Government Taking Guns: ya gotta ask why.

March 18, 3:44 PMLA Gun Rights ExaminerJohn Longenecker

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It’s praiseworthy when Democrats break party ranks and speak out. Lady Liberty is partisan, and that doesn’t mean party, it means being loyal to her more than party.

A few months ago, pundits were reporting how the Dems really weren’t going to get involved in any more gun control issues. One step further, some are even taking up positions against Attorney General Eric Holder and urging him to drop the idea of another Assault Weapon Ban. Let’s take a minute to go over a few details on why this is important.

No one can even define what is an Assault Weapon, much less people who don’t know anything about guns. Any politician who understands anything about our freedoms knows why we have guns: so that crime cannot be used as an excuse to usher in worse and worse policies. Interesting. Extremist leftists try and emotionalize the issue by pointing to rifles which are high-powered, black, mysterious-looking, and outfitted with various accessories. One example is the flash suppressor: crafted for night-time visibility of the operator to acquire the target, the attachment is painted instead as serving only the purpose of not revealing an assassin’s position while shooting innocent human begins.

Technical improvements are painted as evading the law when in fact they are designed to comply with law.

Speaking of laws, there are more than 20,000 gun laws on the books, with vagueness and redundancies which give entirely too much latitude in interpretation. In this way, a hammer can be called a screwdriver and then illegal, and you get the idea. Meanwhile, while criminals ignore laws, honest citizens can then be criminalized, and Congress is beginning to sense it. I hope.

What I want to know is why so many in government even want to take away guns at all. They’ll never get the guns out of the hands of criminals, and there’s no point in disarming the voters. Unless... naah, that’s just conspiracy talk.

What happens in other countries can’t happen here. Just because their countries began with crisis, doesn’t mean our similar crises will follow the formula and lead to taking our weapons. Just because their leaders lied to them about trust and transparency doesn’t mean it will automatically happen here. Just because the people there didn’t see it coming doesn’t mean we.... well, you fill in the rest.

Your elected officials standing up to the left in America need to be written a good pat on the back letter. There is no need to stand up to the so-called gun lobby: the real need is to stand up to the leftists whose formula is to begin with taking away people’s ability to ... well, the people’s ability to do a lot of things.

The District Of Columbia lost its case on its gun ban, struck down as against the Constitution of the United States. Still, they persist in making it hard. You gotta ask why they want to go against the law and take guns.

San Francisco lost its gun ban case twice. Why persist? Why?

New Orleans took guns in Katrina, and stands in contempt of court when they lost their case and denied knowing where those guns were. Why oh why are officials so interesting in taking guns?

Forty-eight states have some provision for carrying a handgun, including concealed carry; yet the major cities balk and go against their own state law and ban guns or make it hard has hell for honest taxpayers to own and carry. Ya gotta ask why.

Thanks to sixty-five house democrats who said today that they would oppose AG Holder’s Assault Weapons Ban on the urging to enforce existing laws before introducing more restrictions on the rights of private citizens to own guns. [Pro-gun Democrats oppose new assault weapon ban.] Thanks to those Democrats who asked the same question I’m asking: Why?

You know the answer.

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 John Longenecker is author of Safe Streets In The Nationwide Concealed Carry Of Handguns — Meeting Dependency And Violent Crime With American Spirit, Independence, And Citizen Authority.