Dems introduce bill to ban "assault weapons"

[CrazySanMan]

That's a dangerous assumption. There are idiots who simply don't know better, and reptiles who do but are playing the long game, who would be all too happy to vote YEA on a bill that outlawed private firearm ownership.

It's probably all hot air, but never underestimate the opposition.

The left today feels they have the moral high ground and they will push their agenda BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY. Their favorite slogan is THE ENDS JUSTIFY THE MEANS. This is exactly why they have done things like Fast and Furious, Uranium One, Hillary's email investigation, etc. SJW's turned government officials like McCabe and Comey believed in this. James Comey's new book is titled "A Higher Loyalty". He referring to the fact that today the ends justify the means, that the end result of a leftist state is more important than the COTUS. They know that they must disarm the American people and each shooting is an opportunity to bring that goal closer to reality.

 

[frozencesium]

It'll never make it out of committee. This is just a headline grabber.

 

[CrazySanMan]

It'll never make it out of committee. This is just a headline grabber.

All Democrats will vote for this or any other gun control bill.

Many RINO Republicans will vote for it.

Republicans who can be easily threatened or blackmailed or bribed will vote for this.


This bill or others like a "large capacity" magazine ban have a good chance of passing. Don't put it past leftists on the fringe to conduct more "false flag" shootings to further sway public opinion and keep the push on R's to support gun control. The left has no problem killing other people on the left if it will further their agenda or can be blamed on the right.

 

[balttigger]

Let's look at this for what it is....a political election play. The dems know it has zero chance of ever passing. They aren't interested in it passing anyway or they would have tried it when they controlled both Houses when Obama was in the White House. They want to be able to go on TV and rattle their sabres that the Republicans who oppose this just want to kill babies and you should vote for them; and when the bill goes down in flames, they will fund raise off of it. OMFG how they will fund raise off of it.

It's a win/win for them thru their eyes. They know it would never do anything to stop crime but they see it as a road back to taking control of Congress and making millions of donations in the process.

Let's just hope it's as politically poisonous as it was in 1994.

 

[iH8DemLibz]

Let's look at this for what it is....a political election play. The dems know it has zero chance of ever passing. They aren't interested in it passing anyway or they would have tried it when they controlled both Houses when Obama was in the White House. They want to be able to go on TV and rattle their sabres that the Republicans who oppose this just want to kill babies and you should vote for them; and when the bill goes down in flames, they will fund raise off of it. OMFG how they will fund raise off of it.

It's a win/win for them thru their eyes. They know it would never do anything to stop crime but they see it as a road back to taking control of Congress and making millions of donations in the process.

Let's just hope it's as politically poisonous as it was in 1994.

 

[Money_B_85]

Banning ALL semiautomatic handguns and rifles bring proposed

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/h...ale-of-semi-automatic-weapons/article/2650087

Banning all semiautomatic pistols and rifles. Revolver fans rejoice. 150 signatures so far. Yet another reason why we can’t remain complicit in the midterms. Until we replace Kennedy or Ginsburg, I will not breathe a sigh of relief.

 

[balttigger]

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Exactly. The low information crowd, which always voted (D) anyway, will eat this up. They will continue to have rallies, but as things often do with these people, its gonna turn ugly. Case in point:

http://www.kcra.com/article/some-stockton-students-become-violent-during-anti-gun-protest-1/18698723

This will likely not play well with mainstream THINKING Americans and hopefully, we will see the same kind of midterm results as we saw with 2016 and what got Trump elected.

 

[Rab1515]

They need to be reminded of Heller.

 

[Doctor_M]

I think that this is already being discussed here:

https://www.mdshooters.com/showthread.php?t=220813

 

[iH8DemLibz]

OP has no WC access.

 

[Doctor_M]

My bad... didn't notice that.

 

[CrazySanMan]

US Constitution
Article I Section VIII

The Congress shall have the Power... To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;

Amendment 2

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

Enough said.

 

[Alea Jacta Est]

US Constitution
Article I Section VIII

The Congress shall have the Power... To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;

Amendment 2

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

Enough said.

Sure. Cut to the chase. Invoke the source document.










Nicely done.

 

[Alea Jacta Est]

Duplicity

 

[pbharvey]

They need to be reminded of Heller.

and history

For some months, people in the colonies had been gathering arms and powder and had been training to fight the British, if necessary, at a moment's notice. The Continental Congress had approved of preparations for defensive fighting, in case the British made an aggressive move. But General Thomas Gage, commander of British troops in Boston, had been cautious. He thought his army too small to act without reinforcements. On the other hand, his officers disdained the colonists as fighters, thinking they would flee with any show of British force.

Gage received orders to arrest Sam Adams and John Hancock, rumored to be near Lexington. When Gage heard that the colonists had stockpiled guns and powder in Concord, he decided to act. On the night of April 18, 1775, he dispatched nearly 1,000 troops from Boston. He hoped to catch the colonists by surprise and thus to avoid bloodshed. But all British activities were carefully watched by the patriots, and William Dawes and Paul Revere rode out to warn people in the countryside that the British were coming.

When British regulars (known as redcoats because of their uniform jackets) arrived at Lexington the next morning, they found several dozen minutemen waiting for them on the town's common. Someone fired--no one knows who fired first--and eight minutemen were killed and another dozen or so were wounded. Then the British marched on Concord and destroyed what was left of the store of guns and powder, most of which had been hastily removed by the patriots. During the redcoats' entire march back to Boston, minutemen harassed them, firing from behind fences, houses, trees, and rocks. By the end of the day, the redcoats suffered three times more casualties than had the colonists.

Whatever the truth of who fired the first shot, the patriots were first to get their version of the events out to the American public. The effect was to rally hundreds, if not thousands, of colonists to the rebellion. When the Second Continental Congress met three weeks later--the meeting had been scheduled since October--it agreed to support Massachusetts in the conflict. Even so, many representatives disagreed among themselves about the purpose of the fighting.

At one end of the continuum of opinion were such men as Sam and John Adams of Massachusetts and Richard Henry Lee of Virginia who already favored independence. At the other end of that continuum were such men as John Dickinson of Pennsylvania who hoped for a quick settlement and reconciliation with Great Britain. Most delegates, like most colonists, were moderates with opinions somewhere in the middle of that continuum. Over the next year of conflict, bungling British policy-makers tried to recruit Indians, slaves, and foreign mercenaries, they blockaded colonial ports, and they rejected all efforts at conciliation. These actions pushed more and more colonists to favor independence.

 

[Fredcohunter]

Case in point:

http://www.kcra.com/article/some-stockton-students-become-violent-during-anti-gun-protest-1/18698723

I will always defend free speech and ones right to protest but if that were one of my kids vandalizing cars and acting like an idiot he would still be trying to get my foot out of his ass. The only problem with those kids is lack of parenting.

 

[TexDefender]

Well you know the saying, "The price of freedom is eternal Vigilance"

 

[erwos]

It'll never make it out of committee. This is just a headline grabber.

You are correct. I secretly wish I had the energy for the unlimited Internet outrage some people here seem to have. A federal AWB is the Democrat version of the GOP's Obamacare repeal - they say they want it, but are secretly terrified of what would happen if they were in a position to act on it.

 

[MacGuns]

If you attend an appleseed event, you will learn who fired first.

When British regulars (known as redcoats because of their uniform jackets) arrived at Lexington the next morning, they found several dozen minutemen waiting for them on the town's common. Someone fired--no one knows who fired first--and eight minutemen were killed and another dozen or so were wounded.

 

[kyserthehun]

If you attend an appleseed event, you will learn who fired first.

I'm going to need to do one of these eventually.