The disarmament process would begin after the initial three-month amnesty. Special squads of police would be formed and trained to carry out the work. Then, on a random basis to permit no advance warning, city blocks and stretches of suburban and rural areas would be cordoned off and searches carried out in every business, dwelling, and empty building. All firearms would be seized. The owners of weapons found in the searches would be prosecuted: $1,000 and one year in prison for each firearm.
Clearly, since such sweeps could not take place all across the country at the same time. But fairly quickly there would begin to be gun-swept, gun-free areas where there should be no firearms. If there were, those carrying them would be subject to quick confiscation and prosecution. On the streets it would be a question of stop-and-search of anyone, even grandma with her walker, with the same penalties for "carrying." [More]
Oh, but he's not "a crazed liberal zealot"-- he carried a .357 Magnum to protect his own precious hide when he worked at the embassy in Beirut. Leave it to a career government diplomat and editorial board member to propose something so monumentally incompetent as starting a civil war in America.
Dan Simpson, as is typical of your kind, you don't have the guts to do your own dirty work--you want someone else to put their ass on the line, someone else to die carrying out your traitorous wishes.
How many men like me, who will defy your insane and treasonous fantasies, are you willing to have killed, Dan? How much blood will be enough to satiate such evil and foolish desires?
You, Dan, disgust me, as a man and as an American. But thanks for showing everyone the unmasked Police State Amerika intent that you and those like you have in mind for the Republic. Your words do far more to demonstrate your genocidal totalitarian bent than anything I could ever write.
[Via Mike Battaglia]
UPDATE: dsimpson@post-gazette.com