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“Convenient” Shootings boost Left-wing Agenda
June 12, 2009 | Tagged anti-Second Amendment, futility of gun control | 1 Comment
Those on the Left are going ballistic over the Holocaust Museum Shooting. They hoot that this tragic incident validates the Homeland Security Report’s portrayal of veterans as potential domestic terrorists. ”Progressive” pundits shout that this murder should be the basis for more restrictive gun laws. Before we all go off half-cocked, let us consider a few basic facts.
Washington D.C., where the Holocaust Museum Shooting took place, is a legally mandated “gun free” zone for ordinary, common citizens. (Think of it as a criminal-safe, free-fire zone, although, this time, there were armed security guards.)
Possession of a firearm by a convicted felon is against the law. Brandishing a weapon is illegal. Murder or attempted murder, battery, or even a verbal offer of violence is illegal. Von Brunn broke numerous laws in his intended rampage, which thankfully was ended by people with guns. Criminals, by definition, don’t obey laws. That statement should be engraved somewhere on a library.
There are roughly 80,000,000 law-abiding gun owners in this country. We must not allow ourselves to become hostage to acts of violence perpetrated by deranged individuals.
For those firearms enthusiasts who slowly shoot paper targets, collect antiques or “curios and relics,” and those hunters who use lever action, bolt action, or pump firearms, be advised that this crime was committed with an “old” rifle. Do not ever be deluded into the notion that the “Progressive” Left only wants to take away handguns and “black” rifles. If they can ban an AR-15, I believe that they can and will, ban your target rifle, hunting rifle, or Winchester ’73.
Look at the interconnecting web of restrictive regulations being spun by the Homeland Security Report on “right-wing extremists,” H.R. 2159, and H.R. 2401. The Homeland Security Report broad brushes veterans, abortion opponents, Evangelical Christians, and “single issue” advocates (read Second Amendment supporters) as potential terrorists.
H.R. 2159 allows the Attorney General to declare you to be a terrorist based on “a preponderance of the evidence” and may deny you the right to confront your accuser based on “national security interests.” Once on a watch list, you have no legal right to possess a gun or get on a plane.
McCarthy’s bill, H.R. 2401, the “No Fly, No Buy Act of 2009,” would include “persons who may be prevented from boarding an aircraft in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System…”
The Page 1B, 05-31-2009 Denver Post article,”Name’s not the same? That just won’t fly,” “Mistaken ID’s of flyers on watch lists happen daily,” outlines some of the problems with the current aircraft boarding program. What happens if you happen to have the same name as a “terrorist” on the “No Fly List?” “No Fly, no buy?”
What happens if an errant bug falls into a printer at our Big Brother’s Ministry of Information or whatever it was that they called “Spy on You Central” in Terry Gilliam’s prophetic, dystopian movie, Brazil. It could be, “No Fly, no buy!” No legal right to own a gun, ever!
(Dystopia is a variation on utopia, meaning a utopian vision that didn’t work out. See 1984, Animal Farm, Brave New World, It Can’t Happen Here, Soylent Green, Minority Report, and Logan’s Run, for a few warnings about dystopian societies that may be closer to our present reality than we would like to think.)
By the way, isn’t it strange that shortly after the Homeland Security Report came out, we have multiple shooting incidents that seem to reinforce the conclusions of the report? Abortion clinic shooting. Anti-Semitic shooting. Hmmm! Von Brunn: name sounds Nazi-like, doesn’t it? (See my post, “Look for more shootings after church killing and more calls for gun control,” 03-12-09, under the Category “Spree Killings.”)
In any case, all law-abiding gun owners must stand together in resisting further attempts by the Left to restrict our fundamental right to self-defense against crime, tyranny, and genocide. Failure to do so will result in our demotion from citizens to subjects. Remember! The British Olympic Pistol Team trains in Switzerland, because it would be illegal for them to practice on their native soil.
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