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The Seeds of the National Crazy Registry Bear Fruit [update]

10 Wednesday Apr 2013

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***Update, 04.11.2013:
Turns out the NY State Police targeted the wrong guy for confiscation. All just an innocent mistake, you see, that a man was unjustly flagged as mentally unfit and treated like a criminal and ordered to give up his guns; that this man was accidently picked from a list (just a guess)  that he shouldn’t be on because the list shouldn’t exist. No harm, no foul, huh? This might well mean that somebody else is the “right” guy, I mean, victim. No word if he got his letter yet.
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Via protein wisdom:

If you take anti-anxiety drugs your pistol permit can be revoked. Just as I predicted would happen.

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And just so we’re clear on the implications here: if a state can revoke your pistol permit because you are on anxiety medication — which, incidentally, is a treatment, which would seem to suggest that the anxiety has been controlled — it can revoke your permit for any number of “medical” or “mental health” issues, all of which they’ll be privy to as a function of ObamaCare.

The linked story is about a legal gun owner in NY who received a notice from the state ordering him to surrender his weapons to the local police (who knew about him, and were readied to pay him a visit had he not shown up at the station), and that his gun permit was being suspended. Why? He had a short-term health issue requiring meds, a private issue that his doctor didn’t disclose to any authority. No criminal record. No violent acts. No problem with the law. Just a medical record… CRIMINAL!

Are you okay with the state rifling through your private medical records, without a warrant, in search of a reason to deprive you of your property, or for that matter, any reason whatever? Do you know what country you live in? Have you ever heard of the Constitution?

Amendment IV:

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Amendment V:

No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

Back in January, I too had a bad feeling about all that “mental health” talk, purporting in tandem with or in lieu of stricter gun control, to be a preferred primary objective of governmental introspection for many post-Newtown reactionary hysterics.

… and from Mental Health, and the Consequence of the National Crazy Registry:

Then, amongst the barrage of gun-hysteria-linked-”mental health”-hysteria, Obama puts out his 23 Executive Actions to Address Gun Violence, 01.16.13 (which is translated here):

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All of this is clearly aimed at growing the list (see NICS below) of those prohibited from buying firearms (the gun-forbidden list), by way of growing the “these people are crazy” list. A neat little trick.

Break down the walls of privacy, encourage doctors to snoop and report, assure them they’ll get paid for the process, start the “dialogue”(code for propaganda), and then ultimately define crazy down. You know, lower the threshold for the honor of placement on the list.

But it’s deeper still. The bad guys don’t submit to background checks. They get their guns. Everybody knows this. So why else compile a national registry of “crazy” people? So that they can be controlled, limited, manipulated, blackmailed, and otherwise deprived of liberty, of course. If you don’t think such a database has the potential to be abused as a tool of oppression, both by government and citizen, then you are a naive child.

Consider as well, the consequence to those who are truly in need of mental health services who, upon learning of this growing national mental defective registry, might not seek help at all, so as to stay off the list. Think of that for a moment…

This.Is.Tyranny

…but hey, the architects have for themselves the appropriate appellation (D), so it must be okay.

~tdv

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Video: “Publius Huldah Shows Federal Gun Control is Unlawful” [Update]

05 Tuesday Mar 2013

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It is uncanny that we have come so far as a nation that when we are reunited with fundamental truth, that even the many who purport to defend such truth are taken aback by it, finding it too extreme to fully embrace, as if truth is somehow impracticable given the multitudinous so-called “precedents” that buried it. Truth is feared, so it is deemed pliable to whims and political popularity.

Such is the case with federal gun control; that in truth it is unconstitutional at its core and thereby unlawful; that no federal power to govern our right to bear arms was ever intended by the founders or authorized by us; and that while some in government stand against the current onslaught against our natural right to self-defense, they also cede other infringements as reasonable, so as to seem reasonable.

