Right-wing bloggers are apoplectic about proposals by California Senator Dianne Feinstein to control the use of deadly weapons. RedState uses her sensible ideas to claim "proof we are in a post constitutional republic." Alex Jones screeches that "the gun-grabbers are going for broke." WorldNetDaily warns that you better sign a petition to "keep your gun rights." Another headline shouts, "Feinstein lunges for our guns."
In fact, to get any news at all about what the senator is proposing, I'm practically confined to the spin on conservative websites. Google "Dianne Feinstein" guns and, with few exceptions, you get a compendium of anti-government paranoia. I wanted to see what they had to say at shotgunworld, another Google result, but stopped short when I saw, "This site may harm your computer." You may think guns protect you, but malware?
Feinstein's sensible proposal, par in almost every other civilized nation, calls for banning the sale, transfer, importation or manufacturing of military-style weapons and doing the same for magazines than can accept more than 10 rounds. And the 1994 assault weapon ban gets more teeth. But the Feinstein bill doesn't just go after gun owners; it also protects them by grandfathering weapons legally owned at the time her proposed law would be enacted. Grandfathered weapons would be subject to registration and background checks on the owners and any transferees.
Each night I get calls on my radio show from citizens concerned about overly intrusive government, and they point to gun registration as an example of an outrageous privacy breach. But, BREAKING NEWS for government-averse gun owners: It's too late to complain if you've ever registered a car, or have a Social Security number, or send the government your tax returns every year. Guess what? They already have much more on you than they'll ever get from the registration of your gun.
Laws in other civilized nations where gun violence is low are similar to what Dianne Feinstein is proposing. Conservatives who claim to care about the safety and well-being of children, even those already-born, would be wise to show they mean it by agreeing to public policy steps that would protect all of us.
Cross-posted from Liberaland
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! This pretty much sums up the insanity about the gun bans. Source OpenSecrets.org.
M1 Carbine,
Sturm Ruger Mini-14,
AR-15,
Bushmaster XM15,
the second one on the list is a very common rifle, the Ruger Mini-14 was original based on the M14 military rifle, designed from 1967 to 1973 and introduced in 1974 it is a semi-automatic fire only rifle, that has proved popular with small-game hunters, ranchers, law enforcement, security personnel and target shooters. the Mini-14 cannot be converted to full auto it's receiver is to short and is not capable of cycling rounds rapidly enough for full auto, there is a full auto version that is available to military and law enforcement customers that has the longer receiver so that it can operate full auto.
Now to the important part, I have a friend that target shoots competitively and because of a physical disability can not cycle a standard bolt action rifle, so he uses a Ruger Mini-14 with a thumb hole stock, but because Feinstein wants to ban this gun he will not be able to buy any new ones and will not be able to continue to shoot, and because hi is missing two fingers on his right hand he can not hold a standard type stock so if something happens to the two guns that he currently uses for competition the he will no longer be able to compete in the sport he enjoys then his civil rights are violated.
This clearly misrepresents the complaint to make an invalid comparison.
Having talked to these people (nuts or not) then you are aware their gun registration complaint (right or wrong) isn't about "privacy".
It's specific: "The government should not have detailed record of that which is protected by the 2nd amendment for the single purpose of deterring government oppression."
"Laws in other civilized nations where gun violence is low are similar to...Feinstein's [proposals]."
Vague and misleading. Even a clear comparison of this type relies on "correlation implies causation". It ignores that all violence here is higher than "other civilized nations where gun violence is low". You're misleading AWAY from the real problem. Violent Americans.
We need gun control, but we cannot do without immediate, scientific, and politics-free discourse on the REAL PROBLEM. A violent culture producing criminally violent people killing in an infinite number of ways and are ignored when fixating on the tool choices of less than half of them.
Why are we violent? Are we becoming worse? How can we change? Can we help the most violent people before they kill? And yes: How does the tool choice factor in the frequency/type/severity of violence?
Full Disclosure: CO, WI, CT shootings.. Are These The Work of "Lone Wolf" Gunmen?
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=wZPS7AdgNgE#!
FBI Crime Report 2007
FBI Crime Report is Bad News for Anti-Gunners 1/2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Ooa98FHuaU0
The conclusion is thus inescapable that the history, concept, and wording of the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, as well as its interpretation by every major commentator and court in the first half-century after its ratification, indicates that what is protected is an individual right of a private citizen to own and carry firearms in a peaceful manner. – Report of the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, 97th Congress, Second Session (February 1982)
The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed. Thomas Jefferson
Americans have the right and advantage of being armed – unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. – James Madison
We should not forget that the spark which ignited the American Revolution was caused by the British attempt to confiscate the firearms of the colonists. - Patrick Henry
To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them. – Richard Henry Lee 1788
The Constitution shall never be construed … to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms. – Samuel Adams
A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca, c. 4BC - 65AD
Criminals obey "gun control" laws in the same manner politicians follow their oaths of office. – Anonymous
Here is a good a place as Mexico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/717058/posts for all you anti gun zealous, anti 2nd Amendment, gun haters, we do live in a global society so pack up and have fun.
“The government encouraged the manufacture and importation of firearms for the criminals to use. This is intended to foster a feeling of insecurity, which would lead the American people to voluntarily disarm themselves by passing laws against firearms. Using drugs and hypnosis on mental patients in a process called Orion, the CIA inculcated the desire in these people to open fire on schoolyards and thus inflame the anti-gun lobby. This plan is well under way, and so far is working perfectly. The middle class is begging the government to do away with the 2nd Amendment.”
READ MORE: 1991 Book Predicts School Shootings By Drugged Individuals In Order To Disarm Public
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=oGaxDUwIkUs