da_opposition's Blog

da_opposition - They're already here! They're running all over West County already. And it wouldn't take 10,000 of them to bring this country to its knees. It could be done with no more than 50 people.

I will stridently disagree with you that weapons sold in sporting goods stores and at gun shows can be "converted to full automatic in a matter of minutes." Even if they were full-automatic so what? The number of people who are capable and know how to USE one are few and far between outside of current US military and veterans.

Should something actually happen, you can count on the police to write a dandy report and count the bodies. You can count on Homeland Security to try and find legal reasons that the homes of the terrorists could not be searched because they have 'rights.'

I would suggest that your scenario is highly improbable. What I do expect to see is coordinated attacks on 'soft targets' in different parts of the country by small numbers of insurgents. The ensuing impact of the economy would be huge as there would be no easily defined enemy for us to counter.

Another point for the 2nd Amendment. The citizens would stop an insurgency like this.
Every deer hunter in the area would be a sniper. An automatic weapon is not quite as effective as a 150 yard shot from a trained hunter.
Keep our right to bear arms intact.
This is not in conflict with my pro-life stance. Nowhere are we called to sacrifice our families lives and freedoms.

kcpirana
wal-mart sells the same things that all the other stores sell but at a lower price because they are able to purchase in volume to save money. if you don't shop at wal-mart because of the reasons you stated, you need to stop shopping at target, k-mart, officemax/depot, lowes and home depot, schnucks dierbergs and shop n save.

your story of school supplies, sorry i don't buy it. you mean to say target, k-mart, officemax, office depot, grocery stores, school supply stores, none of these had the items you needed so last resort was wal-mart??? i just don't buy it.

recalls don't happen because wal-mart sells a certain item. recalls happen because the company that sells the items to ALL RETAILERS had products made cheaper and from other countries.

by the way last week wednesday through sunday, i was at wal-mart probably 3 times. only one was a special trip there the other two were because on my way home and very convenient for what i needed PLUS a lot cheaper for what i needed.

I do not think you could count on the common man to handle an invasion. The shock of it would not wear off in time for them to do anything. The advadtage we would have is the sheer size of the USA. Invading every region of the country would be impossible.
Now, if it was a combination of invasion and a nuclear strike it could work to a point. You would need the resources of Russia or China to succeed. Or at least I would hope so.

Why did I know the women would make this a walmart shopping thing, my point was this.

The other day I was conversating about the christmas tree story with lowes calling it a family tree instead of christmas tree, and the person responded that the stores are not owned by americans anymore and that made me think.

Arabs and others who don't celebrate Christmas are running our retail industry now. I added walmart because I did not see thier christmas add, but the ones I did see didn't call them anything but trees. I didn't see the word Christmas any of the adds relative to the trees or sales for that matter. If red blooded americans are falling for this remove religion for everything then the Islamics are winning.

Do Jewish people celebrate Christmas? Yes, when the do inventory in January. Mechany, I disagree with your estimation that an AK-47 or AK-74 would be acurate at ranges out to 600 yerds. Neither the 7.62X39, nor the 5.45X39 have the accuracy or power to be long range weapons of choice. The 7.62X54, on the other hand is effective, along with 7.62X51 (308), 30/06, and many other high power calibers. I can hit consistantly at ranges out to and including 800 yards witha Romanian Sniper Rifle and a 4 power Russian sniper scope. The scope is calibrated out to 1100 yards but I haven`t been able to clear that much brush yet to get a range that far. The possibility of a Red Dawn scenario is less likely as an attack on our financial system through counterfeiting, stock market frauds which cause major drops in the market, and general disruption, which costs money from every sector of our population. The threat of anthrax cost Americans billions of dollars before we recovered from it, and there was less evidence of anthrax than there was threats.

So, if the terrorists want to create a disturbance, they know they`re being listened to and watched, all they have to do is to get a rumor started about a chemical threat to say, the Lambert Airport, and every flight in and out of St. Louis will be searched, costing millions in lost time and labor. Do this in three cities and you have crippled the airlines all over the U.S. Plus, you don`t get arrested because you didn`t do anything! You are free to get more rumors started. City and State governments will be hiring more security personel again, costing us money we don`t have. More debt, more dissention, more problems. It`s not as fast as an all out war, but just as effective.

Mech,

I personally don't see an all man invasion consisting of all militia trained men. I see a group of trigger pullers similiar to idiots on the STL streets who hurt, kill, and mame thousands every year.

There effectivness can be measured by some of the recent shooting we have had like the one on the college campus. Multiply the number of shooters with the number shot and maybe you come up with a close enough number to measure the effect something like this could have on our country.

Changing a semi-automatic weapon from semi to full automatic isn`t just a matter of changing a few parts. In most cases it takes a skilled craftsman to do the work. I can buy full automatic weapons that have been de-milled and use those parts to change my AK-47s so they have full automatic parts, but they would not operate in that mode. Machining and fitting is necessary to convert these weapons. Not that a semi-skilled person couldn`t do it, but is it worth the risk of getting caught with these weapons? Get caught and you`re looking at ten years in prison without doing anything more than having one of these weapons in your possession. The threat of computer viruses and other disruption in our lives would be more dramatic than military attacks. An unseen enemy is worse than a physical entity.

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