BjornF16 Wrote:It was the police who shot the two veterans in the Bonus March, after they were attacked by the veterans. I'm not aware that MacArthur (or Patton, for that matter) fired upon the veterans. I could be mistaken.
Y'all comment as if the Kent State protestors were peacefully exercising their 1A rights. That doesn't jive with the facts. They had already participated in arson and assault, and were threatening more. While the shooting of the students was reprehensible, the protesting students weren't exactly assembling peaceably over the course of the "protests" (most people would call them riots).
Again, the shooting of the students by the Ohio National Guard was reprehensible.
But I would say it is a far cry to compare Kent State to a potential confiscation of arms held by law abiding citizens peaceably exercising the 2A rights.
However, I would expect that if citizens rioted today and attacked LEO/Military, there may be some shots fired. If you put them on the defensive and attack them, they will respond. Simple human nature.
What I don't believe is any military or LEO would do is to go house to house to forcibly take our arms in a gun confiscation...
Just saying...
While it was two policemen who killed two bonus marchers, it was McArthur who led a cavalry charge with fixed bayonets and gas against the marchers and their families. If fixed bayonets isn't serious, why fix bayonets in the first place? And a cavalry charge against unarmed families?
Have you forgotten Katrina?
http://www.buckeyefirearms.org/Katrina-G...told-Story
I don't think the VAST MAJORITY of LEO's or Military guys would participate, but a number certainly will, they've demonstrated it in the past, they'll do it again.
You seek escape from pain. We seek the achievement of happiness. You exist for the sake of avoiding punishment. We exist for the sake of earning rewards. Threats will not make us function; fear is not our incentive. It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live. - John Galt