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Boston Globe: Hand Over Your Weapons
Boston Globe ^ | 11/10/17 | David Scharfenberg

Posted on 11/12/2017 6:00:03 PM PST by Simon Green

In the AFTERMATH of the Texas church shooting last week, Democratic lawmakers did what they always do: They skewered their Republican colleagues for offering only “thoughts and prayers,” and demanded swift action on gun control.

“The time is now,” said Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy, “for Congress to shed its cowardly cover and do something.”

Trouble is, it’s not clear the “something” Democrats typically demand would make a real dent in the nation’s epidemic of gun violence. Congress can ban assault weapons, but they account for just a tiny sliver of the country’s 33,000 annual firearm deaths. And tighter background checks will do nothing to cut down on the 310 million guns already in circulation

In other words, the proposals aren’t just difficult to enact in the current political climate; their practical effects would also be quite limited. On occasion, though, leading Democrats will make oblique reference to a more sweeping policy change: seizing a huge number of weapons from law-abiding citizens.

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There are 310 million handguns, shotguns, and semi-automatic weapons in American homes, garages, and waistbands.

Ultimately, if gun-control advocates really want to stanch the blood, there’s no way around it: They’ll have to persuade more people of the need to confiscate millions of those firearms, as radical as that idea may now seem.

(Excerpt) Read more at bostonglobe.com ...


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To: Simon Green

Doing that would make the War On Drugs look like a Sunday walk in the park.

We can’t even staunch the flow of illegal drugs; the last thing cops want is to be burdened with confiscating guns.

For that and a lot of other reasons, it will never happen.


21 posted on 11/12/2017 6:19:06 PM PST by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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To: Lurker

+1. They can have mine after they’re empty.


22 posted on 11/12/2017 6:19:32 PM PST by steel_resolve (And an angel still rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm)
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To: Simon Green
Gun control is never mentioned when Chicago or any other Dem-controlled urban hellhole averages a dozen killings per weekend. No, we know the real reason why that is.

It's because it serves two of the Left's purposes: That inner-city black lives don't mean nothing, so if blacks kill each other it's all good, and (2) if confiscation does occur, the thugs will still have their guns and can use it to subjugate the disarmed until the Left fully takes control, and then the thugs will also be forced to turn in their weapons as well (many of them will meet their demise as well because the Left hates black people)

23 posted on 11/12/2017 6:20:51 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (10% pure, flat income tax for everyone. No deductions, credits, or loopholes.)
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To: Simon Green
if gun-control advocates really want to stanch the blood

Sounds like they are thinking about a surefire way to increase the hell out of it.

24 posted on 11/12/2017 6:22:23 PM PST by doorgunner69
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To: Simon Green

.... Is there any conceivable turn of events in our politics that could make confiscation happen? And what would a mass seizure look like...

They would run out of confiscators long before success.


25 posted on 11/12/2017 6:23:39 PM PST by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winning.)
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To: DAC21

They seem to think that it will be police officers and gun owners shooting at each other. They haven’t realized that it will be the gun owners mowing down anti-2nd Amendment liberals in record numbers that the police won’t be able to protect, they’ll be too overwhelmed.


26 posted on 11/12/2017 6:25:28 PM PST by guitar Josh
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To: Simon Green

I never buy a new handgun or rifle without buying at least one additional high capacity magazine.


27 posted on 11/12/2017 6:27:10 PM PST by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: Sasparilla

I don’t trust our current bumbling, incompetent Congress as far as I can throw it...or any succeeding Congress for that matter. State legislatures are just as bad if not worse. Can’t give them an inch and in fact have to take back lost ground.


28 posted on 11/12/2017 6:28:22 PM PST by Bonemaker
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To: Simon Green

No, David, but I’ll be happy to give you my bullets.

How many would you like?


29 posted on 11/12/2017 6:28:51 PM PST by chris37 (Take a week off racist >;-)
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To: Yosemitest

I find it hard to understand why the public schools so avoid this.


30 posted on 11/12/2017 6:29:13 PM PST by Bob Celeste
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To: Simon Green

Why do they think being defenseless is safer?


31 posted on 11/12/2017 6:31:05 PM PST by GregoTX
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To: Simon Green

Why do they think being defenseless is safer?


32 posted on 11/12/2017 6:31:05 PM PST by GregoTX
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To: Simon Green

Come get em a-hole


33 posted on 11/12/2017 6:32:05 PM PST by clamper1797 (We are getting close to the last "box")
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To: Lurker
Bring it liberal scum!

Blood will run as fast as the mouth.

34 posted on 11/12/2017 6:32:23 PM PST by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Simon Green

35 posted on 11/12/2017 6:37:44 PM PST by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: Simon Green
Liberals should lead the way and give up their weapons and put signs in front of their houses that states “This is a gun-free house”.

Newspapers, TV studios, celebrities, and leftis politicians need to get rid of their armed security and announce it proudly.

Come on lefties, put your money where your mouths are.

36 posted on 11/12/2017 6:38:16 PM PST by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: Simon Green

Leftwing Athist and Anti-Fa member murders men, women and children for being Christians. And they want the Christians to hand in their guns?


37 posted on 11/12/2017 6:38:39 PM PST by JohnyBoy (The GOP Senate is intentionally trying to lose the majority.)
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To: Rurudyne

“There is no delegated power given Congress for even existing gun control laws”

The problem is that it isn’t Federal Law that’s really at issue today, it’s the plethora of confusing and conflicting state laws. I am the last person to support Federalism, but the Second Amendment is Constitutional Law, which trumps all the state laws it seems to me. The problem we have had is a SCOTUS that acts like a doctor that picks at a life-threatening wound but does nothing to sew it up! The United States needs a Federal Law passed by Congress and signed by the President that preempts every single state gun law and sets the law as the Second Amendment.


38 posted on 11/12/2017 6:39:04 PM PST by vette6387
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To: DuncanWaring

For a guaranteed case of the vapors, tell this guy it’s actually 400+ million.

400+ million indeed! Almost every gun owner I know owns 5 or more. And almost every one wouldn't tell someone taking a survey.


39 posted on 11/12/2017 6:39:07 PM PST by 867V309 (Lock Her Up)
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To: steel_resolve

Hot
Empty
And
Dirty
Head


40 posted on 11/12/2017 6:40:40 PM PST by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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