Posted on 11/12/2017 6:00:03 PM PST by Simon Green
In the AFTERMATH of the Texas church shooting last week, Democratic lawmakers did what they always do: They skewered their Republican colleagues for offering only “thoughts and prayers,” and demanded swift action on gun control.
“The time is now,” said Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy, “for Congress to shed its cowardly cover and do something.”
Trouble is, it’s not clear the “something” Democrats typically demand would make a real dent in the nation’s epidemic of gun violence. Congress can ban assault weapons, but they account for just a tiny sliver of the country’s 33,000 annual firearm deaths. And tighter background checks will do nothing to cut down on the 310 million guns already in circulation
In other words, the proposals aren’t just difficult to enact in the current political climate; their practical effects would also be quite limited. On occasion, though, leading Democrats will make oblique reference to a more sweeping policy change: seizing a huge number of weapons from law-abiding citizens.
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There are 310 million handguns, shotguns, and semi-automatic weapons in American homes, garages, and waistbands.
Ultimately, if gun-control advocates really want to stanch the blood, there’s no way around it: They’ll have to persuade more people of the need to confiscate millions of those firearms, as radical as that idea may now seem.
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonglobe.com ...
They will start like CA is doing, controlling the purchase of ammunition. Don’t want AR-15’s make the sale of 5.56/.223 illegal.
What are we supposed to do, call the cops? Leftists are always telling everyone how bad and racist cops are.
“They haven’t realized that it will be the gun owners mowing down anti-2nd Amendment liberals in record numbers that the police won’t be able to protect, they’ll be too overwhelmed.”
Probably the vast majority of patrol officers are 2A supporters, and might decide that they won’t offer the Liberals any help.
Ok mass media. Hand over your high capacity printing presses, broadcast studios, electronic media and microphones. They didn’t exist in 1776.
It is disgusting that places such as Boston where our Revolution began are infested with such unAmerican Commie trash.
That is an absurdly low number.
65.4 Million Guns Bought Since Obama Took Office, 91% More Than Bush's First-Term Total 2/12/2013
46,455 Background Checks For Gun Purchases Each Day Under Obama 5/3/2013
Americans Buy Enough Guns in Last Two Months to Outfit the Entire Chinese and Indian Armies 1/14/2013
FBI: March 2014 Was Biggest March in Gun Background Check History
...the raw data shows "2,488,842 total background checks
were performed in March 2014."
Gun sales spike in June (highest June sales since 1999) July 7, 2015
Background checks for gun sales spiked 11% in June compared to last year, making it the busiest June ever,...1.53 million background checks
FBI data shows record number of September gun sales October 10, 2015
FBI's National Instant Background Check System shows gun sales hit a record high for the fifth month in a row with 1,795,102 prospective gun owners processed in September.
Gun Sales Set Record for Sixth Month in a Row Sales for October 2015 1,976,759 firearms related checks in October
Record for U.S. Gun Background Checks Set on Black Friday 12/3/2015 On Nov. 27, a total of 185,345 NICS checks
2015: The Year of the Gun (All time record number of background checks processed) 1/4/2016
More than 23 million checks were processed through the National Instant Background Check System in 2015, an all-time record.
July Gun Sales Crush Previous Record (2.2 million checks) 8/2/2016
October (2016) gun sales see massive spike, set yet another record 11/2/2016 2,333,539 gun-related checks
You tell them the constitution forbids something and they look at you blankly and say, “I don’t like that.”
If the offices of the Boston Globe and all of their printing plants go up in flames tomorrow, I will laugh so hard I’ll have to be hospitalized.
NO!
Your move. (I'm armed.)
“The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing. Indeed, I would go so far as to say that the supply of arms to the underdogs is a sine qua non for the overthrow of any sovereignty. So let’s not have any native militia or native police. German troops alone will bear the sole responsibility for the maintenance of law and order throughout the occupied Russian territories, and a system of military strong-points must be evolved to cover the entire occupied country.”
Well, I find it difficult to argue with that.
Because in this crazy country, normies need weapons to protect themselves from the crazies. Hey! Here’s an idea! Let’s look at the crazies instead of the guns! Don’t look at my finger, look where I’m pointing!!!!
States have found it effective enough that I believe it is 43 states have now followed the pioneers in allowing the citizenry to be armed.
not a chance, Boston Globe. not a chance in Hell
WE WILL NOT BE RULED. MOLON LABE.
+1
The prime targets won’t (and should not) be those following orders but those issuing the orders. Give the decision makers reason to make some new decisions.
Every gun owner in California should buy a “basic load” of ammo for each gun they own -—— DO IT NOW!!
Do It Now!
Okay.
But I’ll need a Bigger Boat!
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