Uh huh. Except we've read Solzhenitsyn: "And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, polkers, or whatever else was at hand? After all, you knew ahead of time that those bluecaps were out at night for no good purpose. And you could be sure ahead of time that you'd be cracking the skull of a cutthroat. Or what about the Black Maria sitting out there on the street with one lonely chauffeur – what if it had been driven off or its tires spiked. The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn If… if… We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation. We spent ourselves in one unrestrained outburst in 1917, and then we hurried to submit. We submitted with pleasure! ……….. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward." – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago: 1918-1956
For that matter, we've read 1984 and Brave New World, and didn't mistake them as "how-to" manuals. So good luck with that fruitcake idea. The British thought they could do it 1775, and it won't fly any better in most of the country than it did then. Hell, look at NY and CT recent gun registration laws. Even their own law enforcement admits that at best, only 15% compliance. That's a pretty big, "Fuck You!" to even the necessary precondition to your wet-dream, isn't it? Of course, the states are putting the best lipstick they can find on that pig, but compared to their own pre-SAFE Act estimates, they're lying like Clintons.
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Uh huh. Except we've read Solzhenitsyn:
"And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, polkers, or whatever else was at hand? After all, you knew ahead of time that those bluecaps were out at night for no good purpose. And you could be sure ahead of time that you'd be cracking the skull of a cutthroat. Or what about the Black Maria sitting out there on the street with one lonely chauffeur – what if it had been driven off or its tires spiked. The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
If… if… We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation. We spent ourselves in one unrestrained outburst in 1917, and then we hurried to submit. We submitted with pleasure! ……….. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward."
– Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago: 1918-1956
For that matter, we've read 1984 and Brave New World, and didn't mistake them as "how-to" manuals. So good luck with that fruitcake idea. The British thought they could do it 1775, and it won't fly any better in most of the country than it did then. Hell, look at NY and CT recent gun registration laws. Even their own law enforcement admits that at best, only 15% compliance. That's a pretty big, "Fuck You!" to even the necessary precondition to your wet-dream, isn't it? Of course, the states are putting the best lipstick they can find on that pig, but compared to their own pre-SAFE Act estimates, they're lying like Clintons.
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