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.
Re: 2A, the nation is going to look a lot more like California.
Wouldn’t want to be the guy going door to door.
Bingo.
And then Revolutionary War II begins. I and many others WILL NOT COMPLY, and die if necessary. Democrat politicians will have to go underground, as they will ALL have "targets on their pictures".
I’m not so sure.
They are arming up as well.
It won’t be the cops. It will be Military US or Chinese
“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!”
So, you don’t have the gut to use them if you don’t have the guts to stand proud and say you even have them.
“It won’t be the cops. It will be Military US or Chinese”
Sure, but even then they only have a few million troops at most. We have over 35 million.
A very important principle is to communicate with them in a language they understand.
States will have to stand up...
I don't understand how anyone can suppose it would be otherwise. Nearly everyone will be obliged to choose between their income, career, house, car -- or their guns, and they'll surrender the guns. Insurance will be mandatory on each firearm you possess and it'll be extremely expensive. It'll come out of your check. You'll lose your house, your car, paying for it. Your doctor, as well as your employer, will be pressured, and they will fold. There is no need whatsoever for confrontation, with all but a few off-grid diehards.
I calculated the Chinese have 2M under arms.
We can easily field 20M.
You are 100% correct.
The penalties for owning guns will become so draconian, most will give them up just to continue to participate in society.
But rest assured from this day forward, any and all purchases will be through clandestine channels. It's doable in my neck of the woods.
That's the way real criminals have been doing it for decades and they now they are the ones won't be targeted for confiscation, or have assets frozen or have any other draconian measure taken against them. They can sleep well.
How ironic.
They are the enemy, therefore they do not deserve the truth.
Two Russian words of note, referring to KGB ops.
Dizinformation
Maskirovka
Both having to do with deceiving the enemy.
Remember, we are at war.
And they will do it posing as Trump supporters.
“The penalties for owning guns will become so draconian, most will give them up just to continue to participate in society.”
Then it will be time to destroy all that attacks us. Far better than to hope somehow to avoid the attacks.
If you don’t want to be hunted then become the hunter.
Three words..... AIN’T GONNA HAPPEN.
I think they are probably too smart for confiscation any time soon, it’s one of the few things that people will possibly fight about now.
My prediction for their gun plan is they will just keep things going down the cultural slope like it has been for the last 100+ years, while keeping everyone fat and entertained. There is no confiscation for a very long time. They pass their legislation against importation, manufacturing and new purchases and wait for the guns to be turned in or registered as required as the decades roll on and on and the generations pass. Eventually nobody will bother to get off the virtual reality couch when they do come pick up great grandpa’s dusty guns.
Freegards
Good stop staying home to prove a point!
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