Sneaky Dems Attempt Gun Control In CyberSecurity Bill

Reprinted from Freedom Outpost  (July 27, 2012)
by Tim Brown

Democrat Senators have offered an amendment to the cybersecurity bill that would limit the purchase of high capacity gun magazines. May I ask what in the world high capacity gun magazines have to do with cybersecurity? I already know. They have nothing to do with it, but this is how our Congress works.

However, with this particular amendment, S.A.2575, was sponsored by Democrats Frank Lautenberg (N.J.), Barbara Boxer (Calif.), Jack Reed (R.I.), Bob Menendez (N.J.), Kirsten Gillibrand (N.Y.), Schumer and Dianne Feinstein (Calif.). These liberal Senators are looking to make it illegal to transfer or posses large capacity devices that feed guns more than 10 rounds with the exception of .22 caliber rim fire ammunition. Apparently you can have a thousand round drum of those on your weapon and you’re ok.

The amendment is identical to a different bill that was sponsored by Frank Lautenberg.

In the first place, the stupid thing about the law is that it would only affect these devices that were sold or transferred after the law took effect. So people they are afraid of can still legally own these, just as long as they got them before the law was in effect. That makes absolutely no sense.

Chuck Shumer, the New York Democrat, and yes this is the same New York that gave the country the likes of Mayor Michael Bloomberg, was pushing for passage of this amendment.

“Maybe we could come together on guns if each side gave some,” Schumer said.

Mr. Schumer seems oblivious that the only people that have compromised are Republicans and frankly they need to stop compromising. That’s what gets us into this mess in the first place. The gun control laws on the books are the result of Democrats calling for more gun control and Republicans caving to that demand. The more we compromise, the further left we drift.

I think we can find common ground. Stop making new gun control laws Mr. Schumer. The government has tens of thousands of gun laws on the books now and they don’t stop all the things you claim they will stop.

“The basic complaint is that the Chuck Schumers of the world want to take away your guns,” Schumer said of the argument made by gun lobbies. “I think it would be smart for those of us who want rational gun control to make it know that that’s not true at all.”

It is true. Liberals like Chuck Schumer think that by disarming the population they can get a better handle on crime and control the people. What they fail to see is that the very people they are out to stop do not adhere to their laws, which is why they are called criminals. That’s C-R-I-M-I-N-A-L-S. As Rush says, “For those in Rio Linda” that means they are guilty of a crime, which means they violate the law. They disregard it. They oppose the law. The law simply defines who the criminals are and in this case, with this amendment, people, such as myself, who would seek to purchase a magazine for their Glock, or 1911 or AR-15 that would have more than 10 rounds, would become a criminal. See how that works?

“We can debate where to draw the line of reasonableness, but we might be able to come to an agreement in the middle,” Schumer said. “Maybe, maybe, maybe we can pass some laws that might, might, might stop some of the unnecessary casualties … maybe there’s a way we can come together and try to break through the log jam and make sure the country is a better place.”

OK, there are a lot of ‘maybes’ and ‘mights’ in Schumer’s statements here. “Mights” and “Maybes” are what the left always use to try and push their agenda. There is never a definitive “this will work and here’s how.”This kind of argument is emotional, not logical. The only way this will “make the country a better place” is for people like Charles Schumer to stay out of the gun marketplace and allow Americans the ability to purchase a weapon of choice for whatever they intend to use it for, whether it is hunting or sport shooting or self defense.

While Schumer also decried assault weapons and said that average Americans didn’t need such a weapon to go hunting or protect themselves, he is not to determine such things. Tell that to the victims of the tyrannical government under Bill Clinton and Janet Reno that brought bloodshed in both Waco, TX and Ruby Ridge for no real reason or threat. Americans should be able to purchase whatever weapons are on the market. Laws are in place to make sure that legal transactions are checked thoroughly. Those criminals that are intent on getting high capacity magazines are going to do it despite Schumer and the Democrats passing a million laws and the law-abiding citizens are the ones that will pay for their stupidity.

This bill is set to be voted on next week.


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Thune: BATFE's Gun Runner Program Must Be Exposed !

From: gunsandpatriots (Jul 18, 2011 )
 
In an exclusive interview with Guns & Patriots editor Neil W. McCabe, Sen John R. Thune, R-S.D., describes his anger over the 'Gun Runner' program managed by the Department of Justice's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE) that allowed firearms that would have been stopped by normal procedures to flow to Mexican criminal organizations.
 

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The Gun: Cold Truths about Cold Steel

 By R.G. Yoho
Whipped into a terrorized frenzy by gun-banning politicians, and a pliable media that generally salivates to do their bidding, some Americans have developed an irrational contempt for gun owners and their firearms.

Many of these victims of mass media hysteria have come to fear the gun, like a firearm is some kind of an evil, dangerous creature, determined to take the lives of all in its presence.

However, a gun is merely a harmless, inanimate object. Unlike a politician or reporter, a firearm conceals no secret motives. It holds no agenda. Moreover, a gun can neither offer you harm nor protection.

It is only when that gun is picked up, only then does it take on the power to destroy or defend.

If you placed a loaded gun on the kitchen table in your house, and nobody was to touch the gun or set fire to your house, that gun would do harm to absolutely nobody. You could leave it there for years. It would take no lives. It couldn’t maim or injure.

It wouldn’t break into your house in the middle of the night. The gun wouldn’t sneak up your staircase and threaten to harm your children. It would offer no threat to your spouse.

If left to itself, the gun is entirely harmless.

It has been said that “beauty is in the eye of the beholder.”

When it comes to a firearm, its duty is in the eye of the holder.

A gun in the hand of a patriot has won our nation independence from tyranny. A firearm in the hand of a police officer has prevented a citizen from being robbed or assaulted. A rifle in the hands of a soldier has ended the evils of the Holocaust. A pistol in the hand of responsible citizen has secured a home or caused a potential rapist to flee.

However, a gun doesn’t need to be placed in the hands of diseased minds or evil souls, because these individuals already have them. They will always possess them.

These animals have no regard for additional gun laws. They do not respect the police. They care nothing about the good of society. And they will always have the means and intent to use these weapons to take what doesn’t belong to them or to needlessly inflict harm on others.

But the meek will inherit nothing when they are weak. There is only one way the evil heart that intends to use the gun for evil purposes can be thwarted.

These depraved individuals with guns will only be stopped by good men with guns.

That is how it’s always been. That’s how it always will be.


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