So They’re Not
Coming for Our Guns, Eh? We call BS.
Friday, March 30, 2018
Why do we even have a Second Amendment?
Because British tyrants came for the Founders’ guns, and
the Founders knew, given the chance, overreaching officials in the U.S. would
do the same thing.
Now, some believe that chance has finally come.
In the wake of the terrible crimes in Parkland, Florida,
gun control activists and progressive social justice warriors have found their
scapegoats in the National Rifle Association and its five million members. And
as they always do when they feel emboldened, they are revealing the true agenda
they usually try to downplay to the American public in less emotionally-charged
times.
One media outlet after another has praised the activism
and passion of those who marched for gun control last Saturday. We must listen to them, we are told.
Okay, in that spirit, here is just a sampling of the
marchers’ own words.
Some of the lines that drew the biggest applause and
cheering from the crowd during the speeches at the march included the
following:
“When they give us that inch ... we will take a mile!”
“I have a dream that enough is enough. And that this
should be a gun-free world. Period!”
“Welcome to the revolution … The people demand a law
banning the sale of assault weapons. The people demand we prohibit the sale of
high capacity magazines.”
And no wonder the crowd cheered. The placards they
carried in D.C. and elsewhere expressed similarly extreme sentiments and
vicious ill-will toward those who disagree with their prohibitory agenda. Some
were also of questionable suitability for a supposedly youth-themed march.
Meanwhile signs using the universal circle and slash of
prohibition targeted handguns, rifles, and the NRA itself.
Okay, so the protestors want to ban guns,
they hate the NRA, and many enjoy profanity.
Trust us, we get the message.
And so did none other than former Supreme Court Justice
John Paul Stevens, the very man who was one vote away from writing the
individual right to keep and bear arms out of the Bill of Rights forever with
his dissenting
opinion in District of Columbia v. Heller. Addressing the
protestors in a New York Times editorial, he encouraged them to
“demand a repeal of the Second Amendment.” It would, he wrote, move them
“closer to their objective than any other possible reform.”
At that point, however, the gun control apparatus
realized it had overplayed its hand. Adults that only the week before had been
insisting that all of America must listen to the gun control wisdom of the
protesting youth suddenly began trying to steer their message back to a
politically safe space.
“[N]o one calling for a 2A repeal,” insisted
anti-gun media personality Chris Cuomo in a tweet the day
after the Stevens editorial was published. “[S]top with the bogeymen.”
Yeah, echoed law professor and gun control advocate Adam Winkler, “There’s not a
snowflakes chance in hell we are going to repeal the Second Amendment … . ” But
then he added, “anytime soon.”
Politifact – the progressive advocacy organization posing
as a “fact checker” – also tried to contain the damage. It handed out a
“pants on fire” rating to the claim that legislation already pending in
Congress which would expansively ban semi-automatic firearms does in fact prove
“they are coming to take away our guns.”
Politifact, however, created a strawman by insisting,
“Gun owners would not be required to give up any of their guns as long as they
were legally purchased before the ban.”
But their analysis ignored the fact that many of
America’s most popular firearms would no longer be available under the
legislation, that parts for the banned firearms would also be banned, and that
places which have enacted similar bans have repeatedly reneged on the original
grandfather provisions. The pending legislation is also significantly broader
than the federal “assault weapons” ban that was in effect from 1994 to 2004,
displaying an obvious tendency toward gun control mission creep.
So who are you going to believe? The protestors
themselves, history, and your lying eyes?
Or are you going to believe the media damage control?
We know how we would answer that question. And we think
the Founders would agree.
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