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What the left's anti-Second Amendment crusade is really about
American Thinker ^ | 20 May, 2018 | Andrew Wheelwright

Posted on 05/20/2018 9:14:46 AM PDT by MtnClimber

This discusses a reaction to the gun control debate. I am convinced that the left's war on the Second Amendment has nothing to do with public safety (even if some of their foot soldiers believe it individually, and even though the argument is renewed frequently, especially but not exclusively if a gun is used in a crime). The leaders, however, know that if fundamental transformation becomes complete, and their brand of communism is finally installed in America, allowing their totalitarian impulses to be released, it will require the installation of the usual leftist police state to maintain their power and control, complete with re-education camps and all the rest, and there will inevitably be revolts against the new regime. After all, this is "the land of the free and the home of the brave," and many people are proud of that. Suppression of what is considered a birthright (thinking for oneself) will be resented. Thus, the war on guns is nothing more or less than our aspiring progressive oppressors' pre-emptive attempt to get guns out of the hands of those who are most likely to revolt – those who prefer freedom to "Daddy, may I?"

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: banglist; liberalfascism; theleft
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1 posted on 05/20/2018 9:14:47 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

All leftist regimes disarm their subjects before the boot is placed on the throat.


2 posted on 05/20/2018 9:15:46 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

After the Second, they’ll do away with the First.


3 posted on 05/20/2018 9:17:08 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: MtnClimber

You can’t round up people into gulags for speaking their minds if they’re still armed.


4 posted on 05/20/2018 9:18:22 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: MtnClimber

The only thing the American Left has to do with the foundation of this nation was for us to kill it.

We left and they chased us. We killed them. They are back.

Draw your own conclusion.


5 posted on 05/20/2018 9:20:11 AM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: MtnClimber

Beat me to it.


6 posted on 05/20/2018 9:20:21 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: MtnClimber

Won’t happen anyway.

The largest army in the world marches in the woods each year.

20 million arned Americans go deer hunting each year.

C9ntrast that to the total 1 million LEO which is comprised of armed and unarmed officers.

Their dogma will be destroyed by Karma...(She is so hot)

Do the math...


7 posted on 05/20/2018 9:23:20 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZGw2M)
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To: Vendome

Are you sure all the cops would want to go along with shooting or disarming civilians who don’t have a criminal record?


8 posted on 05/20/2018 9:28:37 AM PDT by Morpheus2009
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To: MtnClimber

Armed citizens are an occupational hazard to criminals.


9 posted on 05/20/2018 9:32:26 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: MtnClimber

Before they confiscate, they have to register all firearms.

Since that’s not going to happen except in a few nutbar blue states, they will create an army of snitches to tell the po-po who has guns.

Using newly proliferating Red Flag/GVRO laws, the snitch goes to the po-po and wails, “he is acting erratically, he threatened me, and he has guns!” By the way, the snitch does not have to be a family member.

Po-po goes to a judge, GVRO is issued, there’s a knock on the door, and owner’s guns are seized and with no prior notification. Due process be d@mned.

Watch California. Google “GVRO abuse” and be afraid.

Pretty soon “he threatened me and he has guns” will become “he voted for Trump, and he has guns!”

The new snitch laws will be wildly overused.


10 posted on 05/20/2018 9:34:19 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: Steely Tom
After the Second ...

They are already seriously working on doing away with the First.

11 posted on 05/20/2018 9:34:52 AM PDT by Salman (Don't say "gun control". Say "civilian disarmament".)
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To: Morpheus2009

Please note post #10. If a GVRO is dropped on you, it’s like the Lautenburg question on BATFE 4473. Forever barred from owning a firearm.


12 posted on 05/20/2018 9:37:13 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: MtnClimber

It would require a second Civil War to confiscate all guns. Apparently that is the Left’s real plan, total chaos.


13 posted on 05/20/2018 9:43:40 AM PDT by DaxtonBrown
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To: MtnClimber

bookmark


14 posted on 05/20/2018 9:45:04 AM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: MtnClimber

What the crusade’s about?

Simple answer: “Most of us dead, the rest in chains”.


15 posted on 05/20/2018 9:45:09 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Morpheus2009

No, they can do math too and have hair on the back of their neck...


16 posted on 05/20/2018 9:47:31 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZGw2M)
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To: MtnClimber; All
---as one of the leading lights of the anti's said about twenty years ago , "many of our people couldn't care less about crime, they just want to beat the NRA"--

--this has taken on a more sinister turn leftward in the last few years---

17 posted on 05/20/2018 9:50:09 AM PDT by rellimpank (--don't believe anything the media or government says about firearms or explosives--)
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To: Vendome

I am willing to think that most of them figure doing to confiscation orders on people, one at a time. Who would notice?


18 posted on 05/20/2018 9:50:28 AM PDT by Morpheus2009
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To: Lurkinanloomin

“Armed citizens are an occupational hazard to criminals.”

And to tyrants of any stripe


19 posted on 05/20/2018 9:55:36 AM PDT by castlebrew (Gun Control means hitting where you're aiming!))
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To: MtnClimber

Afraid bully bureaucrats who interfere will be hunted?


20 posted on 05/20/2018 10:00:14 AM PDT by BigEdLB (BigEdLB, Russian BOT, At your service)
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