In the wake of President Obama’s call for more gun control, more background checks, and threats that he is not done with trying to take guns away from law abiding citizens, it is clear that the public vociferously disagrees with him. That is easily seen by the large uptick in gun purchases, fueled by the fear of confiscation by the administration, and by the terrorist incidents that people have seen recently both in the U.S. and abroad.
In addition, there are numerous examples of ordinary citizens having guns in their homes for self protection that led to a more preferred outcome when the need arose. Home invasions have been thwarted by well-trained moms or even kids who were able to defend themselves when a call to the police would have been far to late to do anything but mark a crime scene. And that does not begin to count the thousands or tens of thousands of times that simply brandishing a weapon scared the perpetrator away.
It now seems that even police officers are beginning to get the idea that an armed citizenry can be very important in the battle against crime.
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Funny how its states on both coasts that have such strict laws . each point of entry
The stupid is rampant on this page, must b a NRA spinoff!
CJA – you are wrong on so many fronts. According to statistics of the FBI, the CDC, and the Information Bureau of the DOJ since 1993 gun ownership has nearly doubled while the gun crime rate has decreased by about the same amount. If guns used by law-abiding citizens were a problem or issue in this country, the streets would be awash in blood – they are not. Law-abiding citizen gun owners ARE NOT THE PROBLEM. CRIMINALS are the problem. You are long on emotion, but devoid of facts. Your “argument” has no traction. Consider that firearms of law-abiding citizens are being seized by agents of the U.S. Government, WITHOUT DUE PROCESS, in violation of the 4th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, in the states of california, and new york. Further consuder that people’s names are being arbitrarily added to some mysterious “no fly” list, then based on that, whether names have been added rightly, wrongly, or mistakenly, agents of the FBI are seizing firearms from people on that list WITHOUT DUE PROCESS in violation of the 4th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. You also have apparently missed, forgotten, or ignored senator diane feinstein’s lament on 60 Minutes “if I’d had the votes, Mr. and Mrs. America, I’d have picked them up, every one”, or barack obama’s and hillary clinton’s recent press conference statements alluding to the fact that United Kingdom, and Austrailian laws dealing with “gun violence” were worthy of consideration in this country (i.e. confiscation). The German Weimar Republic required citizen gun registration in the 1920s and 1930s, but included a provision specifically preventing use of those registrations to seize private citizen’s firearms. This provision was included to address citizen’s fears that the law would be misused to seize firearms from law-abiding citizens. Then in 1933 adolph$#%&!@*came to power. Firearms of the gypsy’s were seized, contrary to law; firearms of the Jews were seized, contrary to law; then firearms of those conveniently designated as “enemies of the state” were seized, contrary to law. You can minimize, ridicule, and insult as you like, be dismissive and sarcastic as much as you want, but history has never failed to repeat itself. Every great society has eventually destroyed itself from within. Condescending, ignorant, contemptuous, doubting Thomas attitudes such as yours are indications of an unguarded, trusting, blind, faith in authoritarian human nature that nurses complacency to destruction. In modern times every requirement for registration of firearms, has led to the next logical step – confiscation, followed by the deaths of millions of citizens in those societies at the hands of their government. I don’t believe those attaining power in this country today are any different, nor do I believe them to be of any special charactor so as to avoid misusing, thus protecting their power, position and/or idealogy. For these thoughts and beliefs, I do not apologize, nor will I cede one inch! Molon Labe.
Paranoid. You know before Obama made this last executive order he consulted with lawyers. Unfortunately what he did is about all he could do constitutionally, so stop getting your knickers in a bunch. What you have now you will surely keep, and once the govt inspectors catch up from the latest mad buying spree with their background checks all will be in order again.
george soros is invested in firearm manufacturing companies. He is also strongly supportive of one world government, open borders, and has donated millions to related, liberal causes. Can you smell profiteer? Opportunist?
Personal responsibility.
And I’m sorry, no matter what you are hearing in your conspiracy chat rooms and on Fox News, this isn’t$#%&!@*Germany. Now if you want to see people’s rights stripped from them all over the country, then vote republican. I’d hate to be a Muslim, black, Latino, a woman, a veteran, the homeless, or somebody that needs healthcare if they win.
Meaning what.
So aiding and abetting the enemy isn’t good enough for you. What about bringing the enemy in our back yard. To secure votes secure votes in the future for Democrats and Muslims. Most Liberals have no clue that he has been bringing in Muslims the whole time he has been President. Mostly Sunni Muslims and not just Syrians. He has been placing them strategically in small towns throughout our country. You wonder why small towns. They have a better chance to fundamentally change those small mostly conservative towns. He has been bringing in these Muslims faster than we can vet them. And the vetting process is a joke. There is no way to tell radical Muslims from moderate Muslims. All they have to do is lie.
Unless you have a sheriff like the one in Harney County Oregon!!!