I used a CAGV (Connecticut Against Gun Violence) PSA in our Question of the Day, and linked to the org’s agenda. I’m republishing it here because it’s important to recognize a simple fact: the forces of civilian disarmament are all in. Before Sandy Hook, it was all about being for the Second Amendment, but. Now it’s ram through as much gun control legislation as possible. Yes, the possibilities are narrowing on the national level; unless there’s another horrific attack in the next few months, the chances of a federal assault weapons ban are lower than the chances I’ll link this sentence to a non-Israeli model. (See what I did there?) Meanwhile, the lights are going out up and down New England. NY’s ban on in-state transfer is de facto confiscation. Is CT next? Send those emails, make those calls and watch this space. And make the jump to get your dander up . . .
The Nation Is Calling Out For Connecticut To Lead By Passing Strong, Smart Gun Violence Prevention Legislation
Please pass legislation that:
1. Strengthens our assault weapons ban with a focus on improving current list and strengthening functionality features; apply “one military feature” test to definition of assault weapons. Bans possession and sale with no grandfathering.
2. Bans large capacity ammunition magazines of more than 7 rounds. No grandfathering.
3. Requires universal background checks on ALL sales and transfers, including long guns.
4. Requires registration of handguns with annual renewal. Require annual fee and annual background check for all guns owned; stipulation that they are still in the possession of original purchaser or transferee; explanation for any gun still not being in their possession. Require safety inspection every three years. Charge fee on initial registration and renewal.
5. Make gun owners liable for negligent storage if any person gains access to firearms and injures himself or another person or causes damage to property. The violation would be a Class D felony
6. Requires permit/license to purchase and carry all guns, including long guns, and to purchase ammunition
7. Prohibits sales of guns or ammunition via internet to CT residents.
8. Restricts handgun sales to one gun/month.
Other issues recommended by others and supported by CAG
50% tax on ammunition sales. Finished ammunition, not components.
Graded permits based on level of training and proficiency (recommended by gun
owners and NRA members).
Liability insurance required for gun owners (most popular with the public).
Microstamping of bullet casings
A truly comprehensive bill that will stop these massacres (most consistent plea from the public)
When you get this small I consider the .45ACP ballistic knife over a lot of .22 offerings. Though I’m sure this all works.
This is not going to be pretty…….
Even in victory, the fight never ends.
Overall, very good. Kudos, Robert! When are you back in my neck of the woods (Florida)? Be sure to call!
If all these proposed rules had been law at the time of the shooting in “COMMIENECTICUT” it wouldn’t have stopped that nutcase from killing all those people. Criminals will always do as they please and they don’t care about any dumb ass law these fools pass. Now if the principal or one of the other teachers had a gun they might have still gotten shot, but at least they would have had a fighting chance. Bad guys love gun free killing zones and no one’s ever been able to control evil people and they never will.
It shows you got your work cut out for you RF. It also shows how dumb and zombie like New Englanders are since you keep electing these fascists who want these attacks on freedom. Im puzzled how dumb your neighbors are to blindly elect the same pigs every election. The main thing to is to be ready for court battles since CT may ban gun ownership this was thrown out in DC vs McDonald so a court fight is the final fight to see what happens in the fascist NE.
Can we get a lawsuit going against all of these anti-gun groups for false advertising? They all say that they’re against “gun violence” but what they really promote is being against gun ownership.
” including an AR-15-style semiautomatic (an FN SCAR-16 — Special Forces Combat Assault Rifle).”
Since when is a SCAR-16 an “AR-15 style” semiautomatic (redundant)
“Make gun owners liable for negligent storage if any person gains access to firearms and injures himself or another person or causes damage to property. The violation would be a Class D felony.”
Notice “any person.” No exception for some guy that breaks into your home. Any person.
“50% tax on ammunition sales. Finished ammunition, not components.”
To what end?
Isn’t time we guard our children like we guard our money? Schools should be guarded like we guard banks; with armed security. No excuse is acceptable if we truly mean that we would do anything to protect our most precious of concerns. Place one guard in a control room at the main entrance to the grounds with video monitoring of the entire perimeter of the school. Have a secondary guard in a vehicle placed 1/2 way around the perimeter with radio communication. Any breech of the perimeter by any individual would be met with a quick response by the mobile unit, as police are called in simultaneously.
