Posted on 04/13/2009 5:14:23 AM PDT by Scanian
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, announced last week that she wants to register guns. Her next move will be to try to confiscate them.
The speaker picked a television show with a viewership of 4.6 million to float the Democrats' coming gun-control push. Questioned on ABC's "Good Morning America" about the prospect of new gun-control laws now that "it's a Democratic president, a Democratic House," she responded, "We don't want to take their guns away. We want them registered."
Politicians and bureaucrats routinely claim that registration helps solve crimes. If a registered gun is used in a crime and left at the crime scene, registration supposedly lets the police trace the gun back to the criminal. Though this turn of events might work on fictional TV crime shows, it virtually never occurs in real life. Criminals' guns are rarely left at crime scenes. When guns are left behind, it usually is because a crook has been seriously injured or killed and the police are poised to catch him anyway.
The few guns left at crime scenes rarely - if ever - are registered to the perpetrator. If they are registered at all, it is to someone else, whose piece was stolen. Despite what Mrs. Pelosi might think, those who use guns to commit major crimes such as robbing and killing are unlikely to respect her request to file paperwork so the government can catalog the tools of their trade.
Numerous examples disprove gun-control propaganda. Hawaii has had licensing and registration of guns for about 50 years.
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Thanks for the link. I wasn’t aware that SKS owners actually had to turn their weapons in. I think that if they try that nationwide, there will be a lot of blood in the streets and especially in the halls of Congress.
States need to start aggressively asserting states rights as Texas is doing. Otherwise the only solution to this aggression by the Left as they continue with their plan to over-step the law and constitution - is succession and reformation.
The answer may eventually lie in just breaking it up. The Democrats have spent decades working on Balkinizing this nation, and have been successful.
Libtards can live in their Blue Zone areas infested with crime and welfare dependency where only criminals have guns and prey on them, heavily taxed, with the Nanny Govt. telling them what to do every second of the day - the rest of us can live free in a sensible and prosperous society with the Govt. off our backs.
There is something growing and we all know it.
One thing to remember about the leftist ideology and mindset - it’s about control.
They will not let liberty minded people escape their control without a demand to forcefully re-integrate them under their control.
We would GLADLY let them go and form their own little enclaves, if they’d just leave us alone, but they have a very different mindset.
Its always about control.
When the National Socialist Workers Party started invading other nations to take control of their resources, land and people - warriors from America and other lands fought off and defeated the aggressors to deny them that control.
When Hussein invaded Kuwait, warriors from America and other lands fought off and defeated the aggressors to deny them that control.
When Hussein continued on his quest for WMDs, warriors from America and other lands attacked and destroyed the forces of Hussein to deny them that control.
When NeoMarxist aggressors sought to illegally take away freedom in America......that story is currently being written.
That may vary from state to state. I have purchased a few guns at PA gun shows and had to fill out the standard paperwork for the NICS criminal background check, show ID, etc.
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