by Stephen Kruiser
As we get closer to whatever is going to happen next November, a good number of sane Americans are politely and frequently saying, “Buy ammo,” to one another. It used to be, “Buy guns and ammo,” but most would agree that it’s time to focus right now. Around these parts, you don’t even have to know someone to have the ammo conversation.
The Democrats are forever waging war on law-abiding American citizens who are fond of exercising our Second Amendment rights. It’s all part of their “criminals shouldn’t face consequences and people who obey the law are the real bad guys” approach to governing.
They’re plucky, the gun-grabbing Dems. No matter how many times their commie confiscation schemes get smacked down by judges who have actually read the Constitution of the United States of America, they regroup with lightning speed and assault freedom from a different angle.
This is from my colleague Ryan Petty over at our sister site Bearing Arms:
They finally did it. The Biden Administration has declared gun violence a public health crisis. The question many of us in the gun community are asking, why now, when the Biden administration has been touting (and taking credit for) the declining rates of violent crime across the country?
U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy labeled gun violence as a public health crisis and called it “the leading cause of death among children and teenagers”. This declaration is a blatant overreach and a direct threat to the Second Amendment. As a staunch defender of the right to bear arms, this advisory is deeply troubling for several reasons.
As Ryan goes on to note, the leftist loons have done the public health crisis thing before. As with all of their gun control drama, they attempt to justify everything with tortured statistics or outright lies. Ryan does a great deep dive into that.
The gun haters also have a tendency to avoid context altogether. Kevin provided some when he wrote about this yesterday:
The report states that the number of people getting shot has exploded since 2020. What it fails to mention is that it was the same year the Democrats unleashed their street animals in Antifa and BLM to destroy our nation’s big, blue toilet cities. Nor does it mention Democrats began to free droves of prisoners in 2019 and passed no-bail laws to keep the vermin on the streets where the Democrats knew they’d go back to committing crimes.
Again, the gun grabbers’ solutions are never solutions at all, because they target people who have absolutely nothing to do with any of the problems that they allegedly want to address. Got a bunch of repeat offenders using illegal guns to commit various crimes? Then pass a law that turns a bunch of recreational shooters who own their guns legally into criminals overnight.
At least that’s been the approach for the last decade or so. That’s why California’s gun control overreach attempts keep getting tossed.
As I have written before, no one has been able to be able to explain to me why I should give up my guns if they’re not shooting anyone. Of course, we know that the end game here has nothing to do with a public health crisis. Biden and his ilk just want our guns. It makes it easier to get us all to the gulags when they invite their ChiCom overlords to waltz in.
Most of the “commonsense gun legislation” types out there continue to insist that they don’t really want to take our guns. Well, not all of our guns, anyway. There are some who don’t hide their deepest anti-Second Amendment desires any longer though and will freely admit what they’re attempting to do.
This is how Democrats attack citizens’ rights. They redefine the field of play. The 2nd Amendment is clear and explicit: SHALL NOT INFRINGE. So, they have to innovate novel ways (like they do to prosecute Trump and January 6th protesters) to be able to invent their justifications for attacks.
The gun crime problem is a crime problem, not a health problem. As I explain to Michael, who conflates gun “owners” with those who merely POSSESS a gun, crimes are committed by criminals. The law abiding do not commit the crimes (unless their act of self-defense gets classified as a crime by the left), the crimes are committed by those the Democrats refuse to hold in jail on bail, refuse to prosecute and keep releasing after the commission of crimes.
Coming soon, “health care” bills that include gun confiscations and when Republicans reject them, they are denounced for opposing “health care”.
But, we recently saw how the left REALLY feels about their beloved “background checks”. While Hunter was finally (6 years later) convicted for lying on a 4473 form, the case had to be taken kicking and screaming into court. The
GESTAPODoJ actually tried to give Hunter a complete and total pass on that as well as every other crime he had ever committed, so their heart wasn’t exactly in it. It was public embarrassment that drove the case to court. So, if the 4473 is that useless, how would “universal” background checks (Here, grandson, is your shotgun for your 18th birthday, but first you have to submit to this background check that no one will actually research anyway) be any better? No, it’s just one useless obstruction after another that NEVER addresses the REAL problem to enable the left to proceed on towards forced disarmament.By the way, does anyone know if there is a Bumpstock made for a 1927A1 Auto Ordinance Thompson? Asking for a friend.
They need to take a more unique way of disarming people, jail those that commit crimes with guns.
Those are Democrat voters (or, at least they get mailed a ballot). They have to remain free.
Just wait for them to lave all guns labeled as Hazardous to our Heath while forcing us to get those dangerous Vaccination this S.G. is the biggest hazard there is with his small mind
We calls them Demon-Rats since their Evil and Vile