Checklist for the Next 4 Years - Illustrated

Nope. At about the 30% mark (federal registration of all firearms), I intend to go down with guns blazing. Why not, if they're about to take them from me anyway?

We know from history that universal gun registration is always followed by confiscation. Once that's occurred, the citizenry can no longer enforce the Constitution even in theory. As I've lived a long and satisfying life, if the feds try the gun-registration gambit -- regardless of rationale -- I'm going to force them to pry it from my dead hand. After taking as many federal officeholders and bureaucrats with me as I can manage, of course. And I'd hope that millions of other American patriots would do the same.

Time to check the ammo stocks, I think.


Posted by Francis W. Porretto at May 28, 2009 1:59 PM

Time to create secret arms caches all over the place, a la Iraq insurgency?

Not really, not yet. For the time being, the left (at the top levels) have gone into a strategic retreat on the 2nd Amendment.

But hold that thought on the arms stashes.

Posted by Don Rodrigo at May 28, 2009 3:17 PM

So Mr. Porretto will be the "case study" used to justify the gun confiscation. Lucky stiff. At least he won't be lost to history without an identity, like the rest of us.

Posted by Morgan K Freeberg at May 28, 2009 3:17 PM

Time to create secret arms caches all over the place, a la Iraq insurgency?

Not really, not yet. For the time being, the left (at the top levels) have gone into a strategic retreat on the 2nd Amendment.

But hold that thought on the arms stashes.

Posted by Don Rodrigo at May 28, 2009 3:18 PM

Yah. There will be a military coup before it gets to Iranian nukes.

Frankly, the Israelis have more to fear from that than the US does.

And honestly Gerard, if you really believe its going to go down this way, why aren't you killing your local democrats already?

Posted by Eric Blair at May 28, 2009 3:19 PM

In Seattle, so many Democrats. so little food for Mr. Mossberg.

Posted by vanderleun at May 28, 2009 3:28 PM

Besides, I can't run the city all by myself.

Posted by vanderleun at May 28, 2009 3:30 PM

A paragraph from guess-what:

We’re all one big family, they told us, we’re all in this together. But you don’t all stand working an acetylene torch ten hours a day - together, and you don’t all get a bellyache - together. What’s whose ability and which of whose needs come first? When it’s all in one pot, you can’t let any man decide what his own needs are, can you? If you did, he might claim that he needs a yacht - and if his feelings is all you have to go by, he might prove it, too. Why not? If it’s not right for me to own a car until I’ve worked myself into a hospital ward, earning a car for every loafer and every naked savage on earth - why can’t he demand a yacht from me, too, if I still have the ability and have not collapsed? No? He can’t? Then why can he demand that I go without cream for my coffee until he’s replastered his living room?…Oh well…Well, anyway, it was decided that nobody had the right to judge his own need or ability. We *voted* on it. Yes ma’am, we voted on it in a public meeting twice a year. How else could it be done? Do you care to think what would happen at such a meeting? It took us just one meeting to discover that we had become beggars - rotten, whining, sniveling beggars, all of us, because no man could claim his pay as his rightful earning, he had no rights and no earnings, his work didn’t belong to him, it belonged to ‘the family,’ and they owed him nothing in return, and the only claim he had on them was his ‘need’ - so he had to beg in public for relief from his needs, like any lousy moocher, listing all his troubles and miseries, down to his patched drawers and his wife’s head colds, hoping that ‘the family’ would throw him the alms. He had to claim miseries, because its miseries, not work, that had become the coin of the realm - so it turned into a contest among six thousand panhandlers, each claiming that *his* need was worse than his brother’s. How else could it be done? Do you care to guess what happened, what sort of men kept quiet, feeling shame, and what sort got away with the jackpot?

Looking forward to the first few contests among six thousand panhandlers. It's not far off, now, I think.

Posted by Morgan K Freeberg at May 28, 2009 3:40 PM

Besides, I can't run the city all by myself.

Who said anything about running the city?

Dude, c'mon, time for the counter-revolutionary terror!