But for others still, fundamental truth is entirely reasonable, and arguing for it is as paramount as the truth itself. Our friend of liberty and the Constitution has shared with us just such an argument in a recent speech, with logic and a fortitude that is sorely lacking in our government “representatives”. I hope you will watch and share:
Publius Huldah Shows Federal Gun Control is Unlawful
(on her blog: “Understanding the Constitution”)

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Update: 03.07.2013 ~add video

Found this related video after posting the above and wanted to add it here for the sake of posterity, and as well to show the application of truth in the context of a more official setting.

This is the Feb. 27, 2013 Tennessee Senate Judiciary Committee hearing regarding SB0250, a Bill that expands existing TN law to address unconstitutional federal action in the State with respect to firearms and ammunition, seeking to declare those actions a nullity, or to make them void, invalid, and illegal in the State of TN.

The focus of the hearing includes both the question of the Constitutionality of federal gun laws, and the fundamental question as to who is the final arbiter of the Constitutionality of ANY Federal Act.

At the 25:20 mark begins testimony by Mike Maharrey of the Tenth Amendment Center.
At the 31:00 mark begins statement by Constitutional scholar Publius Huldah, followed by a Q&A session with her that runs from 37:30 to 1:03:00.

It is all wonderfully informative, though unfortunately rushed, and I hope you’ll watch.

Mental Health, and the Consequence of the National Crazy Registry

29 Tuesday Jan 2013

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Anybody starting to see where this is headed?

Just caught this bit from Fox News Radio:
  “A new way of determining whether someone is suffering from mental illness- check out their Facebook profile.“

As I alluded to on Jan. 10: “Guns… mental health… Equally outside the scope of the federal govt. They’ve NO business in our holsters, OR in our heads.”
…and on Jan. 14: “Again, careful this “mental health” talk. Who gets to DEFINE “sane enough” to own a firearm, or have rights for that matter? HHS? #backdoor #guncontrol”

Then, amongst the barrage of gun-hysteria-linked-“mental health”-hysteria, Obama puts out his 23 Executive Actions to Address Gun Violence, 01.16.13 (which is translated here):

#2. Address unnecessary legal barriers, particularly relating to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, that may prevent states from making information available to the background check system.
#16. Clarify that the Affordable Care Act does not prohibit doctors asking their patients about guns in their homes.
#17. Release a letter to health care providers clarifying that no federal law prohibits them from reporting threats of violence to law enforcement authorities.
#20. Release a letter to state health officials clarifying the scope of mental health services that Medicaid plans must cover.
#21. Finalize regulations clarifying essential health benefits and parity requirements within ACA exchanges.
#22. Commit to finalizing mental health parity regulations.
#23. Launch a national dialogue led by Secretaries Sebelius(HHS) and Duncan(Education) on mental health.

All of this is clearly aimed at growing the list (see NICS below) of those prohibited from buying firearms (the gun-forbidden list), by way of growing the “these people are crazy” list. A neat little trick.

Break down the walls of privacy, encourage doctors to snoop and report, assure them they’ll get paid for the process, start the “dialogue” (code for propaganda), and then ultimately define crazy down. You know, lower the threshold for the honor of placement on the list.

But it’s deeper still. The bad guys don’t submit to background checks. They get their guns. Everybody knows this. So why else compile a national registry of “crazy” people? So that they can be controlled, limited, manipulated, blackmailed, and otherwise deprived of liberty, of course. If you don’t think such a database has the potential to be abused as a tool of oppression, both by government and citizen, then you are a naive child.

Consider as well, the consequence to those who are truly in need of mental health services who, upon learning of this growing national mental defective registry, might not seek help at all, so as to stay off the list. Think of that for a moment…

~tdv

NICS, the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (the gun-forbidden list) is maintained by the FBI, and contributed to by, among others, mental health institutions, psychiatrists, and family members, prohibiting those “adjudicated as mental defectives“, et al. from buying guns (at least through a federally licensed dealer).

