Cooking Fires are Heating Up

 According to Andrea Widburg at the American Thinker the Senate 'gun safety' bill is even worse than I thought. Much of it is just pablum. For example, 'mental health' funding. The real risk to firearm owners specifically, and to people in general are the so-called 'Red Flag' laws being pushed under Byrne Grants to states. 

Red Flag laws usually violate multiple constitutional protections including 2nd, 4th, 5th, 6th and possibly first Amendment rights. This is no small matter. Red flag laws often permit someone to anonamously complain to a court that you are a dangerous person and should have your guns taken away. In some cases, the complainant need not actually know the individual, making the public disclosure of concealed carriers particularly dangerous.  The court then, in an ex parte hearing to which neither you nor your attorney are not invited, orders the sheriff to confiscate your guns. The first you know about it is when the sheriff shows up at 0600 A. M. to present you with a warrant. But since you are described as having guns, and thus being both armed and dangerous, they may enter with flash bangs in full SWAT gear, ready to kill anything in site that looks vaguely suspicious. You better not be holding the portafilter to your espresso machine when they enter.

According to Sarah Arnold at Townhall.com Republicans Fear Red Flag Laws Will Be Abused By Government. Given the long, sad, history of laws being abused by government, it is not unreasonable to think these too will be abused. The first person killed by such laws was a guy in Maryland who was turned in by his sister because of an arguement. She was all sorry over it, but he is still dead, and committed no crime. And she is still free to injure another gun owner.  You can expect more of that. Sure, there may be consequences written into the laws, but really, how likely is it that the perpetrators will be caught? This becomes a way for people who don't like you to sic the law on you.

But, now looking ahead, what if these laws stand, despite the obvious defects of constitutional law? What else might society decide to solve without the need for that pesky stuff called evidence of a crime. People forget that we have been here before. The demands of the Left are similar to what the Puritans demanded of people. I say similar, because at their heart, both demand conformity to arbitrary rules designed to punish people who didn't agree with them.

Eventually people got tired of the smug, self appointed arbiters of what people could do and say. They rebelled, and today the Puritans are gone. But there is always a puritan strain in people, and the Left has taken it to the extreme. People are already rebelling. They are getting tired of having to use the Left's made up on the spot preferred pronouns. Most people know that there is no climate crisis. Most people can see that the people kept in solitary confinement for over a year because of a riot at the Capitol are political prisoners. Most people see the January 6 hearing as being akin to Soviet show trials.  Oh, and they are figuring out that what the government can do to those people, can be done to anyone. They don't like that sword hanging over them. Fairness says that what is good for the goose is good for the gander, and the cooking fires are heating up.

As for the Republican Senators who have betrayed the people by giving aid and comfort to the enemy of the people...Senator Burr (NC) is retiring, so can show his true colors. Senator Tillis has always been a gun grabber, thinly disguised for election purposes. NC voters will not forget.