***The next big thing on the horizon will be the demonization of gun owners. Obama’s folks and their MSM lackeys will paint gun owners as worse than smokers, SUV owners and molesters.***
They have been doing that since at least 1961 when Thomas J. Dodd and Emanual Cellar proposed a federal handgun registration scheme.
1961. We don’t want to take your guns away, we only want to register handguns. Long guns will not be affected.
1964. We don’t want to take your guns away. We only want to register all of them!
1968. We don’t want to take your sporting guns away. We ONLY want to register them and ban ONLY the import of foreign Saturday night specials and five shot WWII military bolt action rifles!
1968 “Today we make America safe by taking the guns out of the hands of criminals!”...LBJ when he signed the 1968 gun control act into law.
1971. We don’t want to take your sporting guns away, we ONLY want to ban Saturday night specials.
1976. We don’t want to take your long guns away. We ONLY want to ban all handguns!
(From the original Handgun Control Inc group)....”We only want to control handguns. Long guns will not be affected.”
1981. The NRA is a rifle organization! They should give up their handguns! And they can keep their rifles! (Good Morning America guest Lee Grant the day after Reagan was shot)
1989. We don’t want to ban your hunting rifles and shotguns. We ONLY want to ban handguns AND Assault rifles and shotguns.
We ONLY want to ban assault rifles and shotguns AND all fifty cal. rifles and handguns!
They lied to us in 1961.
They lied to us in 1964.
They lied to us in 1968.
They lied to us in 1971 and 1976.
They lied to us in 1981 and 1989,
And they are lying to us now.
Good post.
An interesting background point:
You start your review with Thomas J. Dodd (Father of Chris Dodd) in 1961.
T.J. Dodd, then a military lawyer, was a low level assistant to the prosecutors at the Nuremberg trials of Nazi war criminals. In that capacity he acquired a copy of the Nazi gun laws enacted to disarm opponents during and after Hitler’s rise to power.
Later, as a US congressman, he had the German law translated into english (by the library of congress, no less) and utilized much of it in writing what became the the 1968 anti-gun legislation.
Slightly over half of the 1968 US bill was copied, almost verbatim - often including punctuation and grammatical errors - from the German bill.
In the book, “’’Gun Control’’: Gateway to Tyranny” published by JPFO (Jews for Preservation of Firearms Freedom) a chapter consists of side by side views with the German text on the left page and the US text on the right. The correlation is beyond question!