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There is also a letter to the President on the GOA website.
WELL, make it appear here, please.
I agree with the premise of this article.
If a Red Flag law does include the ability of a spouse in a domestic dispute, or neighbors and others to vilify someone to the authorities, this is in effect an on-ramp to tyranny.
Checking someone’s background at the time of purchase isn’t as intrusive to me.
Confiscation of weapons already owned, is a massive stop sign for me. If a person does come in contact with the law in such a manner as to make it clear they are a problem, then not so much.
If you commit a violent gun crime, your home should be searched for more guns.
If you are diagnosed with an upper level mental health problem, the same.
Rush is right. The Red Flag law is not for what it is claimed to be, but is a law that sanctions BIG government. The more government the more Socialist our government becomes. For them the Red Flag laws are a two-fer meaning Big government as above, as well another step towards complete gun confiscation.
We have to stop our government from taking away our liberty.
I agree with them that the way to fight this is in the PRIMARIES, not in November elections (unless people here really thing that Democrats support the Second Amendment more than Republicans).
But even so, I think the BEST WAY to fight this, and probably what Trump is doing, is to give some ground (as it’s hard to convince Soccer Moms to simply suck it up when you have these highly publicized so-called ‘mass killings’ happening on a regular basis - Soccer Moms WILL vote Democrat if they perceive Republicans as not doing something, anything, to SAVE OUR CHILDREN - as they see it).
So what ground do we give - first we DO NOT incentivize states to trample rights. That can never end well...and it is not the job of the federal government. So, maybe enable a federal system with REAL safeguards (like judicial review BEFORE showing up at someone’s door), where violators (i.e., government types) face some real hurt if they step on our rights.
The Dems will never agree to something like that, but we’ll have the high ground, and, hopefully, be able to hold the Soccer Mom vote. Because we’ll sure as hell need it in 2020.
To put it another way, handing the government, all of it, over to the Democrats, thinking that we’re ‘punishing’ Republicans, WILL NOT ACCOMPLISH JACK and will be the fastest way to having our guns either taken from us, or rendered useless (meaning, try protecting your daughter when a rapist breaks into your house and see who goes to jail, you - or the rapist).
As a new member of GOA, I support this statement 100%.
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“represent the American people in the Senate“
Ignorant.
They were elected to represent their States.
this is an overly wordy letter.
Its really simple- “Dear Senator X, If you vote in favor of ANY new gun control measures, you will lose my vote in the next election. Regards, Me”
You don’t try to reason with your representation. You tell them the consequences of not doing what you require.
Will the GOA offer $30 million to the Trump campaign as was provided by the NRA? Money talks.
Just talk, though? The politicians don’t care about talk. They want money.
I agree with the folks who say we need to put more guns in the hands of Americans, and roll back unduly restrictive gun laws.
We need to see policies that take guns out of the hands of criminals, and pay more attention to mental health issues.
Otherwise we will be on the way to taking guns away from our military veterans, and because some anonymous person pointed a finger at you.
It is too easy for politicians to take guns away from law abiding citizens so they can check that off their list of things to do, and feel good about themselves for taking action. This happens too often!
Democrats are good at mass hysteria; everything is an emergency.
I can’t get the linked webpage to load.
Anyone else having problems getting it to open?
GAO and SAF rock.
I can see these Red Flag laws doing way more damage than expected. Jails will be filled with people that have been falsely accused of something, anything for that matter. A pissed off wife, girlfriend, husband, boyfriend. You name it. It will soon be neighbors turning in neighbors. How Soviet.
And, firearms were not the weapon of choice in most killings in the most recent (2017) data. So, “another swing & a miss!”
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/08/11/fbi-more-people-killed-hammers-clubs-rifles-kind/
The shootings will continue as long as they’re looked at as a political problem. Beliefs don’t compel the murder of randomly selected innocent people. It’s insanity that does. The problem is that there’s too much political capital to be derived from blaming ideologies. We need to look at mental illness and the drugs being used to treat it.
Paging former South Carolina GOP Senator Jim Demint! Prissy Lindsey needs a viable Conservative primary challenger in 2020, one who has the name recognition to beat Graham and go on to win the General Election!
That’s why I support GOA materially these days and not the NRA even though I’ve been a life member of the NRA since 1986.
This is why I love the GOA.
They are not afraid to tell the truth