Posted on 05/17/2019 3:14:46 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
Two Democratic legislators introduced the “Disarm Hate Act” this week, which calls for the permanent revocation of 2A rights for any misdemeanor offense deemed to be a hate crime.
The bill was brought to both chambers, via Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI) in the House and Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) in the Senate. Sponsors believe the bill closes the “Hate Crimes Loophole” by banning the sale and possession of firearms for anyone convicted of committing a crime on the basis of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability.
“Over and over again we have seen what happens when a convicted white supremacist, white nationalist, or neo-Nazi is able to purchase a gun,” said Cicilline, who serves as Vice Chair of the House Gun Violence Prevention Task Force, in a statement obtained by GunsAmerica. “This bill closes the Hate Crimes Loophole and makes it much harder for someone to give voice to their hatred in a volley of gunfire. It’s just common sense. If you’ve been convicted of a hate crime, you don’t get to buy a gun. Full stop,” he added.
John Feinblatt, the president of Bloomberg-funded Everytown for Gun Safety, cheered the measure. “When hate comes armed, it can be deadly,” said Feinblatt. “But right now, there is no federal law that prevents people convicted of misdemeanor hate crimes from owning or buying guns — a situation that defies both common sense and common decency.” “We applaud Rep. Cicilline and Sen. Casey for honoring the victims of shootings at the Chabad of Poway, Tree of Life Synagogue and thousands of other preventable tragedies for introducing legislation to disarm hate,” he added. While the Left would have you believe that hate crimes are skyrocketing in the age of Trump, the data paints a different picture. An analysis by the Bureau of Justice Statistics suggests that while reported hate crimes have increased in recent years, the number of unreported hate crimes have dropped over the same period. Meanwhile, the overall total of both unreported and reported hate crime victimizations has remained somewhat steady over the past three years but down significantly since 2014 and the previous years when Obama was in office
https://cicilline.house.gov/press-release/cicilline-introduces-bill-close-hate-crimes-loophole
Watch Flimsey Grahamnesty jump on board.
What could possibly go wrong?? People who hate rights being in charge of defining imaginary, subjectively defined offenses that can cause you to lose those rights (or at least have the feral goobermint stop acknowledging them)!!
No, I’m not going to be made into a sitting duck because Democrats don’t approve of my thoughts.
If demRATs try to take your guns, use them
So, use the wrong pronoun, lose your 2A rights?
Wow. Isn’t every micro-transgression a hate crime these days?
deemed to be a hate crime.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Deemed by whom?
This is the slippery slope of derogation and termination of not only 2nd amendment rights, but also 1st amendment free speech rights.
If you say anything in a public venue,especially on the ineternet, which is deemed to indicate a possible past , present or future “hate crime” you can be entrapped to lose your 2nd amendment rights.
If this passes, then we no longer will be a free nation.
We will have become a liberal fascist state.
Time to double down on these leftist freaks!
So Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) is co-sponsoring this bill. That alone tells me a lot.
Casey is quite possibly the dumbest senator in the history of the Republic. Someone probably told him that this was a bill to give a tax credits to leprechauns.
Thought Crimes.
1984.
“Disarm Hate Act Introduced: Would Permanently Revoke 2A Rights for Misdemeanor Hate Crimes..”
Over their dead bodies.
They have a death wish!
Uh huh. And at what point is the NRA named a terrorist organization and membership in it a hate crime?
Always plotting to do away with our rights, these anti constitutionalists never sleep.
How can someone object to this?
But just remember:
This their first step to total gun confiscation.
If this passes — I hope not — much more to come.
Just a way to take guns from the normal people, because anything a normal person does or says, or doesn’t do or doesn’t say, is criminalized.
“Casey is quite possibly the dumbest senator in the history of the Republic.”
Thank you Vileadelphia.
Refuse to bend over for a queer, it's a hate crime, lose your 2nd Amendment rights permanently.5
The hate crime test would be written as broadly as possible. This is a gun grab attempt nothing more.
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