@parados,
Quote:Trust me. People value their lives far more than they value letting 10% of the country have assault weapons.
First no one that I am aware of had suggested on this thread or this website that a ban on so call assaults alone would trigger or should trigger a revolution. So once more there are strawmen being put up over the subject.
Second it is somewhere near 48 percents of the adult population who own firearms. The label assault weapons as been address of this website is meaningless and are no more deadly then most long guns.
Quote:ou live in a dream world.
If citizens rebelled they would find themselves quickly left out to dry by other citizens that have no desire to rebel.
It work just fine with us when we broke away from England as we hardly have 100 percents agreement on the matter with the British loyalists known as torries being not a small percent of the total population with special note of the states of the south.
Being in fact roughly 15 to 20 percent of the population at the time.
Quote:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loyalist_(American_Revolution)Loyalism and military operations
In the opening months of the Revolutionary War, the Patriots laid siege to Boston, where most of the British forces were stationed. Elsewhere there were few British troops and the Patriots seized control of all levels of government, as well as supplies of arms and gunpowder. These actions were not without resistance. Especially in New York, New Jersey, and parts of North and South Carolina, there was considerable ambivalence about the Patriot cause. Vocal Loyalists, often with the encouragement and assistance of royal governors, recruited people to their side. In the South Carolina backcountry Loyalist recruitment oustripped that of Patriots. A brief siege at Ninety Six in the fall of 1775 was followed by a rapid rise in Patriot recruiting and a major campaign involving thousands of partisan militia resulted in the arrest or flight of most of the backcountry Loyalist leadership. North Carolina backcountry Scots and former Regulators joined forces in early 1776, but were broken as a force at the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge.
