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<blockquote data-quote="Dr. Howard" data-source="post: 1292445" data-attributes="member: 2271">RE: Gun confiscation bill proposed in VirginiaBad comparison, for two reasons1. The rhetoric leading up to the civil was was insane. An equivalency would be sending democrats after Trump supporters. This is sending the military after gun owners, the propaganda hasn't polarized the two sides as being non-human.2. Sherman's destruction of Atlanta was towards the end of the war, when you have&nbsp; few years of wartime atrocities under your belt you can justify about anything under the guise of revenge or paying the other side back for what they did to 'our boys'If anything, it would be like a fort sumter. It would be a long period of standoff broken by one shot.There is a modern equivalent to look for instead of the civil war, look at how the Malheur Wildlife refuge standoff went down, then look at how the Bundy Ranch standoff went down.One thing that would make this really intense, really fast, is if when they had the first gun confiscation standoff, if 2nd amendment elements from OUT of state came in to support the standoff-ers like what happened with the bundy ranch. VA would have to call the national guard in at that point and what then?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dr. Howard, post: 1292445, member: 2271"] [b]RE: Gun confiscation bill proposed in Virginia[/b] Bad comparison, for two reasons 1. The rhetoric leading up to the civil was was insane. An equivalency would be sending democrats after Trump supporters. This is sending the military after gun owners, the propaganda hasn't polarized the two sides as being non-human. 2. Sherman's destruction of Atlanta was towards the end of the war, when you have few years of wartime atrocities under your belt you can justify about anything under the guise of revenge or paying the other side back for what they did to 'our boys' If anything, it would be like a fort sumter. It would be a long period of standoff broken by one shot. There is a modern equivalent to look for instead of the civil war, look at how the Malheur Wildlife refuge standoff went down, then look at how the Bundy Ranch standoff went down. One thing that would make this really intense, really fast, is if when they had the first gun confiscation standoff, if 2nd amendment elements from OUT of state came in to support the standoff-ers like what happened with the bundy ranch. VA would have to call the national guard in at that point and what then? [/QUOTE]

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