Posted on 10/04/2017 5:01:07 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
I had an email from a lefty friend late yesterday, an email that ended with an expression of this person’s feeling that “we really need to have a national dialogue about guns.” That sounded suspiciously like the leftist talking point started by Tom Brokaw Monday morning and parroted by pretty much every Democrat politician and fake journalist who can still utter coherent sentences – which obviously excludes Nancy Pelosi – but I didn’t say that to this person.
Instead, my reply was very brief: “Ok, I’ll start. You can’t have my guns. Great talk.” Thus, my lefty friend may now be just a lefty acquaintance, I’m not sure, since I never got a reply. I suppose I’ll find out in due time.
This is really the only reply conservatives can offer to lefties on this subject, for one simple reason: the leftist heart is not pure on this subject.
This lack of purity of intentions becomes manifestly obvious every time we have a tragic event like the Las Vegas massacre, and every leftwinger in the country knee jerks to offering logic-devoid sophistries about the “need for more gun control” before we even know the name of the maniac who perpetrated the act.
The Las Vegas shooter is a great example of leftists’ lockstep refusal to deal with facts. Due to his work history, which included stints at the U.S. Postal Service, the IRS and a defense contractor, and in the process of legally acquiring his massive stash of firearms, we now know this scumbag somehow managed to pass more than 30 FBI background checks during his life. He obtained his guns in states with some of the most restrictive gun laws in the country, dotted every ‘I’, crossed every ‘T’, and was able to accumulate an arsenal. Y
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— President Barack Obama, during conversation with economist and author John Lott Jr. at the University of Chicago Law School in the 1990s
Senator Diane Feinstein, author of the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban
Confiscation could be an option…mandatory sale to the state could be an option
NY Governor Andrew Cuomo
We’re on a roll now, and I think we’ve got to take the–you know, we’re gonna push as hard as we can and as far as we can.
Jan Schakowsky (D-IL)
I don't care if you want to hunt, I don't care if you think it's your right. I say 'Sorry.' it's 1999. We have had enough as a nation. You are not allowed to own a gun, and if you do own a gun I think you should go to prison."
Rosie O'Donnell
Well, at this point, I probably don’t either. That was basically my last one.
The worst part isn't that they want to confiscate our guns. IMO, their true designs are less obvious but much more devious and threatening. They want to turn their political enemies into felons and enemies of the state with the stroke of a pen. They don't want us to submit to their plans, indeed, they know we will not and that unwillingness to submit is the key element of their plan.
They intend to compel the government to wage war against their political enemies while they sit back and enjoy the spectacle on MSNBC. This is what they want-a civil war that they don't actually have to fight in.
Correct. We compromise, and compromise, and they’re never satisfied. The more we give, the more they demand. It’s the liberal way.
When my brother starts the conversation with, “Any thinking person would have to agree.....” You can bet that whatever comes next, I ain’t gunna agree with. ;o)
I want the Left to finally put this thing to rest. Go ahead...get it over with. Seriously...enough bitching & moaning already...do your thing...
Repeal the 2nd Amendment, ban guns, establish a date to turn in all privately held weapons or they will be confiscated, and the owners thrown in jail. THEN...at that point, there’s only one thing left for them to do...
Come get’em.
This has always been the goal of the Leftists. The simple fact is that they have thankfully been quite ineffective in this country. However, in nations like the Soviet Union, Red China, North Korea, East Germany, Cambodia, Uganda, Cuba, and Venezuela, the Left has been extremely successful in confiscating guns. The historically inevitable result of such a successful confiscation is tyranny on a scale that we cannot imagine in this country. There is one reason, and only one reason, why Leftists want to confiscate firearms. The dirt simple reason is that they can only impose their ideology and their rules upon a disarmed populace.
I would invite anybody to take even a reasonably objective view of how government treats the people of this country, in an environment in which there are 400 million guns in civilian hands. Now consider how we would be treated if that number was 0 or anything close to it.
I am Jewish, and I have studied the Holocaust extensively. I have come to the conclusion that the reason that the Nazis enacted very severe gun control was, in the final analysis, because armed people (Jewish or not) don’t self-load into boxcars. Due to my family history on one side with the German Leftists, and on the other side with Russian Leftists, I can state with absolute and metaphysical certainty that I will never be disarmed. As a Jew, as an American, and as a human being, I have an absolute right to the means of effectively defending myself and my family, and I WILL NOT give up either that right or the means to effectuate it. I suspect that several tens of millions of my fellow citizens have a very similar set of beliefs, and a very similar determination. Good luck to you Leftists if you think that you are going to confiscate weapons in this country - I advise you to have a Will and a funeral plan ready.
“Never do a wrong thing to make or keep a friend.”
Robert E. Lee
Today, in a few minutes.
“America had a very close call in Nov 2016.”
Yes Sir! McCain, Romney...both I voted for as a lesser of two evils. I expected the Right to wakeup after Obama’s first term, but they didn’t. Obama’s second term, and the possibility of a President Hillary got us Trump (thank goodness), who I enthusiastically voted for. Trump might be a jerk sometimes, but he’s OUR jerk (thank goodness again).
I completely agree with your analysis. After 8 years of Obama systematically undermining the unity of this nation, and putting into place laws and regulations designed to permanently change the nature of this country, another four or eight years would have done us in. Frankly, the thing that worried me the most in this election was immigration. The Democrats have had a coherent plan since at least 1965 to change the electorate. This was implemented because at that point they had not won a majority of the white vote since the late 1940s, and the demographics were turning against them more and more in each election cycle. The only way for them to change their fortunes was to change the electorate through immigration from the third world. So, not only would a Hillary presidency have brought us a rabidly anti-gun Supreme Court justice, it would have put us over the edge with regard to electoral politics. The Democrats would finally have achieved their generations-long dream of a permanent lock on the presidency.
We did not just dodge a bullet last November. We dodged a firing squad, the hangman and a 10 mile wide asteroid. We literally saved our country by rejecting Hillary Clinton.
Do they realize that there are 90 firearms for every 100 men, women children and felons in the USA?
Confiscation of say 5 firearms per 100 people might be possible, but the shear numbers of firearms (hundred millions) would not be physically possible in many decades.
There is also a Constitutional provision on not taking private property without due process and just compensation. The process aspects would likely take a lifetime.
If you want a bump/slidefire stock you should get one now. The media and DemocRATS are targeting them for a ban.
“Do they realize that there are 90 firearms for every 100 men, women children and felons in the USA?”
Come on, who do you think you’re dealing with here? The only reason that these people have not slaughtered tens of millions of our fellow citizens like Stalin, Mao and Hitler, is because they have not had the opportunity. Do you seriously think that they will let a few words on a piece of paper stand in the way of them obtaining ultimate power? If you do, then you are rather naive. Sorry to be so harsh, but my family has extensive and wholly negative experience with German Leftists and Russian Leftists, otherwise known as Nazis and Communists. I know who these people are, and they will never stop trying to obtain power, and will be utterly ruthless if and when they ever get it.
Exactly. Well said. There is nothing to talk about. There will be no further negotiations on the matter. None.
Confiscation won’t be easy dickhead.
In my experience if you question or disagree with them at all during one of these “conversations” they get mad. They will begin frothing at the mouth, tell you that you don’t have the right to feel like you do- shout you down or whatnot. I don’t know why they call it a conversation- you are not allowed to talk unless you are in complete agreement with them. Their attitude is you do not have the right to disagree with them.
Well, if they really, really, really want a revolution, trying to confiscate the guns is a really good way start one.
The purpose of the guns is to prevent a totalitarian government with the likes of Mrs. Bill Clinton at the head.
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