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House Democrats Readying Multi-Pronged Attack on Second Amendment
townhall.com ^ | 1/16/2019 | Bob Barr

Posted on 01/16/2019 6:11:26 AM PST by rktman

While most observers’ eyes initially focused on the drama surrounding freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s long shot bid for a seat on the powerful Ways and Means Committee, veteran Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) was quietly installed as Chair of the Financial Services Committee. For gun owners and businesses, this is a worst-case scenario.

To many of those outside observers, it might seem as if the Judiciary Committee — with primary jurisdiction in the House over firearms laws and regulations — would be the key battleground for firearms-related attacks. However, for those of us who bear the battle scars earned through years of fighting to protect the Second Amendment from attacks in the Congress, it is clear this war will be fought on many fronts, and through attacks direct as well as indirect.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
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1 posted on 01/16/2019 6:11:26 AM PST by rktman
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PRINT VERSION:

https://townhall.com/columnists/bobbarr/2019/01/16/house-democrats-readying-multipronged-attack-on-second-amendment-n2539053/print


2 posted on 01/16/2019 6:11:48 AM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: rktman

DOA in the Senate.

Assuming Democrats ever get back from vacation.


3 posted on 01/16/2019 6:12:57 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: rktman

Blah, blah, blah!

Do all you want! Only control 1/6th of Government.

As long as Nancy won’t negotiate on the shutdown, nothing will happen anyways.


4 posted on 01/16/2019 6:13:10 AM PST by dan on the right
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House Democrats Readying Multi-Pronged Attack on Second Amendment>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

And patriotic Americans are ready9ing a multi pronged attack against the Democrat party.

We will bury them if we have to.

Thank goodness for he NRA.


5 posted on 01/16/2019 6:15:33 AM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: rktman

“While most observers’ eyes initially focused on the drama surrounding freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s long shot bid for a seat on the powerful Ways and Means Committee, veteran Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) was quietly installed as Chair of the Financial Services Committee. For gun owners and businesses, this is a worst-case scenario.”

Far worse for gun owners is Trump’s anti-gun liberal puke AG pick, William Barr! You just as well put Eric Holder back in as this gun-grabber!


6 posted on 01/16/2019 6:19:12 AM PST by Beagle8U (Beto went to Liz Warren's genealogist to prove that he was 1/1000 Hispanic.)
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To: goldstategop

“DOA in the Senate.”

This article was written by Bob Barr, a former conservative legislator that lost his way big time. To try and regain relevancy he writes an article telling us Democrats hate freedom.

That is not exactly breaking news. Barr has a consulting firm and is trying to stir up some business by getting his name out there again.

But yes, Democrats want to destroy this country.


7 posted on 01/16/2019 6:20:59 AM PST by jeffersondem
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To: rktman

Since “Republicans” control Senate and Trump is in White House, who cares?


8 posted on 01/16/2019 6:22:33 AM PST by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!)
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To: goldstategop

Well, there are the “Re-pansy-cans” to be concerned about selling us down the river yet again. But it should be DOA if it ever gets to PDJT.


9 posted on 01/16/2019 6:24:38 AM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Reno89519

See #9 this thread. :-) How much snow you got? We got about 6-7” in the north valleys.


10 posted on 01/16/2019 6:25:51 AM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Reno89519

Bump-stock ban. Can we even be sure about POTUS on this? Asking for a friend...


11 posted on 01/16/2019 6:29:06 AM PST by Afterguard (Deplorable me!)
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Repeal it...shouldn't be difficult.The Amendment passes the House and the Senate and then it's approved by 38 state legislatures.

Piece 'o cake!

12 posted on 01/16/2019 6:31:09 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Mitt Romney: Bringing Massachusetts Values To The Great State Of Utah.)
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Well, there are the “Re-pansy-cans” to be concerned about selling us down the river yet again. But it should be DOA if it ever gets to PDJT.

Good call. IMHO and life's experience, most Republicans hold the same view of civil rights as Democrats.

The Republicans will just lie more about it to get your vote.
13 posted on 01/16/2019 6:33:14 AM PST by farming pharmer
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To: goldstategop

They are just running it up the flagpole as practice for after the 2020 full blown fraud election. I hope everyone has their yellow vest ready.


14 posted on 01/16/2019 6:34:33 AM PST by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: Candor7

We will bury them if we have to.

Thank goodness for he NRA.

Worth repeating again and again.....& in NY state Andrew Cuomo can go to heck. We will not comply.


15 posted on 01/16/2019 6:35:55 AM PST by Uversabound (Might does not make right, but it does enforce the commonly recognized rights of each succeeding gen)
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To: rktman

I’m at 5,214 on southwest hillside. We’ve got closer to a foot here. I shoveled driveway twice last night so this morning’s was quite easy. It is wet and heavy, already 34.7 on my PWS.


16 posted on 01/16/2019 6:42:31 AM PST by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!)
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To: Candor7

COME AND TAKE IT


17 posted on 01/16/2019 6:45:02 AM PST by Dont tread and Live (waso)
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To: Dont tread and Live

Most police officers would refuse to confiscate firearms of innocent Americans.

The left will have to create a whole new federal gestapo to
have citizen arms confiscated. And even then they would be stopped cold or dead.

The FBI was being turned into such a gestapo, until the ba$tards were caught out, trying to deny President Trump his office. Those FBI pricks, Comey, McCabe, Strozk, Page, as well as DOJ’s Ohr, Nellie Ohr, and Fusion GPS need to go down as part of that FBI gestapo, need to be prosecuted and jailed, so they never turn the FBI into a gestapo ever again.

This whole arms confiscation attempt by he left will also include creating a leftist gestapo. Count on it.

Also , huge taxes will be placed on ammunition and arms manufacturers.They must be denied in the Senate or vetoed on the President’s desk.


18 posted on 01/16/2019 6:57:58 AM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: rktman

Gun grabbers are proof some retroactive abortion is warranted in some cases.

The world would simply be a better place had they never existed.


19 posted on 01/16/2019 7:03:35 AM PST by Boomer ( Leftism is toxic poison to a free society.)
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SCOTUS could shut down a lot of this crap by including in any one of their rulings a statement that says ... any law which attempts to contain, control, catalog or infringe on a constitutionally enumerated right, will be judicially reviewed according to “strict scrutiny”.

The two main criteria being a compelling NEED by the government, and the least restrictive means of achieving that need. To that I would add “proven effectiveness” in that the law must be shown that implementation actually achieves the required goal.

As an example, allow me to use a prisoner in the custody of the state. There is a compelling need to prohibit the prisoner from possessing a weapon. This is needed to implement the sentence. Without such a restriction, the state would not be able to enforce punishment.


20 posted on 01/16/2019 8:25:31 AM PST by taxcontrol
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