Free Republic
Browse · Search
Bloggers & Personal
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

The Left Is Convinced Americans Won’t Fight For 2nd Amendment Rights
Western Journalism ^ | Jan 7, 2013 | Doug Book

Posted on 01/14/2013 6:18:23 AM PST by KeyLargo

The Left Is Convinced Americans Won’t Fight For 2nd Amendment Rights

Once cowed at the thought of provoking Second Amendment supporters, leftists will soon attempt to ban “assault weapons” (and much more) as legislation offered by Dianne Feinstein makes its way to the Senate floor. It seems that D.C. liberals have finally become convinced that American gun owners are too cowardly, too lazy or too dependent upon the generosity of Big Brother to fight for their Second Amendment rights.

During the past four years, the gun banning-Left have watched as American buyers broke sales records in the purchase of semi-automatic rifles. Opting for these and other powerful, efficient weapons, it is estimated that some 100 million private citizens are now in possession of over 300 million firearms. And these numbers continue to grow with each passing month.

Yet it’s against this backdrop of America’s unprecedented determination to assert the fundamental permanence of Second Amendment guarantees that Diane Feinstein, Michael Bloomberg, Barack Obama and others will choose to implement gun bans, demand the federal registration of firearms, and even legislate outright confiscation.

Maybe Democrats are confident that fallout from Sandy Hook will provide the floor votes necessary to disarm the American people. But if the Left is willing to risk picking this fight with millions of American gun owners, it must also believe something far more important—that Americans who have spent years arming themselves against the ultimate expression of tyranny by their own government–the overthrow of the Second Amendment– will choose to not fight when the time finally comes.

(Excerpt) Read more at westernjournalism.com ...


TOPICS: Government; History; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: 113th; banglist; bho44; bhobanglist; biden; bloodoftyrants; bloomberg; california; control; cw2; cwii; cwiiping; democrats; diannefeinstein; donttreadonme; efad; feinstein; govtabuse; guncontrol; guns; leftist; molonlabe; newyork; nocompromise; obama; secondamendment; styg; theleft; tyranny; youwillnotdisarmus
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-6061-72 next last

“Mark the date, it isn’t gonna be long before moderate Republicans start going on television to push the notion that guns are hurting Republicans with independent voters and women.” Just like abortion, just like the pro-lifers are hurting Republicans with independents. Just like immigration. The moderate linguine-spined Republicans, it isn’t gonna be long as this controversy heats up, you know, they wilt with a little heat. It doesn’t take the moderate Republicans long to slink away. They don’t like having to stand up and defend what they believe. They’d rather give away a core belief. They’d rather annunciate something that would make them friends with their enemies."

Read more: http://conservativebyte.com/2013/01/moderate-gop-will-wilt-on-guns/#ixzz2HxW0Bsm6


1 posted on 01/14/2013 6:18:32 AM PST by KeyLargo
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: KeyLargo

2 posted on 01/14/2013 6:22:25 AM PST by PROCON (Never underestimate the power of low information voters in large numbers.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: KeyLargo

The Left Is Convinced Americans Won’t Fight For 2nd Amendment Rights ....

O’rly?


3 posted on 01/14/2013 6:23:06 AM PST by Hang'emAll (Ride to the sound of the guns!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: KeyLargo
STICK TO YOUR GUNS

STICK TO YOUR GUNS - NO MATTER WHAT

4 posted on 01/14/2013 6:24:11 AM PST by SENTINEL (Kneel down to God. Stand up to tyrants. MOLON LABE !)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: PROCON

>> HOW THE LEFT VIEWS GUN OWNERS

(nervous chuckle)

Say... if you know where that guy got his high capacity magazines could you FReepmail me? Thx


5 posted on 01/14/2013 6:28:41 AM PST by Nervous Tick (Without GOD, men get what they deserve.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: KeyLargo

This is about way more than guns. The kenayn will use this as a test EO.

There is are a lot other items on the marxist wet dream list that they can’t get through Congress. Barry would be happy to EO them but first he needs to measure how the courts and the GOP will respond.


6 posted on 01/14/2013 6:29:09 AM PST by lodi90
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Nervous Tick

Brownells is a good place to check.


7 posted on 01/14/2013 6:29:28 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (In the game of life, there are no betting limits)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: Eric in the Ozarks

>> Brownells is a good place to check.

