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Four Obama voters at a gun show-Naivete? Paranoia?
January 14, 2009 | Tagged anti-gun Obama, Evils of Prohibition, Gun show patrons for Obama, NRA trains police, The Shadow Party by Horowitz and Poe | 1 Comment
Over the weekend, I met four more guys at a gun show. They were all pleasant enough people who voted to put Barack Hussein Obama in the White House. There were two young men, a “reluctant” Obama voter, and an unusually loquacious liberal gentleman who opined that all we were doing by warning people about impending anti-gun rights legislation was “driving up the price of guns and ammunition.” None of these people seemed to think that an Obama Administration with virtual control of both Houses of Congress is a serious threat to the Second Amendment.
The two young men, one of whom had long pink and purple hair, obviously believed Obama, when he said that he supported the Second Amendment and that he wasn’t going to take any one’s guns. I have trouble with that rationale, since Obama has never voted for individual self-defense rights, as far as I can tell. He has sponsored anti-gun legislation, made anti-gun rights statements, and favored gun bans in Chicago and Washington, D.C. He picked anti-gun Joe Biden as his running mate and appointed anti-gun Emmanuel and Holder to key positions. I hope the young men are right about Obama.
The reluctant voter opined that Obama will be too busy with economic issues, health care legislation, and foreign policy problems to tinker with the Second Amendment. This gun show visitor anticipates a deepening oil crisis as seasonal consumption increases and supplies dwindle. I have trouble with this belief as it relates to the Second Amendment. There were at least fourteen anti-gun bills in Congress in 2008 that can be renumbered and effortlessly reintroduced for the approval of the Democrat-controlled House and Senate and the Signature of “The Chosen One,” if he decides to pay the likely political price for such actions. (See my post, “If Obama wins, you lose legal gun rights. He only has to sign the bills.” 10-30-2008, Category: “Elections.”)
The loquacious Liberal, so affectionately nicknamed, because he was willing to talk about the issues, felt that pro-gun rights organizations serve only as promoters of gun and ammunition makers and dealers. It is his view that no one is going to try to take guns away from American Citizens. Like many Liberals, he displayed a remarkable ignorance of the history and science of the debate on individual liberty. He was unaware of the research by Gary Kleck out of Florida on the estimated 2 million defensive uses of firearms every year in response to criminal attacks.
He was also unaware of gun confiscation in New York, New Jersey, and California. You can’t blame this individual for not being aware of these issues, since they are seldom if ever mentioned in the Liberal-controlled Mainstream Media.
He also didn’t believe in the NRA and Firearms Coalition of Colorado characterizations of the often draconian and unrealistic elements in many anti-gun rights bills. I personally read many of the bills and have concluded that the NRA and FCC descriptions are usually spot on.
This gentleman was also skeptical about any sort of centrally-controlled plan by rich and powerful people to put Obama in the White House and establish a permanent Liberal dynasty in American politics. He politely accused me of paranoia. I responded by saying that my paranoia doesn’t mean there isn’t a threat. I hope I am merely paranoid. The Constitution and the country are much safer, if I am only paranoid. I urged this man to read The Shadow Party by Horowitz and Poe.
The loquacious Liberal was upset over gun crime. I assured him that honest gun owners support prosecution of illegal gun use. I should have mentioned that NRA-certified instructors do most of the police firearms training in America. I neglected to mention important scientific studies, which indicate that gun control laws don’t seem to reduce crime and that guns don’t cause crime. (CDC Study, NAS Study, Small Arms Study) I did mention to him that Prohibition corrupted the police, fostered widespread disobedience of the law, and promoted the rise of criminal gangs made wealthy by black market alcohol sales. He agreed that we do not seem to be winning the War on Drugs.
This man did understand that gun control isn’t working in Mexico. He admitted that gun control divides citizens into classes-those that may legally defend themselves and those that may not. Strangely, he didn’t seem to be bothered by the distinction. He did seem to have some sense that the Individual Rights Movement has as a goal the prevention of tyranny.
All of these people apparently believe that a Democrat Party funded by George Soros, Move on, the Joyce Foundation, the Bell Campaign, the Brady Campaign, and the Violence Policy Center will not seriously try to weaken the rights recognized by the Second Amendment. The four seem to think that the Party with 14 draconian anti-individual rights bills in Congress will somehow forget about the goals embodied in those proposed regulations. The gun show patrons in question must think that the Obama Transition Team’s four point anti-gun agenda will somehow get lost in the political shuffle. Maybe it’s all just rhetoric and window dressing. (My post, “Anti-gun Obama takes off the mask!” 11-08-2008, Category: “Elections.”)
You know, I hope those four are right. I would like nothing better than to be able to report at the end of Obama’s first term that there were no attempted infringements of the natural, fundamental rights of the American People to armed self-defense against crime, tyranny, and genocide.
I hope I’m wrong. I hope the NRA, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership, Gun Owners of America, Rocky Mountain Gun Owners, the Pikes Peak Firearms Coalition, and all the other Second Amendment civil rights organizations are mistaken. Unfortunately, I don’t expect to be surprised, given the records and pronouncements of Obama, Biden, Schumer, Pelosi, Boxer, Feinstein, Dodd, Holder, Emmanuel, et al. Too many leopards would have to change their spots.
Def Mech
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I don’t mind if we have the rights to bar arms, but there needs to be some restrictions and I feel that you need to go learning class and make sure that you are evaluated.