Posted on 08/09/2019 8:16:39 AM PDT by Kaslin
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." —H.L. Mencken
The country is again in an uproar following the latest mass shootings in Texas and Ohio. In response to the hysterical clamor in the media to "do something," politicians in both the Democratic and Republican Parties want (yet again!) more gun laws. Republicans, including President Trump, are proposing a "red flag" confiscation law that would enable police to summarily seize an individual's guns based on hearsay. Such a law would blatantly violate the First, Second, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments. In practice, these laws would have no significant effect on actual shooters, but would ensnare people like Donald Montgomery, a retired police officer from Long Island who sought insomnia treatment — and was declared "mentally ill" and had his guns permanently seized under Andrew Cuomo's notorious "SAFE" Act. Republicans should know better, but apparently, they don't.
Democrats are calling for a national ban on semi-automatic "assault weapons" and magazines capable of holding more than ten rounds. If elected, there is no question that they will enact such a ban. Some are even calling for a national confiscation, patterned on the confiscations in Great Britain, Australia, and New Zealand.
What is absolutely certain is that such a ban will have no impact whatsoever on mass shootings. It is entirely possible to commit mass murder with weapons that do not fall under the label of "assault weapons," and a significant number of mass shooters have done so. In 1949, World War II veteran Howard Unruh murdered 13 people with a German Luger pistol with an 8-round capacity.
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But they’ll do everything to restrict ownership of the folks that play by the rules and cherish their 2nd Amendment right.
And just wait til the Red Flag laws go in effect, nationwide. Anti-gun folks will be camped out in the parking lots of every gun range in America following folks and then making sh*t up to get you SWATTED. It’ll be a great time in the US.
The Democrats could confiscate the guns of all law abiding citizens in the US but would not even try to confiscate the criminal’s guns nor be able to stop the thousands of gun that will be smuggled across the borders.
The dims want to red flag American non criminals, but allow MS-13 gang members and radical muslims into our country.
Shows whose side they are on.
Works both ways.
Sanity.
Attend an Evangelical church? Expect the same.
Yet our CIC is calling for them weekly. This Republic is over. Glad I was able to see the best of it.
Our kids, well, it will be Chicago in every neighborhood, because the Constitution lovers will be in prison.
I am a rabid supporter of President Trump. If he signs ANY gun control bill that punishes the innocent citizen while exercising or attempting to exercise their 2nd Amendment rights I will sit out 2020 and hope that President Trump enjoys his impeachment. I do NOT want to do that but I will not vote for ANY gun grabbing SOB.
There are things that could be done to help.
Criminals do not obey laws.
Trump supporter or disagree with a Democrat policy? Consider yourself “red flagged”.
Oh, and you are racist too.
Our side can’t fall for it. They left is trying to divide us.
How about a law that holds accountable those who let these perps slide until they finally mass murder?
How many times have we heard that school administrators, local police, judges, etc. have myriad opportunities to ID and deter these maniacs?
Good point. For any bill brought up, all the GOP and POTUS has to demand that the supporters show how it would have prevented Dayton and El Paso, .... and the answer is obvious .... 0.
the left aren’t looking for everyone to turn them in- they want the law to convict anyone found with banned guns as a felon for life who can never own any gun again- that is the goal of the left- sure lots of people won’t turn their guns in, but if police ever come across banned guns when doing routine investigations or on calls to people’s houses for other issues- then that person is made into an instant felon
That is their goal- not mass confiscation, but gradual confiscation and causing the person to be deemed a dangerous felon who can never own a gun again- and if caught again-= long prison sentences-
I agree with you. Me must resist
Yep, everyone knows it.
Everyone knows blacks are racists.
Everyone knows women are sexists.
Everyone knows homosexuals are abnormal.
Everyone knows muzzies are violent conquerors.
Everyone know young people don’t know that much.
Everyone knows dogs don’t belong everywhere.
Everyone knows...
Not about results. It’s about politics which is why it is happening.
Read the article in AmmoLand.
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