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Originally Posted by Willravel
Maybe, but are you really going to say that no one in New Orleans has a similar disposition? Of course not, there are plenty of people in New Orleans that believe firmly in an "originalist" interpretation of the Second Amendment and believe, similarly to you, that if someone comes to take their guns, they'; open fire. And they didn't do anything at all. Not one shot was fired. All of the people there that were just like you didn't do anything but complain.
Put yourself into the scenario. There's a natural disaster, let's say an F5 tornado decimates your area, leaving tens of thousands homeless and untold dead. People are being evacuated because the storms are still coming. You know people are are dead, or have had their homes and business destroyed. You're scared, as you should be. There's a knock at the door, so you go to answer, and it's 10 armed city police officers, National Guard members, and US marshals (iirc, there were 6-10 men were at Patricia Konie's door). You instantly think of your closest weapon, I won't pretend to know where or what it might be, but then you likely realize that you can't take all of these guys without likely getting killed yourself. Maybe you can take two or three with you, maybe.
Are you sure you'd open fire?
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one thing to remember, will, is that these people in New Orleans had no power, no communications, and had basically been abandoned. When the then chief of police gave his news conference ordering the disarmament, nobody in New Orleans knew or could know, so when they see and hear armed police and guardsmen coming to their door, they were thinking 'finally some sort of help', too late to realize that they just got screwed by their own government. It only needed to happen once, it did, and now most of the people KNOW not to trust that they won't attempt to disarm them again. The ones who really screwed up were the police and guardsmen who actually followed those illegal orders because they put the lives of other police and guardsmen at risk if another disaster pops up.
as to your scenario, knowing what I know now, I don't just blindly answer the door. If I see a squad of armed men in uniforms, they are promptly invited to leave the property, one warning only. If they refuse to leave or attempt to enter, I have no qualms about emptying every magazine I have.
If they attempt to disarm me, I will kill all they send.