Poll Results

I didn’t see the poll.

Was it based off no country for old men? After I saw that I also wondered how many people would take a discarded machine gun and bury it in the garden.

OK, to review…

70% of people (who bothered to participate) are paying attention and know what’s coming.

19% would rely on someone else to do something about it.

5% would commit a crime by taking it to the “authorities.”

3% are not interested in “children’s safety.”

To the rest of you willing to take matters of life and death into your own hands, and gardens, good for you.

I’d be interested in hearing why people who would not take it into protective custody choose what they did.

Depending on what you want to do, certain choices have to be made. I intend to be a lawyer, and as a result I need to be squeaky clean. My assumption is that if I do something illegal, I’ll get caught. If I get caught for anything serious (like hiding an unregistered machine gun), I can’t practice law, and as a result won’t be in a position to influence things the way I’d like.

It’d be different if we were talking about sheltering a refugee or something, but this is just a machine. We have tools and we have blueprints; if the East Timorese rebels could manufacture knock-off M-16s then I see no reason why we, should the SHTF, couldn’t do the same.

To my mind, the point where we need automatic weapons (as opposed to simply having the right to them) is pretty near the point where getting prosecuted for having an unregistered machine gun isn’t high on our list of concerns.

well, if SHTF are you going to have the TIME to sit around making a machine gun?

I can understand your point about wanting to be “clean.” Sad that today owning things that do nothing on their own and are protected and were intended to be protected makes you a criminal.