Subj : Re: Amazing
To   : Digital Man
From : Weatherman
Date : Wed Dec 30 2020 12:46 am

-=> Digital Man wrote to Weatherman <=-


 > I have to admit, I'm gob-smacked, absolutely amazed at the lack of
 > discussion in this forum regarding what has happened in the recent general
 > election.  We are literally looking at one of the greatest threats to the
 > Second Amendment that this country has faced, and yet the message traffic on
 > this message base is a big, fat zero.  Absolutely amazing.

 DM> Not really. I've been hearing (and originally, believed) the alarm
 DM> bells over gun rights since the '80s. Meh. Don't get too worried about
 DM> it. Like abortion, it's a dog whistle that the politicians use to drive
 DM> people to the polls. That's it. They don't really care if you do or
 DM> don't own a gun, what kind of gun it is or what you do with it, they
 DM> just care about votes (well, and money, which buys votes). --
 DM>                                             digital man

 Wow, so then universal background checks for any and ALL transfers of
firearms, including private sales and those to family members don't bother you.
 You don't see that as a backdoor strategy to actually create a national
registry of firearms and their owners as a confiscation database.  Quite
interesting.

Limits of the amount of ammunition that can be legally purchased on a per-month
basis is not in ANY way limiting the rights of the legal firearm owner?

Banning firearms because of purely cosmetic features like pistol grips or flash
suppressors is absolutely reasonable in your mind, is that correct?

You don't mind the limiting of magazine capacity of any kind of firearms,
including handguns at all.  

If a person walks into a gun store and sees a certain number of highly
desireable and collectible firearms and wants to add them to his collection but
can't because there is a limit to the number of firearms an individual is
allowed to purchase in the course of a month, he's just shit out of luck
because he hit his quota earlier in the month.  That's fine with you, right?

Each and every one of these restrictions, and OTHERS, are currently active in
various states in this country.  The clear fact of the matter is this.  If the
Left wins the Senate there is nothing to block them from making these
restrictions nationwide.  Once they have sufficiently handcuffed (in all
applicable meanings of the term) legal gun owners, they WILL begin to encroach
on the other rights that the Second Amendment currently protects.  The Second
was passed to allow the populace to protect itself against the government.  It
has done so in the past, and the intent is to allow it to do so in the future. 
The assault on the First Amendment has already begun.  The press is controlled
by a single political party.  Do you not see how that is wrong?  Try, just TRY
to express a conservative point of view on social media.  You'll be squashed.

Sorry, DM, but I disagree.  There is a very real and very present danger to ALL
of the rights afforded us under the Bill of Rights, and the ONLY thing that
stops an all out assault on those rights are the rougly 100 million Americans
who own the 390 plus million firearms in this country.  Private firearm owners
represent the largest military force this nation has ever faced.


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