When do we get to see the surveillance videos from Sandy Hook? They show Lanza, and Lanza only, entering the school. RIGHT?
Since when did you get an AR-15? I thought you only had the fish gun…
I dont know why you read this fascist crap propaganda Bruce. No reason The NRA and our side win because its not companies or rich snobs who make our side up its regular people who want to keep there rights.
Please store all tinfoil hats and black helicopters for the next few days. We should start the new readers out with the easy stuff, before educating them to the larger and highly unpleasant complications that would arise under the proposed disarmament legislation. Baby steps, people.
If be happy if we could go a full week. Then another week. Then after that…
Yeah, the product looks fine but the Magna-Arm checkout site absolutely blows. The only way to check out with a purchase is through PayPal. If there’s an alternative method of checking out it’s not easy enough to find in 5 minues, and there’s no contact information anywhere on the site to call and order or ask questions. Really lame, in this age of electronics even MY attention span or “giveashit” doesn’t last that long, so I’ll be passing on this.
I’m in MA and the same crap is proposed here. They are pretty clear they want to “restrict gun ownership”. There is no mention in MA about illegal guns, criminals, etc. It is about lowering the number of legal guns.
Microstamping totally prevents spree shootings….nope, just an attack on citizen gun owners.
Hey if these laws had been passed they could’ve charged the Sandy Hook killer’s mom with a class D felony (post mortum of course). Now how’s THAT for a motivating prohibition?!
I’m trying to figure out how this would have prevented what happened in Newton. I’ve got nothing. I guess they could charge Ms Lanza for failing to secure her guns, oh wait…
This means war we need to milita up and prepare to fight l anyone who tries to take our rights
Just read the article…and the comments. its entirely liberals trying to earn tough guy rights by bragging about how guns are useless in self defense, how they can rely on the police to stop the bad guy before he strikes, and using their “logic” to mark RF as a paranoid terrorist.
Hey I have an idea, since logic seems to be the liberals worst enemy, why don’t we hit them with so much it kills them? Because like the rest of you im so sick of hearing morons shout legislation and bullcrap about a topic they know nothing about.
The reporter reported the story, but the anchor editorialized. “Two teens shot at a school, a tragic story all around”. Makes it sound like the teens were victims. And what part of this story was tragic? If you told me it was tragic that the two students escorted to their cars were traumatized, then I would agree that is sad and tragic. If you told me that the 70 year-old was traumatized and having heart palpitations/pain, then YES that is sad and tragic. But the only thing tragic over the two thugs trying to rob/rape/kill is the fact that the second armed robber survived his wounds.
One would think that if Obama skeet shoots as much as he claims there would be dozens of pictures from various times released not just one.
What politician does not have a photographer handy whenever he/she can.
Awesome. The laws would clearly make it so expensive and complicated to own a gun that only the upper class could do so [legally]. Not unlike all of the laws to ban “saturday night specials,” ban gun ownership if you live in public housing (San Francisco lost a suit over this), charge $200 (that’s $3,600 in 1934 money!) for the privilege to have an NFA item, require expensive training/licensing/gun safes/insurance/trusts, etc. Sorry, but poor people have the same inalienable right to self defense as everyone else, including the elites. Too many of these laws specifically class out, well, classes of people. And/or they are so freaking complicated and convoluted that they’re functionally impossible to follow. Then, if you say the wrong thing to the ruling class, they can always find a legal reason to make an example of you.
BTW making certain things illegal and adding “no grandfathering” IS confiscation. Making certain things totally illegal to transfer, even to family, IS confiscation — just a slow confiscation that happens at the end of the owner’s life.
AND… I’m very conflicted about this photo on multiple levels, but I think I like it? http://coedmagazine.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/klara-wester-06.jpg
Fly-over country doesn’t look so bad now, eh Mr. Bond?
I read through the linked story. Lola handled herself with maturity and she was able to articulate herself very well.
