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All the result of an explosion of liberals in news media and education since about 1960. The “informers” lied and censored.
The Democrats have been screaming for gun registration and bans since 1962.
1962-Call for Handgun registration ONLY! “Rifles will not be affected.”
1963-Call for registration of All guns and a ban on 5 shot army surplus rifles!
1968-Got a ban on small foreign handguns and 5 shot bolt action army surplus rifles.
1971 Call for Ban on small American handguns. “Rifles will not be affected!”
1975 Call for Ban on all handguns. “Rifles will not be affected!”
1981 Actress Lee Grant on ABC’s GMA yells...
“The NRA is a rifle organization! They should give up their handguns and they can keep their rifles!”
1984 Call for ban on semi-auto rifles.
1994 Ten year “ban” on “a-s-s-ault rifles”.
2000 Call to ban single shot .50 cal rifles.
Rest assured if they get a ban on semi-auto rifles, they will be back for the handguns, and more, and more and more.
Assault Rifles are banned and regulated.
AR does NOT mean assault, which is an emotion for a thing, such as an assault rock.
Need ONE conservative judge to NULLIFY all AR laws.
All. Now.
“Hell yeah...” Stalin-like, Mao-like, Chavez-like GOVERNMENT SPOKESMEN with DEMANDS.
1) O’Rourke
2) Biden
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. - Declaration
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Walter, the “gun-grabbers” are MISREADING us, also!
Americans will not allow their guns to be “grabbed!”
Bttt.
5.56mm
I like what the author is trying to do, but he misleads us by omitting the entire category "Firearms - type unknown" that was in the report.
|
Handguns |
6603 |
47% |
|
Rifles |
297 |
2% |
|
Shotguns |
235 |
2% |
|
Firearms (type unknown) |
3130 |
22% |
|
Knives or cutting instruments |
1515 |
11% |
|
Other weapons |
1671 |
12% |
|
Hands, fists, feet, etc.2 |
672 |
5% |
I agree in principle but hate it when people mislead by twisting the data.
As always, Walter is absolutely brilliant in his observations and opinions.
I believe I once saw a Sears ad from the twenties or thirties era for a fully automatic Thompson sub-machine gun. As I recall, the price was under $200!
So in some distant parallel universe Beto gets elected. He passes, against all odds in congress and surviving the Supreme Court, an Assault Weapons Ban. And just as he said, he came for all our ARs and AKs, and we gave them all up.
The next school shooting will be with a shotgun, and it will be at least as messy. Or, like the Virginia Tech shooter, the shooter will use handguns, or the Texas Tower shooter who used a ‘sniper rifle’ (standard deer rifle) ...and the body count will be the same or worse...
Then the whole gun ban cycle starts over again and another class of firearm is banned,,,until they all are.
The second Amendment isn’t about hunting or sporting. It is about self defense and tyranny.
They want to ban firearms because they want to do things that a well-armed population would never allow.
That is exactly what all this is about. It most certainly is not about "public safety" or reducing crime. As the statistics point out current "gun control" efforts such as the idea of an "assault weapons ban" (whatever that is) - even if 100% successful would not make any difference.
Consider, if every single semi-automatic rifle was pulled from the streets - note that this is a much broader definition than the typical "assault weapon" hand waving... Even if you got every one, legal and illegal the effect on crime and deaths would be so small it would literally take a mathematician/statistician to tell us what the effect had been after a few years. Because to the casual observer the effect would be lost in the noise of typical year-to-year variability in the data.
So why bother? Because the would-be gun-grabbers think it is potentially achievable. Like the old joke about looking for a lost wallet under a street light, this is what they think they can do right now. If you look at the proposed bans in the context of their stated objectives they make no sense whatsoever. None. We can prove mathematically and through objective real-world examples that they will not work. Some of the places with the worst gun related crime are the very places with the most stringent "gun control" laws.
So have the gun control advocates lost their collective minds? Why else advocate for something demonstrably futile? Because the stated reasons and goals are a lie. What are the real reasons, the real goals? Well, I missed divination class at school so we'll have to make some deductions and formulate some theories the old fashioned way: based on observation and experience.
What we see is a first step. An effort that will ultimately fail at it's stated objective. However, it will pave the way for additional steps towards that same stated goal, safety, while also making gains towards the real goal of disarmament. In a word, incrementalism. When "assault weapons" bans inevitably fail to have any noticeable effect on crime & deaths, something like a complete ban on semi-automatics will be tried. (that idea has already been floated at least once) Limits on magazine capacities. Also laughably ineffective at impacting crime they do serve the purpose of getting people used to having their rights limited. Then perhaps a ban on handguns (a-la several Countries such as Great Britain)...and on and on towards complete civilian disarmament.
Like the author, I am very concerned about what their plans are for us once we lack the means to potentially resist those grand dreams. History and the experiences of populations in other Countries would indicate these grand dreams are more nightmarish for the rest of us. Don't think it can happen here? Ha! Search for "gun control followed by genocide" - I'm sure the people in those Countries didn't think it could happen there either. Let's learn from their mistakes, not learn the hard way.
If I take the time to attempt to discuss with gun grabbers I will start with...
Have you EVER sexually assaulted or raped anyone?
If answer is no, I will say that we are going to cut off your ‘tallywacker’ to help cut down on rapes.
THEN they (rightfully so) say that is foolish.
Well I have never shot anyone so how does taking away MY gun help?
Liberal logic:
12,000 gun homicides per year - outlaw guns.
70 drug deaths per year - legalize drugs.
Nah. No real doubts about it. But there IS a remedy:
U.S. Code § 2384:
Seditious conspiracy
If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.