Well, the anti-war/anti-American/anti-gun/anti-Constitution Party is showing all their cards now. With their anti-war politics currently stalled and being mulled at a left-wing focus group near you, one of the House of Representatives most vociferous anti-Constitutionalists is waging another war against "assault weapons."
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h110-1022
HR 1022 (ironic designation, isn't it? Ruger 10/22?) is a reinstituted/reconstituted Clinton Assault Weapon Ban. First, instead of being a trial period like the original AWB, this one would be FOREVER. And it doesn't stop at just what the liberals considered 'evil-looking' guns. This time, Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY) has included semi-auto shotguns and a whole host of other things that are intended to be a first major step towards an all-out weapons ban.
If the Clinton AWB was bad, McCarthy's is worse. She has used the recent shootings in Utah and Philadelphia as political hay and as an excuse to bring back a 'new, improved' AWB. And this time, every gun owner will have a reason to care. You Mini-14 and Mini-30 owners...you're affected. M-1 Carbine owners...affected. M14 clone owners...affected. M1 Garand owners...affected. Any semi-auto shotgun that the Attorney General deems 'not for sporting use.' so we can all kiss our Remington, Browning, Winchester, and Mossberg semis good-bye.
Not surprisingly, McCarthy doesn't have her facts straight. Why would you ban 'assault weapons' when the weapons used in the Philly shooting were pistols? Again, it wasn't an 'assault weapon' that the shooter in Utah used either. He had a shotgun and a pistol. He was stopped by an armed off-duty policemen after several minutes of random gun-fire from the teenaged Bosnian Muslim. (Maybe if more people in that mall had been exercising their 2nd Amendment rights, this guy would have been subdued sooner...)
Any weapon ban is an affront and an abridgement of the Second Amendment, PERIOD. There should be more outrage over McCarthy's attempt to suborn the Constitution than to why she thinks it's justified. With the stroke of a pen, Rep. McCarthy wants to make you and I criminals. In fact, I believe she considers all gun-owners criminals already, she just wants to codify it. But we Americans allow this bill to pass, we should be ashamed. Ashamed that we allowed the federal nanny-state to once again trample on the Constitution and our GOD-GIVEN RIGHTS (read that as "NOT GOVERNMENT GRANTS"). Then, we should be ready to either give up the rest of our defenses to McCarthy and eventually, the UN (because that effort is gaining momentum again because John Bolton isn't at the UN anymore to tell them to piss up a rope!) or, we can fight this onslaught against our 2nd Amendment rights.
When is enough ENOUGH? When we're completrely disarmed? Then only the elite have 24 hour body guards and the rest of us must rely on the already over-burdened law-enforcement organizations? It dsoesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that a mugger or burglar is going to go after the easier mark - and it won't be the Rosie O'Donnell's with the 24 hour security force - it will be people like you and me that suffer the consequences - potentially with our lives.
We must be relentless because our foe is relentless. Remember, the same people that want us disarmed also want to redistribute your wealth - by disarming us, it takes the middleman (liberals in Congress) out of the equation and the thugs of the world can just go steal whatever 'wealth' they want when they want it because, who's going to stop them?
Please write your Congressmen about this bill and get it killed. This bill should not be passed in any form whatsoever. Get busy!!!!
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