Posted on 12/19/2012 9:47:31 AM PST by Perseverando
Instead of undoing reckless policies that have allowed dangerous mentally ill people to roam free, President Obama is using the bloody Newtown massacre to target Americans’ fundamental right to self-defense.
Determined not to let the senseless murder of at least 20 young schoolchildren and six adults by a madman last Friday in Connecticut go to waste, the nation’s Demagogue-in-Chief is taking aim at the Second Amendment by urging a reinstatement of the useless federal Assault Weapons Ban.
The Assault Weapons Ban, enacted during the Clinton era, prohibited civilian use of specific semi-automatic firearms that politicians arbitrarily deemed “assault weapons” for superficial reasons largely unrelated to how they operate. As Daniel Greenfield wisely put it, an assault rifle “is some sort of mysterious weapon forged in the fires of hell solely for the purpose of murdering people.” The ban, which had no measurable impact on crime, expired in 2004 and attempts to revive the nebulous law have failed so far.
The rifle that the reportedly mentally ill perpetrator, Adam Lanza, primarily relied on was a .223-caliber Bushmaster M4 carbine, which was apparently allowed under the federal ban and under Connecticut’s own assault weapon ban.
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said in addition to banning assault weapons Obama supports a proposal to close the misleadingly named “gun show loophole,” which allows people to conduct private secondary-market gun transactions without submitting to background checks. Crime expert John Lott, author of the groundbreaking book, “More Guns, Less Crime,” told radio host Mark Levin last night that such private trades are almost nonexistent, amounting to just seven-tenths of one percent of all gun transactions nationwide.
Obama is “interested in looking at” restricting high-capacity ammunition clips, Carney said, along with social and mental health issues associated with gun-related violence.
Of course sharp-witted cynics
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I hope our constitution is strong enough to withstand senseless acts of mad men.
Gun control to politicians simply means, they have, all the guns, and with this act, they have power then to take all property and all rights from the underlings. The historical evidence suggests that when politicians have all the guns, several of the underlings are going to die. Verified by snopes.
We have a Second Amendment so we can arm ourselves to deal with wannabe dictators in our government, therefore, we need to own the very weapons these putzes wish to take away. Never give up on that point!
Fast and Furious gun found at Mexican crime scene (Beauty Queen Maria Gamez)
We have our work cut out for us.
Time to support the congresscritters and senators who are pro-RKBA, and call out the gun grabbers.
The time is now.
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