Posted on 01/10/2021 6:00:12 AM PST by Kaslin
Democrats now have single-party control of the federal government. President Joe Biden styled himself as the most moderate candidate his party had to offer. And still, during the campaign he promised to put Beto O’Rourke – the man who blurted out “Hell yes, we’re going to take your AR-15s” in charge of his administration’s gun policies.
Whether or not President Biden and gun czar Beto aim for a program of national gun confiscation, we should expect some sort of major crackdown against the Second Amendment and against our other liberties. The congressmen who ducked, covered, and cowered – in now iconic photos – when protestors entered Capitol Hill will almost certainly draw the wrong conclusions. They will not – like Congresswoman Lauren Boebert – realize that their safety is fundamentally in their own hands and therefore carry arms and fight for the right of all Americans to do so.
No, they will act based on an intensified fear and perhaps even loathing of their fellow citizens after seeing what some of them proved capable of. The left will attack the First and Second Amendment at the same time, arguing that the free flow of information is dangerous in a country where citizens are armed and can take up action against perceived tyranny.
We’ve already seen what private tech companies are willing to do to curtail First Amendment freedoms, and we’ll soon find out what Democrats on Capitol Hill want to do to eviscerate the Second Amendment.
The Biden campaign promised to “hold gun manufacturers accountable.” Certainly, car manufacturers are – and should be – accountable when a defect that they knew about gets people killed. But we don’t hold Toyota accountable when someone drives drunk and kills a pedestrian. If we did, then Toyota wouldn’t exist.
That’s exactly what the Democrats are hoping to do with gun companies like Remington. They want to blame them and fine them for every time a gun crime is committed. If they did that, then gun companies would have almost no choice but to go out of existence. And – believe me – there is really a clear path to this actually happening. The Democrats now have a majority in the House and Senate. While they maybe couldn’t pass a bill that says this directly, they are savvy enough to find some small bit of language to insert into some unrelated bill, which federal rule-making agencies would then use to make a regulation – working hand-in-glove with anti-gun lawyers – to set the stage for a legal assault against gun manufacturers.
Biden also wants to ban the sale of "high capacity magazines" and "assault weapons" altogether. The old argument “why would anyone need a high capacity magazine” should have been effectively answered by scenes from this summer’s riots, as business owners faced off against huge mobs intent on burning down their business and ending their livelihood. But the left doesn’t want them to have that protection. And as for the old question “what exactly is an assault weapon?” You can bet that they will try to define it as expansive as possible, to try to ban as many physical varieties of guns as they can.
The Biden campaign also promised to do a national “buy-back” of so-called "assault weapons." The misleading term “buy-back” conceals the fact that if Americans don’t want to give up their guns, they will be forced to register them with the federal government. The fear about this has always been that this national database could be the prelude for a direct federal gun confiscation program, like what the left always applauds Australia for and like Beto O-Rourke said he wants to do here.
If you had asked me last week just how endangered our Second Amendment freedoms are, I might have been less concerned. I would have said that a Republican Senate will hold back the worst excesses of the left. I would have pointed out that many people argue that Biden is a good enough politician to realize that he won on an historically small and contested margin and commands historically small legislative majorities, that he therefore knows he does not have the same mandate Barack Obama thought he had to “fundamentally transform” America after his landslide victory and the total implosion of the Republican Party after eight years of George W. Bush.
But today, I’m less sure. The Democrats now have total control over the federal government. And whatever prudent caution Biden might have felt will now likely be over-ridden by the left’s firm conviction that last week proved that whether America wants it or not, it must be fundamentally transformed.
I can’t tell you exactly what they’re planning. But with two weeks left before Biden’s inaugurated, just remember – it’s a lot easier for them to stop you from buying a gun than to take one out of your hands.
Conservative Republican led states need to agree to stand together against the tyranny being perpetrated against us. File lawsuit after lawsuit against the feds. Gum up the works. Keep the leftist oligarchist judiciary so busy that we just wear them out.
Has anyone else seen reports of mass armed protests on 1/17/2021?
The only place I’ve seen reports is on leftist sites. Armed protests right now is probably the dumbest thing people could do right now.
They’ve got a suppressive domestic terrorism bill already on the table. Giving them an excuse to come after the 2nd amendment is stupid.
The Republicans won't fight for our 2A rights but they'll sure as hell fight for their tax cuts. That's the fight I want. We'll probably lose the 2A anyways but I still want that fight.
I just had a boating accident. All my guns and ammo are at the bottom of Lake Livingston. That’s the honest truth, Comrade Commisar!
Which is exactly why Antifa and BLM are going to do it: to force a Biden Administration to execute a gun grab.
Bet me.
There are many people who will shoot it out when people come to confiscate their guns. It will get messy. Others will hide or bury their weapons. I’ll bet many others will hand over everything peacefully being scared or intimidated. They may collect 25% of the citizens guns but there will be plenty more left out there. If they attempt to do anything to remove guns from society it would be a really naive and stupid move. It will just hurt them in the long run.
My rights come from god, not the government.
I don’t see a lot of police and sheriffs enforcing any gun grab either.
All the more reason for the left to send out their expendable minions to provide the justification. And oh yeah, they also thin the herd of some their own troublemakers which is a twofer that leftists cannot resist.
That would get very interesting fast.
Can’t they pass any law they want? Do they have to worry about the NRA at the voting booth anymore? You’re gun is a goner, kids.
There are others, who when the confiscation begins, will go hunting.
Armed protest is the only thing left to do right now. If millions join in they will be in a world of hurt. Sometimes war is the only correct response.
Everyone here is it wrong about how they’re going to get our guns.
They are not going to come to the door and demand your guns. If they know you own guns, and it’s pretty hard to not have a trail somewhere of ammunition purchases or gun parts or something like that. It will be different things like your social security check will stop unless you give in your guns. The IRS will freeze your bank account. Your employer will get a warning that he will be shut down if he doesn’t fire you. There are a thousand regulatory ways the government can destroy you without ever coming to your door.
Look at it this way:
If you resist the taking of your guns, they will kill you.
The reason they want to take your guns is so they can kill you.
If only 25% of gun owners resist and manage to take at least one confiscator with them, the machine will grind to a halt (350 million * .33 = 155 gun owners * .25 = 28 million potential jackboots dead.)
You're going to die anyway. Either defending your God given rights, or more miserably in a death camp.
Kneeling doesn't actually save you
“Which is exactly why Antifa and BLM are going to do it: to force a Biden Administration to execute a gun grab.”
OK, I’ll bet you it will not be Antifa or BLM. They need to keep BLM in their back pocket for future use. It will be a mysterious reappearance of those “mass shootings” that used to be a regular occurrence in schools, malls, movie theaters. The perpetrators will, of course, be crazed Trump supporters. This will trigger such media driven national “outrage” Biden will have no choice but to institute a national confiscation program.....for our own protection, after all. Likely also will trigger new medical guidelines classifying “Trump Derangement Syndrome” (TDS: Diagnosis Code 004732) as a justification for involuntary commitment in Federal “treatment centers”.
If it gets to that, you have nothing to lose anyway....and nothing to gain from submission, since there is no guarantee the same thing will not be done again when those who hold power are displeased.
Easier said than done but not completely impossible. The NRA, gun & ammo makers will do well under a Biden admin out of fear alone driving sales.
They want hurt in the long run. IMHO they want to evoke a war,shut down the power grid,blame it on us and then call in UN troops for help. We are the only thing standing between them and a NWO
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