One almost can’t avoid a news story today about the recent dramatic increase in firearms and ammunition sales.

The reason for this as told by almost every gun store owner interviewed is that people “fear” that O bama and Congress will ban certain firearms.

I don’t agree with that reason. I don’t think people “fear” that the government will ban some firearms. Certainly many people are buying firearms because they believe that the government will ban those guns however, I believe that should be interpreted as “The people have spoken and you should listen.”

One must ask oneself really why are people buying guns that may be banned if not to be prepared for whatever is coming?

The way things are shaping up one of the comments that every anti gun nut uses as a reason why it is stupid to buy guns to protect ourselves against a tyrannical government (because OUR government is benign and wouldn’t turn on us) may be coming to pass.

A friend had this to say:

    The nonsense I am used to hearing about using firearms to defend ourselves from the government are usually one of three:

1. We have no need/or right to defend ourselves from the government

  (They forget that the people/subjects of Germany, Cambodia, and Colonial America all felt the same at one time)

2. Personally owned firearms are of no use against a modern military

  (The purpose of the Liberator pistol was to shoot a soldier and take his weapon. History is full of examples of partisans holding off significantly larger, better armed troops)

3. You have no legitimate need for 'Assault Weapons' to defend yourself.

  (In this scenario I could think of nothing, short of maybe an SBR, that I would rather have).

Also, with an economic collapse as a possibility, anarchy could be the result. Doesn’t it seem reasonable to prepare for that eventuality? If that were to happen there will be people who will stop at nothing to take from you what you have, whether it is food, water, gasoline or anything else they can take. They might take from the unprepared.

Some of us are prepared to defend what is ours; the items we will need to survive.

As an aside, while I’m not hoping for the criminal element to run rampant, at least then we may have an opportunity to thin the herd and rid ourselves of the scum who would prey on others.

But, back to the government; I truly hope all the morons ruining, uh, running the country are paying attention.

From Rick Santelli and the rest of us peace loving, law-abiding people, the morons are being told enough is enough. The tea party is about to begin. Just keep pressing the people and we may have to bring back tar and feathers and a rail to run them out of town on.

So, to the morons I say, go ahead, just try to disarm us. Go ahead and just try to impose the so-called “fairness doctrine.” Go ahead and keep raising our taxes but remember that this country was born –at least in part – as the result of an attempt to disarm the people and taxes on tea and the Stamp Act and an oppressive government.

Please see the links below for details of the stamp act, the Boston Tea party and the relatively small amounts of the taxes imposed.

http://www.history.org/history/teaching/tchcrsta.cfm

http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/stampact.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stamp_Act_1765

http://www.chicagocoinclub.org/projects/PiN/ted.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Act

The arrogance and conceit of the fools in the government is stunning. We’ve had enough. The people are saying “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore.” It’s about time.