Posted on 04/09/2009 5:11:37 AM PDT by marktwain
BELLEVUE, Wash., April 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on April 7 acknowledged that gun registration is on her agenda, days after Attorney General Eric Holder told reporters in Mexico that the Second Amendment would not "stand in the way" of administration plans to crack down on alleged gun trafficking to Mexico.
"These are alarming remarks from Speaker Pelosi and Attorney General Holder," said Second Amendment Foundation founder Alan Gottlieb. "It appears that the Obama administration and Capitol Hill anti-gunners have dropped all pretences about their plans for gun owners' rights, and it looks like the gloves are coming off."
Pelosi's revelation came during an interview on ABC's Good Morning, America. While insisting that Congress "never denied" the gun rights of American Citizens, Pelosi told Roberts, "We want them registered. We don't want them crossing state lines..." Gottlieb noted that citizens' rights do not stop at state lines.
"But that doesn't really matter," he observed. "History has shown that around the world, registration has always led to confiscation."
In Mexico, according to the Wall Street Journal, Holder was asked if the administration might encounter constitutional issues as it tries to crack down on alleged gun trafficking. His response: "I don't think our Second Amendment will stand in the way of efforts we have begun and will expand upon."
"These comments belie administration promises and Democrat rhetoric that party leaders respect the rights of law-abiding Americans to own the firearm of their choice," Gottlieb said. "They imposed registration of semi-autos in Pelosi's California and it led to a ban, but it certainly didn't disarm criminals, like the convicted felon who killed four Oakland police officers last month. We know from Holder that the Obama administration wants to renew the nationwide ban on such firearms, but that won't prevent crime, either.
"The administration and Congressional anti-gunners have declared war on gun rights," Gottlieb said. "The press seems deliberately blind to the statements from Pelosi and Holder, who blame our gun rights for their incompetence in dealing with crime. More than 90 million gun owners haven't hurt anybody, and they are tired of being treated like criminals."
The Second Amendment Foundation (www.saf.org) is the nation's oldest and largest tax-exempt education, research, publishing and legal action group focusing on the Constitutional right and heritage to privately own and possess firearms. Founded in 1974, The Foundation has grown to more than 600,000 members and supporters and conducts many programs designed to better inform the public about the consequences of gun control.
Past time, long past time.
But not too late!
I believe theyve put the ballot box of liberty out of reach at this point, between ACORNs fraud, illegal immigrant amnesty and voting, and politicizing the census,Unfortunately I concur. Especially when 'Amnesty' gets passed.we can just forget about a political method of keeping our liberty.
30 Million illiterate peasants as new *citizens* are a RATS dream. They'll make blue districts Bluer and skew congressional districts so the RATS never lose the US House again.
In an electoral sense, yes. It could be a massacre. Only the safest Machine seats will stay 'D'.
They may never lose the House in DC again...
But they won’t win the House in Dallas for quite a while.
Why are Liberals-Socialists-Democrats so paranoid of the peasants owning guns?
Would that be the same cops that rush to a live shooting scene then dawdle outside?
I do not think there will be much 'cops storming houses' going on.
The feds, maybe gungho batf's, in targeted/stage managed for the viewing audience raids
I would be more worried about traffic stop and cuff raids of "known troublemakers."
That's all well and good but the Republicans had better choose their candidates wisely, No more mealy mouthed and parsed lawyer talk that leads people to think one thing when they mean something else. As Franklin warned us putting power and the ability to garner huge amounts of money in elected position draws the worst sots of people who will crush good people in the most unseemly ways to get those positions.
“Would that be the same cops that rush to a live shooting scene then dawdle outside?”
Good point. Just the other day, I responded to a NR Corner post about the delay in cops intervening in a shoorting this way:
More on the Binghamton Massacre [Jack Dunphy]
At the conclusion of the horrific home invasion in Cheshire, Ct, during which the paroles beat the father, raped the daughters, and slit the mother’s throat,
the Cheshire police sat outside while the daugters, taped to their beds, burned to death while waiting for the fire department to arrive.
At Columbine, the swat team never went in until the shooting stopped because it would have been difficult to identify the shooters - ya know the ones with the guns - from the victims.
Anyone who thinks a cop is going to arrive like the calvary to save them is dreaming.
ping
No. Hell no and F#$% YOU.
People need to be in “bubba networks” and keep tabs on each other.
If bubbas start disappearing or getting raided, the balloon needs to go up. Then you know it’s time for organized resistance.
People will vote with a ballot or a bullet.
That is not their job, that's yours. Those who wait for the cops get chalk lined and yellow taped.
"Bring 'em on, I'd prefer a straight fight to all this sneaking around!"
- Han Solo
Wouldn’t ya know, I lost all my weapons in a fire.
Guess I won’t be lucky enoguh to participate in Queen Nancy’s new campaign.
Was it Patton that said make the other sumbitch die for his country?
How many grabbers are willing to die for confiscation?
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