Who Says it Can’t Happen Here?

19 Saturday Jan 2013

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Who says it cannot happen here? Who wants to give up enough freedom that we’re certain to find out? This our liberty, the assaults upon it, our defenses, the historical brutality of authoritarian govt… this is not a game, the United States is not a TV show.

From the comments on this article, which I shared in my last post, from the American Clarion, regarding our God-given right to keep and bear arms, the 2nd Amendment, the primary reason it ought not be infringed, and the utter lack of authority the federal government has to interfere with this right, Publius Huldah (the article’s author) had this reply to a commenter:

Liberals can’t think. Once one understands this, one sees that liberals never pose a challenge on intellectual grounds.

James Madison, in the 2nd half of Federalist Paper No. 46, speaks of the armed citizens (farmers, shopkeepers, blacksmiths, teachers, clerks, etc – i.e., the Militia) defending themselves from an overreaching federal government. If the federal government is using only slingshots, then the Militia needs only slingshots.

If the federal government is using fully automatic weapons and hollow points; then the Militia needs fully automatic weapons and hollow points.

If the federal government has fully automatic weapons and hollow points, but the people have nothing because the federal government has disarmed them, then democide is on its way. You can count on it.

We must not forget (although the liberals probably never knew this) that the leading cause of death in the 20th Century was….. civil governments murdering their own People. They did this by the hundreds and hundreds of millions.

That last bit sort of struck me in the chest, and reminded me of some research I found some months back. To expand on her point, I posted the following reply to hers, all this I share here because I find it especially instructive:

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Here is a 1993 essay entitled “How Many Did Communist Regimes Murder?” by Rudolph J. Rummel, out of the University of Hawaii. “Democide” is defined there as non-war murder by government. The statistics are mind-blowing, and they are NOT JUST NUMBERS. I found no correlation to the armed status of these peoples, but it goes to Publius’ last point. It is stunning the level of ignorance to the inherent barbarity of an ideology, variants of which are openly championed today, when its dangers were seemingly self-evident some short 20 years ago. And in light of the unmistakable parallels to today, with respect to the pathways to these democides, it is more than questionable the intelligence of those who would ever seek to disarm themselves in lieu of govt. “security”.

R.J. Rummel:

Few would deny any longer that communism–Marxism-Leninism and its variants–meant in practice bloody terrorism, deadly purges, lethal gulags and forced labor, fatal deportations, man-made famines, extrajudicial executions and show trials, and genocide. It is also widely known that as a result millions of innocent people have been murdered in cold blood. Yet there has been virtually no concentrated statistical work on what this total might be.

Mr. Rummel estimates in this essay, numbers since revised upward, a midrange (conservative) total of 110 million murders by communist democide from 1900-1987, and at the higher end estimates 260 Million Murders. By comparison, there were 38 million battle-dead in all wars (int’l & domestic) of the same period. The Soviet Union alone (midrange) murdered 62 million, and China (PRC) 35 million.

Rummel:

How can we understand all this killing by communists? It is the marriage of an absolutist ideology with the absolute power. Communists believed that they knew the truth, absolutely. They believed that they knew through Marxism what would bring about the greatest human welfare and happiness. And they believed that power, the dictatorship of the proletariat, must be used to tear down the old feudal or capitalist order and rebuild society and culture to realize this utopia. Nothing must stand in the way of its achievement. Government–the Communist Party–was thus above any law. All institutions, cultural norms, traditions, and sentiments were expendable. And the people were as though lumber and bricks, to be used in building the new world.

Constructing this utopia was seen as though a war on poverty, exploitation, imperialism, and inequality. And for the greater good, as in a real war, people are killed. And thus this war for the communist utopia had its necessary enemy casualties, the clergy, bourgeoisie, capitalists, wreckers, counterrevolutionaries, rightists, tyrants, rich, landlords, and noncombatants that unfortunately got caught in the battle.

