About the upcoming fight: we need to be smart and keep our Police Allies.
There is a gigantic mistake the left is making and has to continue to make in order to keep one of its many groups happy: They Must Hate And Bash Cops.
This is an opportunity we cannot allow to go to waste. If w can get at least 50% of police officers firmly in our side (and it does not matter if they make it public or not,) we would successfully disrupt and deny the means to enforce bad law to the Left.
We already have a sizable population of LEOs who are pro-gun, but what we also have is a vocal minority of cop-bashers among our brethren that need to chill-out and be smart about what might be coming down the road. We need not only people who may do a bad job investigating who owns guns, but also provide information on upcoming raids, who is who in government and can create disruptions amongst the local power structure.
Welcome to the concept of the Fifth Column.
Now, although you may very well have grievances with the way Law Enforcement may or may not be acting in your particular location, I would strongly suggest to postpone them for a day and age when things are much calmer and we can retake the peaceful addressing of our grievances. Right now, you should be preparing for the not-so-peaceful attempts to destroy our Bill of Rights.
I don’t know if your local LEO agency has something like this, but Miami Dade PD has events called Coffee with a Cop where they go to a local place to shoot the shit with the neighbors. I think this is a great idea, specially if those going to make nice with the LEO are smiling Gun Owners who probably have in common more stuff that we are kind to accept.
It seems we are heading for internal strife. The US has not had a sampling of that since 1865 and the way history has been taught, the Civil War is just some historical event presented in an antiseptic form on TV. For some of us, civil wars and in-country conflicts are more recent, mover vivid and hard to forget about the cost. I want us to have every advantage possible so if we tried and failed every peaceful means, the use of other means is swift and leaves not doubts to the Other Side ” that any man who offers violence to his fellow citizen begets a whole lot more in return than he can enjoy” as succinctly put by the late Col. Jeff Cooper. I do believe that our Enemies do not understand the capacity that lies on our side and they will need to be taught fast so the casualties remain at a minimum. Civil Wars make for long-standing grudges that we really do not need as a country. In fact and knowing history, the US stands apart on the peacetime consequences in the aftermath of a civil war.
This is not to say that we abandon peaceful and legal means, just the opposite. We work hard, lobby, vote, donate, write to our legislators, the president, call in, make a pest of ourselves till we are heard. But that does not mean that we are to begin preparations only after all other methods are exhausted.
Who knows? Maybe the Left will eventually get the message that we just want to be left alone and stop fucking around.