"Welcome To The Revolution"...Well, Okay Then © 2018 Phillip Evans

"Welcome to the revolution" is what I imagine some of the rebelling colonists saying to the British Red Coats, at least in their minds right before putting some holes through their red coats back in 1775.

Yesterday, a junior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Cameron Kasky, said those words while standing on a stage at the "March For Our Lives" event in Washington, D.C.

Free Creative Commons CC0 Licensed graphic of a raised fist

David Hogg raised his fist at the event as a symbol of the "revolution". And just what are they revolting against? They are protesting against the liberty that free American citizens have to possess so-called "assault weapons".

That made-up term is a bastardization of the legitimate phrase "assault rifle". The U.S. Army defines "assault rifle", first of all, as a "select fire" weapon, meaning that a single trigger pull can fire multiple rounds. The AR-15 (Armalite Rifle) cannot do this, and therefore is not an "assault rifle" under the military's definition, and therefore cannot be considered an "assault weapon", whatever that is supposed to mean.

The AR-15, just like ALL semi-automatic rifles, fires a single round per each pull of the trigger. It accepts detachable magazines which hold various amounts of ammo depending on how long they are. Keep that last sentence in mind when reading the next paragraph.

Their Marxist law-makers are now crafting laws with clever wording which bans all rifles that can accept a detachable magazine which can hold more than ten rounds. Ah, but how is a rifle to know how long an ammo magazine is? If it can accept a short one, it can accept a long one, because all they do is just stick out the from the bottom of the rifle. There is NO MECHANISM on ANY semi-automatic rifle in production that can limit a rifle's ability to accept detachable magazines based on length.

So where did I find such sly wording? In Florida: 

https://www.flcrc.gov/Proposals/Commissioner/2017/0003/Amendment/117574/PDF

And in Ohio: 

http://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/solarapi/v1/general_assembly_132/bills/sb260/IN/00?format=pdf

Have Florida and Ohio been comparing notes?

The vast majority of all brands and models of semi-automatic rifles accept detachable magazines, so this would be a ban of hundreds of different kinds of rifles, not just the AR-15. The shear number of them are in the multiple millions.

Let me make something clear, something the NRA does not have the guts to do. Even fully-automatic assault rifles should be freely owned by any free American citizen who desires to. 

They are valid anti-tyranny devices, and the guard against tyranny is the purpose for which the Second Amendment was written - not duck hunting, not deer hunting, and not merely for the protection against robbers in your home. It is an ANTI-Tyranny Amendment.

Now, when they raise their fists and threaten a revolution against millions of peacefully armed citizens, how do they think they will win? By merely passing laws against us? No, they intend to use those laws to send others against us with their guns. This proves their threat of revolution is a threat of violence, for not all citizens (me included) will peacefully turn over their firearms to the government, since not all citizens will acquiesce to tyranny.

You see, right before war broke out in 1775, the British Red Coats were seizing barrels of gunpowder from citizen storehouses, and they were going from town to town threatening to burn down the town if the people did not turn over their rifles.

We've already been down this road, and have already rejected the demand of tyrants to be disarmed. 

When they whine and shed tears about the new safety rule in their Broward County schools requiring backpacks to be transparent, they say, "Why are you punishing me for one person's actions?"

EXACTLY! Why should millions of good citizens be punished and stripped of their peacefully owned and lawfully used property, just because of the act of one evil person at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb 14th? The irony must evade them. I wonder how many of those teenagers actually know the meaning of the word "irony".

At this point I don't know how many government boots would be willing to march on American soil and kill citizens over their possession of certain rifles that offend the teenage protesters. A fair number is what I would guess.

However, just to be sure they win this revolution they are calling for, their supportive politicians and the protesters themselves should probably bring their own guns. Then maybe we can get this thing settled once again, at least for the next 240 years. Say when.