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Please visit the above thread for more informative commentary. And note that P.H. also has this article up on her site now, here, with more discussion.

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A Translation of the List of President Obama’s 23 Executive Actions to Address Gun Violence

19 Saturday Jan 2013

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A Translation of the List of President Obama’s 23 Executive Actions to Address Gun Violence
White House line items in black. ~Translations in red.

1. Issue a Presidential Memorandum to require federal agencies to make relevant data available to the federal background check system.
~ Grow the gun-forbidden list. Grow the gun-forbidden list, I say.(see end)

2. Address unnecessary legal barriers, particularly relating to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, that may prevent states from making information available to the background check system.
~ Grow the gun-forbidden list. Circumvent, rewrite current federal HIPAA law, ‘cause I want to, so States can add more people to the mental portion of the gun-forbidden list.

3. Improve incentives for states to share information with the background check system.
~ Grow the gun-forbidden list. Bribe the States with DOJ money Congress didn’t give me, to add even more people to the gun-forbidden list, when they can’t use the HIPAA excuse.

4. Direct the Attorney General to review categories of individuals prohibited from having a gun to make sure dangerous people are not slipping through the cracks.
~ Grow the gun-forbidden list.Tell the A.G. to figure out what other kinds of people, what other kinds of reasons, we can add people to the gun-forbidden list.

5. Propose rulemaking to give law enforcement the ability to run a full background check on an individual before returning a seized gun.
~ Make sure that when the police take a gun for any reason, they don’t have any reason to give it back.

6. Publish a letter from ATF to federally licensed gun dealers providing guidance on how to run background checks for private sellers.
~ Tell people that have to check the list for themselves, that now they should check the list for others.

7. Launch a national safe and responsible gun ownership campaign.
~ Posture, spend, propagandize. Slogan: “Gun Abstinence is Better than the Other Kind”

8. Review safety standards for gun locks and gun safes (Consumer Product Safety Commission).
~ Interject. Spend. Prepare to harass gun and safe makers, make guns and safes more expensive, punish, prod, nudge. Protect the consumer masses from evil capitalistic greedy negligent dangerous manufacturers of gun-related stuff. Prepare to enrich lawyers.

9. Issue a Presidential Memorandum to require federal law enforcement to trace guns recovered in criminal investigations.
~ Grow the where-the-guns-have-been list.

10. Release a DOJ report analyzing information on lost and stolen guns and make it widely available to law enforcement.
~ Grow the where-the-guns-have-been list. The DOJ knows about losing guns pretty well.

11. Nominate an ATF director.
~ Nobody has been confirmed in 6 years? How about Rosie O’Donnell (“I don’t care if you want to hunt, I don’t care if you think it’s your right. I say ‘Sorry.’ it’s 1999. We have had enough as a nation. You are not allowed to own a gun, and if you do own a gun I think you should go to prison.”)… perfect.

12. Provide law enforcement, first responders, and school officials with proper training for active shooter situations.
~ Proper, our way, consistent, everybody’s the same, training. So I can say I did it, so I can say I spent it, so you know who saved you. You hicks can’t figure out how to defend yourselves, can’t figure out how to hire your own experts, you know.

13. Maximize enforcement efforts to prevent gun violence and prosecute gun crime.
~ Posture. Tell the police to ignore, minimize, for now, stabbings, hit-and-runs, bludgeonings, poisonings, crucifixions, beheadings, malicious electrocutions, and arson-related killings, because I say so, because I say gun.

14. Issue a Presidential Memorandum directing the Centers for Disease Control to research the causes and prevention of gun violence.
~ Grow the gun-forbidden list. Misdirect, Posture. Spend money that Congress didn’t say I could spend, tell the CDC to figure out why people kill people, classify guns as a disease, gun violence as a public health crisis, and then classify gun control as a miraculous vaccine that makes it so people don’t kill people.

