Posted on 10/11/2017 4:58:55 PM PDT by markomalley
Former Obama White House advisor Dan Pfeiffer called for the United States to implement an Australian-style gun confiscation program in an article published on Wednesday.
Former President Barack Obama previously said in 2016 that the United States should consider following the example of Australia, which enacted a "mandatory buy-back" of guns and created a gun registry. Pfeiffer echoed that view in Wednesday's article, published on Crooked, a media site founded by three former Obama staffers. Pfeiffer argued Democrats should propose such a program and outlined an extensive regimen of gun restrictions that Democrats could support, advising they stop "insincere pandering" to gun owners.
"We are nibbling around the edges instead of proposing bold, meaningful solutions," Pfeiffer wrote. His suggestions included implementing a national gun registry, mandating "smart-gun technology," and rolling-out a buy-back program similar to Australia’s.
Pfeiffer accused Democrats of being "brainwashed" into expressing support for the Second Amendment and the culture of gun owners.
"Democratic politicians have been brainwashed by political hacks like me to begin all of their statements about guns by declaring support for the Second Amendment and a deep affinity for the cultures of hunters and sportsmen," Pfeiffer wrote.
He suggested Democrats’ failures only indicate they should ramp up their ambitions on gun control.
"The Democratic gun control strategy fails because it is defined by this poverty of ambition—the determination never to look beyond fear of political repercussions," he wrote, going on to propose a series of unprecedented actions to curtail gun rights in America.
Pfeiffer justified his position, not by calling for a repeal of the Second Amendment as some recently have done, but rather, by saying the Second Amendment does not actually protect an individual's right to own a gun.
"The interpretation of the Second Amendment that prevails on the far right today was reverse-engineered to pander to fantasists," he wrote.
He rested his case on his broad criticism of the District of Columbia v. Heller Supreme Court decision, but he said, regardless, the Second Amendment is outmoded.
"The Second Amendment is in many ways an anachronism, framed before the age of drones and cruise missiles, when a well-armed civilian militia have actually been capable of turning back a foreign invasion," Pfeiffer wrote. "Times change. This is not Red Dawn. You are not Patrick Swayze. Chill out."
While some have argued the Second Amendment was only intended for defense against foreign invaders, the interpretation has not held up in the Supreme Court. Instead, the Court has interpreted "the right of the people to keep and bear Arms" literally. Nonetheless, the former Obama advisor is confident that retaking the courts will let Democrats move beyond the "ridiculous" precedent regarding the Second Amendment.
"It is certainly true that our short-term policy positions must pass the Heller test, but it is also a major strategic error to confine our vision to a Supreme Court decision that many legal scholars find ridiculous and many generations of judges would find astonishing," Pfeiffer wrote.
Pfeiffer comes to the conclusion that Democrats would be politically wise to stop trying to win over so-called gun voters by pandering, like they do now.
"None of this is to say that Democrats should write off ‘gun voters,’ but we should stop trying to win them over with insincere pandering on the gun issue," he wrote.
"We have failed to date because we have failed to make robust, courageous, and honest arguments to the country," Pfeiffer added.
Don’t doubt they know that..............
Amen. Molon Labe.
A. Insane comment like that only shows just how dangerous these commie Nazi leftists are, or want to be
There comes a time in your life when you actually wish they would TRY and confiscate unregistered guns.
Try it! Come on, Try it! You ain’t got a hair on your a$$ if you don’t try it!
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So is the 13th Amendment. There has not been slavery here in 150 years. So let’s repeal the 13th Amendment as ‘outmoded’.
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13th needs to be STRENGTHENED. Every payday is economic slavery-day; every SS/MediXYZ/welfare office is a reminder of the same....Death taxes, estate taxes, capital gains, income tax, sales tax, property tax, license, permits, fees, tickets, registration...tax, by any other name.
Slavery was only abolished for ~70 yrs. It’s alive and well today, none dare care it by name though.
When the red coats confiscated guns...
Not many. And ranchers and station owners have licenses other people cannot get.
You have to prove why you need any gun in Australia and you can only get certain types of guns with certain licenses. No state decided good reason, no license, no gun. And they did require people to turn in their weapons. I have read the articles where people said they had to turn them in.
Dan Pfeiffer will have a difficult time confiscating weapons while hanging from a lamppost. But do try, Miss Snowflake.
You want our guns? OK fine...but please have your life insurance paid for...
Give Pfeiffer some credit in this argument and method. It is not so far fetched to believe this would be efforted in Congress should Dems hold the Presidency and Supreme Court tilted left.
BAN DEMOCRAT GUNS
I call for a ban on Democrat gun ownership.
1) Democrats agree that guns are bad.
2) Democrats murder Republicans at an alarming rate.
3) It is Constitutional since many Americans still own to protect all people.
It is a WIN WIN all around!
the Second Amendment is outmoded.
The progressive/Democrat/Communist think all the rest of the Constitution is to. If they get rid of the second the rest will be easy. To make it worse, if it happens, the NYTimes, etc will be begging gun owners to save the 1st Amendment.
Like nineteen pages of forms to fill out is why most people just give up. Meanwhile a cop was gunned down by a sniper shortly after that law was passed and the PM earlier stated that “we’ll be safer now” - how many gun deaths have happened since? Yep, sure did work, didn’t it?
We need to water the liberty tree with his a##
Talk to your children, nieces and nephews. And make clear to all your siblings, to create a verbal plan now. Whoever gets terminally ill, takes money contributions from the others and buys up many weapons.
Upon death, the lake story holds, all weapons were lost in the boating accident.
Now your family decendents own unregistered firearms. Bury some will only a verbal map where.
Plan now.
I actually love it, when Democrats reveal to the public what they really want to do. “[A] national gun registry, mandating ‘smart-gun technology,’ and rolling-out a buy-back program similar to Australia’s” are all losing propositions. If the Dems push that agenda between now and 2020, they will guarantee a second Trump term...
No, the Australian police said, “turn in your registered guns which used to be legal until the PM decided you shouldn’t have them, or we will be at your door, you will be under arrest and in far worse trouble than if you had just complied and handed them over voluntarily.”
Own any Remington 870 shotguns? They’re illegal in Oz, now.
G’day, mate!
If it gets to the point where you need to bury them you have reached the point where you have to use them.
(Sigh) Who does this mental midget think is going to volunteer or be told and comply with such an order to do confiscation?
Was 600,000 dead during the First Civil War not enough?
If you really, really, really want another civil war, that's a good way to start.
It tells us though absolutely, this is what the Democrats want on their road to a totalitarian government.
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