ban the AR-15. They can ban imports as they did in 1994 and they can probably ban things like an AR pistol by tossing that under the NFA. But they will never be able to truly ban the AR-15 and they will never be able to confiscate them.

    • I hope your lack of worry doesn’t make you politically apathetic. We still need to wage war on the progressive communist left and claim back all the gun freedoms we have lost over the past 50 years. And never say never. That is dangerous confidence. This war with the left is eternal.

      • Jon’s correct because there are now so many of them in existence, the “common use” argument applies. That’s exactly how Federal Judge Benitez stopped our CA magazine ban back in March. If something is safely used by a large portion of the population, it’s very difficult to legally argue a ban against it.

        Certainly not for existing ARs.

  9. Plenty of “conservatives”: “Government is corrupt, the media, academia and Hollywood are totally owned by the left, but pollsters are unbiased angels dedicated to hard statistical science!”

  10. Hey Vlad, any special reason you commented so much here on a US issue about a ban and had nothing to say in “Hong Kong TTAG Reader Sends Photos From the Protest Front Lines?” You clearly have time.

  11. @ Huntmaster

    “I’m trying to picture McConnell, (not really my favorite) traipsing around in black jackboots. It’s just not working.”

    My departed mother used to refer to him as Little Lord Fauntleroy and that was early on his career as a bleach on the people.

  12. Where is Vlad’s Dad & Mom when we need them ? You two gotta con Troll your sibling, he’s on speed or something… not being nice with his anti American blather.
    Besides, I need a laugh.

  13. “Pay No Attention to Media Spin About the Popularity of an Assault Weapons Ban and Confiscation”

    That’s an incredibly stupid thing to say. All politics are driven by emotion and by local needs and perceptions. Doesn’t matter if we are talking about left wing spin doctors or right wing spin doctors the lying and emotional triggers are pervasive and being used by all sides.

    To “Pay No Attention to Media Spin” is to ignore the damage being done by your opposition’s attacks. Or, for that matter, to ignore the disconnect from reality of your own leadership, and how it is hurting your own side.

  14. Doner, a ex cop nut, kept most of the cops in the LA area tied up,for nine days . One guy , now imagine just 100 in that area .

  15. Article 1, section 9, clause 3, makes confiscation a real “problem” for the government but don’t forget the New Zealanders offered “buy Backs” at retail and don’t have many takers. As one guy said, “They aren’t Australians”. I used to think the Aussies were the toughest part of the Anzac troops in WWII but it looks like I was mistaken.

  16. “.. . the false claim that the AR is a ‘weapon of war’…”

    All weapons are weapons of war. My AR-15 is a weapon of war, which is precisely why I have it. All responsible members of the militia should possess and be proficient with their own weapons of war…. But they do not, and so it’s no wonder we are not free.

  17. As I’ve mentioned before, feel free to grab everyone’s guns.

    Can’t wait for the resulting black market, and the availability of untraceable, full-auto weapons at reasonable prices on every street corner just like drugs. Might take a little while, but it would be inevitable.

    Of course, they’ll miss 40-120 million of the 400 million firearms out there, so it might slow the black market down a bit, but it will happen. And those 40-120 million firearms then being illegal, buying one from anyone means no worries about a background check or any questions asked since both parties have become criminals.

    So hurry up and start the confiscation!

  18. @Dan Zimmerman
    If the premise that its all smoke mirrors and bulls*** when the extremists sociaist left starts screaming about bans, confiscation etc., why is the good people in the state of Washington got bent over and screwed w/o even a kiss or lubrication when 594 and 1639 came up on the ballots? It’s exactly because the reasoable voters in the state were told to pay no attention to the media and paid a very dear price for it.

    Add in that NRA, with all its posturing and bluster, didn’t even bother to help fight either initiative, and the few grass roots organizations that even attempted to stand up and get the truth out to voters were restricted by the corrupt courts run by leftist agendists who have contributed to the decline of public trust in state and municipal governments.

    Remember, with every lie is a kernel of truth. Clickbait like this article doesn’t help.

