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What Do Democrats Have Against Guns and Gun Rights?
Ammoland ^ | 1 March, 2012 | AWR Hawkins

Posted on 03/01/2012 3:49:25 AM PST by marktwain

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The concept that the government could or should only “allow” certain people to buy guns stands the very concept of American jurisprudence on its head. It presumes that the government knows all, controls all, and should be doing so. It is wrong and ineffective. It is the opposite of preventing criminals from possessing guns.

It is crazy to set up a huge expensive bureaucratic system, require everyone to jump though hoops and prove that they are *not* criminals in order to try, ineffectively, to prevent the few individuals who are not responsible, from having legal access to guns. This is a failed paradigm, and it should be abandoned. To accept the idea that the all gun sales should be monitored by the government, and only allowed to those it deems satisfactory is fundamentally wrong.

The entire idea of the enterprise has always been the death of a thousand cuts, where the restrictions on who can buy, and where, and how and what are continually increased until the number of gun owners is reduced to political insignificance.

1 posted on 03/01/2012 3:49:41 AM PST by marktwain
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GUN REGISTRATION IS GUN CONFISCATION (old but good)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2608785/posts


2 posted on 03/01/2012 3:51:10 AM PST by marktwain
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The Bolsheviks know the American Revolution (the “shooting war”) started when the British went to confiscate an arsenal; without guns there is no independence (subjects vs. citizens).


3 posted on 03/01/2012 3:59:11 AM PST by kearnyirish2
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The Romans took away the weapons of the conquered, the American Indians had to give up their weapons and horses. Taking away weapons is what you do to subdue an unruly populace you wish to control.


4 posted on 03/01/2012 4:06:53 AM PST by dog breath
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Democrats hate rights granted by God is all—to them that's the almighty government's role.
5 posted on 03/01/2012 4:10:43 AM PST by Happy Rain ("Better add another wing to The White House cause the Santorum clan is coming.")
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Would someone put up that Bolshevik poster circa 1919 urging the masses to turn in all their weapons?

Democrats/Liberals don’t just hate guns, they hate those who own them and defend the right to own them. In other words, their political enemies. It’s class warfare against the gun-owning class.

Lexington & Concord were fought over gun confiscation. Patriots should always remember this.


6 posted on 03/01/2012 4:19:04 AM PST by elcid1970 ("Deport all Muslims. Nuke Mecca now. Death to Islam means freedom for all mankind.")
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Democrats despise freedom because the outcome is not equal.
In a free society, the exceptional will succeed, the mediocre will survive and the failures will fail.
They are strong union backers for the same reason...unions support the dead weight. Smart, dilligent workers do not depend upon unions to keep their jobs.
Most democrats are basically dead weight and failures at life.


7 posted on 03/01/2012 4:21:11 AM PST by Fireone (Gingrich/West 2012. (did I mention FUBO?))
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The guns ensure the other rights won’t be violated; I personally believe a citizen should be able to own anything a police officer is allowed to wield (they do work for us after all, no?). If that includes too many genuine “assault rifles”, then take them away from the cops; you bet your arse they’d stop these weapons from making their way into the hands of criminals.


8 posted on 03/01/2012 4:22:30 AM PST by kearnyirish2
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What do Democrats have against guns and gun rights?

It is precisely and exactly this: God made man, Samuel Colt made men equal.

Democrats do not want “all men to be equal.”

Democrats consider themselves the ultimate arbiters of society’s sociopolitical truths, and as much as they pay lip service to egalitarianism, true egalitarianism is poison to them.

The commissars among them consider themselves society’s elite, they reserve the right to tell the proles how to think and what to do, and woe betide any who leave the Democrat plantation.


9 posted on 03/01/2012 4:57:10 AM PST by Jack Hammer
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The only way lefty losers can “win” is by taking away your freedom. Guns get in their way of subjugating you.


10 posted on 03/01/2012 5:05:36 AM PST by ogen hal (First amendment or reeducation camp?)
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Taking away weapons is what you do to subdue an unruly populace you wish to control.

