I would like to have a discussion about the prolific concept in gun communities I see frequently parroted when it comes to legal restrictions, bans, etc.
>if de ever ban muh guns I'll just neva turn it in, that'll show dem!
AKA non compliance without anything more
I see this a LOT, individuals whom act as if they are the second coming of Washington by taking an option that requires literally no effort such as just sticking a rifle in the back of a closet, hiding it or burying it.
They have the idea that just the sheer act of noncompliance will somehow prove to those who are passing these laws that they are wrong and will somehow change something.
Despite that in reality,in nearly every country or US State that has bans,confiscations,buy backs,restrictions on certain classes of firearms, etc, that even if no one complies, no one ever does anything more. A weapon buried, hidden and is only MAYBE taken into the middle of the woods where no one will ever notice it to be fired one a year, is effectively non existent. It is an inanimate object that cannot function without a user.
We seen this in Australia, more recently NZ, NY, I go on, lots of chest pounding and hot air puffing, but no actual results.
No more examples enter the supply chain, it becomes ingrained in the new generation that these are dangerous items that are highly illegal, which just like we have seen with machineguns, end up being turned in once the owner dies, or has a nasty divorce etc.
I find it humorous that they use example such as pic related to somehow champion their point, when if you actually read and notice the dates, you can clearly see literally nothing has changed, the laws still exist and no one has done anything.
Are these individuals simply just naive and don't realize that governments can wait indefinitely for their laws and demographic shifts to reap results? It is the gun owners who are the ones that have only so much time before indoctrination of the next generation that openly shuns the possession of banned items, like we have already seen with unregistered NFA items.
Or is it simply just cowardice that people try to embellish as a revolutionary action so they can pretend they did something by doing nothing?
I've noticed if you try to point the larping out, they very defensive, I will just list off a few examples I have received.
<Go back to your other 10 shill threads you're shitting up the boards with, resetera tranny
<Civil disobedience is knocking the ball back into the government's court and going "your move".
<What's the alternative and what have you done?
I cannot say I have some better answer to the problem, but then again, I am not larping as a minute man on firearm forums or cuckchan.
I am not saying to comply with such laws or anything of the sort, I just have a problem with the gun community in large trying to portray doing literally nothing in the same light as revolutionaries who actively killed and rebelled to pursue to further their goals.