Posted on 12/15/2015 12:27:03 PM PST by Torcert
Oh, dear.
The Associated Press has looked at what's happened since Sandy Hook, and they've come to realize that their dreams of gutting the Second Amendment have failed spectacularly.
But in the three years since, many states have moved in the opposite direction, embracing the National Rifle Association's axiom that more "good guys with guns" are needed to deter mass shootings.
In Kansas, gun owners can now carry concealed weapons without obtaining a license. In Texas, those with permits will soon be able to carry openly in holsters and bring concealed weapons into some college classrooms. And in Arkansas, gun enthusiasts may be able to carry weapons into polling places next year when they vote for president.
Dozens of new state laws have made it easier to obtain guns and carry them in more public places and made it harder for local governments to enact restrictions, according to a review of state legislation by The Associated Press. The number of guns manufactured and sold and the number of permits to carry concealed weapons have also increased, data show.
The Associated Press isn't completely distraught, however, as it points to tiny totalitarian Michael Bloomberg and his personally bankrolled gun control groups as bright points in their otherwise collapsing movement. Bloomberg has had some limited success when he pours millions of dollars into carefully chosen political races.
What Bloomberg's not doing, however, is winning on a national level, which is why he's been forced to fight stop-gap fights on the state level to limit the damage to his cause of citizen disarmament.
We're winning..... and they can't stand it.
He actually told me he knew only one who owned a gun, and nobody who had ever served in the armed forces.
They have not yet begun to lose.
This isn’t 1930’s Germany. Mankind is wiser based on that experience,
Some of us learned from history - the rest will always be idiots.
Hadn’t told enough lies or spin yet.
Later
Sadly, you are correct.
However, a lot of dissent on those other issues are simmering beneath surface, the national socialists can’t really tout their success on the economy and that is at least partially caused by the fiscal issues.
We can thank the media and Obama for stirring up so much fear that the country has mobilized against gun control and it’s also been a boon for gun sales.
They might try, but the genius of the founding fathers is that people can look at how successful those measures are in the places they’ve been implemented.
And aside from the “Surrounding areas” excuse, they won’t be able to show much success.
I do find that idea of ‘call-in background check only’ very intriguing and something on which I would like some more information if available.
As many have pointed out - if a background check is supposed to be about the purchaser, WHY do they need to know about the gun?
It's time to disband the "F Troop" SWAT squads and send them back to chasing down cigarette tax evaders.
Another big G. W. Bush mistake - Moving the BATFE from Treasury to Homeland Security instead of disbanding them.
In order for him to have disbanded the BATFags, he would have had to admit that NFA, GCA and the Hughes Amendment were all unconstitutional. As to the other matter ... yeah, they should be collecting excise taxes on booze and butts; maybe chasing moonshiners.
Why does the federal government check out an American citizen buying a gun more thoroughly than a muslim jihadi who wants to enter the USA?
Well dang! I missed the boat!
Israel knows how to control terrorism and is doing a fairly good job of it. Good for them. I think Americans can do even better.
Obama defined “the class enemy” with his `bitter clinger’ speech in 2008.
Defined as resistant to his agenda & having the means to resist.
His mentality is no different from Stalin’s, only that Obama has no NKVD and the peasants have guns, lots of guns.
The media are Obama’s running dogs; punishing gun rights people is deeply satisfying to them too.
It’s class warfare, very simple. So who are Obama’s “politically friendly” elements? Look no further than Black Lives Matter, the Occupy movement, and.....MUSLIMS.
All three of those support Obama’s contention that the white majority shouldn’t be allowed to have guns. However, the correlation of forces is against them. Their frustration becomes therefore more & more strident with hysterical calls to ban all guns from all citizens (except the aforementioned politically friendly ones).
Confiscate all the guns......can anyone say “logistical nightmare” or “armed insurrection”?
GOP misses another opportunity to pull the boot of government oppression from America's throat.
The would like to repeal the 2nd Amendment if they could. Use the courts of they must.
The first one is political suicide.
The second, I don’t see how the court interprets “the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed” to limit or eradicate firearms. No doubt they will still try.
Well, it’s not like the Moonshine, Cigarettes and Sawed-off shotgun bureaucracy has done things like send thousands of guns over the border to cause crime.... Oh wait... THEY DID!
That mostly depends on who they think is their enemy....
They lost in the 80’s and they lost their friend the USSR.
This time around they are going to lose their ‘collective’ minds when we win and set about dismantling their national socialist system..
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