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When the government threatens to remove rights from the majority of the people, against their will or consent, because a minuscule minority has abused that right, you have tyranny. AR type rifles are currently the most popular style of rifle in American common usage. Less then 1% of them are ever used in any crime by responsible citizens. "In common usage" has been set down in judicial precedent as the term that defines what cannot be restricted by law. We have a Bill of Rights, not a Bill of Needs. People that fear black rifles simply do not understand the issue and have been conditioned to feel the government will keep them safe. In reality, it can't and is not able to prove banning black rifles will reduce crime, or not increase crime. Some people are willing to give up some freedom believing it buys them security. It doesn't. We need to draw a line at how much freedom we want to give up.

How's that crow taste?

The FBI has recorded no fewer than 19 times in a five-year span (and that estimate may be low) — from 2014 to 2018 — when active shooters were stopped or repelled by citizens. Seven times armed citizens stopped the shooting entirely. Twice an armed citizen engaged the shooter and caused him to flee the scene. Citizens stop active shooters less often than the police do, but it’s crystal clear that armed citizens have saved lives. They’ve stopped massacres that would have further plunged American families and American communities into deep grief. They’ve stopped massacres that would have further polarized American politics. Panicked customers fled, and the police sped toward the store, but by the time they arrived, the crisis had passed. A private citizen described as a “former firefighter” had pulled his firearm and was holding the man at gunpoint. That thing that supposedly never happens just happened again. A good guy with a gun averted a potential crisis. https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/08/in-missouri-a-good-guy-with-a-gun-stepped-up-so-can-you/ Here are the cold, hard facts liberals in the media don’t want you to know about gun ownership: A handful of high-profile tragedies aside, guns are, on balance, used far more for self-defense and other positive uses than for violent crime. A report from the Institute of Medicine found that: Almost all national survey estimates indicate that defensive gun uses by victims are at least as common as offensive uses by criminals, with estimates of annual uses ranging from about 500,000 to more than 3 million (Kleck, 2001a), in the context of about 300,000 violent crimes involving firearms in 2008 (BJS, 2010). The trend here is clear. Defensive gun use is hard to measure, but if it’s anywhere in the range that most surveys suggest, it far exceeds actual instances of violent gun crimes. This reminds us that while mass shootings are certainly tragic, guns are a net positive for society. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/good-guy-with-a-gun-strikes-again-to-protect-the-public Numerous outlets reported this attack, but unsurprisingly, many of those focused on the attack, the firearms and the victims, but never—or only passingly—mentioned how a good guy with a gun stopped a bad guy with a gun. A CNN online report, for example, had 30-plus, highly detailed paragraphs about the attack, the killer and the firearms, but in only one buried sentence gave some scant details on the action by Willeford that stopped the attack. This is typical mainstream-media reporting of guns used by citizens to save lives. https://www.americas1stfreedom.org/articles/2019/10/27/the-truth-about-good-guys-with-guns A Good Guy (Or Gal) With A Gun – Mass Shootings Stopped By Civilians. This page will track mass shootings stopped by citizens with firearms other, generally, than the police. http://www.shotinthedark.info/wp/?page_id=55536

Because they are disarmed! That's what I said in the post you challenged. And I did not call you any names, unless you relate to the generalization I used. Jeeez.

LOL! I am not even familiar with Q-Anon. I've heard the name but have no idea. I find your questions to be really weird Jerry. I'm sorry, but I don't think I would talk to you in person because I can't relate to where your head is at. Did you find my last post to you offensive? Other's incorrectly seemed to think it was. That was not the intent. I simply cannot help you. I don't think anyone here is anti-gun. I think many are just submissive. The fact that Waste-Time would challenge a factual pro-gun statement the way he did seems to indicate he's either anti-self defense, anti-truth, or just thinks he can embarrass me. I find that type of nonsense intolerable. I have never heard a choir rudely challenge things they supposedly support, like this one does. I find many attitudes on this forum to be really scary. Too much ego in the replies and not much refutation. It's exhausting. Is it any wonder we are losing our rights? I pity them. I really do.

OK maybe once I will. LOL! I doubt the denialist will admit he's wrong though. I have time to waste today because it's raining.

A look at New Zealand proves it. https://www.americas1stfreedom.org/articles/2021/3/23/they-ll-never-stop/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=insider&utm_campaign=0321

Yeah right. I would have to value your opinion to be insulted. Most gun owners are about to see their delusions shattered. It's a pity. "The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it." —John Hay

Believe it or not. https://www.bitchute.com/video/Hwf8TXZQJBTc/?fbclid=IwAR2-EX8wi4xn30gMNV_O_l7tcA9Wd4Qt-edf8q6MidP2r2UpniZP_favOVg

Steve, Dirt, Diplomat, I pity you fools. “If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.” Samuel Adams

I don't bother replying to idiots who think they are intelligent and have no clue what the facts are. Let him be happy in his delusions. He's a waste of time.

Why should I tell you? So you can be judgemental or assume things about me? Your past comments put you on a need to know basis.

Know why people get killed in mass shootings? The government prevents them from returning fire to defend themselves. Many of these insane killers have been stopped by an armed citizen, but the media refuses to tell that to the public. They want us to believe these people cannot be stopped. Yet many are. It's propaganda from a biased mass media. Sadly, too many stupid and cowardly people swallow it.

Glad you read it. I had you in mind when I posted it.

Jerry, if they are knocking on your door, you have already lost. Give up. You are no use to anyone in the fight anymore. Asking for more info right now makes you a little too inquisitive. I'm not sidestepping your questions, I'm ignoring them. I just find it ludicrous you expect answers on an internet forum. I don't know you, so cannot trust you. These are things that need to be discussed face to face with people that are known and can be trusted. The fact you even ask these questions tells me you are not informed, have not been in the fight at all, nor minimally prepared to fight anything. Things needed to be done by you years ago when this crap started revealing itself to gun owners. My suggestion for you is to do whatever the government tells you to do, because you won't be able to do anything else. Like many others, your awareness has arrived far too late. You should have been asking questions a long time ago. I cannot offer you any other suggestion.

And the people who call me crazy are the problem. Solution: Ignore their comments.

I'm not going on record as to what I would do, or what I plan to do. The idea is to be one step ahead of the opposition. Study what people in other tyrannical countries have done. As far as your question, I say this, don't keep that rifle in your home. You need to plan in advance to avoid the issue. Here's what needs to be done in this country.

There was a time in this land when people had the will to fight tyranny.