Save a Mexican drug lord: Surrender your guns

 TO GUN-OWNING OBAMA VOTERS

To all the gun-owning voters who sent me irate e-mails during the election saying that I was lying and that Obama wasn’t really going to take their guns … I told you so:

“As President Obama indicated during the campaign, there are just a few gun-related changes that we would like to make, and among them would be to reinstitute the ban on the sale of assault weapons,"  -- Attorney General Eric Holder, Feb. 25, 2009.

WILL THE REAL OBAMA PLEASE STAND UP?

Just a “few gun related changes,” mind you; it's just a little gun ban. And of course, this is what Obama “indicated” during the campaign. But gee, is that what Obama said? Funny, that’s not what I remember:

BUT THEY DON’T WANT MY GUN

Those of you hoodwinked into voting for this liar are now rationalizing: “The ‘assault weapon’ ban wasn’t that big a deal. I still got everything I needed. After all, they aren’t after my hunting rifle.”

Wrong again, Bubba. Mark my words: This ban on semi-automatic firearms will mirror HR 1022 from the last Congress and will cleverly – but not overtly – ban virtually every semi-automatic rifle in your collection.

Far more expansive than the misnamed 1994 “Recreational Firearms Protection Act,” we will likely face legislation which would:

• Include all guns banned in 1994, whether by name or by features (e.g. pistol grips, bayonet mounts, detachable magazines, etc.);
• Ban even guns modified to comply with the requirements, as manufacturers did in 1994;
• Ban guns specifically exempted in 1994, such as the Ruger Mini-14 and Mini-30, M-1 carbine, etc.;
• Ban all semi-automatic shotguns;
• Ban all semi-automatic rifles with detachable magazines (think Ruger 10/22);
• Allow the Attorney General to ban any firearm deemed not “sporting” regardless of use in sporting activities;
• Ban 65 types of firearms by name (the ’94 ban covered only 19);
• Ban handguns which accept magazines of greater than 10-rounds capacity; and
• Ban importation or sale of full capacity magazines, also covering frames, receivers, and parts used to repair or refurbish firearms.

Oh, yes: Did I forget to mention that, unlike the ’94 ban, which had a ten year “sunset,” this one would be permanent?

DO IT FOR THE MEXICANS

At this point, Obama/Holder aren’t even bothering with the usual “do it for the children” tripe; in this case, it’s “do it for the Mexicans”:

"I think that will have a positive impact in Mexico, at a minimum." Holder said at a news conference on the arrest of more than 700 people in a drug enforcement crackdown on Mexican drug cartels operating in the U.S. – ABC News.

Well, that explains it all: The Bureau of Justice Statistics report “Firearm Use by Offenders” found that fewer than 1.7% of armed offenders used military-style semi-automatic offenders in commission of crimes – meaning no domestic rationale can be found for banning them – so instead, Obama/Holder wants them banned to save Mexican drug smugglers from killing each other. (Never forget that Jeff Cooper, inventor of modern pistolcraft, once referred to this as “the good riddance factor.”)

And, of course, let us not forget that it is the United States government which refuses to seal the border, making drug and gun smuggling possible.

THE USUAL SUBTERFUGE

As always, the gun ban movement sticks to the original script written by Violence Policy Center director Josh Sugarmann schemed in a 1988 internal memo:

“The semi-automatic weapon’s menacing looks, coupled with the public’s confusion over fully automatic machine guns versus semi-automatic assault weapons - anything that looks like a machine gun is assumed to be a machine gun - can only increase the chance of public support for restrictions on these weapons.”

The truth is that even in Mexico, violence is not being perpetrated not only by semi-automatic “assault weapons” but also by real military weapons:

"Some recent Mexican army and police confrontations with drug cartels have resembled small-unit combat, with cartels employing automatic weapons and grenades," the warning said. – U.S. State Department travel warning, Feb. 20, 2009.

BIG LIE THEORY APPLIED AGAIN (and again…)

So Barack Obama says he doesn’t want your guns, then he appoints arguably the most anti-gun Attorney General in history, who tells you that Obama does want to ban your guns … well, not necessarily your guns: You might get to keep the ones you already have … if you register them for future confiscation.

If you’re tired of the weasel speak, you can identify all federal officials who represent you and contact them by going to: http://www.congress.org/congressorg/home/

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