It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong. ~Voltaire*

Civil Disobedience is a scary concept. We may pay with our livelihoods, our freedom, and even our lives; however, when faced with the slow pressure of the boot of tyranny to our neck—whether in the attempt to enforce its dominance over us or protect us from ourselves, for our own good—we will lose all just as assuredly by doing nothing.

Our founding fathers foresaw this in the Second Amendment.

So many of us have talked about it before. Just what part of:

A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

don't they understand?

And, still, they insist on bringing that boot down slowly and surely onto our necks for all of ours own good.

There are over 80 million of us with the means and even the training to resist this within the full extent of the amendment we hold so dear and sacrosanct in ensuring the successful continuation of our republic.

We also have other, less violent means that can be just as effective.

There are 80 million of us. What if we all said no?

Bob Owens speculates on a bit of this occurring in New York in a recent post over at PJ Media:

Register … or Rebel: How Many New Yorkers Will Defy New Law?
New York has estimated that there are one million firearms that fit their new definition of an “assault weapon,” and they are concerned that a large number of citizens will rip the teeth out of the law by simply refusing to register their arms. Perhaps hundreds of thousands of New York’s most law-abiding citizens are likely to make the choice to rebel against an unconstitutional law that violates their Second Amendment rights.

Perhaps of even more concern to Governor Cuomo and his anti-gun allies: this high level of resistance arose before Assemblyman McLaughlin released the list of confiscatory amendments Democrats had wanted to include in the NY SAFE Act.

NY Democrats have tipped their hand on their gun-control agenda, revealing to citizens that confiscatory disarmament of the civilian population is their goal, and that the “slippery slope” is no fable. They grossly miscalculated the public’s acceptance of their assault on the Second Amendment. What that means for the future in New York remains to be seen.

Read the whole thing. Think about it.

And, think about what others have said throughout history*:

When leaders act contrary to conscience, we must act contrary to leaders.  ~Veterans Fast for Life

If... the machine of government... is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.  ~Henry David Thoreau, On the Duty of Civil Disobediance, 1849

Human history begins with man's act of disobedience which is at the very same time the beginning of his freedom and development of his reason.  ~Erich Fromm, Psychoanalysis and Religion

We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was "illegal."  ~Martin Luther King, Jr., "Letter from Birmingham Jail," Why We Can't Wait, 1963

As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.  ~Clarence Darrow

As Always:

Be Seen. Be Heard. And Stand Firm.

* All quotes courtesy of the Quote Garden.