Joe Scarborough will reportedly be given a primary speaking engagement at the next NRO “conservative summit” to express his absolute SHOCK! Biden, speaking during a conference call with “Mayors Against Illegal Guns:”
And lastly, but not least, the Assault Weapons ban and the limitation on the size of magazines, let me say this as clearly as I can: this is just the beginning. We believe that weapons of war have no place on our streets. That’s the message that the retired admirals and generals have spoken to us about. The comment one of them used was: if you want to learn how to use a semi-automatic weapon, join the United States military, but these are weapons of war, and we believe there’s no rational reason why someone would need a clip that can hold fifteen, twenty, thirty, one-hundred bullets, one-hundred rounds. We have to do more and we will do more.
Allahpundit believes that this is grandiose bluster for the leftist base, born of Biden’s realization that the Assault Weapons Ban likely won’t pass during Obama’s final term. And while I see his point, I’m not sure that I agree. Because I don’t think a ban on assault weapons was ever really anything other than a smokescreen (nice if they got it, but not the end game) to force a timid GOP, afraid of being labeled “pro-child slaughering puppets to the Gun Lobby”, to “compromise” — specifically, I think what the Democrats want is a universal background check, which they’ll later claim won’t work without an accompanying registry — and that’s what John McCain and his ilk have shown repeatedly they are bred for.
Tie this in to what we learned yesterday about a Democratic effort to quietly have the Tiahrt Amendment stripped from the budget, ending checks on eTrace and compulsory background check record destruction, itself coupled to efforts to use ObamaCare, the CDC, and mental health professionals to gather data on “potentially violent” citizens (who may or may not own guns; should we not know if they do? Why, what can be more commonsensical than that?), and what we see here is the contours of a plan to integrate databases and use various rationales for denying ever-more people their second amendment rights that includes, as a policing necessity, a registry of firearms.
Historically-speaking, this has never ended well. But then, we’re different. Our politicians and courts would never do anything to harm private citizens (fugitive slave acts, Jim Crow, interment camps, etc. notwithstanding) — and if you suggest they might, well, then you are one of those fringe extremists who should be put on a list and have your firearms taken from you. For the safety of the British Crown! Progressive States of America!
(h/t JD)
Rep Schakowsky said the same thing previously.
Well hey JD, they wouldn’t be Progressives if they weren’t in lockstep.
Magpul Reveals Plans For Colorado Exodus
Jonestown? She wants us disarmed because a progressive-socialist-quasireligious-nutball leader had her shot in a foreign country?
and a progressive-socialist-quasireligious-nutball leader that her colleagues enabled including St. Milk.
Yes. Somehow the idea of banning left-wing governments or quasi-governments never comes up.
What was she doing in Jonestown? I question her fitness for office if she was a member. Isn’t she also part of the super-duper-mega-rich cabal of broads from Californistan?
She was one of Leo Ryan’s staffers, apparently.
the super-duper-mega-rich cabal of broads from Californistan?
Yes, we’ve got Binders and Binders of Rich Socialist Broads here in the Glorious Democratic People’s Republic of Kalifornia.
Willing to trade for .22LR or .223 ammo.
Low level, I guess. I don’t remember her being part of the shootees, but it’s been a while since the incident. Waving the bloody shirt of Leo Ryan in the name of gun control is rather tasteless. Ryan was armed and so were his staffers, iirc.
Yeah, that was a long time ago. She would have been about 28 at the time, if Wikipedia can be trusted.
1980 or so? I was living in Santa Barbara when the whole thing happened and remember it was all over US News and World Report. In not so living color.
Pretty close. 1978.
They don’t call ’em the innertubes for nuthin’.
Or do they?
“Let’s get this done. Let’s rebuild this country we love,” says Li’l King Barry ObaZma today, adding, “Let’s don’t do it with the Keystone Pipeline two years ago though. That would just be killing us all.”
Killing us all is poking a stick at Lil Kim Jong Un by flying scary-rooking batwing B-2’s over Seoul (unarmed, they assured us on the Faux).
Jackie wasn’t to nutty until she got into congress and became Nancy’s mini-me.