    • The NRA did fight 1639 but they were outspent by 1000 to 1. And they have joined SAF in a lawsuit against 1639. What did you do to help? Stop relying on organizations and make a difference yourself. If you aren’t contacting your legislators or testifying against bills then you are also to blame.

      • Ahhh found it. Sorry, misplaced this thread. @ MARK: where was I? For part of it I was in Azcrackistan supporting our troops., My mail in ballot got to me @Balkh 1 day before cut off and arrived at the elections center 14 days after the deadline for validity. Have the letter from the state saying “Sorry dude, you got here late so it dont count” (594) When I rotated back home, I spent 3 days in Oly in protest and spent additional days and nights going door to door to help stop 1693, 39, whateverthefukitis.
        Walking the streets in this mostly immigrant town, all the pro initiative signs outnumbered the anti initiative signs by about 30 to 1. I even found campaign signs torn up and tossed to the sides of the road in a lot of places ( most likely act of vandalism since its against the law here to do that), didn’t matter the candidate or the issue.
        So, yeah I did pound the,street. And saw more output from the grassroots guys than the big national organization by a far margin.

  19. Okay, our guns are just like the government/military guns except the government/military guns have a waste-ammo switch. The second amendment specifies that it’s for the militia, which is an INFANTRY UNIT made up of irregulars, thus by definition their guns would have military purpose. So the 2A specifically protects the ability of the citizen to acquire “weapons of war” because it is from the citizenry that the militia is formed. And gun grabbers can go to hell if they don’t like it.

      • You are being trolled hard. Vlad doesn’t have any beliefs, he is merely here to troll the shit out of all the fools on this website that continue to feed him. So stop it. Starve him to death.

  20. Here is a link every decent American can use to send a message so easy with a few clicks and a prewritten letter(if needed) to all GOP Senators & Trump to stop this illegal gun control! This week the threat is real and the anti-gun house will likely pass several gun control bills and scream the sky is falling! They will call Trump and the Senate all kinds of names if they don’t pass their commie gun control!

    https://gunowners.org/alert082119/

  21. Maybe Franciscans do make 30 + an hour maybe they do pay exorbitant taxes for their freebies ( not really so free) but why is it that when they get a little older and need major surgery they (if they can afford it) come to the U.S. could it be that once you reach a certain age you’re not worth it to the govt. In addition how many “regular” Franciscans have a 2000+ sq ft house a boat several ATV’s and an RV? Very few because it all goes to taxes for said freebies.

  22. Does one declaw a bear? File the teeth flat of a gator? We are a species of monsters, angels, demons, and fools. New rules won’t change anything as nothing will stop us from killing each other as long as we believe in fairytale forgiveness and mystical virgins beyond the grave! Relief from belief is required for us to ever find peace. The guns are but a tool triggered by hate or ignorance or duty. Don’t try to declaw this beast, I have a family to defend against a world gone mad.

  23. I’m an American…..I don’t give a flying flip flop about France or Vietnam….by the way I make on a weekday what the French make on Sunday I guess

  24. “Assault weapons”, meaning individual arms well-suited to personal use for personal defense.

    They’re not militargly weapons prdcisely because you can use them without an army.

  25. I can’t believe all the paranoid comments about banning assault rifles. We had this ban before in 1994 and not one comment anyone made here became true about our government threatening civilians like in 1776. These weapons were designed as Military weapons of mass destruction for killing many, not for self defense. I only trust our military and their advanced training for anyone to own one, not crazy paranoid people.

    • Your grandfather’s bolt action deer rifle was designed as military weapon. Not of mass destruction though. WMDs are chemical, biological and nuclear. Rifles and even machine guns, artillery and explosives are not WMD. You lose any credibility using hyperbole like that.

      We have constitutionally protected right to own and carry arms in order to be able to stand up to the army you trust so much in case the government goes tyrannical and uses it against its own people.

    • Oh, one more thing, Cindy. Try to listen to any of Democrat presidential hopefuls. Each and every one of them promises gun grabs, bans and mandatory “buybacks”. They do want to take our rifles, just like the English at Lexington. Is it paranoia if they are really after you?

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