Devo- who / which side do you think is suggesting a civil war?
I hear more of that coming from the right vs. the left; but to that, I don't know of anyone suggesting internment or the like. People just start posturing about the other side and " we got the guns" part of the equation. But I can't see anyone shooting people today. Not to say there aren't some coocoos out there but not wholesale.
Originally Posted by eyecu2
Well, I frequent some major gun forums, one specifically for the AK and its variants, and the next CW is often a topic of discussion, especially since the re-popularization of Antifa, which, first became active in post WW1 Germany, and still exists actively in Europe today.
You really need to study the history of the Weimar Republic and the issues that plagued Germany and Europe to understand it completely, however the WIKI page on it gives some good insight.
Antifa, is a socialist radical group, which used violence very much like it was done in the USA in the last few years, crowds, attacking authority, rallies, where it differs, is, ours didn't use as many guns.
However, the lefts goal is the complete eradication of any and all things conservative, or non socialistic, and its based on classic guerilla tactics, small cells, lack of info about each other and higher ups, its funded clearly, as we saw by the use of emplaced weapons shields, etc.
However, its still small, relatively and mainly formed of dissatistifed yutes.
On the other side, what you have are, literally millions of gun owners, and, I think guys my age, were the first that saw the complete overturning of the "Fudd" gun owners, guys who owned rifles and shotguns, for hunting, and, never saw the need for ex military style weapons, other than for hunting.
Sort of like my dad, who didn't understand how devious the first serious attacks on gun owners as a legitimate issues, which, all arose out of huge interest in gun ownership, especially the "Evil black rifles" that were the subject of the first assault weapons ban, that ban, drove millions of new gun owners into the market, all anxious to buy an AR15 or an AK.
This all coincided with the rise of the internet, gun shows, with internet advertising, relatively good economic times, and cheap surplus ammunition coming from the former Soviet Union, with Millions upon millions of surplus rifles, all from the former Soviet states.
All of this has led to an AR being cheaper now, 400 bucks new, than what I paid for my first Colt AR in 1984ish, for 550 bucks. same with magazines and bulk ammo.
Machinegun parts kits, bulk rifles and ammo, have probably driven the numbers of firearms owned by double in the last 20 years, the SKS rifle, which was the most popular rifle for years in the USA has been replaced by the AR15.
Once expensive accessories, scopes, red dot sights, are all plentiful and dirt cheap, every gun owner I know has multiples, and, suppressors are also selling in huge numbers, now that the ATF has computerized the transfer system, those numbers of suppressors and short barreled rifles are going to rise exponentially, I know, because I am in that business, and I see who are buying guns and what for.
So, on one hand, you have a relatively small but passionate group on the left, on the right, you have an older but still growing mass, and I mean MASSIVE amount of mainly working, relatively financially well off, with lots of guns, and lots of patience.
Nobody on the right cries for a civil war, its more of a waiting till it happens, and finish it for once and all mentality.
We just don't have are the types of people the media is trying to play up at the fake insurrection as being, we are seeing now, in the next wave of prosecutions, people who were just there, and may have just went in and looked around or didn't even enter the capitol.
Its cleary an attempt again to demonize the right, instead of burning them down like Waco, they are using the corrupt justice system to create fear of action, which, is especially hypocritical, when you look at the complete inaction to stop the rioting.
What everybody saw, is something we on the right have known for years, the police are useless, and, when it comes time to fight or protect you, they won't be there, and, hence the HUGE increase again in people finding and buying guns, and why ammo is scarce and at an all time high in cost.
And one other Demographic which is key is where we are, and where most of the left are, which is, rural vs. city, just look at PA, you can isolate and surround most of the liberal counties with 80 percent trump voters, look at Pittsburgh for example.
The FBIs biggest fear was, that the rioters and looters in the inner city would try to leave downtown and go to the suburbs, where gun ownership is much higher, it would have been a slaughter.
Radical socialists on one side, and millions upon millions of just plain less political folk, whose only interest is taking care of themselves and their families.
A civil war would last less than a month, the cities would starve and the powerful would kill off the weak, just like we see happening everyday now, at least where DAs have stepped aside, or as happened in CHOP.
Did you see, four car jackers shot or killed in Philthadelphia in the last few weeks?
That is a direct result of the DA stepping aside, and people starting to protect themselves, and that's Philadelphia which has always had a far more restrictive gun culture, imagine what the "T" looks like in PA?
Bring it on, is what I say, better me than my younger relatives, the left want's it, but they are afraid to actually start it, we don't want to start it, but we don't mind ending it.
That's the difference I see.