# Confiscation of guns: What do gun owners fear exactly? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 10, 2019, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confiscation-of-guns-what-do-gun-owners-fear-exactly/827510 "2019-01-10T05:53:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 307
**Author:** ![HurricaneDitka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HurricaneDitka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HurricaneDitka)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2019, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confiscation-of-guns-what-do-gun-owners-fear-exactly/827510/307 "2019-01-15T17:17:04Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > I love the story about how a democratically elected government can somehow become tyrannical. Tell it to us some more. :rolleyes: … Venezuela, Turkey, Brazil, and the Philippines all have “democratically elected” governments. Getting any whiff of tyranny from any of them? Furthermore, in a thread about our own US government shutdown, this was recently posted: > [@How long do you think the US government shutdown will last?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-do-you-think-the-us-government-shutdown-will-last/827486/108): > > … If the GOP don’t chicken out, this will be economically contractionary, on an awesome scale. This is fiscal policy that could have a directly destructive level of effect on the economy equivalent to an austere monetary policy. This is directly creating a high level of unemployment and a depression. > > The backlash against the GOP is going to be so enormous, that in order to survive, they will have to win a civil war, and they will have to kill several of us for every one of them. What do you think all those memes about arming the common white man with military rifles were for? What do you think keeping bump stocks legal has been for? They will lose unless they can organize an army and outshoot disgruntled federal employees and contractors. > > The Democrats refuse to give in to Trump’s behavior. Trump and young Stephen Miller are digging in. Your party’s best hope is that conservative Republicans turn on Trump; restart the government; send Miller packing; and probably impeach Trump just to be sure. Failing that, we are over the edge. There will be blood. By summer, the conservative’s movement only hope may be that you have enough of the young snots who want to be Omar Mateen or Anders Behring Breivik on your side, and that anyone can herd those cats. I guess I’m glad I’ve kept my bump stocks. Sounds like I’m going to need them to fend off hordes of angry furloughed EPA workers in a few months. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confiscation-of-guns-what-do-gun-owners-fear-exactly/827510)._