I liked ‘Common Sense Gun Reform’. Common to whom??
Every time I hear " common sense gun control:" I hear "I can't prove it but it must be true because I say so"
Would be interesting to go back and trace the rate of violence with firearms before and after major regulations changes in given jurisdictions and see if the trajectory changed from that previously or vs the national average. Would be hilarious if the trajectory could be shown to have risen.
New slogan: gun control increases crime by making better victims.
Common sense = I may have read this, but it got me a hefty "contribution" and I don't care how it affects you. I'm exempt.
Comonsense = I have no idea what this bullsh1t is; I was just handed some papers to submit and an envelope. Looks like cash. And they said I'm exempt.
Here in the Democratic People's Republic of Maryland, very little can be done outright. However, here are several ideas I have brought up before and that I am doing. 1) Register as a Democrat and vote against the incumbent in the primary. Many times these grabbers get renominated by a slight margin. When they lose write and tell them it was their stance on guns Also, when you write them they will find out if you are Democrat or not and will respond if you are and ignore if you are not. 2) Support MSI and all legal challenges to MD laws in the courts, that is the only way we will win anything here right now. 3) Take someone shooting, your kids or a friend. You don't have to be a hunter to enjoy the sport of shooting. Education and experience and memories will help. My son and I stop for lunch on the way out and a treat on our way back.
Anything and everything people can do to protect our 2nd Amendment right should be supported.
As evidenced by the 1990s wars in the Balkans, when times get inimical, contraband guns get pulled out of walls and put into use. We can expect to see the same, here.
Now, to get back to the simple mathematics, here are some ratios to ponder:
NRA members (5.2 million) to Door Kickers (82,863) = 63-to-1 ratio
Military veterans (20.4 million) to Door Kickers (82,863) = 249-to-1 ratio
Unregistered machineguns (1.5 million) to Door Kickers (82,863) = 18-to-1 ratio
Privately owned semi-auto rifles (40 million) to Door Kickers (82,863) = 485-to-1 ratio
I disagree. All that will happen is more cultural separation between urban/suburban/exurban areas and rural areas. Rural areas will maintain their old culture as they have for 300 years.
So where are we moving to?
I am cross-posting this from the "Revolution" thread:
I may have already posted this before elsewhere, but it can't be posted enough: There are simply not enough Leftists and their Jack-Booted Thug Door Kickers to accomplish what they want to accomplish.
Here is the quick math table taken from the EXCELLENT article posted by SurvivalBlog author and firearms expert James Wesley Rawles on the Left's "Impossible Dream":
Read the full article here and you will cheer and do a little dance...
https://survivalblog.com/mathematics-countering-tyranny/
True. Partially because even the proponents of this "right" cannot agree on when the right stops.
For instance, convicted felons (not on parole) can speak their minds, choose their religion, be free from illegal searches....but they cant own a gun, legally. And most gun owners would agree with this...
BUT
If it is a RIGHT, then why don't we, and by proxy our legislation, treat it as such and restrict the RIGHT only for very specific cases?
It would seem to me that to us, and to others in this country, we will curtail rights at the drop of a hat, which means that we don't actually know what a right is.
...one other addition to the above stats...
those ratios assume that the gun takers will be resolved in their mission and continue till the last man dies. i would wager half quit after the first few are killed stealing an otherwise harmless piece of steel from an otherwise harmless law abiding citizen.
You need look no further than Baltimore: murders skyrocketed after Firearms Act 2013.
(Yes, I deliberately left out one word; I'm not fluent in Newspeak.)
The reality is that there is little if any impact of the 2013 legislation on the Baltimore murder rate.
More like "We need to pass Common Sense" gun control legislation first before we know what is in it..Speaking of Newspeak, there's a decoding trick that I use with announcements of new ideas in civil rights infringing bills. Here it is:
Until recently, it was unanimously held that felons forfeited both their rights to firearms and their voting rights. If you were truly reformed and wanted your rights back, you begged for a pardon, not universal amnesty - reeks of the same universal amnesty for illegal immigration - feel good CRAP
If you don't want these penalties for certain crimes the solution isn't restoration of rights to felons, the solution is changing the crime to misdemeanors
The only "common sense" law I can see is the repeal of any gun laws and make the crime against the law as a weapon that fires 1 or 1 million rounds in a split second can only be used in a crime by a criminal. A shotgun in the hands of a criminal who puts a round in your chest is no less dangerous because of the lack of magazine in the shotgun. The gun commits no crime as it is simply a tool. Let's just punish criminal actions. Criminal actions are those that negatively effect someone else...like robbery, assault with a weapon. The mere possession of any weapon in and of itself has no victim so how can you criminalize that. The left wants to talk about common sense. I don't see a middle ground as anything they call common sense is merely another restriction on an inanimate object.
Every time I see the trigger word "commonsense" (Gun Grabber word, as opposed to the two word English form), I substitute "Bullsh1t" in it's place and it all becomes crystal clear. The Gun Grabber form can be traced back to an early Everytown press release and talking point that has been recycled verbatim ever since. It makes it absurdly simple to identify a script written by a lobbyist and recited by a brain dead politician.
Every time I hear " common sense gun control:" I hear "I can't prove it but it must be true because I say so"
Would be interesting to go back and trace the rate of violence with firearms before and after major regulations changes in given jurisdictions and see if the trajectory changed from that previously or vs the national average. Would be hilarious if the trajectory could be shown to have risen.
New slogan: gun control increases crime by making better victims.
Let me direct you to the Official Party Platform, written in 2016:
https://democrats.org/about/party-platform/
So there you are boys and girls, it's spelled out in their official Party Platform.
Now, who is on record as the enemy of freedom?