Posted on 01/07/2004 12:42:07 PM PST by 45Auto
By Ted Lang
It has been pointed out to me by readers that I erred in going along with the description of so-called "assault rifles" as being "weapons." But the term "assault rifles" is a misnomer as well. And this is not by either accident or due to ignorance these misnomers are crucial to the destruction of our Second Amendment.
Leftist gun controllers mislabel themselves as well. Theyre not "controllers," but rather abolitionists. They even deliberately mislabel their leftist agenda as being "liberal;" its not. Liberals are what Thomas Jefferson, George Washington and Benjamin Franklin were. And not one of them would support todays so-called "liberal" agenda characterized by the insanity that demands that all Americans turn their guns in to government, the latter strictly prohibited from enforcing such unconstitutional, freedom-crushing statism by the Second Amendment.
The first step in destroying freedom is in controlling the language. That aids greatly in controlling the minds and the will of the people. The next step is controlling the press. These are the First Amendment issues protected by the peoples right to own and carry firearms, recently abolished by the Ninth Circuit Court and ratified by the failure of the U.S. Supreme Court to come to the defense of the Constitution.
..... The squeeze play of the ever-increasing infringements on our gun rights on the one side, and the erosion of our protections from arbitrary police state persecution originating from citizen criticism of government, as well as skyrocketing police state tactics characterized by the killing of our pets, the confiscation our cars, homes and private property on the other, is threatening to blow up in all our faces. There are those who believe government can throttle US they havent seen 300 million Americans on a rampage once it becomes clear to an enraged populace that this is the only option left.
The term "assault weapon," or "assault rifle," is valid only when describing long arms capable of firing fully automatic, in controlled bursts, or in single trigger-pull semi-automatic. Those long arms designated by Feinstein, Schumer, Clinton and now Bush as "assault weapons," are only capable of firing single trigger-pull semi-automatic. They are not machine-guns. The terminology was carefully engineered by Feinstein/Schumer and their ilk to set the precedent for disqualifying legitimate firearms that arent machine-guns on the basis that they are semi-automatic actions and rifles. The ultimate objective is to ban rifles and shotguns.
This will be accomplished by likening the semi-automatic actions of legitimate handguns to the banned semi-automatic actions of the banned and to-be dreaded "military assault weapons." And in New Jersey at this moment, the Feinstein/Schumer representative in the New Jersey Legislature, the state where the term "assault rifle" was originated and first legislated against, Assemblyperson Loretta Weinberg rammed her "smart gun" law past a collection of linguini-spined, despicable Republican wimps and wusses. Count on the Feinstein/Schumer ilk to cut orders for the Bush regime and the gutless wonders in Congress to adopt that stupid law as well!
As might be recalled, the "assault weapons" fraud was necessitated when the citizens in northern New Jersey threatened to resort to their rifles to stop then-Governor "Toxic Tom" Kean [yeah, that one!] from poisoning constituent-sparse farmland by transporting radon-infected soil from a high constituent city. Kean warned the residents not to interfere with the truck convoy and cautioned State Police would escort it. Residents faced Kean down, and the next thing you know, his successor, Democrat Jim Florio, introduced the "assault rifle" ban.
What is desperately needed here is an open debate to educate the populace who have been brainwashed by the leftist media and Bill OReilly into thinking that the subject of the ban consists of military machine-guns. Looks like a job for the NRA! Where are they? In New Jersey, just prior to Loretta Weinbergs "smart gun" ban, the NRA was cutting a deal with James McGreevey when he was running for governor. He promised not to support the legislation in return for the NRAs backing. Surprise! He lied! Loretta scared the hell out of him and he caved!
"A lot of gun owners are upset about some of the powers that have been given to the federal government," he said. "We're going to try to change that." When asked about the right to bear arms, Feingold acknowledged he originally voted in favor of banning so-called semi-automatic "assault weapons." But he said he hasn't sponsored legislation to continue the ban and is now "leaning against" renewing it. "At these town meetings over the years, I've heard a lot of people say there might have been some misinformation about what these weapons - guns - really are," Feingold said. "There are some semi-automatics that really aren't assault (weapons)."
I wrote her an e-mail and explained that a 25 millimeter hand gun would be pretty rough to handle. She responded that she did not want to do the story in the first place, that she thought guns were "icky" (her word) and did not want to discuss it any further.
WOW. Bet that recoil is something else. :)
"The CMP was created by the U.S. Congress. The original purpose was to provide civilians an opportunity to learn and practice marksmanship skills so they would be skilled marksmen if later called on to serve the U.S. military. Over the years the emphasis of the program shifted to focus on youth development through marksmanship. From 1916 until 1996 the CMP was administered by the U.S. Army. The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996 (TITLE XVI) created the Corporation for the Promotion of Rifle Practice & Firearms Safety, Inc. (CPRPFS) to take over administration and promotion of the CMP. The CPRPFS is a tax exempt not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization that derives its mission from public law."
From: Ed Chenel, A police officer in Australia
Hi Yanks,
I thought you all would like to see the real figures from Down Under.
It has now been 12 months since gun owners in Australia were forced by a new law to surrender 640,381 personal firearms to be destroyed by our own government, a program costing Australia taxpayers more than $500 million dollars.
The first year results are now in: Australia-wide, homicides are up 3.2 percent, Australia-wide, assaults are up 8.6 percent; Australia-wide, armed robberies are up 44 percent (yes, 44 percent)! In the state of Victoria alone, homicides with firearms are now up 300 percent. (Note that while the law-abiding citizens turned them in, the criminals did not ! and criminals still possess their guns!)
While figures over the previous 25 years showed a steady decrease in armed robbery with firearms, this has changed drastically upward in the past 12 months, since the criminals now are guaranteed that their prey is unarmed. There has also been a dramatic increase in break-ins and assaults of the elderly.
Australian politicians are at a loss to explain how public safety has decreased, after such monumental effort and expense was expended in "successfully ridding Australian society of guns." You won't see this on the American evening news or hear your governor or members of the state Assembly disseminating this information.
The Australian experience proves it. Guns in the hands of honest citizens save lives and property and, yes, gun-control laws affect only the law-abiding citizens.
Take note Americans, before it's to late!
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