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 ...
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.
+1. They can have mine after they’re empty.
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)
Sounds like they are thinking about a surefire way to increase the hell out of it.
.... 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.
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.
I never buy a new handgun or rifle without buying at least one additional high capacity magazine.
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.
No, David, but I’ll be happy to give you my bullets.
How many would you like?
I find it hard to understand why the public schools so avoid this.
Why do they think being defenseless is safer?
Why do they think being defenseless is safer?
Come get em a-hole
Blood will run as fast as the mouth.
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.
Leftwing Athist and Anti-Fa member murders men, women and children for being Christians. And they want the Christians to hand in their guns?
“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.
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