Posted on 08/11/2019 7:19:55 PM PDT by SanchoP
They can’t offer anything that the dems will sign on to.
They can spout all the BS they want but, no.
They.... I’m meaning that maybe our representatives are pulling off a bluff?
It could just be the sausage of DC politics, or....these guys could really screw up.
I choose to write the President about guns and remain positive.
National Guard units seeking to confiscate a cache of recently banned assault weapons were ambushed by elements of a Para-military extremist faction. Military and law enforcement sources estimate that 72 were killed and more than 200 injured before government forces were compelled to withdraw. Speaking after the clash, Governor Thomas Gage declared that the extremist faction, which was made up of local citizens, has links to the radical right-wing tax protest movement.
Gage blamed the extremists for recent incidents of vandalism directed against internal revenue offices. The governor, who described the group’s organizers as “criminals,” just issued an executive order authorizing the summary arrest of any individual who has interfered with the government’s efforts to secure law and order.
The military raid on the extremist arsenal followed wide-spread refusal by the local citizenry to turn over recently outlawed assault weapons. Gage issued a ban on military-style assault weapons and ammunition earlier in the week. This decision followed a meeting in early this month between government and military leaders at which the governor authorized the forcible confiscation of illegal arms. One government official, speaking on condition of anonymity, pointed out that “none of these people would have been killed had the extremists obeyed the law and turned over their weapons voluntarily.”
Government troops initially succeeded in confiscating a large supply of outlawed weapons and ammunition. However, troops attempting to seize arms and ammunition in Lexington met with resistance from heavily-armed extremists who had been tipped off regarding the government’s plans. During a tense standoff in the Lexington town park, National Guard Colonel Francis Smith, commander of the government operation, ordered the armed group to surrender and return to their homes. The impasse was broken by a single shot, which was reportedly fired by one of the right-wing extremists. Eight civilians were killed in the ensuing exchange.
Ironically, the local citizenry blamed government forces rather than the extremists for the civilian deaths. Before order could be restored, armed citizen Colonel Smith, finding his forces over matched by the armed mob, ordered a retreat.
Governor Gage has called upon citizens to support the state/national joint task force in its effort to restore law and orders from surrounding areas had descended upon the guard units. The governor also demanded the surrender of those responsible for planning and leading the attack against the government troops. Samuel Adams, Paul Revere, and John Hancock, who have been identified as “ringleaders” of the extremist faction, remain at large.
And this fellow Americans, is how the American Revolution began, April 20, 1775. On July 4th, 1776 these same "extremists" as Bill Mitchell calls them, signed the Declaration of Independence, pledging to each other and their countrymen their lives, fortunes, & sacred honor. Many of them lost everything, over the course of the next few years. Lest we forget. History is a great teacher when we listen to it.
We stop listening because it’s a direct betrayal of your oath to defend the Constitution, Dan.
“Red flag” = “denial of due process”
Exact same thing.
If you can’t do it while respecting due process, you can’t do it, full stop.
institutionalize nuts not guns.
I am not saying a check never stopped anybody but they aren’t effective enough at stopping anything to merit infringing a Constitutional right. My guess is they stop more honest people than bad actors. If you look at select locations like Detroit, New Orleans, Chicago or Baltimore, do you think gun crime would be any worse without the checks?
If the guy is a meanace they nice young men in the nice white clothes, should take HIM away. But to Progressives, the gun represents collective evil.
Kris Anne Hall has a message for Dan Crenshaw and anyone who considers supporting ‘Red Flag’ laws in any form. Forty-five minutes of education. Bottom line: Unconstitutional, federal or state.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Skd9lVofnG0&feature=youtu.be
Due process?
We have that now?
Comey, Strozk, McCabe, Ohr etc.?
Due process will consist of hoping you don’t get a radical Leftist judge who wants all guns banned. On your knees for mercy.
When the jury box is filled with anti gun activists, we are all crazy
I agree. Actually, I think he wants to do something good, but is ignorant about how our government actually works. He thinks he can make a ‘good gun law’.
Shall not infringe...
Government who have instituted red flag gun laws and other forms of confiscatory gun laws have killed four times more citizens than all the wars of the twentieth century combined.
I will take my chances with the random wackos vs the Democratic ones.
1000 vs 200,000,000 is good odds
Re: armed robery, assault with a deadly weapon. etc..once they have "served their debt to society"... they should be about ready for the nursing home.
they shouldn’t be able to own weapons.
What does "owning" a gun have to do with buying a gun? Criminals steal them. Normal people buy them.
Even if you were able to deny violent people from obtaining guns, they would use knives, clubs, fire, clubs, explosive etc.
The answer is not to remove guns from the public, it's to remove violent people from the public. The prisons and mental institutions should be full of the uncivilized barbarians, child molesters, rapists....the animals of this world...not pot smokers and non-violent criminals.
Don’t take my response so personal. I did not attribute anything to you.
If anyone suggested such things, address your questions to them....don't try to put words in my mouth.
I just asked probing questions.
My position isn't rocket science, lock up the bad guys....keep them out of circulation....leave everyone else alone.
Shove it, you got no more credibility with me.
Funny how our corrupt and power hungry federal government, badly needing reform, wants to keep an eye on us. It should be the other way around.
I hereby apologize to all for ever considering Damn Crenshaw one of us.
Snook’em Danno.
“...where there is evidence that violence is about to be committed.”
Wanna bet the definition of “evidence” changes based on the political party in office at the time?
How about a Red Flag law for watching violent movies or playing violent video games. If you get tagged, then movie owners can't let you in the door, and game vendors (almost all of which are online now) can't let you play on their systems.
Of course it will never work, just like Red Flag laws only work to increase tyranny, but we'll see how much the politicians want to "do something" at very little risk to society.
“At its heart what we are talking about is the ability to confiscate weapons where there is evidence that violence is about to be committed. It’s that simple, and this isn’t that controversial.”
It’s the authority to confiscate weapons. They’ve already got plenty of ability.
And it’s extremely controversial. Not that the govt minds, since controversy is just words. In fact, words are useful in determining where you stand politically. There’s a registry for that already — I think the IRS has it. ;)
If someone is deemed too dangerous to possess firearms, then he’s too dangerous to be on the streets, and should be incarcerated.
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