You want some brie with that whine?
Gun control is knowing when to shoot, not disarming citizens. The 2nd Amendment is our insurance against a government grown tyrannical and those who would argue anything else have either evil intent or are little more than useful idiots.
A friend sent along this video. It’s not a new one, but it deserves to go viral again.
His Transparency is feeling the cold breeze sneaking in through the open back of his hospital gown and, besides the doubling-down cram-through brawls that await us during this lame-duck session, he’s finally decided to nominate Chicago brown-noser Andrew Traver to permanently lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF).
In the astute words of Bob Owens, President Walking Eagle has nominated a pedophile to run the local PTA. While he’s allegedly a “nice enough guy”, he’s anti-gun and an incompetent middle-level leader. Certainly not the type one would choose to clean up the corruption in any organization.
But if the Senate is stupid enough to confirm his nomination, he’ll help close that flapping gown by taking the blame for pushing the progressive liberal anti-gun agenda.
There are several online news articles today about how Democrats and liberals are starting to look like Bambi in the headlights as their pet projects, closing Gitmo and restricting citizen access to guns, go down in red, white, and blue Conservative flames. They can’t fathom why Pater Obama can’t find the right words from the God speaking through his teleprompter to coerce or condemn Congress into going along with these two most nefarious plans.
Let me put it into a nutshell for them: AMERICANS WANT TO BE SAFE. That means we don’t want even “suspected” terrorists on American soil. And that means we want our guns even more when our government is wack enough to consider setting even “suspected” terrorists loose in our streets, let alone to safeguard ourselves from the usual suspects.
Let me put it another way, at least about so-called “gun control”: PROHIBITION FAILED. The war on drugs has failed, too. Even the most fascist regime will concede the power of the black market. What Americans do NOT want is for criminals – and especially those inside the government – to have more access to guns than they do.
The Second Amendment is quite clear:
“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.”
In legal and all other lingo, “shall not” is an absolute. An absolute is a point upon which there can be no debate. This means that the intentions of the Founders are crystal clear and in perhaps their greatest moment of wisdom, of goodness, they deliberately left no wiggle room on this one. The 2nd Amendment is a right that SHALL NOT be infringed. Period. It has been well-argued elsewhere that this is one of the most basic, key, and fundamental rights upon which then hinges everything else in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. For it is he who controls the means of life or death of another that effectively controls all, and in order to prevent tyranny and its inherent abuses, at the birth of this nation this control was laid squarely – absolutely – in the hands of we, the people.
In even the blackest of the tiniest of progressive liberal hearts, the absolute of “SHALL NOT” is understood at an instinctive level, for it is the one thing that allows blithering idiocies about Gitmo and guns to be spoken aloud and argued. But when all the words have been spoken, it is those two little words that not only really and truly mean something, but, in fact, mean the most.
Call them the trump card, if you will. And so it is that the Democrats and liberals find themselves hoisted upon their own petard.
Bummer, Bambi.
It is rumored that HR 45 is about to undergo hearings on Capitol Hill. And the more I read about this piece of legislation, the more angry I become.
HR 45 is titled, “Blair Holt’s Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009”. This is an embarrassing nod to the courage of high school junior Blair Holt, who died shielding another student from gang-related gunfire on a Chicago city bus; titled solely to distract from the fact that both criminals and wack jobs walk amongst us. Nowhere is it mentioned, of course, that the gun used to kill Blair Holt was itself illegal and there are already laws on the books to address this.
The purpose of this bill is ostensibly to legislate some kind of bassackwards morality as cover for the progressive liberals’ wish to destroy our 2nd Amendment rights. Because people use guns to kill other people, whether for all the wrong or right reasons, it is now being presumed that it is the government’s job to insure that only those it deems qualified may own “any handgun” or “any semiautomatic firearm that can accept any detachable ammunition feeding device” (not “antique”). The thinking goes that it is only by restricting private gun ownership to only those approved by only the government that the number of guns getting into the hands of criminals or secretly taken by screw-loose, unsupervised youngsters will be reduced.
It’s bullshit. The truth is that both laws and locks keep only honest people honest. The criminal element is by big, fat “DUH!” definition “criminal” because it never has and never will have any regard whatsoever for laws or locks or anything else that would stand in their way of going about their bad business. The real protections of we, the people, provided by the 2nd Amendment comes from criminals’ uncertainty about what they might face should they attempt to steal or otherwise harm us. Not to mention that when citizens have the right to bear arms, it is no longer such an easy task for the government to overstep its bounds and (illegally) seize anything from them by force. In both cases, the 2nd Amendment creates a truce-type of situation; exactly as was intended by the Founding Fathers the bulk of control, the power, remains with the people.
The gist of this wicked bill is that no one may possess a “qualifying firearm” without a license. And in order to get a license, you must give the Attorney General $25 and all of the following:
If you are then deemed worthy, you will get your very own firearms license (it will say so, in bold letters centered right at the very top, “FIREARM LICENSE–NOT VALID FOR ANY OTHER PURPOSE”). Each one will have a unique number and include your photograph, address, date of birth, the license’s expiration date, and your signature. Though if you move, you’d better tell the Attorney General or you’ll be in trouble!
You won’t be able to buy a “qualifying firearm” from anyone except a “licensed importer, licensed manufacturer, licensed dealer, or licensed collector” and they will be given a special number to note on the bill of sale that they’ve verified with the Attorney General’s office you have a valid license. Oh, you can’t sell a gun to anyone except a “licensed importer, licensed manufacturer, licensed dealer, or licensed collector” either, though they kindly made provision to allow inheriting guns.
Of course, there are always exceptions and the ones in this bill should be even more cause for concern. It won’t apply to “any department or agency of the United States, of a State, or of a political subdivision of a State, or to any official conduct of any officer or employee of such a department or agency”, or to “a peace officer, a member of the Armed Forces, or a member of the National Guard”.
What this bill does is to effectively negate the 2nd Amendment by automatically making all private citizens a criminal until they prove themselves otherwise.
Not only is that the real crime, it is also unconstitutional.