15. Direct the Attorney General to issue a report on the availability and most effective use of new gun safety technologies and challenge the private sector to develop innovative technologies.
~ Tell the A.G. to harass gun makers to make guns that don’t kill people. Control the market, be the market, dictate, for the little people.

16. Clarify that the Affordable Care Act does not prohibit doctors asking their patients about guns in their homes.
~ Grow the gun-forbidden list. Encourage doctors to harass their patients about stuff that’s none of their business, and then of course, rat their patients out.

17. Release a letter to health care providers clarifying that no federal law prohibits them from reporting threats of violence to law enforcement authorities.
~ Grow the gun-forbidden list, I say. Encourage doctors to rat out their patients for any off-hand remarks they make, thereby painting targets on their patients’ backs, and forever branding them as psychopathic.

18. Provide incentives for schools to hire school resource officers.
~ Posture. Spend money that Congress didn’t say I could spend, stick my nose more into school business, so I can take credit for their hiring of SROs (cops tailored for school environments), something, as I said, those hicks just cannot do, without ME.

19. Develop model emergency response plans for schools, houses of worship and institutions of higher education.
~ Posture. Again, figure it all out for the knuckle-draggers, so I can say that I did, but for now, just schools and churches, because the kids are always worth the exploit, and the Christians are mad at me, so…

20. Release a letter to state health officials clarifying the scope of mental health services that Medicaid plans must cover.
~ Grow the gun-forbidden list. Tell the States what they already know. Invent something they don’t know. Make sure they spend money.

21. Finalize regulations clarifying essential health benefits and parity requirements within ACA exchanges.
~ Grow the gun-forbidden list. Campaign for PPACA, or MeCare. Make sure it’s equally as cheap for listees to get on the mental health services list as it is to get abortifacients.

22. Commit to finalizing mental health parity regulations.
~ Grow the gun-forbidden list. Same as item #21, but I really mean it. And have more people committed, I think.

23. Launch a national dialogue led by Secretaries Sebelius(HHS) and Duncan(Education) on mental health.
~ Posture, misdirect, distract, propagandize, demonize. Tell my people to get inside the heads you people… for the people… at least while I get that other stuff done that you’re not looking at.

??What else might be done with this list??
??What checks are in place to prevent fraudulent and corrupt manipulation of the list??
!!None of this, none of what Obama proposes to Congress, has anything to do with the Constitutional purview of the federal government!! Check out this paper by Publius Huldah.

~tdv

NICS Index Brochure  National Instant Criminal Background Check System
FULL DETAILS: Fact Sheet on the President’s Plan to Reduce Gun Violence
 

FFL: Federal Firearms Licensees: Retail store or Pawn Shop. Required to do background checks w/ NICS.

NICS: National Instant Criminal Background Check System: by the FBI, one-stop ID of those who cannot buy a gun. Maintains its own list, and accesses NCIC, III, and other lists. NICS Index contributed to by local, state, tribal, and federal agencies, and frequently in emergencies, mental health institutions, psychiatrists, police departments, and family members. 3 day turnaround or gun gets sold. Only FFLs req’d to check with NICS prior to sale, not private owners.

NCIC:  National Crime Information Center

III: Interstate Identification Index:

Prohibited (gun-forbidden): convicted of or indicted for crime carrying 1+yr sentence, fugitives, user or addict to any controlled substance, adjudicated as mental defective or been committed, illegal alien or here on nonimmigrant visa, dishonorable discharge from us armed forces, renounced us citizenship, has restraining order, convicted of domestic violence

Who’s REALLY “Ginning Up Fear on the Part of Gun Owners”? Hint: It’s not other gun owners.

16 Wednesday Jan 2013

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Mon, 01.14.2013, Barack Hussein Obama:

As far as people lining up and purchasing more guns, I think that we’ve seen for some time now that those who oppose any common-sense gun control or gun safety measures have a pretty effective way of ginning up fear on the part of gun owners that somehow the federal government is about to take all your guns away. And there’s probably an economic element to that.  It’s obviously is good for business.

