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, its not clear the something Democrats typically demand would make a real dent in the nations epidemic of gun violence. Congress can ban assault weapons, but they account for just a tiny sliver of the countrys 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 arent 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, theres no way around it: Theyll 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 ...
But don't forget, no one is trying to take your guns away...right?
“... 310 million ...”
For a guaranteed case of the vapors, tell this guy it’s actually 400+ million.
The 10th Amendment , indeed the entire Constitution, means nothing to the scum on the left.
There is no delegated power given Congress for even existing gun control laws ... so I politely invite these gun control freaks to perform a geometrically implausible sex act upon themselves.
David,
No. Come and take them.
Your move.
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Senator Murphy...disarm Capitol police and your bodyguards.
No?
Now you know how we feel.
And then tell him how many high normal capacity magazines are out there. Hundreds of millions at least, surely.
FU David “Scharfuhrer”
It’s way past time for common sense, comprehensive Spending Control so the ‘rats can’t get reelected by buying votes with gov’t money.
Boston always did love gun confiscation.
About 290 million of those weapons were accidently lost overboard on the many lakes and waterways of America. Good luck finding them.
One has to wonder what part of “Kiss my Obamahole” is not understood by the Boston Globe left of the Bell Curve dwellers.
That’s why I religiously avoid large bodies of water when carrying.
No confiscation team would survive first contact.
GUN CONTROL
Ultimately, we can’t show cause and effect for events that occurred years ago. But here is some history that you can research for yourself. This is what CAN happen when the people are disarmed, regardless of how much time passes before it actually occurs. Ask yourself this: can events like this even happen if the people are armed?
1911, Turkey
Established gun control. From 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million Armenians, were rounded up and exterminated. Search Armenian Genocide.
1929, Soviet Union
Established gun control. In 1937, about 2million dissidents, including 30000 military officers, were rounded up and imprisoned or executed. Search The Great Purges
1935, China
Established gun control in 1935. From 1948 to 1952, 20 million political dissidents were rounded up and exterminated.
1938, Germany
Established gun control. From 1939 to 1945, leaving a populace unable to defend itself against the Gestapo and SS. Hundreds of thousands died as a result.
The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing. Indeed, I would go so far as to say that the supply of arms to the underdogs is a sine qua non for the overthrow of any sovereignty. So let’s not have any native militia or native police. German troops alone will bear the sole responsibility for the maintenance of law and order throughout the occupied Russian territories, and a system of military strong-points must be evolved to cover the entire occupied country.” - Adolf Hitler, dinner talk on April 11, 1942, quoted in Hitler’s Table Talk 1941-44: His Private Conversations, Second Edition, Pg. 425-426.
1956, Cambodia
Established gun control in 1956. From 1975 to 1977, 1-2 million ‘educated’ people, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated. SPECIAL NOTE: The law was passed in 1956, but was not used for 20 years. But it WAS used.
1964, Guatemala
Established gun control. From 1964 to 1981, 100,000 Mayan Indians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
1970, Uganda
Established gun control in 1970. From 1971 to 1979, 300,000 Christians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated. The total dead are said to be 2-3 million.
Without the outright repeal of the second amendment, they can pass a law requiring surrender of firearms. The question will be, compliance. I estimate it to be less than 0.05%.
Suck my AR......
Maybe David Scharfenberg should try to forcibly confiscate a few to show everyone how easy it is?
The real question for Leftist Progressives is this, How many death are acceptable to accomplish Gun Confiscation??? Like the Communists, is it Millions to get your way??????
Has the concept of Human Life become Cheap Enough to justify whatever price must be paid for You the Left to force your will upon those of us that disagree with you????????
I think it is time for democrats to stop their whining and come take our guns, not send the police, not send the UN or the Army, but just come themselves and take our guns.
I welcome and look forward to their visit, for after all coyotes, wolves, buzzards, crows etc need to eat too..
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