Letter: Gun control opposition about Obama? (Retired union goon)

A majority of Americans voted for President Barack Obama, despite having to stand in lines for hours in many locations.

The president’s agenda, agreed to by most of America, is to limit ammo clips to 10 rounds, eliminate the further sale of assault weapons and require background checks on gun purchases, whether at a gun show or a sporting goods store — a simple concept, agreed on by most Americans, gun owners or not.

What the NRA, the star salesman for the weapons manufacturers, hears is that we want to take away everybody’s guns and leave them defenseless.

Everyone gets to keep their guns and even buy as many more as they can afford. This time, however, you’ll have a background check.

If you are a hunter, but you need an assault rifle to kill Bambi, you should turn in your gun...

The gun grabbers will do everything possible to limit gun ownership without outright banning them. They’d love to do the latter, of course, but they know they don’t have the political power to take all guns. Here’s a list of possible gun grabber approaches I made up:

1) Capture as many gun transactions/information as possible in national databases. If possible, 100% gun registration.
2) Background checks on all gun transactions including ammo.
3) Gun licensing and mandatory recurring gun safety training.
4) Extra (prohibitive) taxes on gun and ammo purchases.
5) Requirements to carry liability insurance to own a gun, with increasing premiums based on the types and quantities owned.
6) Limits on the kinds of guns that can be manufactured, including guns locks keyed to owner DNA, fingerprints, etc. (single shot weapons preferred).
7) Requirement to store guns in government approved safes when not in use. Ammo must be stored separately.
8) Random home inspections and certifications to ensure #7 or...
9) Requirement to store all guns at federally owned storage sites with waiting periods to draw gun out for use.
10) Waiting lists to buy even approved guns.
11) Limits on the number of guns that can be purchased per year and/or total number that can be owned.
12) Anti-gun curriculum added to schools (children, doctors, and others encouraged to report gun owners).
13) Requirement to send guns back to manufacturers for annual serviceability checks (this one would be a boon for gun manufacturers, sort of like Obamacare for health insurance companies—a potential way to get gun manufacturers to support legislation).
14) Requirement to file plans prior to transporting any gun across state borders (with a long wait for approval of course).
15) Requirement to buy government approved container and pay for professional installation in vehicle prior to transporting any gun.
16) Pressure companies to put financial pressure or stop doing business with gun manufacturers, merchants, and owners.
17) Heavy fines and permanent ban from ever owning another weapon for violating any of the above infringements.
18) Mental health checks for owner and everyone in household prior to approval to buy a gun subject to the other restrictions above. Record of treatment for PTSD, addiction, depression, etc., gets one banned from ever owning guns.
19) Whatever else they can think of to make it extremely difficult to own a gun without “infringing” on the right to bear arms!

You’ll hear the 2nd Amendment, like the 1st, is not absolute. Reasonable (LOL!) restrictions on gun ownership will be sold as necessary for public safety. You’ll still have the right to bear arms. It might be a prohibitely priced, single shot muzzle loader (subject to the slew of restrictions above), but technically you’ll still have the right to own a gun.

I have no major issue with background checks, but what does cause me concern is that the background check includes data on the firearm being purchased, and that in and of itself is de facto registration.

The data supplied for a background check should be the purchaser’s ID (includes address, etc.) and the fact a firearm is being purchased. That’s it. And I allow the inclusion of the entry that a firearm is being purchased because there are laws on the books that disallow certain pesons from possessing a firearm (felons, lunatics, etc.). But the inclusion of the make, model, serial number, etc. is de facto registration.

That “story” is just that almost all fiction. Especially the part about confiscation.

Up in the Soviet of Washington, as State law banning so-called assault weapons has been introduced. Unfortunately, it allows for annual visits by the local sheriff for those who own assault weapons, to make sure that they are law abiding citizens. Now liberals are starting to realize that maybe they have gone too far in their orgy of gun control.

http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2020373291_westneat17xml.html

“...One of the major gun-control efforts in Olympia this session calls for the sheriff to inspect the homes of assault-weapon owners. The bill’s backers say that was a mistake...”

This guy is amazing! How could he know what "most of America/Americans" wants? Oh, wait...it's that "our Democracy" thing again instead of "our Republic". Majority rules so deal with it, suckers.
Besides, gun control didn't come up until after Sandy Hook and that was in DEC...not NOV...where America would have had an opportunity to voice their opinion through their vote.
Or am I wrong?

This time, however, you’ll have a background check.
Has he never bought a gun? You have a background check performed on you NOW!

If you are a hunter, but you need an assault rifle to kill Bambi, you should turn in your gun...
Silly man. I use something much more powerful than a .223 for hunting deer. I want to make sure it's dead with the first shot.
And as far as Bambi goes...you can't shoot a fawn, dumb )@(, it's illegal!

Just because you’re a Southern conservative doesn’t mean you have to disagree with everything the “different from us” president suggests.

News flash, dumb )@(, I disagree with a not-so-closeted socialist, not a man who just happens to be black.

If you are a hunter, but you need an assault rifle to kill Bambi, you should turn in your gun...

It's not about "hunting",you filthy Communist union punk.It's mainly about protecting myself from my government.A well known politician once put it very well...see if you can guess which one:

"Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms. This is not to say that firearms should not be very carefully used, and that definite safety rules of precaution should not be taught and enforced. But the right of citizens to bear arms is just one more guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against a tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible".

Give up,you union thug? It was senator Hubert H Humphrey.

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