Posted on 02/06/2014 6:02:00 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
A former member of Michael Bloomberg’s gun control group claimed this week that the group’s objectives are far more radical than it has let on.
John Tkazyik, the mayor of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., said he quit the former New York City mayor’s group, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, after he realized its objective was outright confiscation of firearms from law-abiding citizens.
“Under the guise of helping mayors facing a crime and drug epidemic, MAIG intend[s] to promote confiscation of guns from law-abiding citizens,” Tkazyik wrote in a Wednesday column in the Poughkeepsie Journal.
I’m the mayor of one of the largest cities in the Hudson Valley, just 90 minutes north of New York City. I’m a life member of the National Rifle Association and a former member of Mayors Against Illegal Guns, or MAIG, started by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg in 2006.
I’m no longer a member of MAIG. Why? Just as Ronald Reagan said of the Democratic Party, it left me. And I’m not alone: Nearly 50 pro-Second Amendment mayors have left the organization. They left for the same reason I did. MAIG became a vehicle for Bloomberg to promote his personal gun-control agenda — violating the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens and taking resources away from initiatives that could actually work to protect our neighborhoods and save precious lives. […]
It did not take long to realize that MAIG’s agenda was much more than ridding felons of illegal guns; that under the guise of helping mayors facing a crime and drug epidemic, MAIG intended to promote confiscation of guns from law-abiding citizens. I don’t believe, never have believed and never will believe that public safety is enhanced by encroaching on our right to bear arms, and I will not be a part of any organization that does.
“Until I saw the fools line up for registration in CT, I had hopes that attempts at confiscation would ignite resistance, even rebellion. I no longer see it that way. Apparently, even most firearm owners are sheeple.”
You realize, of course, that 90% of the gun owners in CT refused to register their guns and magazines? 90% is a pretty good number for civil disobedience.
No, I was not. Can you point me to a good source for that estimate?
55 out of 62 Colorado sheriffs refusing to enforce new guns laws is also a pretty impressive display of civil disobedience.
“Then they should have the balls to undertake the confiscations themselves, “
Let them go and grab the guns belonging to GANGS and FELONS, and leave law-abiding citizens ALONE! (Oh wait a second...they don’t want to alienate two critical Democratic voting blocs /s;)
if it’s gun grabbing they want they will have a war.
Registration = confiscation.
“You realize, of course, that 90% of the gun owners in CT refused to register their guns and magazines? 90% is a pretty good number for civil disobedience.
No, I was not. Can you point me to a good source for that estimate?”
Gun Registration is Gun Confiscation
Thought you might like this essay:
http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2012/12/gun-registration-is-gun-confiscation.html
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