Our New President’s Plans
Normally, except for a little baiting of the Brady Campaign, I don’t get too involved in posting political stuff here, but this one is just too rich to ignore.
Our new President elect, after promsing time and time again on the campaign trail that he supported our Second Amendment rights, and after listening to his running mate say “he better not try to take my Beretta”… well, with only 72 hours gone since the election, how do we see them “supporting your second amendment rights?”
Check out this link to see the REAL change that they believe in: http://change.gov/agenda/urbanpolicy/
*** By the way, see the note at the bottom of this post.
Don’t want to wade through all the drivel? Do a pattern search for “Address Gun Violence in Cities” in the “Crime and Law Enforcement” section. Here are some high points:
“As president, Barack Obama would repeal the Tiahrt Amendment, which restricts the ability of local law enforcement to access important gun trace information, and give police officers across the nation the tools they need to solve gun crimes and fight the illegal arms trade.”
Huh. The last time I heard, the Tiahrt Amendment only prevented creepizoids like NY Mayors from fishing through there to look for gun dealers to harass. Actual law enforcement agencies still had full access.
“Obama and Biden also favor commonsense measures that respect the Second Amendment rights of gun owners, while keeping guns away from children and from criminals who shouldn’t have them.”
Nice doublespeak there. Since they obviously don’t believe current laws are doing that (last time I checked, neither criminals nor children could legally own guns), it’s obviously time for a whole rack of new, burdensome laws! Oh flipping joy….
“They support closing the gun show loophole and making guns in this country childproof.”
Wow. One simple sentence, two amazingly breathtaking statements. The so-called “gun show loophole” is the ability of one person to sell or transfer their legally owned property to another person who can legally own said property. The only way to truly “close this loophole” would be to criminalize all firearms transfers and transactions that do not go through an FFL dealer… in other words, it would be illegal for a father to pass down a rifle to his adult son or daughter… unless they took it to an FFL dealer, turned it over to them, and then went through all the paperwork of a new firearms purchase, including paying transfer fees, on each and every such gun transferred.
Wow, that’s such a threat to society there….
Next, the statement of “making guns in this country childproof“… does this administration know of some technology that magically can accomplish this? Science doesn’t have one that still allows them to fulfill their stated function. Lock up the guns in big, expensive safes? Perhaps, for those that can afford them and can have them in their domiciles… but all locks and safes really do is make it impossible for you to actually use those guns when you really need them.
Oh… wait… that’s precisely what our new Prez has voted for in the past. Silly me, why didn’t I remember that? (geez…)
And here’s the kicker….. the moment you have all been waiting for….
“They also support making the expired federal Assault Weapons Ban permanent, as such weapons belong on foreign battlefields and not on our streets.”
Yup. There it is, plain as day, in black and white. Our new administration does not believe that what they would classify as “assault weapons” belongs in our hands. Hopefully, I don’t even have to explain the stupidity of that statement to you.
I read somewhere, that supposedly 1/3 of the gun owning public that voted, voted for our new administration. If you are one of those 1/3 that supposedly did, I hope you are getting a good look at this, and kicking yourself in the butt, hard. Really hard. Because if this is what we see just three days after the voting is over… what are we going to be facing after they take office?
I’m making sure to renew my NRA membership this month. I suggest that you make sure that you membership is active, and if you aren’t a member, become one, quick… it’s gonna be a fun filled four years…
*** The note at the bottom of this post: Not even 24 hours after I wrote this post, I was told that the page that I had linked to was replaced with a “page not available right now” message… I guess it was change they didn’t want us to know about. However, in addition to several mirror sites that already grabbed a copy and have it online, it seems that they missed one copy: http://www.barackobama.com/pdf/issues/UrbanFactSheet.pdf
I wonder how long it will take for this one to disappear…
Well, as of late December, this link is still up. I find it amusing to see various news agencies “debunking” the “myth” that our new President wants to “ban all semi-autos”… when he quite clearly states this goal on the page referenced above. Some fact checkers those guys are, eh?
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