One shot, two kills? I don’t have time to bleed.
Rest in Peace, Brother. I’ll see you soon.
Badger 8-3
The comments on WaPo make me sick; what has happened to freedom and our country?
Hey Harry, shut up and sing.
Stick to entertaining people, it’s all you’re good at.
I’d rather be a paranoid Jew, then a forgetful mindless Jew.
I bought a Remington 700 ADL at a garage sale down the street 30 yrs ago. Glass bedded and free floated the barrel. it shoots 3/4 groups at 100 yds. it is a 270. Shot deer mostly and a few coyotes with it over the years. I think of it as a beater gun. Few scratches here and there from the years in the field and she still shoots as good as I can. Nice gun. Just like me, a little rough around the edges but gets right to the point when the time comes.
I believe this pretty well proves what the SCOTUS said was true: The police have NO duty to protect any one person, and apparently this jackass cop knows it.
Try substituting the phrase “motor vehicle” for “firearm” in this opinion piece, and ask yourself whether you feel the roads would be safer in a totally unregulated environment. For example, consider this idea: “If someone can’t be trusted with a motor vehicle, they can’t be trusted without a custodian.” How about the folks that have been convicted of driving while drunk multiple times? Yes, some of them choose to drive without a license – but many don’t. This reduces the overall risk to all concerned.
Plus, how about convicted felons? If government does not have the right to deny anyone the right to own firearms, should government have the right to deny these folks the right to vote? Why is firearm ownership the only Constitutional right that is not subject to any form of regulation?
I’ll also note that the government’s post-9/11 ability to spy on us all makes the current discussions about tracking gun ownership largely moot. Due to the erosion of all our other rights, the government does not need to have a warrant to monitor your e-mail and web browsing. It all goes into a big database for use in anti-terrorist investigations. Look up the discussions about “Big Data” on the tech web sites, and ask yourself why some future government seeking to grab all the guns would bother with checking registration lists.
When the Chinese government wants to crack down on dissidents, they check the logs provided by the Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and get a list of suspects. If a future government wanted to send out the black helicopters to seize your guns, they’d simply just ask the ISPs to supply a list of IP addresses that were served ads regarding gun ownership, correlate that information with e-mail traffic, and have a far more accurate list of homes to visit. (If you think that the government doesn’t have this capability because they aren’t openly using it now – consider that the British often didn’t act on decrypted Enigma intercepts because they didn’t want the Germans to realize that their secret communications weren’t secret.)
Thank you Pastor Loren for standing up strong and proud!
(More than one pastor/former pastor has posted. Any Rabbis or Imams out there also?)
I always wondered if TTAC and TTAG had some sort of relation besides the name…
All very compelling. Facts. Logic. Reason. Truth.
We’re losing.
The issue is now nothing more than victim politics, emotion and irrational fears. We will not turn the tide back in our favor until we start presenting (i.e.,”trotting out”) people who are victims because they wanted a gun and couldn’t get one. We need more people to know how many victims are dying, being injured and having their lives ruined because of unconstitutional disarmament.
So happy I don’t have cable or sattelite or one of thoes boxes you have to buy if you just want basic channels
Bruce, you made a small error in there. 594 people in 14 years and 1 month is 3.5 people per month, not per year. Other than that, fine and convincing article. I started out a skeptic and am now a believer.
How depressing that someone like this can vote.
Okay here’s another thing which I asked in the previous thread on this subject, when shooting skeet doesn’t that involve aiming towards the sky?
More likely they just threw some clay pigeons, in which case he could be firing late at a target that is lower than normal.
If you waited till after Sandy Hook to buy an AR, chances are you waited too long and found empty racks at your FFL. I bought a Mossberg 930 with a seven round tube.
This is the perfect scandal to snare a Democrat president. Because every option is immoral. Let the Mexicans shoot each other up with American guns? That’s just wrong. Prevent the sale of American guns to Mexico? That violates the 2nd Amendment. Let the sales go forward, then follow the guns to the criminals and bust them? A fed will end up dead, and it’ll be Obama’s fault! Perfect.
This could get ugly.