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
The Thought Crimes Act.
Two more for the list.
This is just stupid...but if we are going to play games, and if the Republican had guts, they'd attach to this the
Disarm Hate Act: Would Permanently Revoke 1A Rights for FakeNews..
Let's see how fast that debate descends into chaos and the whole stunt is dropped.
But they don’t want to take away their voting rights.
I was done arguing with these morons years ago.
They’re not worth it.
Everyone who has commented negatively on this thread, has committed a hate crime.
Turn in your guns now!
The petty tyrants certainly are busy, aren’t they? Here’s a thought they should ponder - I will always have access to any amount of firearms I deem necessary, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
Come and get them! :)
Those republicans who vote for this vote them out next round and let them know why
When everything is illegal, nothing is illegal.
JoMa
It should extend to guards for anybody who hates trump and his voters. Liberals are the only people I know who actively hate people. Conservatives just want to live their lives, provide for their families, and make their communities nice places to live and want everybody to succeed. Liberals celebrate pathology, and are so angry and hateful and vitriolic all the time that I am surprised they have the energy to even breath. Liberals, with the exception of muslims with jews are the only social category that actually uses the word ‘hate’ to refer to other people.
When your party controls the presidency, and the senate, and the house, what kind of schmuck bails from Speaker's job when the future of America is at stake? Not only did petulant Paul Ryan bail on his country, he orchestrated the wholesale retirement of other Republican incumbents in the house. Paul Ryan effectively handed the house to the Democrat party in the middle of President Trump's first term.
No one, and I mean no one is lower than Paul Ryan. Not Pelosi, not Feinstein, not Nadler, not Schiff. Paul Ryan the worm has them all beat by a country mile.
Ryan deserted when he was needed most.
The people that have a sexual harassment payoff slush fund are worried about misdemeanors? WTF???
Perps don’t follow the laws on the books now.
To hell with more “reasoned” gun legislation.
None of it is reasoned as it is.
how many American citizens would comply with such an illegal new ‘law’ to strip them of their rights and ability to defend their families and communities, and selves?
answer: nearly none.
why do the commie-nazis keep proposing such rubbish?
answer: they THINK it will secure their Idiot Voter base (but they’ve already got 133 percent of the votes from that bunch)
Hate crime is an awful and unconstitutional legal concept.
It needs to be eliminated permanently.
So that could be flashing an OK sign or posting a Bible verse on Facebook, or stating a scientific fact.
wouldn’t it be easier to just ban demonrats from owning a gun since they are mentally ill to begin with?
Exactly.
A lot has to do with his last name. At you might know, “Casey” in Pennsylvania is something like “Kennedy” is in Massachusetts.
You could run a bag of grass clippings for office in PA, and it would probably win if you wrote “Casey” on the side.
This is the next step up for Red Flag laws.
Should be called the Turn In Your Neighbor laws.
The true hate and evil comes from the lying, abortion-murdering, perverted, traitorous Demonicrats.
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