16 thoughts on “We’ll Take Them By Taking Them”

1. Translation: I will order cops to kick down doors to seize weapons from the deplorable hicks bitterly clinging to them. What could go wrong?

2. Beto is prepared to kill you to keep you safe from guns.

3. “Janet Reno”

4. This position he takes is very curious.  Now, he’s dumb, we know that…  But I actually do not think most liberal democrats foresee or want door to door gun interdiction such that we get more meaningful gun control in this country…. ya know, they just want the magic gun control fairy to come and make it all better. Its just to say, as a matter of psychology, where Beto is, is way the F out there.

5. He’s a smart guy–you don’t get into Columbia without some intellect–but apparently he’s not learned that because all the major genocides of the 20th century occurred after gun confiscation, gun owners in the U.S. are going to be understandably reluctant to give them up peacefully, especially if he pulls a Janet Reno/Elian Gonzales on them.

   He also doesn’t seem to have any comprehension that police officers might be in the party of “not going to give them up peacefully”, and many will understandably refuse to carry out the orders–or quite possibly take steps to deal with those who issue orders that would get their fellow officers killed.

   Smart guy, but a fool.

6. He’s a smart guy–you don’t get into Columbia without some intellect

   I beg to differ. Our institutions of higher learning traded academic rigor and intellectual integrity for virtue long ago. Tide Pod Evita graduated from an elite college; does anyone here think she is intelligent at all? I have neither seen nor heard anything to make me think Beto is anywhere near the dexter side of the bell curve. He sounds kind of dopey, tbh.

7. I doubt if graduating with a BA Eng. Lit. from Columbia requires a towering intellect. O’Roarke never went on to grad school.
   Just read his bio on Wikipedia. Basically his wealthy family had been supporting him for all of his life, until he was elected to congress. Then he married a the daughter of one of his father’s rich friends. Very clubby.

8. ^ I think most trustifarians work at least one real job in there lives. Beto never has.

9. We all know the social arc of prominent bourgeois families. It is described in explicit terms by Stefan Zweig (whose family followed that arc closely) in The World of Yesterday. Through multiple generations a merchant family accumulates wealth. Eventually, with luck, skill, and by sacrificing present pleasures for future gains, the children of the merchant family are able to avoid the business of making money and can devote themselves to excelling in occupations that bring the renown and social status that mere money cannot. That is, they can go into the arts, the sciences, or politics. These days a career in the military doesn’t carry a lot of social esteem, so that is out.
   Nation or culture doesn’t matter. Zweig was writing about bourgeois families in Vienna at the end of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The dynamic is the same in modern American bourgeois families.
   It’s obvious that O’Roarke’s family could have sent him on to grad school, with no student loans to pay back, and he wouldn’t have been a starving grad student. O’Roarke’s parents were wealthy merchants. He had complete freedom to do what he wanted, they would write him a check to pay for it.
   Rather than getting an MFA or going to law school, he zeroed in on government and the public sector.
   I don’t think was a wise choice; he will not found a political dynasty like the Kennedys or the Bushes. I predict for him a future as Democrat congressman or, more likely, one of those guys with some wealth who sit on boards and run charities. His children will become lawyers or wastrels. His happy marriage into a very wealthy family will keep him from backsliding into the proletariat.

10. Yeah… a few months ago I was piqued about this guy being a momentary frontrunner, I read up on him. His father and mother put together some real estate worth low tens of millions… he has a piece of that and it throws off enough for him to take a 6 figure income thats reliably 200-400k.

    And his father in law is a real estate billionaire….

    These computer business and alternative magazines that were ostensibly his ‘jobs’ are not jobs, alright.

    This guy has less business being in public life than anyone I think anyone politically literate could name.  I have boatloads of respect for Mark Dayton in comparison to Beto…

11. I find it annoying when one of these solid bourgeois tech billionaires advises kids to quit college & become an entrepreneur. That might work out for Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg. They had solid family money and connections, so they had no worries if their business plans did not work out. But for the kid who is the first in his family to go college, it would be folly. If you fail, and chances are you will fail, you are back at zero — no money and no college degree.
    Anyway, the skills that made Gates & Zuckerberg billionaires aren’t CS skills, they are business & social skills they didn’t learn at college.

12. JK; “Janet Reno”

    Or, as I call him, “Janet Beto”.

13. If the government doesn’t go door-to-door taking Evil Black Rifles, then how will you get rid of them? Amortization. You won’t be able to buy parts or ammunition and you won’t be able to use them. And if you’re ever caught with one, you’ll go to prison, maybe your spouse too (aiding and abetting) so you lose your kids to foster care. Even if you survive prison, the lawyers wipe out your savings, convicts can’t get decent jobs, your so-called “friends” will turn on you the same as they did when they found out you voted for the Bad Orange Man and you’ll be a social pariah.

    The risk of possessing a banned gun which you cannot even use, is too great a risk for many people to take. Maybe not for some of us old white men bitterly clinging to our guns, but certainly for many of our daughters who stand to inherit them. At probate time, risk-averse and socially conditioned soccer moms will turn in the guns to the police instead of taking them home, same as they would if they found illegal drugs or a machine gun hidden in the basement.

    In fact, that’s exactly how it’d be done – same way they banned fully auto machine guns so that nowadays, they’re virtually impossible to obtain.

    It’d take a couple of generations, but a few high-profile prosecutions, unrelenting social conditioning, and there you go – a perfect utopia, not a single EBR in sight, all thanks to St. Beto the Farsighted. What could go wrong?

14. You’ve got it exactly right JD. They are going to follow the anti-abortion playbook; death by 1000 cuts.

    California is already in Step 1 of that plan; high taxes, no internet availability and your name on the dotted line for ammo, and no bulk purchases.

    What they do not realize is that there is at least 1 billion rounds of ammo out here already. And that doesn’t include all the reloading components.

    People that are not frightened of firearms as I am have already stockpiled enough hardware to make a real mess. 5 minutes after the first door is kicked in, all hell would break loose.

    If you think about it, Beto O’Douche should be attested and tried for sedition and fomenting revolution.

15. Why does the left believe that they are the only ones who can use their tactics? Like ignoring laws.

    I dunno.

    Maybe because it is the way it has always been.

    I can see the day coming when law enforcement simply says, “Not our priority, we have better things to do.”

16. What if your local town became a Second Amendment Sanctuary City?

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