Posted on 04/08/2014 7:20:49 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
How old am I? I’m old enough to remember when the only people on whom government wanted to put electronic bracelets were criminals. Attorney General Eric Holder testified yesterday on Capitol Hill about gun-safety programs promoted by the Department of Justice, which wants almost $400 million in the next budget for “common sense” regulations like electronic bracelets for firearms:
“I think that one of the things that we learned when we were trying to get passed those common sense reforms last year, Vice President Biden and I had a meeting with a group of technology people and we talked about how guns can be made more safe,” he said.
“By making them either through finger print identification, the gun talks to a bracelet or something that you might wear, how guns can be used only by the person who is lawfully in possession of the weapon.”
“It’s those kinds of things that I think we want to try to explore so that we can make sure that people have the ability to enjoy their Second Amendment rights, but at the same time decreasing the misuse of weapons that lead to the kinds of things that we see on a daily basis,” Holder said.
First, the electronic bracelet concept has barely passed the theoretical stage, let alone made it into the commercial market. There is literally one pistol model being sold in one gun story in America which fits Holder’s “common sense” requirement. How exactly would that allow Americans to “enjoy their Second Amendment rights”? Most gun owners — and there are over 60 million of them — handle and store their weapons safely. More people get murdered each year by body parts than by rifles, for instance, which had been the focus of gun-control efforts over the last sixteen months.
Drunk drivers kill nearly twice as many people each year as all firearms, and that figure may be seriously underestimated. Driving is already a government-regulated activity, so why not focus on installing breathalyzers in autos? Because when people need to drive, they don’t want a failing breathalyzer unit to keep their car from starting, and since most car owners don’t drink and drive in the first place, they don’t want to be treated like a criminal just to exercise their privilege of driving on public roads. Why should law-abiding citizens have to deal with the same kind of system malfunction at the precise moment they need a firearm to defend themselves or their families?
“Common sense” would be to leave law-abiding citizens alone. Of course, “common sense” would also be to not traffic rifles to drug cartels across the border into Mexico without any way to track them or retrieve them, so we know what role “common sense” plays in Eric Holder’s DoJ.
Let’s make a deal with them, that oh so wonderful compromise we always hear about.
Repubs will wear id indicating they have taken money from the Koch brothers and dems can wear a swastika as id showing they have taken money from any group associated with George Soros.
Eric needs to wear an electronic bracelet when he gets out of prison, something that will shock him when he speaks.
Will Get Whitey racist’s Amish sons wear bracelets in their criminal lives? Get Whitey is as dumb as a rock.
It's Eric Holder who should be wearing a pair of bracelets.
My thoughts too.
I think this would be the tipping point.
The word ‘infringed’ should be in any attorney’s vocabulary.
Here is an example of its use in a sentence: “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”
Nazi public policy bump for later....
No but maybe mentally ill persons on medications should be required to wear monitoring bracelets and in the company of a legally guardian at all times if they cannot be held accountable for their own actions...
This antiamerican hoodlum has more respect for Mexican drug lords and the mentally ill than he does for the LEGAL gun ownership rights of Americans.
Maybe they should give everyone a mark on their right hand or their forehead. This same mark could be used to allow you to buy or sell, or receive benefits from The One Himself: Six Hundred, Threescore and Six.
Hey Rahm, CHICAGO’s problems are solved, just tell all the thugs to come in & get their bracelets!
It appears to be the direction Holder's moving us toward...
Ring ‘em like pidgeons?
Maybe Cops and Secret Service should wear electronic bracelets (AND CAMERAS!) to demonstrate and perfect the technology, first.
When they’re good enough for the SS types guarding the President and and other elite, then maybe they’ll be good enough for me.
But probably not.
Holder said,
“...Vice President Biden and I had a meeting with a group of technology people and we talked about how...”
[...those technology people could kick-back a large portion of the excessive prices we would pay them for their crappy equipment to fund “our” election campaigns and to fund “our” off-the-books-slush-funds.]
THERE!
Fixed it!
I have no comment to make at this time, because I refuse to write anything that will become a comment that is removed by a moderator.
Actually Holder is not very “black”... he seems as white as he is black... (remind you of anybody)..
The White Hut seems to be a Mulattocracy...
A lot of (not very black) blacks in there..
As tribal as any Gang... a regular Cargo Cult of Feathered Chieftains..
with Witch Doctors, jugu bags,,, and painted up cross dressers.. dressed as intelligent people..
Moonbats all, with serious malignant overtones..
God help the United States BECAUSE Barry Half-White WILL NOT..
Bring it on, bitch.
Thanks SeekAndFind.
....or not, Eric. I don’t take much stock in the opinion of an AG that selectively enforces the laws of this country. He has a prison cell somewhere with his name on it.
Gawd, this bastard should be in an orange jump suit at Leavenworth, not serving as the nation’s top law enforcement officer.
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