Posted on 06/25/2016 4:48:38 PM PDT by John Semmens
Democratic members of the House of Representatives staged a sit-in to publicize their quest for stricter gun controls. Distressed that the murder of 50 night club patrons by an Islamic terrorist in Florida has not sufficiently weakened GOP support for the Second Amendment, more than two dozen Democrats seized the House floor for more than a day, vowing to block House business until their demands are met.
Sit-in participant Rep. Mike Doyle (D-Pa) used the event to call for "a major revision of the Second Amendment, because Americans don't agree with it and we've had it. The Amendment may have made sense when the average person needed a firearm to shoot dinner or resist the oppression of King George, but it's clearly outdated today. We get our food from the supermarket and no one needs guns as protection against a government elected by the voters."
Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga) brushed aside charges of hypocrisy among the well-guarded members of the government. "The average person is at low risk compared to us," Lewis contended. "Poll after poll shows the members of Congress are held in very low esteem by the general population. If that population is armed we are all in grave danger. The people are many and we are few. We need the protection of armed bodyguards and a general disarmament of the rest of the population just to even things up."
The claimed "reasonable" proposal to bar those on the government's "no fly" list from obtaining firearms has some significant flaws. For one, the list is secret. Only the government knows who's on it. Placing a person on the list is solely at the discretion of the government. Errors appear to be frequent. Awareness that one is on this list often comes unexpectedly as a person tries to board an airline. Getting off the list involves lengthy and expensive court proceedings. Chris Anders, senior legislative counsel at the ACLU, characterized the proposal as "unreasonable and unfair. It is akin to a 'secret enemies list' that can be used by the government to selectively deny the Constitutional rights of individuals it doesn't like."
Ironically, the trend in gun ownership is inversely related to the murder rate. In the 20-year period from 1993 to 2013 gun ownership rose by 54% while homicides committed with guns fell by 49% and the non-fatal injuries inflicted by armed criminals fell by 76%. However, according to sit-in prot
if you missed any of this week's other semi-news/semi-satire posts you can find them at...
http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,213447.0/topicseen.html
I have read lots of John’s articles. I saw the semi-satire at the top. Yet, midway through, I forgot it was semi-satire, and was taking it all in. John is very good.
Sadly the commie left doesn't care about keeping the American people safe. They're not worried about criminals getting guns. They have to take guns away from the law-abiding. That leads to ultimate power and control - government control, gun control, ammo control, thought control, flag control, people control, healthcare control, totalitarian control.
Hope that Democrats become extinct in our lifetime.
At least they got a free chicken meal.
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