Andy wrote:
[[ If they ever do start shooting, they had better understand that we conservatives, among the citizenry have pretty much all of the guns, no matter how loath we are to ever use them in anger. And by and large, we are.
No sane person wants that.
But the Left continues to push and poke and prod and provoke, hoping that one of us does something stupid, giving their precious Progressive State the pretext it needs to bring the hammer down on all of us. When the Social Security Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Education, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Internal Revenue Service, and the US Postal Service are buying guns and ammunition, you'd better know they've got something nasty planned for the rest of us. ]]
You're a thoughtful person and one of the best writers here, but I sense that you know deep down as well as do I, that at some point "shooting" may become the ONLY way by which to restore America to what it used to be. I realize this is something you can't really "say in public" and retain your credibility, however. I don't have any credibility, so I can say what I wish.
I simply don't know when that point will be. Whether it's yet to come, is at-hand, or has even passed by already.
Even if there is shooting, and even if our side is able to persevere and win, when all is said and done there won't be "one America" any longer, but perhaps several smaller nations instead. There are some parts of the country that are now cancerous to the republican form of government as laid out by The Founders. Like grangrenous limbs, these areas probably can't be "saved", and the only way for the rest of the patient to survive is by amputation.
I can foresee our future if the shootin' -doesn't- start:
An police state run jointly by leftist elites and bureaucrats, beyond socialistic, as close-as-it-gets to Marxism without really -being- Marxism. A level of control over the individual that would make George Orwell smile.
In talking with a few friends, there is a consensus -- as old guys, at least we had the opportunity to enjoy our youths and at least some of our adulthood in "the old America" that was -- not the crumbling colossus that is mestastasizing into something that will leave future historians scratching their heads, wondering how we could have done this to ourselves...