My dear colleagues, I must say you are all entirely guilty of far too much common sense and logic.
Arguing that the FBI provided 2 warnings and 39 phone calls to BCSO all resulted in no action coupled with 4 armed deputies hiding outside and again, being inert, as a masscare took place, shouldn't result in an attack on law-abiding gun owners is far too reasonable.
Almost all will scoff at your mention of defense against tyranny even as those who dismiss your point are quick to call the current administration the equivalent of Hitler or that america is 17 years into a stalmemated war with what amounts to a local insurgency largely fighting with small arms and improvised weapons overseas.
I rather liken in to a mob that has been whipped into a frenzy through years and years of propaganda, social conditioning, and neverending indoctrination, now smelling blood and the powers at be offering them a sacrificial lamb.
I do believe this serves the cynical purposes of those behind these protests as a further way to eliminate dissent to their agenda.
Lest I forget and while I realize this may ruin the macabre suspense, as someone who owns firearms and has citizenship in more than one country, that having firearms is at best seen as disturbing and oftentimes perceived as undisguised evil. Without disclosing too much about the specific countries, you can be evicted solely for having firearms from a property you rent and most won't even consider your tenancy. In addition at work you will be stigmatized and percived as being dangerous.
It is rather akin to being part of a closely guarded cult whereby members go to great lengths to hide their membership.
How far is the United States from that when entities like the NRA are increasingly referred to as terrorist organizations by some politicians and many rather political individuals?
I think we all know that the AR, AK, and other semi-auto rifles are the tip of the iceberg. With the giant corporations pushing this anti-gun agenda they can put a stranglehold on the gun business even without any laws as youtube and citibank, among others are doing. Feinstein herself has said she would have banned every gun if she could and I believe obtaining a prize like the AR/AK/semi-autos would only whet her appetite. An appetitie that would only be satiated by banning pistols and all 10+ round magazines.
Considering what the likes of the despicable VT shooter did years ago, we all know it is bound to happen and will be seized upon to further justify this.
It rather resembles basic principles of physics whereby the momentum against us is only increasing. The constituency that honors the 1A & 2A are, I believe, an impediment towards the goals of those who primarily make the decisions and what better way to remove that obstacles than by marginalizing and discrediting that group?
And lastly let me say despite being a firearms owner in another country with very strict laws, that it is never enough for the political establishment. Despite the absence of any mass shootings in decades, new laws are constantly being proposed and in some cases implemented.
It doesn't matter that other issues and things cause 20, 30, 50x the number of deaths from firearms, as we all know the hypocrisy of what are acceptable rights, intolerable rights, acceptable deaths, and unacceptable deaths is rich.