The Democrats seem to be doing a fine job of controlling things without disarming the populace, especially given that they control the media. They don't need to disarm us.

Although I understand the value of what you're saying here historically and philosophically, and there may yet be a time when it comes into play, I think the answer to the question is much simpler. The Democrats favor gun control because they know, yet will never admit, that their constituency is too irresponsible to not only exercise such a profound right, but to coexist in a society that has it, since they are responsible for the vast majority of violent crime in the United States. They are the ones killing and they are the ones being killed whether it's gang violence or an armed citizen protecting himself or property. Since the culture is protected and above criticism, we have to pay the price by giving up our rights a little at a time to appease these numbskulls who don't have the courage to address the problem, let alone admit that their is one. Best just to address it as a legal issue and kick the cultural can down the road to the next generation. The Democrats are good at being cowards. It's an integral part of who they are.

11 posted on 03/01/2012 5:08:35 AM PST by csense
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The obvious reason: Private gun ownership stands in the way of the communist revolution.
The other reason: For all their talk about equality, communists and libs don't trust anyone.

12 posted on 03/01/2012 5:10:56 AM PST by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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Do they hate freedom or do they simply want more power over our lives?

Not "either/or". More like "both/and".

13 posted on 03/01/2012 5:13:02 AM PST by Jim Noble ("The Germans: At your feet, or at your throat" - Winston Churchill)
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Because they know what the Second Amendment means and they know THEY are the reason for it...and so do WE THE PEOPLE. Pure and simple.


14 posted on 03/01/2012 5:14:14 AM PST by MestaMachine (obama kills)
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Democrats like the idea of being able to intimidate opponents by getting mobs to show up at the opponent's home or business to harass him. The unions which support the Democrats like to be able to send goons to harass and intimidate opponents.

It's hard to recruit goons to go after an armed man who has the legal right to use deadly force in self defense.

Also, criminals are another important Dem constituency. They don't like victims who can defend themselves.

15 posted on 03/01/2012 5:19:33 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. - George Orwell)
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Do they (Democrats) hate freedom or do they simply want more power over our lives?
Dang. I hate trick questions.
not sarcasm
16 posted on 03/01/2012 5:37:36 AM PST by Condor51 (Yo Hoffa, so you want to 'take out conservatives'. Well okay Jr - I'm your Huckleberry)
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“The only way lefty losers can “win” is by taking away your freedom. Guns get in their way of subjugating you.”

Ding ding ding, we have a winner.

With millions of gun owners, you have the largest militia in the world who will protect the freedoms given to us by the constitution.

Apparatchiks and the communist party is not going to take those freedoms away.


17 posted on 03/01/2012 5:58:21 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Most Conservative in the Primary, the Republican Nominee in the General.)
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The only difference between Registration and Confiscation is the location of the firearms.

Let’s face facts – Registration means you need the government’s “Permission” to defend yourself.

“Permission” that can be withdrawn at any moment that is ‘convenient’ to the government.

Rights that can be negated at any time are no longer rights, but temporary authorizations.

The founder knew that rights that are meant to restrain the government cannot be provided by said government.


18 posted on 03/01/2012 5:58:58 AM PST by StaffiT (Obama is the name - Downgrading the country is his Game)
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Which is why the gun grabbers in the Downgrade Administration will initially try to incrementally take away those freedoms with their non-sense gun control measures.

They will try to lull some into complicity in the first couple of steps with the promise that it will go no further.

Just as they did over in the UK, they will call for government controls over the acquiring of firearms and their registration – all the while promising that it won’t lead to confiscation.

They will try to push voluntary civilian disarmament as far as it will go, then lower the hammer and sickle when that meets resistance.

Important question folks: Is there any reason other than confiscation to have registration?

Look at it from the Commie’s point of view: Why would they go through all the effort of registering everyone’s guns, just to leave them where they are?

19 posted on 03/01/2012 6:42:41 AM PST by StaffiT (Obama is the name - Downgrading the country is his Game)
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Communists are cowards and afraid of their victims shooting back.


20 posted on 03/01/2012 11:30:45 AM PST by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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