So, according to O, 2nd Amendment supporters and evil capitalists are ginning up gun owners’ fears.  Why, because they dare mention what left wingers are saying about the issue? And this from the insulting premise that gun rights advocates oppose “any” kind of gun safety measures, as if to say none exist already. To counter this manipulative craft, I thought I’d lay out some real reasons that gun owners might be worried, and should be.  For brevity, I’ll stick mostly with what has “ginned” people up since the Dec 14th 2012 Newtown CT killings, and before Obama made this asinine and malicious statement.

Firstly, this President has shown his disrespect for the U.S. Constitution, and everybody knows it, even his supporters, who applaud him for it, particularly when that disrespect serves them.  So if Obama and friends don’t like the Constitution generally, why would anyone expect that they’d respect its 2nd Amendment protections, specifically?

Then there is the “never let a crisis go to waste” mentality, famously spewed by his Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel a few years back.  True to form, just five days after Newtown, Obama used the deaths of those children to have his way with Republican “folks” on the fiscal cliff debate, saying “After what we’ve gone through over the past several months, a devastating hurricane and now one of the worse tragedies in our memory, the country deserves the folks to be willing to compromise for the greater good.”  The point: If he is willing to dance on graves of little kids over something entirely unrelated, what else might he be capable of using it for, especially if he can fake a relation?

Oh, and I’ll add, the President did virtually nothing on gun issues in his first term (a good thing), presumably for gun-grabbing’s unpopularity, and he wanted a second term, which now he has, which means now in his mind he has been mandated king and supreme ruler of America, which means he can now openly not care about popularity, and which, altogether, means he is more dangerous to the Constitution and our general liberties than before.

And, if I may further digress, consider as another possible reason for increased gun sales: the general fear of impending economic collapse in America, and the aftermath that it would bring; a fear exacerbated by the fact that the same Democrat politicians in the White House and Senate that have been destroying our economy, that have racked up Six Thousand Billion Dollars in NEW national debt, that have devalued our money, etc., these same people are still in power after the November 2012 elections.

So who’s to say what percentage of recent increases in the gun market applies to people suspicious of an ever increasingly power-hungry government, anyway?  Could be, that many just saw the news of the shootings and said “The country’s gone insane. I’m gettin’ a gun.”

Back to fear ginning… That IS what I was talking about, is it not?  To the extent that folks are buying more firearms out of fear of inevitable government confiscation of the same, the following rhetoric and real intentions, vomited from the bellies of anti-gun, exploitative, opportunistic reactionaries, is the real source of unease.

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Sun, 12.16.12: Obama vowed to use “whatever power this office holds” to prevent “more tragedies like this.”
~ See above on O’s view of Presidential power.

Tue, 12.18.12: White House says President will “actively support” reinstatement of federal assault weapons ban, will support upcoming Feinstein (Sen. D-CA) legislation, close the “gun show loophole” on background checks, and stop sale on high-capacity ammo clips. W.H. said Obama pleased that pro-gun Democrats are with him.
~ “Assault weapons” only look scary, fire one bullet per squeeze, and are less destructive than other weapons that don’t get banned because they don’t look so scary, FYI.  Basically, every weapon is an assault weapon, when wielded by a person committing assault, even if they are using the weapon as a club, which also means an assault weapon doesn’t have to be a gun. It’s a manipulative terminology, nothing more.

Thu, 12.20.12, Reuters: Unburdened by re-election worries and empowered by law to act without Congress, U.S. President Barack Obama could take action to improve background checks on gun buyers, ban certain gun imports and bolster oversight of dealers. […]  The administration also has leeway to act in how it defines certain categories of people prohibited from buying a gun.  Federal law bars anyone “who has been adjudicated as a mental defective,” but it does not specify whether that means only a court can disqualify someone, said Michael Volkov, a former Republican Justice Department official now at the law firm LeClairRyan.
~ The Congress makes law, and NOTHING “empowers” the president to make law without Congress. This is ridiculous. Read the Constitution.  Also, insinuating that the President and his boys have the power to “categorize” us for the sake of prohibition, is as sick as the insinuation.

