Exposing the ‘nobody wants to take your guns away’ lie
A new Biden bureaucracy is setting a record in violating the Constitution and your rights.
How many times have you heard a variation of the lie that “nobody wants to take anybody’s guns away”? Or read in an editorial that “President Biden Does Not Want to Take Your Guns Away”?
Probably more times than you can count. That’s because leftists are following in the footsteps of Joseph Goebbels and Vladamir Lenin in always repeating a lie to make it the truth. They keep on saying that no one is talking about taking your guns, even though we’ve documented that they have been talking about it for more than 30 years now, in order to lull as many people as possible into a false sense of security.
Anti-liberty leftists think that if they keep on gaslighting this point, they can get people to accept the incremental moves to gun registration that will inevitably lead to gun confiscation.
Never mind that draconian controls on your private property with so-called “universal” background checks won’t do anything to stop crime. They are a stepping stone to gun confiscation.
Never mind that forcing you to get “liability insurance” on a commonsense human right won’t do anything to stop crime. It is a stepping stone to gun confiscation.
Never mind that even more draconian controls over your private property with so-called “safe-storage” laws won’t do anything to stop crime. They are another stepping stone to gun confiscation.
Are you detecting a central theme in all of this?
Leftist liars (sorry to be redundant) incessantly repeat the “nobody wants to take anybody’s guns away“ lie to get people to accept all the steps of draconian private property controls, databases, formal firearm registration, and then finally gun confiscation when it’s too late. People want to avoid considering leftists evil enough to deprive them of their basic human rights.
Just take a look at some of the cute little proposals they’ve made in the past, when they thought that only their authoritarian leftist side would see them. They outline the very steps they are taking right now — with one that was particularly malevolent, implicitly involving going full Nazi for refusing to turn over firearms. Of course, all of these have been carefully documented and archived because of the promise to the past of Never Again.
But now there’s a new bureaucracy in town, just when you thought that the sock puppet in chief has had enough of being a modern-day version of Herr Schicklgruber. (That’s just a joke, New York Times — you need to lighten up on your heroes.) The feral government has dialed up the unconstitutional insanity up to eleventy, violating a record number of constitutional amendments all at once.
Glen Beck explains in the video how the current regime is dictatorially violating most of the Bill of Rights — something the national socialist media will infuriatingly project on President Trump as what he might do in the future, while leftists ignore what sock puppet Biden is doing that right now.
Braden from Langley Outdoors Academy noted that he nuked the DOJ Red Flag Center from orbit, but you have to consider that the slippery slope of the way they morphed the language around these unconstitutional abominations should give everyone pause.
You’ll notice that whenever they explain these things, it will invariably be in the form of a three-element description. The first carries the implication that these are officially sanctioned, the second tries to use the softest language possible in talking about the confiscation of someone’s private property without due process (usually avoiding the C-word), and the third element is the rationale for the order.
Over time, they’ve softened and made the language as vague as possible to entrap anyone and everyone they can, such as this from 2022 from the Washington Post:
Red-flag (“extreme risk”) laws — which generally allow police to take firearms away from people who exhibit concerning behavior ...
Note the vague terms, which could be applied to anyone to justify depriving him of his fundamental human rights: “people who exhibit concerning behavior.” Just who determines what is “concerning behavior”?
Then consider this recent reference, which phrases the three elements this way:
Red flag laws allow family members or law enforcement officials to get court orders that temporarily take away access to guns if they feel a gun owner may harm themselves or others.
We’ve gone from “concerning behavior” (whatever that is) to feelings that someone may do something. This makes the movie Minority Report look scientifically buttoned down by comparison.
All of this means that they are priming the public to accept these unconstitutional gun confiscations from individuals for minimal reasons — for feelings and concerning behavior. Thus, they can kill two pro-freedom birds with one authoritarian leftist stone.
They can easily confiscate guns from anyone, and they can use it as a punishment because they’ve weaponized another government agency because those vague rationales can be used against anyone.
Here we have unconstitutional abominations that have set a record in violating the Bill of Rights and the people’s fundamental freedoms. We’ve gone down the slippery slope to vague feelings, and it’s only going to get worse. Our neighbor to the north is an indication of how bad it can get. Canada’s new “red flag” law would
enable anyone to make an application to a court for an emergency weapons prohibition order (red flag) to immediately remove firearms, for up to 30 days, from:
an individual who may pose a danger to themselves or others; and
an individual who may be at risk of providing access to firearms to another person who is already subject to a weapons prohibition order.
