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It is the middle of the night and SWAT teams wearing scary black helmets and armor are going door to door, neighborhood to neighborhood, breaking down people's doors, terrorizing families, and tearing through homes to confiscate any firearms they may have. This is what many conservatives fear that Obama and the Democrats ultimately want to happen.
Does this fear have any basis in reality at all? How does any mention of stricter background checks, a ban on certain types of clips, or closing the gun show loophole become a mass, nationwide gun grab by a totalitarian government?
To be honest, though I am more liberal on most issues I tend to lean conservative on Second Amendment rights, but I just don't understand where this paranoia is coming from. Nobody has proposed a gun grab that I am aware of. If anything, Second Amendment rights have increased over the past couple of decades.
The left never tells you what their ultimate goal is upfront. If their ultimate goal is a gun ban, they will start with stricter background checks. When they get that, they will continue incrementally passing stricter legislation until they finally arrive at gun bans. But make no mistake, most lefties would ultimately like to see guns only in the hands of the State.
The left never tells you what their ultimate goal is upfront. If their ultimate goal is a gun ban, they will start with stricter background checks. When they get that, they will continue incrementally passing stricter legislation until they finally arrive at gun bans. But make no mistake, most lefties would ultimately like to see guns only in the hands of the State.
The issue has already been to the US Supreme Court. So you can quiet down now.
But don't you just love conspiracy stories?
It is the middle of the night and SWAT teams wearing scary black helmets and armor are going door to door, neighborhood to neighborhood, breaking down people's doors, terrorizing families, and tearing through homes to confiscate any firearms they may have. This is what many conservatives fear that Obama and the Democrats ultimately want to happen.
Does this fear have any basis in reality at all? How does any mention of stricter background checks, a ban on certain types of clips, or closing the gun show loophole become a mass, nationwide gun grab by a totalitarian government?
To be honest, though I am more liberal on most issues I tend to lean conservative on Second Amendment rights, but I just don't understand where this paranoia is coming from. Nobody has proposed a gun grab that I am aware of. If anything, Second Amendment rights have increased over the past couple of decades.
That is NOT how gun confiscation works. Perhaps you should read some history from Germany circa 1930's.
First there is a move for background checks, then registration, THEN confiscation.
It is not paranoia that causes those of us who believe in the 2nd Amendment to be concerned, it is knowledge of history and human nature.
There are thousands of gun laws prohibiting possesion, purchase, carry thereof and there have been bans...its naive to think that confiscation might never occur.
That is NOT how gun confiscation works. Perhaps you should read some history from Germany circa 1930's.
First there is a move for background checks, then registration, THEN confiscation.
It is not paranoia that causes those of us who believe in the 2nd Amendment to be concerned, it is knowledge of history and human nature.
A little actual knowledge goes a loooooong way.
There was a total ban on gun purchases in Germany after they lost WW I. The Weimar Republic (1919 - 1933) established a more liberal gun registration policy in 1928, and that was the policy that the Nazis inherited. But only newly purchased weapons were registered; the stuff left over from WW I was never recorded.
In 1938, the Nazis loosened up gun ownership requirements. Now, anyone could own a gun. Anyone, that is except Jews - they were forbidden to be armed.
There absolutely was NO "move for background checks, then registration, THEN confiscation" in Germany.
It is worth noting that after WW II, even German police were not allowed to carry firearms. Private ownership of guns was not allowed until 1956.
It is the middle of the night and SWAT teams wearing scary black helmets and armor are going door to door, neighborhood to neighborhood, breaking down people's doors, terrorizing families, and tearing through homes to confiscate any firearms they may have. This is what many conservatives fear that Obama and the Democrats ultimately want to happen.
Does this fear have any basis in reality at all? How does any mention of stricter background checks, a ban on certain types of clips, or closing the gun show loophole become a mass, nationwide gun grab by a totalitarian government?
To be honest, though I am more liberal on most issues I tend to lean conservative on Second Amendment rights, but I just don't understand where this paranoia is coming from. Nobody has proposed a gun grab that I am aware of. If anything, Second Amendment rights have increased over the past couple of decades.
Newp. None at all.
Ironically, Connecticut has some of the loosest requirements concerning personal carry, and they are home to some of the strictest assault rifle bans.
the issue can be revisited by a more liberal supreme court
never say never
Better start saving now to build your new jails and prisons to house the new felons you want. 150 million semi-auto weapons. If I were you I'd either cut cable or quit eating out to do your part.
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