Posted on 08/12/2008 1:35:26 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The 2008 Democratic Party’s draft platform confirms that the party still “doesn’t get it” about Second Amendment gun rights versus the Utopian fantasy that gun control laws will somehow make neighborhoods safer, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today.
“While promising to preserve our Second Amendment rights,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb, “the party platform demonizes semiautomatic sport utility rifles and wants them banned, calls for anti-gun show legislation and proposes so-called ‘common-sense’ gun laws. Many Democrats believe bans on most guns are ‘common sense’ and they still support the handgun ban in Barack Obama’s hometown of Chicago. Boiled down, all it really means is that the Democrats are still the party of gun control no matter how they try to re-package the rhetoric, and they know it.”
Gottlieb, co-author of a new book called These Dogs Don’t Hunt: The Democrats’ War on Guns, said the party is shamelessly telling American gun owners that they embrace the rights of millions of shooters, hunters and gun collectors, “but there’s a caveat.”
“The party’s gun control platform plank puts the lie to everything they say,” he added. “As Democrats descend on Denver to nominate a candidate who is on record in opposition to sensible concealed carry laws, we encourage gun owners across the country, and especially in Colorado, to remind the party that the Supreme Court in June held that gun bans are unconstitutional. Yet here they are, calling for a ban on so-called ‘assault weapons’ even after years of experience tells us that Bill Clinton’s ban accomplished nothing, and cost the party control of Congress in 1994.
“Democrats want to regulate gun shows out of business,” he continued, “even after a study done for the Justice Department found that gun shows are rarely the source of firearms used by criminals. Gun shows provide a forum, a gathering place for law-abiding gun owners to discuss ideas and issues, and share constitutionally protected freedoms of speech, assembly and the right to keep and bear arms. Increasingly, Democrats seem averse to the exercise of these rights by anyone who does not share their philosophy. And this is the party of inclusion?
“Democrats have an opportunity to reject and repudiate this platform,” Gottlieb concluded. “If they do not, that tells American gun owners everything they need to know about Democrats as November approaches.”
With more than 650,000 members and supporters nationwide, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (www.ccrkba.org) is one of the nation's premier gun rights organizations. As a non-profit organization, the Citizens Committee is dedicated to preserving firearms freedoms through active lobbying of elected officials and facilitating grass-roots organization of gun rights activists in local communities throughout the United States.
Yet they are favored to win even more seats in Congress. Amazing. Thanks RINOs!
“Yet they are favored to win even more seats in Congress. Amazing. Thanks RINOs!”
If they don’t allow a vote on drilling for oil, they may LOSE a few seats!
Given the change in the number of “shall carry” states between the late 1980’s (1) and now (around 40) it’s hard to see how this is going to help the democrats.
Do you honestly believe that?
Why shouldn’t I?
In its early days it certainly was.
I do not know.
"Do you honestly believe that? "
Does that mean you don't?
I asked you first.
Are they serving Tapioca Pudding at your house this evening?
You didn’t ask An Old Man anything first.
If thinnking, as I do, that gun control laws are stupid exercises in futility, then I guess you can not only call me a racist, but a very strongly opinionated one on the subject.
I just noticed that. I will most certainly expend my full energies in an effort not to repeat such a resoundingly horrible and offensive mistake in the future. I do hope he hasn’t suffered any permanent disabilities as a result of my criminal oversight.
In my state, it's provably true. Read the research on GeorgiaCarry.org on ''The Racist Roots of Gun Control'' and see for yourself.
I would agree that racism plays a smaller part in the gun ban movement than it used to, but it is still a factor. Any time someone uses the term “Saturday Night Special,” they are using a racist term whether they know it or not.
Gun control is not futile, but has a very specific agenda. It is packaged as crime control (for which it is not only futile, but extremely counterproductive), but the real agenda is civilian disarmament to facilitate a government/criminal monopoly on the use of force. This can be used to keep the populace “pacified.”
What comes after that is a terrible thing to contemplate, but contemplate it we must, as history shows that the logical end is usually some kind of genocide.
That being said, here’s a fun game to play with people you encounter who are gun-control proponents. Ask them, “who do you want to be killed in a genocide?” It’s a great way to either end the conversation, or take it in an unexpected direction (for the recipient of the question, anyway).
You have to read the first part of that poster to get your answer.
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