Posted on 12/18/2013 8:34:12 PM PST by rightwingerpatriot
It's a busy time defending the Second Amendment of the US Constitution. While progressive liberals try to push their anti-gun agenda on the country, citizens are fighting back to hold on to their liberties. Recently there's been a few ongoing events in the fight against gun control and here are some highlights.
In my home state of Florida, gun sales are skyrocketing this holiday season. Background checks over the Thanksgiving weekend was at an all-time high and this sales rush is continuing into Christmas buying. The FDLE (Florida Department of Law Enforcement) has reported that there were 200,000 more background checks in 2013 than in 2012, and a total of almost 400,000 more than in 2011. By the 15th of December, there were already 40,000 background checks alone. This means that the total number of background checks in Florida will hit over one million. Of course, this doesn't just mean a million firearms are purchased as each background check can be multiple guns. Florida has been pro-Second Amendment despite many attempts by progressive liberals to push gun control. The fact is that there are almost 1.2 million concealed carry holders in the state.
In Rhode Island, residents of the town of Exeter are deciding on whether or not to recall four town council members who wanted to change how gun permits are issued. People wanting to gain a concealed weapon permit have to apply to the state's attorney general or the local police. As Exeter, population of 6000, has no police, the town clerk has been handling the permits. The council members say that the town clerk can't handle the background checks and wanted the state legislature to take the responsibility for issuing the permits away from the time. Gun rights supporters weren't happy and have pushed to remove the council members. This is one method how gun control zealots restrict our freedoms by making it more onerous to exercise that freedom. Coming from a small town, I'm pretty sure that the town clerk wasn't handling hundreds of concealed weapon permit applicants every month.
The legislation that Kansas passed earlier this year stating that they would not enforce federal gun control within their state is gaining momentum nationwide. The law makes sure that it has some teeth and punishes those who seek to undermine the Second Amendment rights of Kansas citizens and could force those state and local officials who try to do the dirty work of the feds could find themselves losing their job, funding, or contracts with the state. So far, thirty states have started work on similar laws for their own state. Attorney General Eric Holder isn't happy with this development as he can't have us pesky peasants disobeying our betters.
The federal government, under the auspices of the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency), and about two dozen states are banning lead bullets and replacing them with copper bullets. The US military is phasing them out by 2018 at a projected cost of over $18 billion. The reason is to protect the environment but analysts are predicting that the price of ammunition will go up as a result. Higher-end lead bullets have a comparable cost to copper ones, but lower-end lead bullets are far cheaper than copper. Another consequence of this shift will be the increase in cost of copper, which is heavily used in electronics and in home construction. Hmmm....such a scenario would then make ammo much more expensive, putting it out of the price range of poorer people. I'm sure that such a situation is merely coincidence.
Finally, Hollywood is getting ready to smear Charlton Heston and the NRA. The Sundance Channel is making a production called Cold Dead Hands and will supposedly look at the gun control debate from both sides. I believe this as much as the thought that I'll wake up tomorrow with six-pack abs and a supermodel wife. The Sundance Channel is crazy liberal and the project is being written and executive produced by Scott Gold of the LA Times. The movie will supposedly focus on a fictional NRA president, Trip Thibodeaux. Just reading the press release shows where this turd is going: "The project, written and executive produced by Los Angeles Times journalist and fiction writer Scott Gold (whose credits include the CBS drama “Under the Dome”), will focus on Trip Thibodeaux, the fictional and polarizing head of the NRA. A father and husband, Thibodeaux also happens to be the nation’s most powerful gun-rights advocate and a de facto CEO of the gun industry. Thibodeaux will be forced to navigate a volatile landscape in American culture and politics, as well as crises of his own faith, when his rarefied world spirals out of control." Sure sounds it'll be fair and un-biased, right?
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