This always gives me a laugh...
there's always the crew that relates their "Red Dawn" fantasy about heading for the hills and resisting the tyrant. Well, let's examine a few things first. As to what the police are going to do, think of this: Some person has invested years and possibly thousands of dollars worth of training to become a cop. It's not great pay, but it comes with full bennies and a decent pension. Then they get married, buy a house, have kids (some divorce, sell the house and now have child support). They have a mortgage, a credit card, car payment, and all of the rest of the stuff that goes along with making a life. Do you honestly expect this person to chuck it all because you want to hang on to your guns? They are going to do what they're told, and round you up at work, home, grocery store, or whatever. If you are one of those that resist, they will shoot your carcass full of holes and CNN will boost their ratings with video of your bloody corpse being hauled away while they ramble on about militias and separatists.
Same goes for the military except with an added twist; the majority of the military is populated by products of a public education system that has told them that rights are granted by government, they are products of a random accident, the good of society is more important than one individual, and that guns are evil. They have never been taught how to think, only WHAT to think. The entire public education system has conditioned them to be dependent on government, and to obey unquestioningly when they are told to do something, no matter how objectionable. The main thing that they are taught by both the education system and the military is, "The boss may not always be right, but he is ALWAYS the boss".
Now on to us. I can't speak for anyone else here, but I know for myself that these are the odds that I'm facing:
THEM: a 20 to 50 year old cop/soldier that has done nothing but train for the day when they are called to act against the domestic enemy. They are supplied with flashbangs, stun guns, sidearms, automatic weapons, body armor, high explosives, and a whole bunch of other people that are just like them.
ME: a balding, pot-bellied, middle aged man with a wife and kids that, if I resist, will, at best, see or hear me be gunned down by the forces of tyranny and, at worst, catch a bullet that was intended for me. I will be equipped with a handgun. Most likely they will come at oh-dark-thirty, which means I will be in my underwear (a scary sight that might incite them to shoot me out of disgust ;>) )half-awake, and extremely scared/PO'd. You see where this is going? Sure, I'd like to think that I'd fight the good fight and go out in a blaze of glory defending liberty and the American ideals, but the truth is that I'm not willing to take the risk that my wife and kids would be hurt or killed because I had to make a stand.
That said, I will state this: The time to resist is NOW. If you do not belong to a pro-gun group, why not? Have you written your legislator to make your stance known? Have you worked on a political campaign for a pro-gun candidate? Have you tried putting together or joining a grass roots movement (note: I belong to the Oregon Firearms Federation
www.oregonfirearms.org ) to stem the tide of antigun legislation? Finally, if you find the anti gun atmosphere of your state too much to bear, vote with your feet. They will lose a law-abiding, and productive taxpayer, to the benefit of some other state ( I cannot figure out why NJ, NY, and Massachusetts have ANY 2nd Amendment supporters left living in them, but I digress). Finally, what are you doing to insure that the tradition of gun ownership and marksmanship is alive and well? Have you taught others to shoot? Have you taught your children/stepchildren/nieces/nephews/friend's kids to shoot?
Don't get so wrapped up in preparing for a fight that you find out the war is over before you knew it was on.