Posted on 06/11/2011 5:33:46 PM PDT by neverdem
PHOENIX, AZ --(Ammoland.com)- Paul Helmke, ringleader of the aggressive Brady Anti-Gun gang, released this statement about the “bipartisan” gun-control meeting the White House scheduled.
(Note: The “White House” is a building and can’t do anything; the person responsible in that building remains unidentified but appears to be Steve Croley) The meeting only included people who want to ban guns, an indicator of the plans, according to unidentifiable experts.
“On Tuesday, I attended a meeting at the U.S. Department of Justice with representatives from the White House, the Vice-President’s office, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), the FBI, and others from the Obama Administration, along with leaders from the gun violence prevention movement, to discuss how to reach the goals outlined in the President’s statement. Officials from the Administration indicated that this was the first of what they hoped would be a series of discussions. They said they had not settled on, or excluded, any relevant proposals.
“I began the discussion by listing basic measures that the Brady Campaign, and others, felt could make a difference. The list included: a strong background check system, with good and complete records of dangerous and irresponsible people, applicable to all commercial gun sales; more tools for law enforcement to stop trafficking in illegal guns; increasing the number and type of military-style weapons, including "assault clips," that should not be readily available to civilians, like machine-guns and fully automatic weapons. Administration officials then asked questions. My colleagues and I gave examples and arguments for legislative, administrative, and voluntary policies that could help reduce the bloodshed.
“The meeting lasted more than 90 minutes. Having this many Administration representatives spend this much time on this initial meeting signaled to me that the president is serious. He wants to do something meaningful about gun violence. After meeting with others, including law enforcement and "gun rights" groups [note: no such meetings are known to have been held], Obama’s representatives will be presenting specific proposals. We hope those will include all the "sound and effective steps" that the president called for in his statement.”
No word has leaked on what or how the anti-rights leaders will attempt to implement their programs. Rumors are swirling that every effort will be made to avoid going through Congress, since it is well recognized that the peoples’ representatives there will not tolerate rights denial programs. Avoiding Congress would be a travesty bordering on treason, but since it is just one of many such moves, objections might be slight, and arrests of the perpetrators seem unlikely.
One leading gun-rights advocate, who was not invited to the “open” discussions, opined, “A seat at the table would be good, but only if used to present reasonable ideas — gun curricula, self-defense protections, justice for civil-rights violators (just injecting civil rights into the lexicon would be good), gun-free zones vs. make-believe gun-free zones, the debilitating effects of hoplophobia and failure to recognize or treat the sufferers, and have the antis dismiss such common-sense measures; also a chance to stand against the anti-rights movement and cast them as such. I’m not sure which gun-rights leader is best suited to that. I’d love to have a crack at it, but I wasn’t invited.” An opportunity to do any of that was considered unlikely.
There are serious issues American gun owners want discussed, such as restoration of rights, national concealed-carry reciprocity, cracking down on states like New Jersey, New York and California that routinely violate gun owners rights, lifting the administration’s ban on importation of historic WWII-era rifles, reining in the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, especially the Phoenix office and its Fast and Furious and GunWalker operations, and the nomination of anti-gun rights Andrew Traver to head BATFE.
Plans to strip Americans of their guns, either in whole cloth or with a thousand cuts, are deep secrets at both the center of the U.S. government, and at the United Nations, which are known to be working in concert to attain those goals. We’ll be watching.
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And it’s going to take all those illegal guns off the streets and out of the hands of gangs. Yep.
Bang!
It would seem we are to be snowed under with a
blizzard of anti-gun legislation and Czar/Executive
orders. Look for it.
I for one would like to see the minutes of this meeting,
transparency would demand it.
A former Republican mayor of Fort Wayne Indiana.
It appears to me that most of the gun crimes reported in the news involve blacks or Hispanics. Before I believe that Government can actually reduce crime by taking away arms from honest law biding citizens, let them disarm the criminals that are committing most of the gun crimes and then come and talk to me about giving up my right to self protection.
Before the police state Nazis like the Brady crowd can take over, they’ve got to get our guns.
Please, try to take the Guns!!
Yea, Operation Fast a Furious was soooooo successful that they want to repeat it all over!
Do you think so? If the armed citizenry hasn't already fought back, what will make them do so? Cojones are more important than guns, and I wonder how much of those, collectively, our feminized society has.
NRA how is your backing Democrats working for you?
They where stupid for doing that, and a lot of people told them so. In a situation where the Dem has a better pro-gun record than the Repub, the NRA should not make an endorsement. However, this article clearly states that Obama will do everything he can outside of Congress, which would tell him to shove it on gun control.
While they Gloat...I BLOAT...
Corrupt anti-American, unAmerican bastards.
It’s a federal offense for ANY federally funded Fed. Gov. agency to engage in lobbying.
Nearly all the agencies involved in this cabal are federally funded!
So they are above the law, but WE must comply, even if the “Law” is unconstitutional.
Would be nice to see someone call them out on this, dare I say it, conspiracy to deprive Americans of a clearly elucidated right?
The whole Obama crew are nothing but a bunch of America hating homos.
They’re going to do it through treaty policy, which doesn’t have to be ratified to be accepted as internationally binding. Congress doesn’t matter any more.
It’s a bang or get banged world.
There is no such thing as "bipartisan" for this issue. There are only Americans and anti-americans. Taking the good with the bad is part of being free. If you don't like guns then get the hell out of our country.
Okay, General Batrachian.
Where do we muster? Who’s the CO? Which company and platoon do we report to?
Blowhards like you love to cut down American patriots because we haven’t rolled guillotines down Pennsylvania Avenue. If you took a historical measure, you’d discover that it took the Founders 25 years - 1750 to 1775 - to organize, find leadership and make a plan to take on the British.
Twenty-six states have an organized state militia. And I’ll bet that you’re not a member of any of them.
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