Usually I hate Passive / Agressive behavior - this, not so much: - Granite Grok

Usually I hate Passive / Agressive behavior – this, not so much:

“Screw you!”

In the aftermath of Newtown and the Sandy Hook Elementary school tragedy (and the tragedies before it), several states (all of them Democrat controlled)  immediately jumped to put new gun restriction laws into place.  The problem is that NONE of the passed laws would have stopped a single one of them from happening – not one.  The only thing that has happened is that each State has, in effect, declare its own law-abiding citizens to be “future felons”.

Take Connecticut for instance – citizens had to register their “assault weapons” as well as standard sized magazines (talk about a redefinition of language – STANDARD mags for AR-15s are 30.  But the Left can’t win using current language definition so they decided to call them “HIGH” capacity) by the end of last December or they would be considered to be felons.  Well, I guess a lot of the Ruling Class are seeing that the serfs are starting to ignore them (emphasis mine):

Governor Dannel Malloy and the government of the state of Connecticut are having their own “Oh, poop” moment, now that they’ve tallied the number of citizens who have registered their “assault weapons” and “high capacity magazines” required by the state’s unconstitutional gun laws, compared that to the estimated number of applicable weapons and magazines in the state, and realize they’ve been ignored.

Historically speaking, 90-percent or more of those required to comply with gun registration laws in the U.S. refuse to do so, and there is no reason to suspect that this registration attempt in Connecticut is any different. I’ve seen estimates of 1,000,000 firearm magazines that should have been registered under the law, but the state reports registering only 40,000… just 4 percent.

Against this backdrop of failure, the anti-gun government of Connecticut is contemplating an “amnesty” to encourage those who haven’t registered to do so, and the local media is more than willing to do their part in the spin game:

Most Americans are willing to go along with “common sense” laws that actually make sense – but a lot of citizens, seeing through the “we must do SOMETHING” smoke screen of laws that solves no problem, have refused to go along with it.  I make the case that this is similar to what happened during Prohibition.  I posit that many, many more people (now and then) have suffered from alcohol abuse (either directly or indirectly) than guns – from that standpoint, Prohibition made sense even if drinking alcohol was not a Constitutional right – take away all the alcohol and one gets rid of all of the alcohol based problems, right?  Yet, with all of the KNOWN problems with alcohol consumption, the American people said to the Nanny State in no uncertain terms “Enough!” and repealed it.  Speakeasies, bootleggers, moonshine, the rise of La Costra Nostra (the Mafia)  – it had created more problems than it solved.  And Americans wanted their beer, wine, and whiskey.  Period

So, what is Malloy and the Democrats going to do?  They can offer that amnesty, they can get down on their knees and beg, but the scaredy-cat citizens have already done the registrations.  Now it are the hard core Constitutional minded gun owners, who KNOW that they are not the problem and know their Constitutional Right is being abridged, are who are saying:

“Screw you!”

They refuse to allow Govt to label them as lawbreakers when they are not.  They refuse to allow Govt to label them as guilty when they have done nothing at all.  They refuse to allow Govt to call them out as “future killers” – and now they are mad.  So, what to do given the passive/aggression being shown by gun owners in non-compliance? Longer amnesty?  Will be ignored.  More pleading?  Laughed at.  There are only two options left.  One is to address the bill again, either de facto (e.g., pull an Obama and refuse to enforce it at the State level) or de jure (repeal the bill).

The only other is to start sending in heavily armed SWAT teams (“remember!  This woman is armed and considered to be dangerous!”) to home and forcibly extract them and their guns.  I reliably predict that things will not turn out well if this option is chosen.  A lot of those gun owners still have images in their minds of the Boston and Homeland Security SWAT teams going into homes without warrants.  And they are all thinking about this.

True, the Government hacks will do all they can to put the blame on the legal gun owners – but they have brought this upon themselves.  These morons haven’t understood that Government is there to SERVE, not to RULE.  Serving means understanding and respecting boundaries between Govt and the People – Ruling means a tacit non-recognition that there are no longer any boundaries that have to be worried about.

Relearning that truism may not go easy or well.

(H/T: Protect the Second Amendment – Resistance New Hampshire)

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