?The election of Barack Obama may prove history repeats itself.  Just as the alignment of the earth and moon can produce extreme tides, the repeat of two historic events, converging under an Obama administration, could trigger a political tsunami.

Consider two of the seminal events in our history.  The Civil War, and the “shot heard ‘round the world”.

The last time a tall lawyer from Illinois  was elected President  there was such dislike of his political beliefs  that fourteen States seceded before his inauguration.  All that was needed to incite the carnage (called the Civil War by the victors) was a catalyst - which Lincoln’s refusal to remove Federal troops from Fort Sumter provided.
 
Barack Obama’s political values are so alien to much of the populace, they will de facto secede from allegiance to a Federal government under his administration.  It will be the antithesis of the Bush Derangement Syndrome - with one critical difference.  These alienated won’t be unarmed liberals.  Many are well-armed, and dedicated to remaining that way!  Whether they erupt into open rebellion will depend on whether, as President, Obama provides a catalyst.  He almost certainly will - by repeating a historic miscalculation!

The debates on the ratification of our Federal Constitution are replete with references, by it’s advocates, to the role of an armed citizenry as a restraint on the national government - and enshrined that role in the Second Amendment. Obama, and the democratic leaders in Congress, prefer to ignore the Second Amendment. Gun control is one of their mantras - including confiscation.  Sooner or later an Obama administration will come for the citizens’ guns - and repeat the blunder of  British General Gage.

The political revolution, that culminated in our independence, began with the Writs of Assistance case in a Boston court in 1761.  Thereafter, the revolt was limited to political action, and acts of civil disobedience (such as the ‘Boston Tea Party’), until General Gage instigated armed rebellion on April 19, 1775.

Gage dispatched his soldiers to seize the colonists’ arms, stored in Concord.  At the Concord North Bridge, the colonists defied the legally constituted government - firing “the shot heard ‘round the world!”   The catalyst for the start of armed rebellion was the government's attempt to seize the citizens’ guns! 

When the gun-control zealots, who will inhabit an Obama administration, inevitably attempt to seize the guns of the citizens alienated by his election, it could be Obama’s  Ft Sumter.  “From my cold, dead hands...” will become the rallying cry -  and armed defiance will begin.  Then God help us all!