Oh I tried them! Midway too. The only thing that’s still in stock are the one-round and the one-half-round mags. ;-)


8 posted on 01/14/2013 6:31:36 AM PST by Nervous Tick (Without GOD, men get what they deserve.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: KeyLargo
Q. Can anything less than a military force carry the Stamp Act into execution?

A. I do not see how a military force can be applied to that purpose.

Q. Why may it not?

A. Suppose a military force sent into America; they will find nobody in arms; what are they then to do? They cannot force a man to take stamps who chooses to do without them. They will not find a rebellion; they may indeed make one.


Benjamin Franklin, Testimony Against the Stamp Act (1766)
9 posted on 01/14/2013 6:32:52 AM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: KeyLargo

The Left has gone bonkers. They assume they can do anything they want.


10 posted on 01/14/2013 6:33:23 AM PST by popdonnelly
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: PROCON

"Yes, Barry. Let me know when you want to round up all of those GOD and gun lovers."

Colin Powell On Gun Control: ‘Why Can’t We Test Everybody’ Before Gun Purchases? "Powell is looking forward to Vice President Joe Biden's formal recommendations on curbing gun violence. VP Biden's report is expected Tuesday."

11 posted on 01/14/2013 6:33:44 AM PST by KeyLargo
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: KeyLargo

If we do not retain our 2nd Amendment Rights, then all of the other Rights are just words written in ink on paper (or parchment) by “a bunch of old, dead, slave-owning white guys” which have no relevance in the modern world.

Which Right will disappear next? Or will the rest go one immediately after the other?

Domino Theory anyone?


12 posted on 01/14/2013 6:33:59 AM PST by BwanaNdege ("To learn who rules over you simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize"- Voltaire)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: KeyLargo

Here is a great way to contact ALL those who represent you and let them know where you stand on the issue. Join the fight!

http://www.ruger.com/micros/advocacy/takeAction.html


13 posted on 01/14/2013 6:34:32 AM PST by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo....Sum Pro Vita - Modified Descartes)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: KeyLargo

Keep thinking that, leftards.


14 posted on 01/14/2013 6:35:34 AM PST by ScottinVA (More dizzying than a Tilt-a-Whirl is an around-a-circle argument with a liberal about gun control.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: BwanaNdege

Actually, the 1st amendment right to FREE EXERCISE OF RELIGION was severely attacked by this administration already.


15 posted on 01/14/2013 6:38:00 AM PST by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo....Sum Pro Vita - Modified Descartes)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: KeyLargo

My prediction - None of the legislation being discussed will ever make it the floor for a vote in either chamber. If you are a Democrat Senator from a flyover state, voting for an anti-2A bill is going to get you primaried faster than a pizza disappears at a Weight Watchers meeting.

Ultimately, I believe Obama will try to EO away ammunition. He will go through the EPA (lead), HHS (public safety) and/or Homeland Security (anti-terrorism.)


16 posted on 01/14/2013 6:38:12 AM PST by IamConservative (The soul of my lifes journey is Liberty!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: BwanaNdege

Guns and freedom

By Judge Andrew P. Napolitano

Published January 10, 2013

FoxNews.com

“To assure that no government would infringe the natural rights of anyone here, the Founders incorporated Jefferson’s thesis underlying the Declaration into the Constitution and, with respect to self-defense, into the Second Amendment. As recently as two years ago, the Supreme Court recognized this when it held that the right to keep and bear arms in one’s home is a pre-political individual right that only sovereign Americans can surrender and that the government cannot take from us, absent our individual waiver.”

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/01/10/guns-and-freedom/#ixzz2HxbZrQpx


17 posted on 01/14/2013 6:38:54 AM PST by KeyLargo
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: KeyLargo
If this is true, they have made their last mistake...

μολὼν λαβέ


18 posted on 01/14/2013 6:39:08 AM PST by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: KeyLargo

"I'm tryin' to think, but nothin' happens!!"


19 posted on 01/14/2013 6:41:08 AM PST by ScottinVA (More dizzying than a Tilt-a-Whirl is an around-a-circle argument with a liberal about gun control.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: popdonnelly

They’re morons and civic-ally illiterate.

Here in Michigan the newspaper reporters are still screeching that everything the state GOP does being illegitimate because Obama won the election. Yet those same reporters won’t even respond to anyone who points out that Obama didn’t win a single seat in the state legislature.

They’re desperate for a one way dictatorship.


20 posted on 01/14/2013 6:42:22 AM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-6061-72 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Bloggers & Personal
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson