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2nd becomes the ‘It Depends’ amendment
The newest and sneakiest strategy of gun grabbers
is to start grabbing political office!
The anti-gun groups have grown impatient and have
launched a new strategy to get guns banned – even from law abiding
citizens. Various groups have banded
together to pack lawmaking bodies with gun-hating representatives who will, at
least, fulfill their dream of removing guns from Americans.
Groups such as Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in
America have begun training 400 volunteers from among its 70,000 members on the
skills to be an effective candidate.
Gun control groups have hired professional consultants to
produce a guidebook called Preventing Gun
Violence through Effective Messaging. Big money supporters have channeled
billions of dollars via so-called ‘philanthropic’ charitable organizations with
the goal of stripping gun rights from Americans. George Soros and his Open Society foundation
is at the forefront and has called for the criminalization of the private
transfer of guns, a ban on affordable handguns and a ban on private purchase of
many semi-automatic firearms.
This group also has strong ties with the Joyce
Foundation, another anti-gun group which funds the the Violence Policy Center
and champions former Mayor Michael Bloomberg who funds several anti-gun
initiatives.
Other billionaires such as Bill Gates, Paul Allen and
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer plow big bucks into anti-gun efforts as well. Yet, the left act as if the NRA has a
bottomless pit of money when in reality, its five million members pale in
comparison to the vast amounts of monies spend by these anti-gun billionaires…they
don’t want more gun control – they want to eliminate guns altogether!
Below is a round-up of recent news bits of anti-gun news....
One congressman is warning that the
upcoming "STOP School Violence Act" will include harmful gun control
measures that would give unqualified government agencies unprecedented power.
The post WATCH: Congressman Ominously Warns BOTH Parties Quietly Plotting to
Take Your Guns appeared first on The Free Thought Project…
Dick’s
and Dunkleberger’s have decided the 2nd Amendment contains a hitherto unknown
age restriction on the sale of rifles. In the future, only customers over the
age of 21 will be able to buy a scary-looking long gun in those stores.
Walmart,
L.L. Bean and Florida also are banking on age discrimination as a civil rights
violation understanding judges will be happy to overlook. Or should turning a
biased eye meet with too much pushback, our robed rulers will quickly discover
a provision hidden between the lines of the Constitution that legalizes a 2nd
Amendment age qualification.
I’m
opposed to knee-jerk ageism as currently proposed, but with just a few tweaks
to the regime, I could become an enthusiastic supporter. And I don’t mean by
limiting the age restriction. Indeed, I want to expand it.
If
lawmakers and commercial interests think America would be safer if citizens
under age 21 aren’t covered by the 2nd Amendment, I can think of many ways the
country would benefit from expanding this philosophy to other portions of the
Constitution.
Let’s
start with the 1st Amendment. Think how much more mature and less profane
culture would be if free speech rights were denied teens and pre-adults. Not
being forced to listen to or read about Parkland media darling David Hogg is
enough to convince me.
If
that overly-opinionated and under-matured agitator for gun confiscation had to
wait four years before free speech rights were conferred, it might give him
time to cool off and grow up. Emphasis on the ‘might.’
Making
free speech privileges a right-of-passage, like one’s first sip of Jack
Daniel’s, would immediately eliminate lawsuits regarding obscene t-shirts in
schools; along with obscene caps, dress codes, offensive posters, offensive
chants, cleavage, yoga pants, thongs, saggy pants, baggy ideology – in other
words, the whole works!
Parents
and infants who identify as adults will be quick to point out you can’t shut a
teenager up, 1st Amendment or no. True, but if under 21s aren’t covered by the
1st Amendment, then they also aren’t protected by case law regarding libel and
slander. Add a provision specifying media outlets giving a platform to
under-21s are liable for any slanderous or libelous statements and bingo,
you’ve got a blackout!
I
can’t think of any discussion of a major issue in our past where under-21s have
brought new light to the debate. Mucho heat, yes. Innovative thinking, no.
Besides
spouting off, what other limitations do I want as a price for my support?
Voting for one. Raising the voting age to 21 will eliminate all the tired,
recycled, thumb-sucking news coverage of ‘the youth vote.’ People start voting
regularly when they reach the age of 35. Before that time only a lunatic with a
handout — Bernie comes to mind — will motivate youth to put their game controller
down long enough to go to the polls.
With
any luck a 21-year-old minimum voting age will also end that perpetual
money-raising, results lacking racket: “Rock the Vote”.
The
4th Amendment could also use an age limitation. The majority of American teenagers
would benefit from a few random locker searches. The same goes for their cell
phones and computers. Maintaining privacy at that age is usually a cover for
activities parents forbid or discourage. Letting the sunshine in and completely
eliminating this misplaced concern for Junior’s privacy, replacing it with a
mild sense of paranoia, would go a long way toward reestablishing cultural and
moral standards parents and other authority figures have allowed to degrade.
The
left won’t agree to my proposal because to a large extent it has already
silenced conservatives who are under 21. For that beleaguered class the 2nd
isn’t the only ‘it depends’ amendment. Young conservatives have discovered
their 1st Amendment rights are conditional, too.
Before
his death Andrew Breitbart observed, “Politics is downstream of culture.”
Conservatives are living in that fetid marsh today. The left runs higher and
lower education. It controls Hollywood, cable TV and broadcast TV. It controls
all the legacy networks with the exception of Fox. (There its control is
confined to the entertainment side, while the news side skews conservative —
for now.)
Music
— country, rock and rap — is controlled by Cultural Marxists. Social media is
another preserve of the left.
Conservatives
are limited to radio, a handful of websites, even fewer publications and
Trump’s twitter feed.
—
Michael Shannon
Why America wants to ban the “assault
rifle”...
Growing
majority of Americans, if you believe the mainstream media pundits, support a
wholesale ban on “assault rifles.”
And yet, here’s something strange…
If you ask those pundits what an “assault rifle” is, the
response you’ll receive will be, at best… fuzzy.
Something akin to, “You know, the guns that look scary.”
(Alongside, of course, a scornful look of disbelief over your vast and
shameful ignorance on the subject.)
The most important thing to realize about the gun control
“debate,” though, is this…
You and I are not part of it.
Even if you, like many hardline gun control advocates, sincerely
believe only the few (preferably yourself and a few friends, of course) should
command all the guns.
You, an ally to the “swelling consensus,” are not even part of
this debate.
It is, in true Hunger Games fashion, a top-down
conversation.
One in which certain politicos, in lockstep with many
mainstream media pundits, assume themselves on the throne of moral high ground,
and the masses, upon being bombarded by a blitz of terrifying words and images
for the 347th time this week, begin to think the “facts” our revered rag
wranglers spit in our directions are, indeed A) actually factual and B) the
consensus.
See, for example, the story CNN’s Chris Cuomo retweeted, peddled
by a 20 year-old Cody Davis.
Davis claimed to buy an AR-15 in 5 minutes with an expired ID.
And yet, he admitted in the article, slyly, he didn’t actually fill out the
necessary paperwork or buy the gun at all. He left empty-handed.
For reasons such as this, the “debate,” once it reaches the
grass-level, is watered thoroughly down to soundbites like…
“I support ‘common-sense’ gun reform.” (Well, shucks,
guffaw, who doesn’t?!) … “The NRA is a terrorist organization.”
(If that were true, all 5 million of them would be on assignment in some Middle
Eastern desert right now, “moderate rebels,” spreading the shining beacon of
democracy) … “Anybody who supports the Second Amendment is, like,
literally a Nazi.” (No comment necessary.)
These catchphrases are not grass-fed.
They aren’t emerging naturally from the minds of people who have
thought sincerely and hard about this issue, considering all viewpoints and
empirical data.
One reason it’s difficult to have an honest and open debate
about the gun control issue, Nicholas J. Freitas recently pointed out in his
speech on the floor of the Virginia House of Delegates, “is because
members of this [yes, Democratic] body comparing members on this side of the
aisle to Nazis.”
These are grown adults, public servants, paid at the public
till, hurling ridiculous and baseless insults in a clear effort to simply shut
down opposing views.
Some of them claimed to be too “emotionally shaken and bothered”
to discuss any points of Freitas’ speech. (Many of them, unable to deal
emotionally with any potential onslaught of having their assumptions about the
world questioned, stormed out while he was speaking.)
We have heard about the “gun control” issue in response to the
recent shooting in Parkland.
But what about, as Freitas points out…
The “gun-free zone” issue… the negligence of duty by the police
issue… the incredible incompetence at the FBI issue… the blatant denial issue…
the issue of troubled minds and broken homes…
And, what about other issues of violent dangers, unrelated to
guns specifically?
For example, where is the political fever pitch over the young
ISIS-sympathizer (not a member of the NRA, by the way) who
recently brought a bomb to school in Utah?
Also a massively troubling story. And yet, that cockroach was
led underneath the rug, post-haste!
