Posted on 06/15/2014 10:52:26 AM PDT by forty_years
ACTION: Contact your Senators. Ask them to oppose Harry Reid's new push for universal gun registration.
Like a vampire who can't stop sucking the blood of horrific tragedies, Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid is once again pushing to suck political gain from the pain of others.
Speaking on the floor of the Senate in the wake of the shooting of three people in Las Vegas, Reid said that the "American people are depending" on the Senate to pass universal gun registry to, supposedly, keep guns out of the hands of people like the Las Vegas killers.
After the Troutdale, Oregon, shooting in a "safety-free school zone," anti-gun Senator Joe Manchin called for reconsideration of his anti-gun legislation, and one particularly virulent gun-hating TV network took to attacking the Second Amendment every hour on the hour.
And this was before any information at all had come out with respect to the circumstances of the Oregon shooter -- other than, of course, he had been egged on by a blood-soaked media intent on encouraging more murders in order to achieve their political objective of gun confiscation.
In Las Vegas, of course, Toomey-Manchin would have been irrelevant because, while the killer-husband was apparently a "prohibited person," the wife apparently was not.
So, despite the theoretical bars imposed on her by the doctrine of "constructive possession," as a practical matter, universal background checks and gun registration wouldn't have stopped her from purchasing an unlimited number of guns.
So, once again, we have a "solution" which would not have solved the supposed "problem," but rather is nothing more than another effort to bleed two new media-induced tragedies for political gain. In fact, what might have helped is if someone in the Las Vegas pizza restaurant, other than the targeted police, had been armed.
But we all know that safety is not Reid's real objective. Or Manchin's. Rather, at a time when Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder are trying to dry up credit for gun stores and thus eliminate them in large parts of the country, Reid's universal gun registry legislation (Manchin-Toomey) would make sure that you couldn't buy a gun if you didn't have access to a gun store.
Thus, if Obama and Holder succeed in shutting down every gun store within 200 miles of you -- and Toomey-Manchin passes -- the Second Amendment will be effectively dead to you.
One final point: If there is anyone who needs a reason to defeat Reid supporters like Mark Begich (Alaska), Mary Landrieu (Louisiana), Mark Pryor (Arkansas), Kay Hagan (North Carolina), Jeanne Shaheen (New Hampshire), Mark Warner (Virginia), John Walsh (Montana), Mark Udall (Colorado), Jeff Merkley (Oregon), Al Franken (Minnesota), and Tom Udall (New Mexico), this is it.
ACTION: Contact your Senators. Ask them to oppose Harry Reid's new push for universal gun registration.
They will need to attach a rider to that legislation that outlaws freak boat accidents.
Screw you Harry!
I will NEVER register a firearm!
Come and get ‘em!!
And I call for guillotining all liberals.
Think seriously about which action would be of greater benefit to the nation.
I wonder how the NRA feels about their endorsement of Reid now?
That would take a while, unless you hired some help. Just think of the number of jobs it would create.
Indict and convict mob-connected senators first.
***Harry Reid’s new push for universal gun registration.***
Felons are not required to register their firearms.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haynes_v._United_States
“The original Haynes decision continues to block state prosecutions of criminals who fail to register guns as required by various state law gun registration schemes.”
2. Confiscation
3. Extermination.
Hey Harry how did that work out in Ct?
Stuff it Harry! You cattle rustling biotch!
§ 1890. The importance of this article will scarcely be doubted by any persons, who have duly reflected upon the subject. The militia is the natural defence [sic] of a free country against sudden foreign invasions, domestic insurrections, and domestic usurpations of power by rulers. It is against sound policy for a free people to keep up large military establishments and standing armies in time of peace, both from the enormous expenses, with which they are attended, and the facile means, which they afford to ambitious and unprincipled rulers, to subvert the government, or trample upon the rights of the people [emphases added]. The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them. And yet, though this truth would seem so clear, and the importance of a well regulated militia would seem so undeniable, it cannot be disguised, that among the American people there is a growing indifference to any system of militia discipline, and a strong disposition, from a sense of its burthens, to be rid of all regulations. How it is practicable to keep the people duly armed without some organization, it is difficult to see. There is certainly no small danger, that indifference may lead to disgust, and disgust to contempt; and thus gradually undermine all the protection intended by this clause of our national bill of rights. —Joseph Story, Amendment II, Commentaries on the Constitution 3
So with a little help from y’all as to exactly what such an amendment should do, given current chatter about a constitutional convention, please consider the following. Given Story’s clarification of 2A, the states need to reinforce 2A with an amendment to prohibit the feds from knowing the number and type of firearms that citizens have. After all, you don’t want potential enemies to know how much fire power you have.
In oher words, gun registration is a threat to national security imo. (Why doesn't Reid think of these things?)
I challenge anyone on this forum (a few leftie disrupters do lurk here before the Viking Kittens dispatch them) to give me one instance of universal gun registration that did not follow with gun confiscation within ten years.
German Jews registered their guns as loyal German Citizens. That worked real well for the Jews. They were rounded up and like cattle and murdered. They had nothing to defend themselves with.
A tyrannical central government fears a free and armed citizen. A tyrannical central government knows an armed and honest man is a citizen and this same man or woman without arms is a subject. GUN REGISTRATION IS THE PRELUDE TO CONFISCATION
The obvious effect? More deaths during more home invasions centered on obtaining registered guns of law abiding suckers.
Isn’t about time this old horse thief Harry Reid was introduced to a tree, rope, and some assembly required? If it works with him, I can think of a whole group of Congress critters and Senators to test.
And here comes the Gun Rush of 2014!
Never trust any politician ho will not trust you with guns.
i would prefer immediate execution for proposing such legislation. right on the spot by the sergeant-at-arms.
ESAD, Harry.
Oh, and revoke his life membership while they're visiting his rating.
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