Just one more thing....That 'piece of paper'.

Don't keep wasting your money on M4s. Everyone needs a plinker of course, but when the government comes to take our guns, we'll be the government. Someone in your family is in the military or the reserves or a police officer or a fireman. They are NOT going to come out and take your guns. What they ARE going to do is open the armories and start issuing things if it comes to that.

In this country, which is owned and governed by the citizens, military officers are sworn to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America against all enemies foreign and domestic AND execute, to the best of their ability, all LAWFUL orders issued by a senior officer. Is any of this starting to sound familiar?

We went through the sixties and we know that shooting down students on a college campus isn't a lawful order. And we are re-learning that the FIRST TWO AMENDMENTS OF OUR CONSTITUTION, LISTED IN THE ORDER OF IMPORTANCE BY THE FOUNDING FATHERS ARE (1) The right to freedom of speech and (2) the right to keep and bear arms.

Everything else is less important and that's why it is listed later. It was written that way for just this occasion and the Second Amendment was put in Second in anticipation that someday the government might forget the First Amendment.

My point: No one, including the Commander-in-Chief, can issue a lawful order which contradicts the Constitution. It is not a lawful order.

I happen to know, and you do too, that Bush 43 had a working model in which he could declare a national emergency and suspend the Constitution during that emergency. That Executive order is still in place as we speak. What it does is allow one person to become Dictator for as long as he (or she) wants to be.

The second that happens, this is no longer a Republic. It is a Dictatorship. And no orders issued by anyone are lawful according to the Constitution.

We saw it start in New Orleans after Katrina when the police started going door-to-door and confiscating firearms. That is illegal and laws are now in place to prevent it from ever happening again....but if you don't know any better, and don't know the law and some officers arrive at your home while you are helping at the disaster site and tell your wife to give them all your guns.....what are you going to do?

I'll bet any amount of money that you never even CONSIDERED that scenario. Consider it now. We are ALL Americans and we are ALL in this together. Consider EVERY possibility. Consider that some anal idiot who somehow didn't get kicked out of the military will put on a uniform and start giving orders to shoot armed civilians. Then consider that a reasonable and prudent military officer will put on their uniform and start giving orders NOT to shoot armed civilians.

Bubba, YOU had better be able to tell the difference.

Colonel, YOU had better know what a lawful order is.

There may be a few hours or a few days or a few weeks when total confusion reigns. I will be armed. Everyone I know will be armed. Everyone I can FIND will be armed. But here is the important bit: EVERY ARMED PERSON WILL BE AN AMERICAN FIRST, NOT AN ENEMY! EVERYONE YOU MEET WILL BE AN ALLY!

People are still watching TV. Half of them won't know anything happened until years later. Hopefully nothing will.

"The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts... the only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."
~Edmund Burke

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