Gun Grabbers Dance in the Blood of Their Victims

 J. B. Shurk has an article today at the American Thinker entitled Dismantling the Bill of Rights Is No Solution. The first right written about in Shurk's piece is the Second Amendment because that is the one currently under attack due to the recent Wisconsin School Shooting.

After the recent school shooting in Madison, Wisconsin, the usual suspects immediately called for more “gun control.” Joe Biden’s White House released a statement demanding these additional infringements upon Americans’ Second Amendment rights: “Universal background checks. A national red flag law. A ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.” (The president conveniently ignored reports that the teenaged attacker used a 9mm pistol.) Democrat Congressman Mark Pocan insists that gun manufacturers be held responsible for the school shooter’s violence. Disgraced former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe (who was rewarded for leaking classified information and lying to federal agents) wants “legislation that changes the context of gun ownership” in the United States and new requirements that “eliminate the ability” of Americans “to purchase guns without a background check.”

So the departing president wants executive authority to determine which Americans enjoy Second Amendment protections. The congressman from Wisconsin wants to hold manufacturers criminally and civilly liable for the misdeeds of others. And the former acting director of the FBI wants to fundamentally transform the “context of gun ownership.” What part of “shall not be infringed” do they not understand?

If you are a gun owner, you are used to calls to dismantle the Second Amendment every time someone misuses a gun and the gun-grabbers dance in the blood of the victims. But this sort of thing happens all the time to the entire Bill of Rights. In theory, our "leaders" swear on the Bible (in other words to God Almighty himself) to protect and defend the Constitution. But they obviously don't mean it.

If we were still a country that took loyalty oaths seriously, it would be worth noting that all three of these men raised their hands and solemnly swore to protect and defend the Bill of Rights. As retired FBI supervisory special agent Arthur P. Meister once wrote, “all public office oaths require true faith and allegiance to principles of lawful authority derived from the Constitution.” An official’s “deference” to the Bill of Rights “must trump all other promises and commitments” precisely because “the public elects, empowers, and allows a select few to govern many.” The U.S. government cannot expect public trust if its officers regularly violate their oaths to the U.S. Constitution. Accordingly, if faith in the U.S. government is historically weak, then government officials should consider their disregard for the Bill of Rights the proximate cause.

Unconstitutional attempts to confiscate Americans’ firearms have become such a regular reaction to mass shootings that lawmakers act as if erasing the Second Amendment were no big deal. “Oh, what’s the harm?” they dismissively suggest on cable television. “It’s just an annoying little right. It was written, like, three centuries ago...by white supremacists! And if it saves even one child, it’s worth it!”

Shurk then takes us on a long discourse on the fact that our current system under the Democrats and particularly under the Biden administration is a two tier system where the people on the "inside" seem to get whatever they want, while the people on the "outside" aren't even given the bare protections afforded in the Constitution. Indeed, the people in charge, who have sworn to uphold and defend the Constitution don't seem to have read it at all.

Make no mistake, none of the things Biden is pushing would have stopped any crime. Every wet dream wish of the gun grabbers is just to burden gun owners as much as possible.  The things they want now will never be enough.  And whatever the pathologies suffered by the Wisconsin shooter might be, they are tragic perversions of an unfortunately sick mind. The vast majority of gun owners (some 107 million own guns) did NOT commit a crime and never will. What is the logic here, then, that everyone should be punished for the crimes of the few? By that logic, everyone would be sent to jail whenever someone is robbed. Rather, the logic here is that if they can effectively neuter the Second Amendment, we will all be easier to control. Therein is the real reason.  Not because the care, but to increase their power and control.