Posted on 07/01/2019 3:48:04 PM PDT by SJackson
The two Democratic presidential debates last week in Miami were marked by calls to remember Florida’s Parkland High School shooting, which occurred only 50 miles away from where the debate took place. The Democrats agreed on two solutions to stop these attacks: impose background checks on private transfers of guns, and ban “military-style” “weapons of war.”
Even when the questions weren’t about gun control, candidates still found ways to bring up the topic.
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Many Democrats have a hard time believing that their opponents want to save lives. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., claimed during the debate, “It’s the greed of the NRA and the gun manufacturers that make any progress impossible.” Congressman Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., argued, “The NRA is taking orders from the gun manufacturers, that’s the problem.”
But it isn’t a question of who is getting paid off by gun makers. Some people think that banning guns makes people safer, just as others sincerely believe that such bans will disarm and endanger law-abiding citizens.
Many terrorist types want to kill as many people as possible, and are drawn to gun-free zones where regular citizens are prohibited from being able to protect themselves.
One of the authors here, Andrew Pollack, experienced first-hand the disastrous consequences of gun-free zones. His daughter died in the Parkland massacre.
Despite focusing on Parkland, none of the candidates addressed the issue of school safety, aside from pushing gun control. No one mentioned the unsafe environment created by leniency, given by both liberal educators and the police, to troubled youth. While all the candidates endorsed full health care coverage for illegal immigrants, none talked about providing funds to help cover mental illness for Americans. Gun control was their only solution.
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Psssstttttt! It doesn’t work.
I think we have to define “works” for the purpose of the discussion. If working means disarming the law-abiding public to put them at the mercy of the mob, then gun control works like crazy.
Leftists know it is a right very important to us, so that makes destroying it so much more attractive to them.
Worked for Stalin and Mao.
Taking guns from law abiding citizens won’t make criminals less dangerous.
Crazy being the key word here.
And some mustachioed assclown in Germany too. Founder of antifa IIRC.
Out of all the thousands of gun laws which one would have prevented any shooting?
They want it because they hate people who don’t agree with them. Anything that inconveniences or punishes dissent they’re all for.
Gun control (confiscation) works extremely well for those that wish government tyranny of its citizens.
Germany prior to WWII.
Russia after the Bolshevik revolution.
All of Eastern Europe when under the control of the USSR.
England, France and other so called free nations of Europe.
Venezuela
China etc.
The list is much longer than what few I posted.
A firearm in the hand of a free, moral and honest man or woman is a force for good and freedom.
Democrats are never concerned with actually solving problems - in fact, that’s bad for them - real solutions cause them to lose the issues which they raise such a fuss about to destroy the people who are really trying to solve problems and allow the ‘rats to work their way into power......
It’s a rallying point for the base. Gun control, abortion, gay marriage, climate change. Gun control probably has the widest appeal, abortion the deepest and strongest.
That’s exactly what it means to proponents. Though lots of their supporters think they’ll be safer.
No, but it will give them more targets.
I wish Dr. Lott was still here on FR.
Actually Antifa was founded by German Communists in the late 20s. The Weimer banned some political militias including Communists, so the created Antifa. Hitler shut them down, along with everyone else, after assuming poser. Same name, same flag as todays Antifa. Which to me makes them a Communist militia. Had a resurgence in Europe after the wall came down. I believe considered a terror group for awhile by several countries. Why a resurgence of an antifascist group? I don’t see many fascist governments in 1980s 1990s Europe. I do see a reason for a Communist resistance.
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