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Confiscation: Why Isn’t the Far Left Honest About Their End Game On Guns?
American Thinker ^ | 1 Aug, 2023 | D. Parker

Posted on 08/01/2023 4:39:21 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Leftists keep on lying about their true goals on guns to get everyone to accept the intermediate steps to confiscation.

What is the far left’s end game on guns? Anyone on the pro-freedom right side of the political spectrum has known this answer for years. Gun confiscation has always been the ultimate goal of every collectivist authoritarian down through history since firearms were invented, from the Bolsheviks, and National Socialist German Workers' (Nazi) Party, to the Democrats and every leftist extremist in between.

And yet, leftists and the nation’s socialist media still play the gaslighting game of pretending they only want “common sense gun reform” or safety or whatever’s the deception du jour this week. Do they expect us to accept their lie that “No one is talking about confiscating guns” when we’ve documented they’ve been talking about that for 30 years? And despite their ever-creative writing, we understand unconstitutional ‘red flag’ orders are nothing but gun confiscation without due process.

Guns turned in during a "gun amnesty" in Serbia (YouTube screengrab, cropped)

This is probably one reason they had such a problem with Jason Aldean’s Try That In A Small Town (full disclosure, our town is so small, it doesn’t even have a red light). Because it brought this to the forefront of pop culture to people who probably haven’t thought of their government going all collectivist authoritarian on them and confiscating their guns.

All of this raises the larger question: can there be any other end game on guns? Does the far left expect everyone to fall for some fantasy fiction that they will take every step towards gun confiscation and eviscerating your common-sense civil rights and then stop just short of their goal of total control?

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: banglist; confiscation; gunamnesty; selfdefense
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1 posted on 08/01/2023 4:39:21 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

I wonder what Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn would have to say about this?


2 posted on 08/01/2023 4:39:39 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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"Why isn't the Left honest about_________ (fill in the blank)"

Has this author been living under a rock? Dishonesty is THE hallmark of Leftism. They are truly the "People of the Lie."

3 posted on 08/01/2023 4:45:28 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: MtnClimber

Not just weapon confiscation, but also criminalization of self defense, if the criminal is a member of a favored group.


4 posted on 08/01/2023 4:46:32 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor (The rot of all principle begins with a single compromise.)
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To: RoosterRedux

A fundamental tactic of the Left is to paint a false picture of their intentions.

Their true intention is always “to seize power”.


5 posted on 08/01/2023 4:48:28 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor (The rot of all principle begins with a single compromise.)
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To: MtnClimber
"Leftists keep on lying about their true goals"

Article could have stopped right there.

6 posted on 08/01/2023 4:49:51 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe (The woke were surprised by the reaction to the Bud Light fiasco. May there be many more surprises)
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To: MtnClimber

“That is why our masters in Washington are so anxious to disarm us. They are not afraid of criminals. They are afraid of a populace which cannot be subdued by tyrants.” - Lt. Col Jeff Cooper


7 posted on 08/01/2023 4:53:22 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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Why isn't the far left .. honest..??

Let's be clear about it. Liberals serve Satan, and to him they belong.

John 8:44: Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

No matter that most/many libs don't believe in Satan. That's his greatest feat, viz. to convince people he doesn't exist. They still serve him.

8 posted on 08/01/2023 4:54:38 AM PDT by LouAvul (Daniel 4:17: "..the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever He will.." )
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To: MtnClimber

or their end game on communism
or their end game on perversion
or their end game on culture

their strategy is to be stealth because we would be horrified to know their ultimate goals


9 posted on 08/01/2023 4:55:37 AM PDT by SisterK (it's controlled demolition)
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To: RoosterRedux
Has this author been living under a rock? Dishonesty is THE hallmark of Leftism. They are truly the "People of the Lie."

Well said. 🎯

10 posted on 08/01/2023 4:56:42 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: MtnClimber

“Confiscation: Why Isn’t the Far Left Honest About Their End Game On Guns?”
Ding ding ding ding ding! We have a winner in this month’s dumbest question contest?
Those that asked why Democrat/communists are pushing EVs sorry try again.


11 posted on 08/01/2023 4:58:09 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Freedom is never free. It must be won rewon and jealously guarded.)
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To: LouAvul

“..Let’s be clear about it. Liberals serve Satan, and to him they belong....”

^THIS^

“John 8:44”

^TRUTH^

Doesn’t matter what they believe, it doesn’t change the truth.
They are of the devil....through and through.
As aptly stated in an above post: they’re just like all the other thugs throughout human history. Same demon, different tyrants. Nothing new under the sun.


12 posted on 08/01/2023 5:04:09 AM PDT by lgjhn23 ("On the 8th day, Satan created the progressive liberal to destroy all the good that God created...")
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To: RoosterRedux

Because lying works better to reach their aim to disarm us. Stupid people believe them.


13 posted on 08/01/2023 5:04:45 AM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: MtnClimber

the far-left isn’t honest about anything......


14 posted on 08/01/2023 5:05:57 AM PDT by wny
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To: MtnClimber
Because if they told the truth up front they would not get elected.

15 posted on 08/01/2023 5:07:53 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: RoosterRedux

“Has this author been living under a rock?”

Yes. He thinks the American Communists have been talking about gun confiscation for 30 years. Thirty years ago was 1993.


16 posted on 08/01/2023 5:11:19 AM PDT by KingLudd
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To: KingLudd
Leftists of any nationality seek to take control. They must take control because no one would go along with their ridiculous ideas willingly. Leftism/communism/socialism must be mandated.

If you must have control, you must get rid of independent thought and freedom of expression. And you must get rid of anyone's ability to resist (and that means guns, knives, sticks, stones, etc.).

17 posted on 08/01/2023 5:17:08 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: MtnClimber

It’s called boiling the frog. He doesn’t realize it until he’s cooked.


18 posted on 08/01/2023 5:25:42 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: MtnClimber

even while they are confiscating guns

they will deny it

they will call it something else


19 posted on 08/01/2023 5:27:51 AM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: MtnClimber

Because although most people do not learn well from history, history has shown, QUITE CLEARLY, once a government disarms its citizens harsh, forced, deadly policies are quickly enacted - PERIOD! Without our Right to Bear Arms, what has happened multiple times throughout history would happen here.

Therefore, the Democrats cannot be honest because they know those who want to keep our rights will let everyone and anyone know about these historical FACTS!

So they remain obtuse about their real intent to disarm Americans, and instead use word-smithing to suggest their actions are simply “for the children”.


20 posted on 08/01/2023 5:29:09 AM PDT by ExTxMarine
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