Posted on 02/11/2022 2:42:37 AM PST by Kaslin
In the good old days, the gun-grabbers only went after your "high capacity" magazines or what they said was an "assault weapon" and called it a day. They were "butters" for the Second Amendment — as in "I support the 2nd Amendment, but...," and they went on from there proving they had no use for you or your guns.
That was before they came up with the brilliant idea of "defunding the police," because we all know that the best way to control crime is to stop catching criminals or keeping them in jail. It usually helps to "feel" these ideas rather than think about them; that's the only way they make sense, at least if you're AOC.
Then, to the surprise of no one except the anti-liberty left, crime skyrocketed out of control, and everyone ran out to buy guns. This confused the feelings over logic folks to no end. They know that guns are bad; they know that guns cause violence because that's what they repeat to themselves like a religious catechism. So what's a good Democrat to do in the face of wrongthink? Ah-ha! They needed to make a change in their worldview! That's very "progressive," after all — taking into account new circumstances and new realities for the 21st century! Unlike the Neanderthals of the right, they are responsible human beings, so they are the only ones who should own guns.
Suddenly, it all made sense once again. They can own guns without any guilt and still want to confiscate them from everyone else. Except for the criminals — they are victims of society, and it's too tough to take them anyway, so they'll just leave them alone.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
They keep crossing red lines lately.
Cuz they think they can.
They’re afraid of armed citizens - and they know we won’t be stand being abused like the Aussies.
I am answering the call to service,
They damn sure better be...You have DHS calling anyone who disagrees with official dogma a terrorist and this...I don’t know who is pulling the strings but things are going to go into suck mode real fast.
For everyone.
Heh. I inherited a couple of 32 round magazines for my glock 19. I don’t really have any use for them, but I think it’s kind of funny.
I saw YouTube video about 6 months ago that talked about how many rounds you actually need in a gun based on how many rounds are actually fired doing an encounter by both private citizens and police. It turns out they usually three rounds is all you need. So I figure having 10 rounds or so is just fine.
Sometimes I try to imagine what it would have been like in Australia inside the minds of the cops walking up to people’s doors if gun ownership in Australia was like it was in the United states.
Frankly, I don’t think it ever would have happened at all. It would have been way too dangerous. The optics would have sucked.
The time is coming when American are going to have to fight for THEIR Bill of Rights.
The plan to disarm citizens by any excuse they can find goes way back to 1962.
.
Starting in 1962 with the demand of Dems Thomas J. Dodd and Emanuel Celler...
1962 We ONLY want to register handguns. Rifles will not be affected!
1964, We ONLY want to register ALL firearms, not ban them.
1968 We ONLY want to register all guns, and ban the import of foreign Saturday Night Specials, and 5-shot bolt action army surplus rifles! (they got the ban).
1970, We ONLY want to ban small American handguns. Rifles will not be affected!
1976 We ONLY want to ban ALL handguns! Rifles will not be affected!
1981, Actress Lee Grant on Good Morning America screams and pokes holes in the air with her finger...”THE NRA IS A RIFLE ORGANIZATION! THEY SHOULD GIVE UP THEIR HANDGUNS AND THEY CAN KEEP THEIR RIFLES!”
1986, They came for the rifles.
Gun owners are always up against a stacked deck.
Sorry but I don’t live in a totally lib state.
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago
THAT is positively Freudian.
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