Posted on 11/28/2013 7:29:20 AM PST by Kaslin
Citing polling data with poorly (or dishonestly) worded questions, anti-Second Amendment ideologues often argue that gun control is popular.
The real test, though, is what happens on election day. That’s why it was such big news when two incumbent Democrats from Colorado’s State Senate were defeated in a recall election.
They both represented districts that had voted for Obama, yet they were easily tossed out of office after voting for legislation to restrict the rights of law-abiding citizens.
Well, as Yogi Berra would say, it’s deja vu all over again. Another statist politician has been forced out of a job in Colorado. Here are some details from a local news report.
Political thug gives up her seat after undermining constitutional freedoms
State Sen. Evie Hudak has decided to resign rather than risk facing a recall election… Hudak, D-Westminster, could have been the third Democratic lawmaker to face a recall over a package of gun control bills they helped pass earlier this year. Sens. John Morse, D-Colorado Springs, and Angela Giron, D-Pueblo, both decided to fight recall elections against them, but were ousted in September in favor of Republican replacements.
So why is she throwing in the towel? Because she thinks she will lose and that would give the GOP control of the State Senate.
Hudak is playing it safe. By resigning before the signatures are turned in, she assures that a Democratic vacancy committee will appoint her replacement, keeping the seat — and the senate — in the party’s hands, at least through November, when her successor will be forced to win reelection.
It’s almost a shame that there won’t be a recall election. Not because I care about whether Republicans take over the State Senate, but rather because I would like to see the outgoing Napoleonic Mayor of New York, Michael Bloomberg, squander more of his fortune on another Colorado contest. He blew a lot of money on the earlier gun-related recall elections, and he also dropped a lot of cash on a failed effort to replace the state’s flat tax with a so-called progressive scheme that would set Colorado on a path to becoming another California.
But I won’t let that little detail reduce the happiness I feel that a political thug has been forced to resign. Particularly since that sends a signal to other politicians all across the nation.
Since we’re on the topic of gun control, this is a great opportunity to call attention to a powerful column by Stephen Halbrook. He explains how the Nazis used gun control to advance their totalitarian and murderous agenda.
Historians have documented most everything about it except what made it so easy to attack the defenseless Jews without fear of resistance. Their guns were registered and thus easily confiscated.
He provides some of the sordid history of the period.
The Nazis immediately used the firearms-registration records to identify, disarm and attack “enemies of the state,” a euphemism for Social Democrats and other political opponents of all types. …The Gestapo cautioned the police that it would endanger public safety to issue gun permits to Jews. …By fall of 1938, the Nazis were ratcheting up measures to expropriate the assets of Jews. To ensure that they had no means of resistance, the Jews were ordered to surrender their firearms. …This scenario took place all over Germany — firearms were confiscated from all Jews registered as gun owners. …Under the pretense of searching for weapons, Jewish homes were vandalized, businesses ransacked and synagogues burned. Jews were terrorized, beaten and killed. Orders were sent to shoot anyone who resisted. SS head Heinrich Himmler decreed that possession of a gun by a Jew was punishable by 20 years in a concentration camp.
So what’s the message. Halbrook puts it in very stark terms.
Today, gun control, registration and prohibition are depicted as benign and progressive. Government should register gun owners and ban any guns it wishes, Americans are told, because government is inherently good and trustworthy. The experiences of Hitler’s Germany and, for that matter, Stalin’s Russia and Pol Pot’s Cambodia, are beneath the realm of possibility in exceptional America. Let’s hope so.
Most people assume that such awful things could never happen in America.
And maybe they’re right. But when you look at very grim numbers showing that the United States is headed for a fiscal collapse, and when you consider that there already has been rioting in Europe as the welfare state implodes, it doesn’t require a very vivid imagination to think that America could face some very tough times in the not-too-distant future.
That’s why I argued, in this interview with NRA TV, that gun ownership is very important in the event of societal breakdown.
Let’s conclude with a bit of gun control satire.
My fourth-most viewed post is a montage of dictators who supported gun control. But some dictators are worse than others.
And the former head of the National Socialists definitely is in that category.
So, given the wise words we just read from Stephen Halbrook, let’s all keep in mind this very powerful message from Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership.
P.S. If you want more information on gun control, I strongly recommend this analysis from an actual firearms expert, as well as remarkable admissions from leftists that can be read here and here.
P.P.S. If you’re interested, my three posts with the most views are the set of cartoons showing why welfare states collapse, a joke about California and Texas, and a story of how you can use beer to explain the tax system.
Like someone said earlier, the recall effort should not stop. Renew the process for the replacement selected.
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Bloomberg is not bowed. When confronted recently with the news of the successful recalls he said the money he spent was a great success because .....
THE LAW IS STILL IN PLACE.
—am about half done with Halbrook’s latest book—good read—and history is repeating itself, as events in New York and California —
When confronted recently with the news of the successful recalls he said the money he spent was a great success because ..... THE LAW IS STILL IN PLACE.
Bets on the Republicrats troubling themselves to undo the damage?
It’s pretty obvious the “resignation” (I think it’s a trick) is designed to keep the seat from falling onto Republican hands, nothing more. Yes, the recall must continue.
This will be in the minds of any politician in any other state thinking about passing another gun control law.
I hope that those who mounted the recall campaign immediately announced recall campaigns against two other weak Democrat senators.
First of all, it will be a parting shot at this senator’s scheme of resigning, unless the other two senators resign as well. But it would still be a win, replacing two senior Democrat senators with inexperienced and nervous freshmen.
But second, it needs to be done to thoroughly kill any other radical efforts in their state legislature. It will cow their other Democrat senators into not wanting to do anything objectionable until after the next election.
And it won’t be repealed until the Republicans regain control of both houses and the governor’s seat.
But how does it do any good? If Dems are allowed to do this, they can effectively immunize themselves against recalls. Your opponents stare a recall drive? Just wait till they waste their time and money collecting signatures, then swap tyrants! In fact, if the recall process is tied to the name of the legislator rather than to the seat per se, they could just have two resign and switch places. That way even the individual legislators needn't fear those who are supposed to be their masters.
Yup. What’s going to keep it from becoming standard procedure is the fact that entrenched pols will have to do the resigning. Of course, that can be undone also by merely running again in the next election. The LIVs have their backs.
What should happen, is have the recall anyway, and let the voters choose the replacement. But I’m betting the state won’t allow that, and will deem the recall ballot moot. This will establish a new underhanded Rat tactic, along with the fleebagging they’ve done from other states to prevent quorums from being formed.
Here in Utah the demo craps want to have it the other way around. Our Republican Attorney General recently resigned amid allegations of campaign financing irregularities, which BTW have yet to be proven. Normally the Republican Governor would appoint a successor from the same party, but the rats are screaming their heads off for a new election so they can get one of their lackeys in office. Of course we should all know these two political cases are completely different because...well, er... uhhh...one was in Utah and the other in Colorado, which are completely different states. Only the demonrats could have their cake and eat it too.
And like I said, they could probably just resign two of them and appoint them to each other’s seats. What needs to happen is an initiative that makes it pointless, IOW, it’s not a recall drive but a special election drive. If you get enough signatures to force a new election for that particular seat, it will do them no good to rearrange the namecards. The election still takes place.
There should be a Dracula stake-in-the-heart Clause, so a sitting representative who loses a recall (or resigns to avoid one) is prohibited from running for that or any other office in the future.
They may have been paid off so well they don’t care.
Conservatives should not let their guard down and believe the recalls did the job. When the law needs to be repealed, then the job is done.
Ooh, I like that idea, at least for the preemptive resignation.
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