U.S.A. – -(Ammoland.com)- By now, we all have stories to tell about how the coronavirus scare has impacted our lives. And we still don’t have any real and concrete assurances if we are being played for suckers because of information being overblown or because of information being withheld. The government and media have only themselves to thank for the widespread lack of trust.
We see shortages of essentials in stores with lines extending for blocks. It’s not hard to project a week or more into the future, especially in urban areas where high concentrations of people have not made preparations to have more than a day or two of food on hand. At what point will they begin to wander farther afield.
We see violence breaking out because of the shortages and because of kneejerk panic. And we know that physical assaults result in many more deaths than killings with politically-demonized “assault weapons.”
So what do we do if things get worse?
If you’re a communist gun-grabber like New York City national socialist Mayor Bill de Blasio, you call for nationalizing industry and letting the same government that failed to protect anybody in this run everything. And “progressives” call us the fascists.
And if the government does take over everything, including by imposing lockdowns and curfews, there becomes a matter of enforcement. More to the point:
“If police officers get the coronavirus, who will patrol the streets?”
We know who the Founders intended.
Those of us who lived through the Los Angeles riots (sorry, Maxine Waters called them the “L.A. Rebellion”) saw whole sections of the city ceded to the destroyers for days. Those of you who experience Hurricane Katrina firsthand saw a substantial chunk of the force say “Screw it” and abandon their posts to take care of Number One.
So, assuming we’re not through this yet and there is a chance things could go from bad to worse, what better time for the idiot commie mayor and council of Champaign, IL, to “Order the discontinuance of selling, distributing, dispensing or giving away of explosives or explosive agents, firearms or ammunition of any character whatsoever”?
Does anyone doubt there are those salivating at the prospect of Katrina-style confiscations?
Or of declaring gun stores, the very supply points needed to equip the whole people for “the security of a free State” as non-essential and subject to ordered business closures? We’ve already got at least one subversive in Congress whining “Right now in America, it is easier to get an AR-15 than a test kit for COVID-19.”
Can we take that as a clue that he’d like to make it harder? “Right now in America”?
We see that the Trump administration in general and the Department of Justice in particular “reportedly has been preparing a plan that would let hundreds of thousands of federal employees work remotely.” It’s legitimate to ask if that will affect the folks responsible for NICS approvals and if the three business day approval rule would still apply if it does.
Speaking of which, forget toilet paper, as always seems to happen when gun owners perceive a threat, there’s a run on guns and ammo (that’s from a UK site—note the snotty British subjects who may yet soon come to rue the day they let themselves be disarmed). Again I return to Maxine’s Rebellion, recalling the sputtering outrage from people who hadn‘t been paying attention suddenly realizing in Los Angeles, you couldn’t just walk into a gun shop and walk out with a gun.
And always quick to go for an easy laugh in front of an audience not smart enough to know better, “comedian,” slanderer, perpetual smart-@$$ punk (and hypocritical self-admitted gun owner) Bill Maher thought it was somehow funny to conflate taking very real and pragmatic preparations in the face of indeterminate civil unrest with a stereotypical redneck threatening to shoot the virus.
There are those who are exploiting the hell out of this to sweep in the anti-gun Democrats in November. And it’s also a given that, like the sweeping civil liberties violations after 9/11 and during the Boston Marathon bombing, many of our frightened countrymen have a kneejerk tendency to swap essential freedoms for the illusion of “feeling safe.”
That said, as the old saying goes, every cloud has a silver lining
Americans can now see for themselves that the government is utterly incapable of protecting them. If things get worse, that lesson will become up close and personal for many. They’re also seeing that admitting unvetted foreign nationals to “help” spread a global pandemic represents a very real public health threat to themselves. And it may even get some asking themselves what’s wrong about “America First”?
But many won’t come to these conclusions without a push, so it’s up to us to point them out.
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About David Codrea:
David Codrea is the winner of multiple journalist awards for investigating/defending the RKBA and a long-time gun owner rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. He blogs at “The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance,” is a regularly featured contributor to Firearms News, and posts on Twitter: @dcodrea and Facebook.
USA, Did you notice the little twink doesn’t know the difference between Marshall and Martial?
The silver lining: at least now everything is being cleaned and sanitized properly daily. Planes,busses,trains,restaraunts and supermarkets haven’t been this clean in years.
The best summation of this Virus crap I’ve seen. My family and friends are not doing anything other than what we normally do during the flu season, which is 10 times worse than this Corona crap, and it doesn’t include hoarding toilet paper. We’re seeing that this nation is overpopulated by cowardly pussy sheep.
I think we all need to be asking why this country is being thrown into the dumpster because of (at the time I write this) 4539 cases of the virus and 91 deaths in the entire US.
Democratic-Socialist politicians especially, with a lot of help from mainstream media, are intentionally driving the “hysteria” to advance their social agenda.
The Democratic-Socialist Party sees the Constitution, the Bill Of Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Electoral College as obstacles they must overcome to achieve their end goal of totalitarianism in America. Individual freedoms and the Democratic-Socialist Party are incompatible.
“Hysteria”
Exaggerated or uncontrollable emotion, especially among a group of people.
Marshall Law. Welcome to every country run by a thug, as patrolled by those forces loyal to him or her. See every dictator who has ever put down an uprising that was a threat to his or her power. During times like this you have got to be able to fend for yourself, by whichever means necessary. Just because a cop wears a badge does not make him or her above the law, when they themselves have made their cause a criminal one: like gun confiscation. My major complaint are the Millennials. These same people who say Republicans are going… Read more »
Thank you David for the timely reminder of police behavior following Katrina. Like the men said, when there’s a team at close range pointing assault rifles at you is not the time to try to pick up your weapon. Plans and response teams must be ready ahead of time. Hopefully more applicable to my personal life, any guess how many months this will add to NFA approval? Bought a “cheap” suppressor in June’19 and now I’m worried I won’t get my hands on it before pres. Biden outlaws them entirely! Am seriously thinking Texas may sucede if the rest of… Read more »
It is entirely possible for riots, looting, assaults, rape and murder if this virus thing gets out of hand. Some people are prone to panic while others are prone to theft, assault, murder and these are the public leadership; demoncraps and like minded socialist/communist enforcement types. Corrupt cops, feds and this goes without saying, demoncraps, will do as has been done since Cain murdered Able. Anyone, ANYONE, who attempts to disarm you must be considered evil by BIBLICAL definition and criminal, maybe treasonous, by law. Surrender your firearms and ammo at your and your family’s peril. It’s not like innocent… Read more »
CONFISCATION? Well these various pronouncements of forced closures (really sad for business people) can give a hint at when state government can simply say and folks obey or else. Now guys, without being macho and jive posturing, let’s get real, if that were to get insane and come out as firearm surrendering then as the Cops song goes–whatcha ya gonna do when they come for you?
So think what will happen when the banks suspend all cash transactions. There mind set here is to stop the spread of the so called virus. Everything else in my town has closed why not the banks/cash. Only card purchases people.