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Can the Second Amendment survive four years of BHO or HRC?
May 14, 2008 | Tagged Bob Barr, Clinton, GOP, McCain, Obama, protest vote, Ron Paul, Second Amendment |
The late U.S. Senator Everett Dirksen is quoted as saying “When I feel the heat, I see the light.” It is axiomatic in psychology that to be effective, behavior modification, that is, reward or punishment, has to change behavior. If you can’t change behavior, you have no real power to influence an organism, in this case, the GOP.
Following up on my last post with regard to the debate on protest voting for Ron Paul or Bob Barr, I am reminded of the old joke about the scientist and the fleas. The scientist trained the fleas to jump on command. The scientist then systematically removed the legs from his experimental subjects, noting that they jumped shorter distances following each amputation. Finally, having no legs, the fleas didn’t jump at all. The scientist then came to the conclusion that removing their legs makes fleas lazy. (Must have been a Democrat with government funding.)
In the current case, the GOP has lost three special congressional elections this cycle, portending a bad situation in November. Blake, Aaron, “Childers victory gives Dems a third straight takeover,” http://thehill.com/index2.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=73297&pop=1&page=0&Itemid=70
If the hard left Democrats get a 60 vote super majority in the U.S. Senate, extend their majority in the House, and put Obama or Clinton in the White House, they can pass anything they want. BHO or HRC will sign it.
The Dems and one RINO currently have 14 anti-gun bills that are stalled this year in Congress. Following a Democrat landslide, the dam would almost certainly burst. Among other things, these bills would: kill gun shows (HR 96, S 2577), require anti-self-defense “safe storage” of firearms (HR 256), ban semi-automatic weapons (HR 1022), ban any handgun/ammunition that can penetrate Level IIA soft body armor (HR 1784), require micro stamping capability in all new firearms (HR 1874), allow the Attorney General to designate you as a “terrorist” based on “suspicion” (HR 2074), create universal licensing for gun ownership (HR 2666), and ban handguns that do not have micro stamping capabilities (S 2605/HR 5266).
In addition, the next President will get up to three Supreme Court nominations. Presumptive nominee Barack Hussein Obama has said that his nominees will be persons who share “one’s deepest values, one’s core concerns, one’s broadest perspectives on how the world works, and the depth and breadth of one’s empathy.”
Harsani, David, “You want radical, you got it, Obama’s idea of the Supreme Court’s role is just scary,” The Denver Post, 05-09-08, page 11 B.
Aside from using lofty rhetoric, BHO seems to have no room for the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, nor the Second Amendment in his utopian vision. While the next vacancies on the court may well be seats now held by liberal justices, wouldn’t it be nice to have a chance for at least a swing voter, such as Kennedy, and not a dead certain, stone cold lock on another Ginsberg, a Clinton appointee?
When I attended a seminar in political campaign management several years ago, we were taught that winning involves identifying and speaking to the concerns of undecided voters who can be persuaded to vote your way. Conservative gun owners are not a constituency that the hard left Democrats ever hope to capture or even care about. The lefties mouth platitudes about guns with a “legitimate sporting purpose” and discuss hunting ducks with rifles, while looking to disarmed England as the model for U.S. gun control. (See “British Pistol Team Trains Abroad” under the Foreign Gun Law Category on this site.
I believe that the danger in protest voting, especially in this election, is that the Democrats don’t care about 5% or even 10% of the conservative base. The GOP may well be powerless to act, if HRC or BHO gets into the White House with an overwhelming congressional majority. It is possible that American gun owners might be saved by relatively conservative Blue Dog Democrats running to the right of wimpy RINOs. I would hate to stake the human rights recognized by the Second Amendment on such a slim hope. In any case, we could expect to recover no lost rights in such a situation.(See Colorado State Issues and Legislative/Legislation Category posts on this site for what happened this year in CO.)
My greatest fear is that four or eight years of unbridled liberal/socialist oligarchy would cripple the individual rights movement in this country for decades, perhaps forever. That would be a huge price to pay for a purely symbolic slap at the Republican Party. Let’s not make it impossible for the Republicans to behave the way we want them to behave. Let’s not pull the legs off the GOP flea.
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