Posted on 01/20/2021 11:41:43 PM PST by richardb72
After the riot at the U.S. Capitol, gun control organizations warn that armed rioters at state capitols across the country on Inauguration Day pose a threat to our democracy. They claim the only solution is for states to ban guns on capitol grounds, thus extending their bans on carrying guns on public property generally.
Never mind that the small group of rioters didn't use guns at the U.S. Capitol. Never mind that congressmen are allowed to carry in the U.S. Capitol, but not on the legislative floor, where Congress was meeting at the time to count Electoral College votes. If there had been a real threat to legislators, they would have been defenseless. Of course, these same groups and national Democrats raised no concerns about the violent riots that occurred when Trump was inaugurated four years ago.
The fear of American citizens regarding the inauguration is all over national news. Democratic governors across the country are "fortifying statehouses" and 25,000 National Guard troops are protecting Washington with razor wire and fences.
Without such a ban, "the president and the gun lobby [will] hold our democracy hostage by threatening voters and elected officials with deadly force," argued John Feinblatt, president of Michael Bloomberg's Everytown for Gun Safety. Similarly, the Giffords gun control organization's top state legislative priority is to ban guns in as many state capitols as it can....
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
Eventually even mentioning the stolen election will be against the law . They will make damn sure we are disarmed before they do.
The FBI said that armed conservatives were going to attack the state capitols. What happened to that?
Love John Lott.
Amazing to see Newsweak “let” him publish this piece.
Someone must have allowed it in the publication by mistake.
They’ll likely now be fired...
Disarmed using what and whom? Nobody lives forever.
After submitting to mask mandates and plans to gax at thexpoint of a soldiers weapon... thexleft will take them, or you will go to prison.
They planned the capitol riot, justclike they designed and released covid.
Unfortunately, I lost all of my guns in a freak boating accident.
The only people who should have their guns confiscated are capitol thugs who murdered Ashli Babbitt.
Remember Matthew McConaughey’s closing argument in “A Time To Kill”?
“Imagine if she were white?”
Imagine if Ashli Babbitt were BLACK?
The FBI said that armed conservatives were going to attack the state capitols. What happened to that?
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They were in ‘invisible’ camo. No one knew they were there. They used silencers. Hauled off all the corpses.
It wasn’t a riot, it was a planned terrorist attack by ANTIFA / BLM.
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