Posted by Eric Blair at May 28, 2009 3:52 PM

Counter-revolutionary? At this point it would be revolutionary. No counter about it. Besides...

"There will be time to murder and create,
And time for all the works and days of hands
That lift and drop a question on your plate;"

As the bard says, the readiness is all.

Posted by vanderleun at May 28, 2009 4:29 PM

Yes, Morgan, I think we're but a year away from the Panhandler Olympics.

Posted by vanderleun at May 28, 2009 4:32 PM

Ammo is already hard to acquire. The caching has begun up in the national forests, but the game is rather sparse here and I am not sure how long it will last.The Lord helps those who help themselves.

Posted by R Williams at May 28, 2009 5:07 PM

Ammo is already hard to acquire. The caching has begun up in the national forests, but the game is rather sparse here and I am not sure how long it will last.I would recommend locating caches near the edges of wilderness areas, for proximity to possible refuge and ease of access in case the situation deviates from presumed scenarios.The Lord helps those who help themselves.(DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DEFEND REAL ESTATE AGAINST SUPERIOR FORCES.)ps READ SUN TZU.

Posted by R Williams at May 28, 2009 5:13 PM

You guys are freaking me out! I'm growing a 'victory' garden, but you're talking weapons caches! I'm slipping into full freakn' panic mode here! Somebody better talk me down. I feel like the guy in Aliens - "We're all gonna die, man!!"

/yes - I realize that's a tautology, but you know what I mean!

Posted by Western Chauvinist at May 28, 2009 7:11 PM

NOTE: If they are coming for gun owners in their own homes, it is already too late.
I won't be there should that happen.
I will hand my ammo back one bullet at a time, and I won't hand them back to the beat cop who is coming for them.
I will give them back to those who sent them, and to those to provide ideological cover for their ilk.

Posted by Mark at May 28, 2009 7:40 PM

Yes! Counter-revolutionary. C'mon Gerard, you grew up with/were a part of the 'revolution' which, if you can remember the cant, was intended to be permanent. President Obama is out of that-basically a red diaper baby, and his hanging around the 'radicals' yadda-yadda-yadda.

So yes, counter-revolutionary.

Now, the question you all have got to ask yourself, is at what point does the local power structure--the local police, courts, and government--figure out that the Federal Govt is going off the deep-end (if it does) And what will their reaction be to it? What will the military do?

I do not have answers to these, but I doubt anyone else does either. Still, they need answering.

Posted by Eric Blair at May 28, 2009 8:02 PM

Eric Blair:

The Federal government is very clearly the enemy of liberty, and of the American people. They no longer recognize any restraint or limitation whatsoever to their power. They are tyrants, and the only way to deal with tyrants is to kill them.

State and local governments are a different matter. Some are better or worse than others. It probably depends on where you live.

Posted by rickl at May 28, 2009 9:04 PM
The Federal government is very clearly the enemy of liberty, and of the American people. They no longer recognize any restraint or limitation whatsoever to their power.

Well put.

State and local governments are a different matter. Some are better or worse than others. It probably depends on where you live.

Think about this ... you've got people like Feinstein (or one of those California Congress Critters) who actually came out and said that her job is to bring home money from Washington ... meaning the rest of us, to her constituents. And the rest of the bums who obviously think the same thing but haven't been stupid enough to say it on so many words. Sad part is, few people even flinched when she said that.

And then think about this scenario.... we bail out California. Maybe Detroit. And hey, really wouldn't the Federal Government really be better positioned to decide where Americans need money? So let's just abolish those state income taxes. Too complicated anyway. Just give it all to the Federal government and it will distribute it as it sees fit. And what about those State Governments... since the Feds are taking care of everything, now, wouldn't it just be more efficient if we got rid of them? We'll leave the borders as colorful landmarks, but ... really... it's PROGRESS. Don't you want PROGRESS????

Then some states wouldn't be better than others. We'd all be one, miserable, downtrodden state.

