At the American Thinker today, D. Parker has a post entitled Leftists move on from 'nobody's coming for your guns'. Like most of their anti-liberty agenda, the mask is coming off now, and the left feels certain it can steal its way to winning back the Senate and House in the midterms. They are so sure of it that they don't need to hide their true intentions. And their true intentions are to disarm normal Americans and cram their tyrannical program down our throats.
Leftists are no longer hiding their plans to take your guns if they ever gain power. That means it’s time to get activated in defending freedom.
The gun-grabber ghouls of the left have always played a little game incrementally demanding more control over a commonsense and constitutional civil right. Though they used to occasionally say the quiet part out loud, things have changed. They’ve never been as blatant about it as they are now.
In the past, the ghouls had the advantage that history had yet to be made in other Western countries, so they could brush off the very real accusations that they were ultimately out to confiscate guns. They could say we were being paranoid or toss off some variation of the infamous line that “no one is talking about taking your guns.”
But now guns have been confiscated around the world. Even worse, the facile promises of safety from these actions have failed to materialize. We now have the advantage of hindsight, to the point that the ghouls can no longer dismiss the gun confiscation accusation as “extreme.” We can now easily point to the U.K., Australia, and Canada, so they’ve changed their tactics.
I don't know if Parker goes back as far as I do in the gun debates. I can remember the great debate over "Saturday Night Specials." These were supposedly cheaply made revolvers that so called ghetto dwellers would use during their Saturday night escapades. The debate was terribly racist. Indiana Senator Birch Bayh (a Democrat of course) and others wanted to get rid of guns and so created the Gun Control Act of 1968. But of course, these measures are always a "good first step." The gun-ghouls will never be happy until we are disarmed and mere surfs in their machine.
Even as a teen I realized that the Second Amendment was not about hunting but defending the nation and for self-defense against tyrants. So-called "Saturday Night Specials" were not hunting weapons, so were derided for not having a "sporting purpose." Well, no they didn't. They were designed to be self-defense weapons when one was attacked. One of a legitimate government's jobs is protecting life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. But the state cannot be everywhere, so it becomes incumbent on the individual to protect himself. These things I realized even as a teen.
With that as background, I was happy to see the first state, Florida, to pass a shall-issue concealed carry law. That was in 1987. Since that time, most of the states have passed shall issue concealed carry, and many have passed so-called Constitutional carry, which doesn't require a permit. The Supreme Court has indicated that the Second Amendment is an individual right, not tied to being in a militia. But all that hard work over that last 50 years is in peril.
Even if you’re not a gun owner — or lost all your guns in an unfortunate boating accident — these stories should make it crystal-clear what is at stake in the upcoming electoral contests. Cruel leftists have already made noises about persecuting pro-freedom patriots, nuking the filibuster, making Puerto Rico and D.C. states, and packing the Supreme Court. And that’s what they will openly admit to at the moment. Who knows what else they have in mind?
If there is any constant in the universe, it’s that the collectivist left will lie, and lie often. It’s a hobby and a skill. It’s just like a spanner in the leftists’ political tool kit. It’s when they tell the truth that you really have to worry.
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