Posted on 03/20/2013 8:09:36 AM PDT by Perseverando
New firearms legislation certain to include 'assault
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced he would not include a so-called “assault weapons” ban in the gun legislation he plans to introduce on the Senate floor, but gun rights advocates warn this is actually Reid’s way of making the ban easier to pass.
“It’s a trap! It’s a non-event. What’s going to happen is they’re going to take another bill, and that could be the veterans’ gun ban and then bring that to the floor,” said Mike Hammond, chief counsel at Gun Owners of America, a pro-Second Amendment group. Hammond said bringing a less controversial bill to the floor will make it easier to find the 60 votes needed to open debate.
“Diane Feinstein’s amendment will be offered as an amendment to that. Furthermore, they’ll probably break off a magazine ban and offer that as an amendment to that. Furthermore, they’ll probably take a universal gun registry and offer that as an amendment to that,” Hammond told WND. “When Harry Reid says he’s dropping Feinstein from the bill, what he means is it’s not going to be in the bill which is reported to the Senate but it will be offered on the Senate floor. So the question we’re asking is, ‘Why in heaven’s name should anyone vote for this underlying vehicle when we’re being told in advance it’s going to be nothing but a vehicle for a gun-control buffet.”
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Also, the UN Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty is underway March 18-24, 2013.
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This needs to be asked over and over again, and loudly, on the floors of Congress -
What do they intend to do after the citizens are disarmed
that they can’t do before they are disarmed?
The question I want to know the answer to is “What are all of the law-abiding citizens who own these guns the liberals want to ban, what are they going to do after their guns are banned?” We used to think that any ban would eventually be overturned by the Supreme Court as an overt infringement to the rights under the 2nd Amendment but after the ObamaCare “it’s a tax” ruling last year, I don’t think we can rely on that route any longer. The ban would certainly be for future purchases and not affect existing guns, so how would such a ban help, other than to incrementally chip away at our rights gun by gun, bullet by bullet, magazine by magazine, until everything is banned. After that, it’s Katie-bar-the-door as to what gun owners will do. Then these elitists will go after complete confiscation of existing guns. That’s when blood in the streets would most likely occur. American patriots will not let the government take our guns without a fight.
I don’t think these liberals have thought this ill-conceived plan of theirs through to it’s logical conclusion. It won’t end pretty for them.
Glenn Beck has explained that this, (as in The Overton Window), is nothing more than a tactic used by the Left to shift the public a little at a time to agreeing to later full control by the government.
Some conservatives are saying that; “Whew, we dodged the bullet, etc.” But this is nothing more than the Left demanding everything at the outset, knowing that the people will be glad to accept just a little control and will eventually be pushed into accepting more control by the government a little at a time.
Good description on this thread:
The Overton Window (how Ubama will not let Sandy Hook crisis go to waste)
Glenn Beck Novel ^
Posted on Saturday, December 15, 2012 12:15:00 PM by E. Pluribus Unum
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2969048/posts
If the republicans had balls and a little humor, all of them would raise an Admiral Akbar face when Reid introd the bill and each amendment - and then of course vote no cloture.
I think many of us here figured Feinstein’s bill was a red herring from the beginning.
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