What if they're wrong?

Long ago, in a former lifetime, there was a morning where I could have been found in South Carolina, in a big 4x4 Suburban, alongside a massive bean field.

There would have been found another man, a friend, in the passenger seat.  This man would be seen trying to convince me to drive through the mud and out behind a wood copse to pick up his tower stand from the field.  "Come on!  This is a big tough 4x4, ain't it?"

"Friend", I said, "lemme ask ya sumpin. You think this big 'ol truck can make it through that mud to rescue your tower stand, mostly because you don't want to carry the thing out of the field.  Well.... what if you are wrong?  What if this thing CAN'T get through that mud, and gets stuck?  We are miles from anything and anyone.  What is your plan for if you are wrong?" 

We carried that blasted stand about half a mile through ankle deep mud.

This brings me to modern days, and all the uppity talk of 'gun control this' and 'ban that' and 'Ermagerd Gotta Do Sumpin!'.

In the name of reducing SOME shootings, a minority of very annoying and noisy people (A&NP) wish to disarm SOME people in various ways.

Now, we know it's some shootings, and not all, because Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore, and Newark are holding mass shootings every weekend, only taking breaks during heavy snowfalls.  If the A&NP really cared about bodies stacking up, they'd be yipping and yapping at those cities.... but they are not.  They, for some reason, are yipping and yapping at people like me who have zero connection to violent crime.

Their twisted idea is that if *I*, and some millions of other people like me, who own firearms and have no criminal intent at all.... if they can just remove our firearms from our hands, then all will be well.  Or at least, better,  Or something, and maybe like, stuff, ya know?

Notice the SOME people who are targeted by this weird notion are NOT the people involved in shootings, or crime, or anything untoward.  Truly perplexing, huh?  It's like the plan to confiscate my Charger because someone carjacked a truck in San Diega and ran over a poodle.   Or Sumpin.   Oh... there's no plan to do that?  'Splain the difference to me, hmm?

Anywho, all this reminds me of that talk with Tom in my Suburban all those years ago.  He had, in fact, no plan at all for being wrong.  Being a sensible person he then agreed to my helping him carry his tree stand rather than risk our being stranded miles and miles from help.

This makes me wonder.  If the A&NP folks get what they want, which is me having an empty gun safe..... what is their plan for being wrong?  What if violent crime does not change?  What if the bad people they specifically did not target continue to shoot good people like us, and even more so now that we are guaranteed victims?  What is their plan to undo their failed plan?

Wait....  There is none?  If they are wrong, we are all just screwed? I don't get my property back?  What's that you say; Maybe that is the primary reason for all the yipping and yapping to start with?  It was never about violent crime at all?

Huh.... well then.....