Go right ahead and TRY to take my money!
Posted on 02/22/2014 11:21:49 PM PST by neverdem
Laws are more than just symbolic gestures. Connecticut's General Assembly must come to grips with this truth before its recent effort to “save lives” ends up destroying them.
State law enforcement officials are now in the difficult position of dealing with one of the most widely flouted laws since the end of the 55 miles-per-hour speed limit and Prohibition. If it’s really serious, the state will have to find space to imprison 300,000 residents for the next five years.
The first article of the Connecticut Constitution couldn’t be more clear. “Every citizen has a right to bear arms in defense of himself and the state,” it says.
Busybodies at the Capitol in Hartford decided that “every” doesn’t really mean every, and it banned the semi-automatic rifles that would be most useful in defense of the state. As of Jan. 1, owners of arms that have a menacing appearance had to submit registration paperwork to the state.
Only about 50,000 did so. There’s no way to know how many “assault rifles” remain unregistered, but the best guess is that the new “gun safety” law instantly created 300,000 felons.
Eager to exploit the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, easily frightened lawmakers rushed to add yet more hurdles to gun ownership in the state. Those wishing to possess a pistol already had to pay fees, take tests and fill out paperwork to obtain a firearms-purchase permit.
Separate permission from the state was required just to buy ammunition in a process that must be repeated every five years. Bearing arms outside the home requires another permit that the state may, or may not, issue at its discretion...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
I suspect the next step the state will do is announce a week-long “amnesty” for those flouting the law to come forth and comply with the registration requirement. That will have essentially the same level of failure as the law’s initial deadline. Even in states like CT, some folks know unconstitutionality when they see it.
Further, that 300,000 estimate doesn’t include the supportive family members of those refusing to register.
Somebody in Hartford needs to read up on what is happening in Ukraine
There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals one makes them.
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Repetition is a good teacher.
I think at this point a mention of the 1986 gun control act might be appropriate. In essence it cracks down on machine guns, by limiting those available for purchase and in so doing virtually BANS those particular weapons. The supply is now so limited and the price so high that it is indeed a BAN and the sooner the law abiding among us fight the unconstitutionality of such the sooner we will all be able to afford what government sought to overregulate and ban with the original NFA of 1934.
“Shall not be infringed” has been going on since at least as long as the NRA has been in existance, and for that the NRA should be taken to task as well.
Indeed it does, and I copied but didn’t paste, although I’m tempted, because repetition is a good teacher.
You have a trove of interesting “stuff”.
They CANNOT be managed nor can they be contained. The end result is never certain, but the Rule of Law will be the first KIA in this fight.
Amen to that MG01.
“If it’s really serious, the state will have to find space to imprison 300,000 residents for the next five years.”
FEMA Camp?
And HOW many illegal aliens are there?
And HOW many lawMAKERs want to give the lawBREAKERs amnesty?
Can’t we give our own CITIZENs ‘amnesty’ for actually FOLLOWING the law??
Here in the Indy area, we’ve just wasted 8 folks in 12 hours recently!
Surely we’ve made the news out in your neck of the woods.
(Any guesses as to the LEGAL sales of guns that this factoid will generate?)
Go right ahead and TRY to take my money!
We might get to see how important a cop’s paycheck is to him.
In a year we might be saying thank God for Conn. Who would have thought it possible?
Just for my info, how can you make sure you can’t be shot? This is very important to me and I am sure armies all around the world would pay big bucks for this. You could be a future billionaire.
When gun owners start flouting the law like they are illegal aliens or pot smokers it’s time for the government to start worrying, or sending out SWAT teams to enforce their totalitarian requirements.
Low-info, name-recognition voters.
The road to you-know-where notwithstanding, I do not believe 0care was intended by its architects and builders to actually help anyone other than the marxist/socialist Democrat political class.
Cordially,
These patriots' refusals are no different than a jury's absolute right, nay DUTY, to refuse to sanction an unjust and/or unConstitutional persecution.
“This is VERY SERIOUS stuff. In an unltra lib blue state yet.....People have said enough is enough.”
Th proof is in the results at the polls. (Provided that a Progressive isn’t counting the votes.)
Progressives in blue states really can’t bring themselves to vote outside of the comfy Alice-In-Wonderland world they’ve made to fit their maladjusted world view.
They will vote for Progressives no matter what they might
“feel” at the moment of tyranny by their own revolutionary brothers.
IMHO
What you say about progressives is also true of life long democrats or multi generational democrats. These people are who the progressive organizers count on to reflexively stay “democrat” no matter what.
We all work with some of them or go to church with some.
These are people that would never nominate Obama, vote for socialized medicine, can’t stand the 300% increase in food stamp dependents, feel that the open border crap is suicide, feel that scofflaws abound due to racial games in courts and many other thing that should make them leave the democrat party — but they can’t. They can’t identify themselves as “conservative” or republican.
They have a mindset that to make that change would make them a “bad” person or a person who didn’t “care.”
The progressives love these guys who will ride their pony to the gates of hell.
“What you say about progressives is also true of life-long democrats....”
Democrat or Progressive?
Really no difference these days.
Democrats/Progressives love the obnoxious, psychotic,
adolescent, aggressive, denigrating, demeaning stance of Progressive politicians.
Maybe they they were abused as children and think that Progressive politicians are “protecting” them from a boogeyman. Whatever the case might be, the problem is not the politicians, but those who vote for them, again, and again, and again.
IMHO
They already gave “amnesty” for a month or so. I think the amnesty period is over. And as you suggested, I’m pretty sure that failed also. The way I see it, their only remaining options are concede defeat before burying thousands of gun owners and SWAT team members, or bury thousands and then concede defeat. The former would probably be less expensive.
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