Would there be immediate civil war if the US government told it's citizens that they could not have guns?

Question

Doesn't this prove how little North Americans trust each other?

Answer 1

No, it would just be like prohibition. Everyone who wanted them would own guns, anyway. I work with a bunch of gun-lovers (cops) and they would never relinquish their guns, even if it meant breaking the law. Of course, this will never happen, anyway.

Answer 2

just to %. aside somethings right here. 3. i've got been listening to this FEMA camp rubbish for the reason that Bush and Katrina. it particularly is bunk. 4. not something unusual approximately regulation enforcement and local land protection ordering bullets. hollow factors are in easy use via regulation enforcement, even your community PD, and likewise heavily attainable on the civilian marketplace. besides, that DHS order additionally aspects FBI, CIA, ATF and an entire alphabet soup of LE and local land protection clothing for 5 years. All those LE and protection kinds could desire to prepare and qualify frequently. That consumes a great variety of bullets. 5. BS. If something, our 2d substitute rights have in basic terms grown enhanced over the final decade. extra states permitting hid carry. 2 superb courtroom rulings asserting that the dazzling to possess a gun is a elementary good. 7. i could elect to work out info of this martial regulation declare, and how it particularly is any distinctive from Presidents in the previous.

Answer 3

I favor intelligent gun control: no cop killing bullets, automatic weapons reserved for the police and the military, stiff penalties for crimes committed with guns. But if the government ever tried to take our people's guns, all hell would break loose. It doesn't have so much of not trusting one another (but there is some of that in any society) but how much we distrust too much power weilded by the government.

And getting back to the lack of trust, there are plenty of bad people in this world - America has its share just like all countries.

Answer 4

There would not be a 'civil war.' Instead there would be immediate recall elections - and the newly-elected replacement representatives would vote down that bill.

Answer 5

First, they do not have the authority to do this. The 2nd Amendment is not a government granted right - it is a God-given right that precedes and supercedes the Constitution itself.

If they insisted, my answer would have to be "Molon Labe".

["Molon Labe" - "Come take them" - is what Leonidas told Xerxes at Thermopylae when asked to surrender their arms]

Answer 6

Considering that Americans believe that: "if guns are outlawed then only outlaws will have guns", that they have a constitutional right to posses any imaginable device for firing projectiles in rapid succession, that they fear that everyone is out to get them,

then I can imagine that there would be quite a fight when government officials tried to take those weapons away. as is commonly stated by the gun nuts " they will take my gun only from my cold dead hands".

Answer 7

Sorry, the government doesn't have the power to do this, only We The People can make this happen. So, lets just not let this happen!

Answer 8

I don't think it would be civil war......I think it would make an very large underground of weapons.

Just because the government outlaws drugs, are they all gone?

Answer 9

Probably not. The only ones fighting the govt. would be the hill billies.

Answer 10

You ask a question, and immediately cite it as proof of your position.

Not exactly a strong argument there...