I am more than well aware that weapons, not only guns, control was the hallmark of the incest infested royal families of Europe. Just as gun control was not started by Obama, just increased. Restricting the ability of the people to control their government is typical of oppressive governments. The more oppressive a government becomes the more they restrict those abilities. The European royal families did NOT come into power by being nice. They did it by committing untold horrors upon those who they subject.
I don't know where the increase has happened, gun ownership and concealed permits are at a all time high, and 39 states now allow CCWs to be issued on demand.
The European experience is where we get most of these laws, their failure to have a safe society isn't looked upon as a problem but ours is. Ours is the only one that speaks of how to keep the government in check as you know, not one other country on earth has done this.
Have a list of felons, OK, NOT in the hands of the Feds. Find a way to check that list WITHOUT infringing on MY right to be assumed innocent. That right is taken from me every time I try to exercise my RIGHT to purchase a gun.
First the feds are not the problem, the states are. The control of guns with some states are non-existent until the feds demanded the background check. There is no infringing of your rights, there isn't a right to assume you are innocent outside a court room, and there is no freedom being taken away. The system can be as easy as a driver's license check, just to see if you are a felon.
They ASSUME that I am a felon and therefor must be caught. Back round checks are a direct infringement of many of my constitutional rights. The Feds have NO business in this what so ever. At least, not in a FREE country. The ONLY reason they are involved is to restrict freedom and control the People.
Well for that, it is the people who are the bureaucrats, not those who want to keep guns out of the hands of felons. The feds have the business in this by ensuring that your rights are protected, that means your right to be safe. By enforcing the basic law, felons are not allowed to posses or purchase firearms, it allows you to be safe and your ownership isn't the problem.
I know that isn't real world but neither is Obama taking over everything.
Obama voted for a bill in IL that would have outlawed EVERY semi-auto shotgun in the United States, regardless of where it was produced. Nothing good comes out of the Feds assuming these powers.
Yep and Clinton did it with a number of other firearms, making ones I owned illegal and forcing me to sell them. Johnson put in the GUn control act of 1968, reinforced by Nixon and other presidents that followed that did a lot of damaged all coming from the JFK murder. FDR restricted automatic weapons through the National Firearms Act of 1934 which in itself is not really constitutional.
I think in the last ten years we have seen more of a positive change than we have a negitive one. NO one is restricted in ownership or access based on the feds. Cities and states are a different story.
Make a law that knowingly buying a firearm when prohibited to do so is a capital offense with no option, just execution.
Leo, you are getting scary. I'm serious that maybe you need to take a break from the road and business, go home for a few months and relax.