Why? Because, one might be led to suspect, this is not an issue
upon which you are meant to place your bead.
The ideas sweeping the hive mind of the “huddled and helpless
unwashed masses” are informed by a discussion that isn’t actually
happening.
To hear the other side of the story, let’s take a look at three
speeches from the other end of the the “gun control” issue (the gun owning
side) -- equally deserving of the floor.
If Democrats capture a majority in the
House of Representatives in the 2018 midterms, as many as half of their new
reps will be former military intelligence personnel, according to a bombshell
new report from the World Socialist Web Site.
NAACP President
Lies To Push for National Gun Confiscation
|
On Monday,
the president and CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People (NAACP), Derrick Johnson, called for a national gun
confiscation program.
Guns for Home Defense
Despite
the efforts of the anti-gun loons, a gun in the home of someone who is trained
in their use, is still one of the best tools when faced with an intruder. In my opinion, one should be ready to protect
ones castle and loved ones. I usually
suggest having a revolver at hand as they are reliable and won’t jam. A good .38 is reliable and powerful enough
and won’t deliver a huge recoil, but many opt for a .357.
Semi-automatics
tend to be easier to shoot but can be complicated for some homeowners unless
they practice extensively. A shotgun for
home defense is better than a rifle [though I do have a small 9mm
semi-automatic carbine similar to what I used in the service which works well
for home defense]. I have a personal
preference for 12 gauge and own a variety of ammo for mine ranging from slugs
to hollow point and buckshot.
A
shotgun offers the advantage of not requiring accurate aim in order to inflict
damage and the sight of one usually scares an intruder. Although they come in a variety popular
gauges, keep in mind the smaller the number, the bigger the kick!
I
have no children in our home so we don’t use trigger locks. Trigger locks can impair your safety as if
you install or remove one while your gun is loaded, you risk setting the gun
off while messing around the trigger area.
Simply put, they make your weapon more dangerous especially if dropped
or jostled [if the weapon is loaded]…I always keep one in the chamber and the
safety on for our semi-automatics.
We’re
fortunate in that we have enough acreage and neighbors who shoot so we have a
place to practice shooting. Otherwise,
it is important to find a range nearby in order to practice with the weapons
you own or with the type you wish to purchase.
The NRA offers a variety training classes and certified instructors.
Bruce, the Poor Man, free thinker, social critic
& cynic
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4 comments:
I don't trust Soros, the media, or Bloomberg - 'gun control' is code for disarming America. They want to turn us into another Australia when we should focus more on mental health. After all, we don't go after Smirnoff or GM when someone is convicted of drunk driving-we go after the driver. The media is lame and lopsided in its thinking when it comes to guns. More kids die from opioid overdoses than guns but barely ruffles a feather on the nightly socialist reports.
There's little doubt we have a lot of nut cases running around compared to when I was growing up [and you didn't even need background checks then or waiting periods]...I'm certain it has something to do with the breakdown of the family and the incredible amount of drugs being prescribed to young males...seems the majority of these jerks who commit these crimes have been on these drugs or are mentally unstable. Hell, almost every home in Switzerland has a semi-auto rifle & we don't hear about this over there! But of course the press and anti-gun groups here focus on the wrong issues as usual.
This corporate activism against the NRA will come back to bite them on the ass. It's a bad PR move for most. Already firms like Dick's Sporting goods is losing revenue as is Hertz and Delta...so long term it is bad for business. The exception is Walmart which rarely sold an AR-15 to begin with - the price was too high for their customers.
Gun Tax Bill to Double Federal Gun Tax, Quintuple Ammo Tax!
The bill, H.R. 5103, does the following:
-Doubles the federal excise tax on pistols and revolvers, from 10 percent to 20 percent.
-Nearly doubles the federal excise tax on shotguns and rifles, raising it from 11 percent up to 20 percent.
-Nearly quintuples the federal excise tax on ammunition, raising it from 11 percent up to 50 percent.
The bill is sponsored by Chicago-area Congressman Danny Davis (D-Ill.) and has nine co-sponsors, all Democrats.
In this interview, the Davis’s first words of explanation regarding this horrific tax increase are an admission that he’s simply trying to punish gun owners.
I think the whole idea is to make it… more difficult for individuals are are going to use these weapons. If they’re going to use them, then at least they could pay more to do so.
Wow. What an elitist jerk. In other words, you’ve got to be rich and/or have armed guards (as he is/does) in order to exercise the innate right of self-defense.
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