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In reply to the discussion: I'm all for a total ban on semi-automatic guns [View all]guardian
(2,282 posts)I think it would be less. But even if only 1% of gun owners go rogue that is about 1,500,000 highly pissed off armed citizens who feel they have every right to take violence against what they would feel is an unconstitutional tyrannical government that they had feared for years anyway. The number of people killed in a gun confiscation program will be in the hundreds of thousands. You'd have a 100 Wacos every day.
Compare 1,500,000 of the most extreme gun owners against the estimated paltry 130,000 insurgents in Iraq after 2003. Think of what 130,000 insurgents did against the US military and how they left Iraq in shambles. What could a couple of million do?
I fear that if an outright gun ban is imposed upon the citizenry that we are in for a very bloody and protracted period in this country.