If You Want To Ban Guns, Just Say So

The Federalist ^ | June 11, 2014 | David Harsanyi

[QT3.14]

While answering a few questions on Tumblr this week, President Obama informed participants that “our levels of gun violence are off the charts.” He claimed that it was incomprehensible that congress hadn’t reacted to overwhelming public opinion and passed legislation to expand gun background checks, adding that nations like Australia had long ago enacted sensible gun control laws to stop mass shootings:

[Elsiejay]

Just once, I’d like to have explained the functional relationship between background checks and a significant majority of the multiple injury and/or fatality shootings in public spaces that have occurred over the past several years.

[Red in Blue PA]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5ut6yPrObw

[Soul of the South]

“The problem they have is even if they do manage to bend the Constitution to their will, we still have the right to effectively defend ourselves against those more powerful, more numerous and less-principled than ourselves.”

The reason I suggest the Republicans push for a vote on an amendment is it will lose. Even Harry Reid would have a problem bullying a Democrat Senate to repeal the 2nd amendment. Pushing for a vote now would be an overwhelming defeat for the progressives and a strong signal to the Supreme Court.

The road we are going down today with respect to the second amendment is the road of incrementalism, the same road that has resulted in the institutionalization of gay marriage and will soon result in amnesty for illegals. Change one vote on the Supreme Court and we will get a SC opinion that says the 2nd Amendment applies only to the militia which will be defined by the Court as the military and federally sanctioned law enforcement agencies. This ruling will take away the right of individual citizens to bear arms. As soon as a Democrat progressive administration has a 5-4 Supreme Court ruling redefining the Second Amendment sales of guns to citizens will be banned by executive order as well as the sale of ammunition to citizens without a government permit.

If we don’t force the nation to affirm the founding fathers 2nd amendment now, through a formal vote on repeal, it will be lost when the Supreme Court moves to a progressive majority. Scalia and Kennedy may outlive Obama. They are unlikely to outlive 2 more years of Obama and 8 years of Hillary. Plus, even if the Republicans take the White House, there is no guarantee President Romney, Bush, or Christie won’t appoint another David Souter, John Paul Stevens, Harry Blackman, Earl Warren, or John Roberts to the Court.

[Still Thinking]

Well, that was genuine public opinion opposing Osama-Scare. The supposed groundswell for UBC’s was manufactured poll-whoring. Manufactured poll-whoring gets a different level of scrutiny than genuine public sentiment.