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Originally Posted by joshbaumgartner
Gun owners in San Francisco are fighting the ban there, at least through the courts. However, when their legal options expire (I should say if, sorry), do you expect the legal gun owners of that city (soon to become the illegal gunowners, according to the ban) to resist the law with violence? I am well familiar with the 'cold, dead fingers' sentiment, living in Texas, but this would seem to be a good situation to watch, to see if it is all just bluster, or if the attempt to take guns from responsible owners will in fact lead to a gun-fight. Some people might write it off as just fruity San Fran, but there are hundreds of thousands of folks who are anything but liberal who live there. SF is a big place with a lot of owners, so it isn't just like some small suburb or town that runs like a commune or something has passed this law. I suspect there are possibly as many as a quarter to a half a million gun owners who will be affected, either because they live there, work there, or routinely travel through the city. It's no Sebastopol--a very progressive small town in the Sonoma Valley which is an island of far left experimentation.
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Do I expect a violent resistance? Not in San Fran. What I expect to see, IF the courts rule for the ban, is that very few will actually turn them in. Some people will up and sell getting the hell out of S.F. Most others will just find ways to hide them. As in the steps that I put down up above, unless there is an armed incursion by the authorities, very little violence will happen. Some will comply, some will leave, most will just hide them.
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