Barack Obama's campaign promise not to take away our guns is a lie.

Seriously, DW - consider the source. This is a sensationalistic appeal to their base consistingcompletely ofconjecture and fabrication. The NRA is not exactly known for thoughtful discourse on this issue; they would be happy to have everyone carrying an M-16 when they head over to Walmart.

...However I do feel that the government fears it's people being armed. It threatens their ability to do what they want and to stay in power. With guns abolished it would give government absolute power (which they pretty much already have). Not that it matters, American's have gotten so fat and lazy that a rebellion would just be a hassle and take time away from stuffing their fatty faces with fatty fat boy foods.

Write the NRA and tell them to stick to the real issues. If this is the sort of stuff they're advocating, I'll continue to be a non -member gun owner.

Well, I'll say this. I absolutely guarantee that the government isn't worried about us having guns so that they can have "absolute power." There is no weapon you or I could even conceivably own that would bother the US military in the least. Nothing. If "they" ever wanted to use armed force to "supress us", they could do it, and easily. Any thought of an armed rebellion by the citizens of this country died with the invention of the tank and the airplane. Our little pea-shooters are useless against that.


And the whole thing is pointless anyway, since any military commander is perfectly within his rights to refuse an order to use military weapons on US citizens. It's against the law. Even assuming some megalomaniac got into the White House (no Bush jokes, please, we're about done with him so let's move on) and ordered an armed supression of the citizens, he'd end up shouting impotently while the military looks at him and says, "H*ll no, sir!" Turn their guns on their own people? Won't happen. Not in this country.


Myself, I'm a gun owner, and I don't like the kind of hyperbolistic cr*p like this thatthe NRA puts out occasionally. It's absurd and it's counter-productive. Hillary is single-handedly going to take away the Second Ammendment? I do believe she'd need a two-thirds majority in both houses to make that happen. Heck, she couldn't get two-thirds of anyone to go along with her, even when she was campaigning andsaying what she thought they wanted to hear. And the UN can't make us do anything with our Constitution. Even assuming they had that authority (and they don't), they'd need a unanimous vote in Security Council - and we're one of the permanent members.


Write the NRA and tell them to stick to the real issues. If this is the sort of stuff they're advocating, I'll continue to be a non-member gun owner.

Touché . But I do believe that the government would prefer us to be un-armed. And FYI the Iraqi people have been doing a pretty darn good job of fighting our tanks and planes with only AK-47s, some home-made bombs and a little inventive thinking. The key to defeating our military is to NOT use traditional ways of fighting. I believe almost anyone would be crushed by us in a traditional war, minus china and russia. The key is to demoralize and pester the American soldier. Make them afraid of what's around that next turn or behind that rail on the side of the road up ahead. And don't be so sure that an American General would not go along with a presidents biding. They are men of power and power currupts, some soldiers would follow and some would not. I would expect to see a split in the military if something like that happened. Infantry Division against Infantry Division. Wouldn't be pretty. But then again the military just might fall apart if something like that were to happen. I'm sure we will never find out though.


But I'll write the NRA and see what they have to say. LoL They preach more of the "personal protection" thing than a possible attempt to take over the government. I'm sure THAT wouldn't be too good for business.