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https://www.heritage.org/firearms/commentary/dont-count-american-compliance-gun-confiscation

Don’t Count on American Compliance With Gun Confiscation

If we’re able to pass mandatory buybacks and I’m able to sign that into law, then I fully expect our fellow Americans to turn in their AR-15s and AK-47s,” said O’Rourke.

This was not a misstatement or a one-off comment. As O’Rourke’s spokesman, Chris Evans, later confirmed: “When a mandatory buyback program for assault weapons is enacted, it is the law. We expect people to follow the law here in the United States, and we know that Americans are law-abiding people.”

I am not writing this to promote civil-disobedience, but just to point out fundamentals of human nature that ideologues like O’Rourke and Joe Biden don’t appear to appreciate. They seem to think the American people, or perhaps any group of people, will simply conform to whatever ideological framework they decide to legislate.

This isn’t true for many reasons.

First, non-compliance with gun-confiscation laws has been widespread even in countries that don’t protect the right of citizens to keep and bear arms.

Second, Americans are already notoriously non-compliant with strict gun-control measures in states that have enacted them on a smaller scale.

Third, the firearms and magazines that gun-control advocates wish to confiscate simply are not a driving force behind homicides—and America’s lawful gun owners know it. People rarely respond well to being scapegoated, and otherwise law-abiding gun owners aren’t likely to prove an exception to this rule.

Americans Are Notoriously Non-Compliant With Gun-Control Laws

If this type of significant and widespread non-compliance is so common in countries without America’s gun culture or constitutional protections for civilian gun ownership, it would be almost laughable to presume Americans would be more compliant with overbearing gun-control measures.

After all, civilian gun possession is deeply ingrained in the American psyche, as is an aversion to gun confiscation. The American Revolution itself officially ignited over an effort by King George III and his military generals to disarm the colonists; the battles at Lexington and Concord began because the British were coming to seize the colonists’ powder stores and render them defenseless against the armed enforcement of tyrannical laws.

Non-compliance with British gun-control mandates was widespread before and during the war. The Second Amendment was passed in large part as a counterbalance against government impulses toward tyranny, and an assurance against government attempts to create select militias with which to oppress a citizenry disarmed through arbitrary or burdensome gun-control laws.

It is hardly surprising, then, that even today, many otherwise law-abiding Americans fail to comply with laws they perceive as arbitrary infringements on their Second Amendment rights. Consider, for example, what happened when New York, in 2013, banned the future purchase of commonly owned semi-automatic rifles and required current owners to register their estimated 1 million “assault-style weapons” with the state.

Despite the threat of serious criminal penalties for non-compliance and extended periods of “amnesty,” by 2015 fewer than 45,000 firearms had been registered. In other words, it appears that tens of thousands of New Yorkers continue to simply ignore the law.

Similar rates of non-compliance have been observed for constitutionally suspect confiscation laws in other states; in fact, after New Jersey banned the civilian possession of standard magazines capable of holding more than 10 rounds, an investigation failed to discover a single instance where one of the state’s one million gun owners turned a prohibited magazine in to law enforcement authorities, as the statute required.

New Jersey and New York are states that historically have subjected their residents to much stricter gun-control measures relative to the rest of the country. If non-compliance is so widespread in states where residents are used to being subject to arbitrary and overbearing gun laws, there is no reason to believe that residents in more gun-friendly states would rush to turn in their rifles and magazines just because the federal government mandated it.

I fully expect our fellow Americans to turn in their AR-15s and AK-47s,” said O’Rourke.

So yes, i will fall on the sword and vote for Trump simply to protect the 2nd amendment

Gov't. already knows what I own. Gov't. also knows I've never committed a crime with any gun/s I own. It's already verifiable by the fed's, the state, and any police department.

Perhaps the gov't. should focus on the people that use guns in crimes?

This has to be one of the most out of touch thoughts ever blabbered.

O'rourke SAID he would (if he were elected). First, the "assault" rifles, which are responsible for........how many deaths?

Perhaps the gov't. should focus on the people that use guns in crimes?

I agree! It'd be great if we have more ways to let people find meaningful work or help to address what's bothering them. But, then you get people saying "Venezuela!" whenver you suggest more social programs to prevent people from doing terrible things.

Why are Republicans trying to put Kanye on the ballot everywhere this week? Are they seriously thinking he will hurt Biden? lmao smh

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/05/politics/kanye-west-ballot/index.html

Imagine this nightmare: Dems nominate Kanye and GOP nominates Trump.

Who do you vote for?

oh great. the good ole "fight for our 2nd amendment rights" trash right before an election.

Right on schedule.
It happens every election cycle.

Biden says I should have a shotgun.

The NRA gets more donations during democratic presidencies.

You're rolling with a false narrative. Everyone has agreed to debates.

I get it, you don't care for me. That is your choice, and you are free to feel that way.