Mission creep is inevitable. The task force’s mandate will expand as the polls broaden anti-2nd amendment laws.
Absolutely. They are eating around the edges of the Second Amendment by doing something blatantly Unconstitutional in a way that some will find palatable. It won’t stop there because it was never meant to.
And, anyway, what’s to say that the guns that are confiscated won’t just be replaced? Ask thugs in Chicago where they get their guns. And where guns aren’t legal, other forms of weapons are.
“...even small victories could translate into a life saved, a crime prevented.
“We certainly believe we’re making a difference on crime,” Richardson said...”
This I expect from WaPo. It is a ridiculously idealized statement for their dumbed down readership. Taking the gun out of the hand a of bad guy and then saying you have removed his ability to commit a crime and expecting me to believe it is assuming that I am either naive or stupid. I am neither.
And the last part of Richardson’s statement “...But it’s a drop in the bucket on the overall number of guns in circulation.” is chilling. Once they get this machine rolling, what is going to stop them.