Panther wrote on May 22
nd, 2015 at 8:40pm:
.........These Constitutional Second Amendment Rights will not go easily by any means as I've said in earlier posts.
Disarming Americans will be next to almost impossible on a large scale.
The only sure fire way is to change/amend the Constitution, & that process is weighed heavily in the Right holders favour.
Then you are still faced with 100+ million Americans who respect authority to a degree, but the majority will not hand over a single buckshot without shots being fired.
I don't have the luxury of calling you by your first name, perhaps you can PM me with it so we can be more congenial & I may reciprocate in kind, that is only if you're comfortable enough doing so.

We are not mortal foes, not even close, we just have differing opinions, so I look forward in debating the issue(s) amicably with you, rather than arguing headstrong looking for an absolute outcome where personal negativeness & name-callings abound.

Personal notes aside, if you read my text (above) I never said that each & every gun-owner would come to shot if a confiscation event came about, quite to the contrary, especially if it's a natural Constitutional process where a new Constitutional Amendment would remove & replace the Second Amendment.......
Katrina was a one-off event, with confiscations on a extremely limited scale, where government was subsequently made aware of their Constitutional limitations, & gun-owners learned about the blacker & uglier side of what a rogue government might attempt in the future.
Let's just say Obama, in his waning hours at the helm, decreed on June 1
st that all firearms were to be confiscated on July 4
th, I would speculate to bet that things would be a tad bit different ......... you're talking about 2 to 3 hundreds of millions of firearms in the hands of well over 100 million firearm owners. even if 90% gave in their arms peaceably, that would mean over 10 million owners that would forcefully resist (the most hard core). That's a force that would outnumber the entire US Army, Navy, & Air force combined.... maybe not in firepower, but definitely stronger & more determined in resolve. Why? Simply because the American Armed Forces would have ethical difficulty firing upon their fellow Americans, & many would probably join up with the resistance forces because they respect the Constitution & the Rights of their fellow Americans.
So, do you think the 4
th of July would be peaceful by any stretch?
No, I sincerely doubt it, & we're most probably talking about a Civil War which would rival the first Civil War which pitted brother agin brother.
Remember one very important thing here too.
In their Oaths of Service, Armed Service Personnel & local law enforcement alike ALL swore to protect & enforce the US Constitution,
which includes the Second Amendment (from the original Bill of Rights) which states quite clearly that
the Inalienable American Right to KEEP & BEAR ARMS shall not be Infringed.These oaths did not say they could choose which part or parts of the Constitution they were obligated to protect, they swore to
a solemn oath to protect & defend the ENTIRE Constitution.IMHO the Large Scale Disarming of American Citizens/gun-owners can never realistically succeed, & as far as a hand-in/buyback, IMHO they'd get a few, but the overwhelming majority of firearms would still be
"in the wild".