Thu, 12.20.12: Andrew Cuomo (D-Gov.-NY) [assault weapon] “Confiscation could be an option. Mandatory sale to the state could be an option…”
~ Confiscation. um… confiscation… thoughts from the Governor of NY. Think about that.

Sat, 12.22.12: “The Journal News”, an upstate NY paper, published on their website an interactive map indicating the names and addresses of all pistol permit holders in two NY counties, including the classification of the permit, i.e. unrestricted, premises, target, hunting, etc.
~ This an open assault on law-abiding gun owners, meant solely to demonize them, and out them as if they were sexual predators. One direct consequence of this maliciousness is the invitation to gun thieves to burglarize the homes. The other consequence is the possible identification of those who are not armed, another invitation to criminals.

Thu, 12.27.12, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) posts summary of legislation to be introduced in 2013:
* Bans the sale, transfer, importation, or manufacturing of: 120 specifically-named firearms; Certain other semiautomatic rifles, handguns, shotguns that can accept a detachable magazine and have one or more military characteristics; and Semiautomatic rifles and handguns with a fixed magazine that can accept more than 10 rounds.
* Strengthens the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban and various state bans by: Moving from a 2-characteristic test to a 1-characteristic test; Eliminating the easy-to-remove bayonet mounts and flash suppressors from the characteristics test; and Banning firearms with “thumbhole stocks” and “bullet buttons” to address attempts to “work around” prior bans.
* Bans large-capacity ammunition feeding devices capable of accepting more than 10 rounds. *Grandfathering weapons legally possessed on the date of enactment; Requires that grandfathered weapons be registered under the National Firearms Act, to include: Background check of owner and any transferee; Type and serial number of the firearm; Positive identification, including photograph and fingerprint; Certification from local law enforcement of identity and that possession would not violate State or local law; and
* Dedicated funding for ATF to implement registration.
~ Looks like a whole lot of banning, and a whole lot of confiscation, unless you want to be booked and catalogued like a common criminal in order to keep “certain” arms that you already own, and a whole lot of criminalizing innocent law-abiding citizens for not wanting to be booked… Have you started shopping yet? And on that last bullet point, one has to ask HOW MUCH funding, and more importantly, one has to ask what place it is in the first place, for the federal government to legislate alcohol, tobacco, or firearms inside the country at all. Again, read the Constitution.

Sat, 01.05.13, Mark Green on Hannity’s show: “230 years, there was never an individual right to own a handgun. Scalia found it a few years ago”
~ There’s a novel idea! If you can’t take people’s liberty outright, pretend that that liberty never existed to start with.

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Just remembered this is a blog post, and not a book…

These are only a small sampling, of course, of where it is those of the liberal anti-gun persuasion in media and in power, who are in fact the REAL cause of angst among gun owners, NOT gun rights advocates. Obama is flat out lying, making a straw man of law-abiding Americans who respect liberty, so that he can beat them with a stick.

Every progression in aggression against gun owners and their rights creates an equal progression in distrust of the government insisting on this aggression, and it naturally follows that the people WILL increase their measure of defense against a government that assaults them, and WILL assault them.

~tdv

Hat tip to Jeff Goldstein, and his site protein wisdom, whose archives over that past month served as a guide to put together much of these examples. Jeff’s analysis on this issue (and myriad other issues) has been reliably informed and informative, truthful, justifiably blunt, and to say well-written would be an insult. And the commenters over there as well, comprise a plethora of intelligence and smartness, and a prime example of true liberty loving Americans. Just my unaffiliated opinion. You should check it out.