Anyone can “red flag” someone who “may pose a danger” or “may be at risk of providing access to firearms to another person who is already subject to a weapons prohibition order,” and the victim of this injustice may never find out who perpetrated it because the records may be permanently sealed by a judge.
So, given all the implications that these unconstitutional abominations violate multiple parts of the Bill of Rights and could be easily weaponized, why hasn’t the Supreme Court struck them down?
Originally published on the American Thinker
So true. Anything can be considered questionable behavior in this day and time, as long as it is contrary to the current Reich. How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.
That’s how pornography, and the attempt to “normalize “ aberrant sexual behavior has come about. Expose the public to it in the name of (whatever acronym you want to use) long enough and it will seem normal.
Keep calling it what it is!
The US has more than 400 million guns, 20 million AR pattern rifles, 300 million detachable magazines and had more than 1 million NICS checks per month for the last 49 months.
And the same people who can't find 12 million illegals say they will confiscate guns and magazines.
https://www.businessinsider.com/us-20-million-ar-15-style-rifles-in-circulation-2022-5?op=1
For 46 consecutive months — dating back to Aug. 2019 — each month has closed with more than 1 million NSSF-adjusted background checks. The most recent month available at press time, May 2023, recorded 1,174,142 background checks (a slight drop of 0.1% compared to May 2022 [1,174,791]).
https://shootingindustry.com/discover/u-s-firearms-industry-today-2023/
"There are already roughly 304 million detachable magazines. Almost 80 million of these can accommodate more than 30 rounds.
https://www.nssf.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/NSSF-factsheet-High-Capacity-Magazines.pdf
Confiscation quotes
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/what-gun-confiscation-would-look-like
"Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke boasted in the last debate that he will, in fact, come for your guns. Joining him were fellow Democratic candidates, Senators Kamala Harris and Cory Booker. The talk in some quarters switched with impressive quickness from "nobody wants to take your guns" to "hell yes, we're going to take your AR-15, your AK-47."
https://www.gunowners.org/alert12092015/
"Take Maryland’s Deputy Attorney General — a liberal Democrat — who was recently caught on hidden camera stating “we should ban guns altogether, period.” Or remember when New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) said, in the wake of the Sandy Hook shooting, that among the different gun control proposals that were being bandied about, “[gun] confiscation could be an option.” Or when several Democrat state senators were caught on an open microphone in New Jersey saying, “We needed a bill that was going to confiscate, confiscate, confiscate.”
German Lopez writing in "Vox" @germanrlopezgerman.lopez@vox.com Updated Oct 2, 2019, 12:00pm EDT
"To change the status quo, Democrats should go big. They need to focus on the abundance of guns in the US and develop a suite of policies that directly tackle that issue, from licensing to confiscation to more aggressive bans of certain kinds of firearms (including, perhaps, all semiautomatic weapons or at least some types of handguns)."
Here are some compliance numbers...
"Bump stock" ban-
"The final ruling banning bump stocks was passed in December 2018."
"The ban took effect on March 26th, 2019. Between those two dates, a grand total of 582 devices were handed over to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives."
https://www.secondamendmentdaily.com/2019/10/how-many-bump-stocks-have-been-turned-in-by-americans-another-government-failure/
"Pistol brace" compliance-
250,000 out of 10-40 million.
"The ATF told The Reload on Friday it has received just over a quarter million applications to register pistol-brace-equipped firearms…
That number represents just a fraction of the braced guns believed to have been sold in the decade since the ATF first classified a version as outside the scope of the NFA. In the impact assessment for the rule, the ATF estimated that three to seven million devices exist. However, the Congressional Research Service puts the number much higher at somewhere between 10 and 40 million.
That puts the registration rate for pistol-brace-equipped guns at between .6 percent and eight percent."
https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/massive-noncompliance-atf-says-only-250000-braced-pistol-owners-registered-their-guns/
Assault weapons and magazine bans-
This from "The Trace" a well known anti-gun reporting site. https://www.thetrace.org/2019/08/what-the-data-says-asssault-weapons-bans/
Cuckifornnia-
"In California, 18 months after legislators expanded its criteria for assault weapons registration in 2016, only about 160,000 of an estimated 1.5 million weapons in the state covered by the law were registered."
New York-Only approximately 45,000 of an estimated 1 million weapons were registered in New York during the first 18 months its law was in effect.