1984 (Spirit)
1984
knockin' on your door
will you let it come
will you let it run your life

someone will be waiting for you at your door
when you get home tonight
ah yes he's gonna tell you darkness gives you much more
than you get from the light
classic plastic guards well they're your special friends
they see you every night
well they call themselves your brothers
but you know it's no game
you're never out of their sight

it's time you started thinking inside your head
that you should stand up and fight
oh where will you be when the freedom must end
just one year from tonight
classic plastic coppers are your special friends
they see you every night
well they call themselves protection
but they know it's no game
you're never out of their sight

1984
knockin' on your door
will you let it come
will you let it run

Posted by philmon at May 29, 2009 8:20 AM

Look up the meaning and origin of the phrsae - Lock, Stock and Barrel...read "Our Founders 2nd Amendment" Halbrook

Posted by Tom at May 29, 2009 10:14 AM

"""but the game is rather sparse here and I am not sure how long it will last."""

R. Williams, when the game runs out, start eating Sierra Clubbers and ecoterrorists. They tend to eat like cows and sheep, so they should be tasty and nutritious.

Posted by Don Rodrigo at May 29, 2009 11:37 AM

Well, isn't this a happy day. First the Washington Times has this story about Eric Holder's Justice Department dropping charges against the Black Panthers for preventing people from voting last year in Philadelphia:

...identified the three men as members of the Panthers and said they wore military-style uniforms, black berets, combat boots, battle-dress pants, black jackets with military-style insignias and were armed with "a dangerous weapon"and used racial slurs and insults to scare would-be voters and those there to assist them at the Philadelphia polling location on Nov. 4.

The complaint said the three men engaged in "coercion, threats and intimidation, ... racial threats and insults, ... menacing and intimidating gestures, ... and movements directed at individuals who were present to vote."

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/may/29/career-lawyers-overruled-on-voting-case/?feat=home_cube_position1

Then I come here to see how the rest of the revolution is progressing. It will be televised.

Posted by Boots at May 29, 2009 3:21 PM

Obama doesn't make any sense unless you start from a hatred of individual freedom and an ambition to be remembered by history as the One who brought the System down.

Biden makes perfect sense now, doesn't he? So does Sotomayor in that she's transparently Leftist/Activist and ready to tear apart the Constitution to satisfy her own empathy. Even if for some reason she fails of confirmation even with the rubber stamp Senate Obama has now, her fall will be trumpeted as evidence of racism and sexism at work. Win/win for the Red team!

The problem with Obama's world view is that despite his yearning to be the bringer of a new age of social justice, for all intents and purposes the Establishment is in fact His side, and has been since the late seventies (at the very least)...

... and he doesn't have the chops to accept that reality.

He's on a mission of destruction.

Revolutionaries bring DOWN systems.

Who gives a fuck after that, right?

Don't do any business with TARP recipients. Those businesses are going to fail anyway. Obama is just using them as a further load on an already bankrupt treasury. The inflationary collapse will be blamed on free markets, and the media will go all out... because by then they won't just be aligned with the Left, they'll be wholly owned.

Leave the markets. Your money is better spent now on food and commodities. While it still has some value, at least.

If your senator or representative has served more than two terms he/she is part of the problem.

Watch Korea. Watch Georgia. Pray for our troops who no longer have a patriot for a commander in chief.

I'm not a lawyer, but if anyone here has an opinion on what the Chrysler/Government Motors rape of secured lenders might mean in terms of litigation I'd be really grateful for opinion or direction to someplace that has some thoughts on the subject. Contracts are inextricably linked to and provide defense for private ownership of property.

If Obama gets his way with the current strategy of violating tort law by executive dictate, we are undone.

Posted by TmjUtah at May 30, 2009 8:39 PM

I didn't vote for him and I tried to give him a chance hahaha but really I did. I am so unemployed, apathetic, shocked daily by Fox News, and depressed. Is revelation unfolding before my eyes? What is my role? Band together folks. We have to. I think we need a meeting place and we will need to car pool there soon. The Republicans can't stop arguing and I can't take another Obama administration if we survive this one. None of us can. Let's roll.

Posted by Andrea Lyle at June 2, 2009 7:45 PM