they are making mental health the cudgel by which they will beat us into submission and consent to a new law “for the children”
Last year it was Bump Stocks
The previous year it became “Red Flag” laws(mental health)
Next will be weapons of war
Or
Limitations on magazine capacity (one Freepee already suggested that this morning as the foundation of his thread)
Why not have all guns storee at the local P.D. armory. Yep, you can get your property, by appointment only, at their hours and days only.
You must return your property to the armory by a specific date and time, which will be limited and if you are late , you will suffer the wrath of LEO...
“Here are the 20 rounds you allowed to have during this period”...
And so forth
All those prior service folks riding the PTSD gravy train may be surprised when their medical status gets linked into the coming “Red Flag” laws.
There are those who do suffer from PTSD but it’s become the free money express the last 10 years.
***Why not have all guns stored at the local P.D. armory.***
This was proposed way back in 1968 by Ted Kennedy. It has been done before with bad results.
http://www.davekopel.org/2A/Foreign/arms-and-the-greeks.htm
In the sixth century BCE, a tyrant named Pisistratus took over Athens. Aristotle explained how the tyrant obtained absolute power by disarming the people of every city he controlled:
After his victory in the battle at Pallene he captured Athens, and when he had disarmed the people he at last had his tyranny securely established, and was able to take Naxos (a Greek island) and set up Lygdamis as ruler there.
He effected the disarmament of the people in the following manner. He ordered a parade in full armour in the Theseum (a temple), and began to make a speech to the people. He spoke for a short time, until the people called out that they could not hear him, whereupon he bade them come up to the entrance of the Acropolis, in order that his voice might be better heard.
Then, while he continued to speak to them at great length, men whom he had appointed for the purpose collected the arms and locked them up in the chambers of the Theseum hard by, and came and made a signal to him that it was done. Pisistratus accordingly, when he had finished the rest of what he had to say, told the people also what had happened to their arms; adding that they were not to be surprised or alarmed, but go home and attend to their private affairs, while he would himself for the future manage all the business of the state. (Aristotle, The Athenian Constitution, ch. 15, translated by Sir Frederic G. Kenyon)
WHEN THE REDCOATS CONFISCATED GUNS..