National Guard unit stages an exercise near a gun store, and gets an interesting reaction

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The link leads to a standard article from a paranoid gun-hater, saying he wants to start confiscating all guns or something. SSDD, not really worth reading.

But if you scroll about halfway down the page, there's an interesting comment, from a member of the Iowa National Guard. Apparently they staged an exercise on an abandoned building, to approach it with their weapons, break in, and secure it.

But... that abandoned building they were going to use, was next to an open and operating gun store. And rumors got out, inaccurate ones, and the local people started thinking the National Guard was coming to close down the gun store and confiscate its merchandise instead.

The National Guard folks got a reception they didn't expect... and saw the wisdom in explaining themselves, very quickly.

(I cleaned up some spelling and punctuation errors in the comment)

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Link: http://carrollspaper.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=14934&TM=35600.75

Posted: Tuesday, January 08, 2013
Article comment by: J S

The Iowa National guard did a training exercise in a small town to "clear" an abandoned building... next to a gun store. Through rumor, the people thought we had come to close the gun store and take the guns... needless to say we where very quickly outnumbered and outgunned. As we quickly explained, we swore an oath defend the constitution and we have the right to disobey any "Unlawful" order that conflicts with it. So (addressing the politician) if you plan to declare war on the public brace yourself because it will be ugly. You do not have people on your side.
 
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This is a great example of why no commander-in-cheif can put down a popular uprising using the military.

Its a better example of why the 2nd is in the Bill of Rights. The Framers had first hand knowledge of how tyrants operate and very carefully encoded defenses against tyrany into the BoR.
 
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or as one texan legislator pointed out 'to shoot any damn politician that tries to take your rights'.
Or as a Virginia legislator said, "...when a long train of abuses and usurpations [by government], pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."

That was passed unanimously by Congress at the time, and remains a law in force today, binding on the entire country.
 
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