News flash! Military and gun owners clash near Boston!!

[Joe Williams]

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[nawainwright]

I guess the question becomes, would anyone stand up this time?

 

[mikea46996]

Joe you just gave me a friggin heart attack until I got to the end and realized you were talking about "The Shot Heard Around The World".

I was getting ready to start checking sources and mags!!!!

Damn I didn't see the 1775 at the top!!!!

I need a shot now and maybe CPR if my heart doesn't slow down, I thought TSHTF while I was out.

 

[MyGlockRocks19]

Joe you just gave me a friggin heart attack until I got to the end and realized you were talking about "The Shot Heard Around The World".

I was getting ready to start checking sources and mags!!!!

Damn I didn't see the 1775 at the top!!!!

I need a shot now and maybe CPR if my heart doesn't slow down, I thought TSHTF while I was out.

You ain't the only one he got!

Kind of interesting to put this in a modern perspective, though...I'm afraid that isn't that good of a chance of this happening in this day and age. Some of us would stand up and fight...but I doubt we would find the support from our fellow countrymen that those folks did way back when.

 

[jedi]

Mike I saw the headline only and my heart jumped! I went to yahoo news and did not see anything and then clicked on the link and saw 1775 before my heart stopped racing.

 

[Joe Williams]

I would apologize, but I'll have to wait until I quit giggling

Still, when I saw it I thought it an interesting look at what such headlines would be like today, and with tomorrow being the 134th anniversary I thought it a good time to post it.

 

[NateIU10]

Mike I saw the headline only and my heart jumped! I went to yahoo news and did not see anything and then clicked on the link and saw 1775 before my heart stopped racing.

+1, except I went to FoxNews

 

[Joe Williams]

You ain't the only one he got!

Kind of interesting to put this in a modern perspective, though...I'm afraid that isn't that good of a chance of this happening in this day and age. Some of us would stand up and fight...but I doubt we would find the support from our fellow countrymen that those folks did way back when.

You may be surprised at how sparse support from the populace actually was during the Revolution. IIRC, the best estimates are that support for the Colonial movement was never higher than about 30%

 

[hornadylnl]

Only problem is now they've got tanks. I used to argue gun control with my mother. She'd say they didn't have machine guns when the 2nd was written. My response was always "and neither did the government".

 

[jedi]

Only problem is now they've got tanks. I used to argue gun control with my mother. She'd say they didn't have machine guns when the 2nd was written. My response was always "and neither did the government".

Tanks So? Do you think the entire military will actually follow whatever I6BO says? When it occurs there is going to be a major split in the forces. Besides look at the Afgans during the with the Russians. The Russian's had tanks and all the modern wonders of the world yet the Afgans kicked their a%% back to Russia.

It's not about military might it's about who has the most spirit and resolve. Anyone can buy a freaking mustang car but only a real man with balls knows how to make that car really drive my dad once told me. Same here.

 

[rhino]

Only problem is now they've got tanks. I used to argue gun control with my mother. She'd say they didn't have machine guns when the 2nd was written. My response was always "and neither did the government".

When someone trots out that tired nonsense, I like to add that radio, television, telephones, computer networks, FAX machines, loudspeakers, telegraphs, photocopy machines, ditto machines, mimeograph machines, linotype machines, ballpoint pens, phonographs, magnetic tapes, magnetic disks, optical disks and DVDS, and a variety of other technologies also did not exist at the time the US Constitution was written and ratified. By their flawed non-logic, the Freedom of Speech would not apply to any of those tools.

 

[NateIU10]

Tanks So? Do you think the entire military will actually follow whatever I6BO says? When it occurs there is going to be a major split in the forces. Besides look at the Afgans during the with the Russians. The Russian's had tanks and all the modern wonders of the world yet the Afgans kicked their a%% back to Russia.

It's not about military might it's about who has the most spirit and resolve. Anyone can buy a freaking mustang car but only a real man with balls knows how to make that car really drive my dad once told me. Same here.

Yup. Look at afghanistan and Iraq now also.

And you don't think Russia would slip revolutionaries some weapons to pay the US Government back for giving them to the Afghans back then?

 

[Goodcat]

Holy hell that just tricked my night up. lol EXCELLENT POST

 

[rafterman191]

I read the date first sorry. Still a compelling story and as important and relevant now as ever.

 

[tyler34]

And you don't think Russia would slip revolutionaries some weapons to pay the US Government back for giving them to the Afghans back then?

they already are, don't you know you can buy RPG's and grenade launchers at at the 1500?

 

[5.56'aholic]

they already are, don't you know you can buy RPG's and grenade launchers at at the 1500?

thats how we are shipping them to Mexico

 

[rafterman191]

thats how we are shipping them to Mexico

Heck they are the only ones with any money (jobs) to buy nice RPGs and atomic bombs etc.

 

[Dr Falken]

they already are, don't you know you can buy RPG's and grenade launchers at at the 1500?

Is that Charlie Wilson's Gun Sales by chance?

 

[jeremy]

WOW...

Some of you really need to blow the dust off your history books!

 

[Scout]

It's not about military might it's about who has the most spirit and resolve.

It's not about dying for your country/cause, it's about making more of the enemy die for his cause than you do for yours.



How many people would stand up to the government, and how many would side with them? Would military leaders actually go through with a large assault on US citizens?