Battle For the 2A: No More Circular Firing Squads
The gun bans are coming! The gun bans are coming!
Every time anti-gun forces take control of both Congress and the Oval Office, gun-rights advocates find themselves doing the modern equivalent of Paul Revere’s ride. Of course, part of our mission is to spread the word about what the Joe Bidens and Nancy Pelosis of the world are up to, as Revere did when the incoming British forces were spotted. But here’s a little-known fact about that famous ride. Paul Revere didn’t finish it. He was captured; Dr. Samuel Prescott escaped and managed to warn the Revolutionary forces. “Dr. Prescott” may not rhyme with “Listen children, and you shall hear,” but there’s an unforgettable message there for Second Amendment activists anyway: We’re all going to have to work together as a team to save the 2A…so get out of the circular firing squad.
The gun banners know that there are divisions among us.
It’s normal and natural that we gun owners don’t all share the same opinions…there are millions of us, after all. That means that there are cracks in our ideological bedrock. One of the most obvious ones is the famous “Fudds Vs. Tackleberrys.” Fudds are, of course, named after the hapless cartoon hunter Elmer Fudd and focus on firearms as hunting tools. Tackleberrys, named for the gung-ho gun-guy character in Police Academy, aren’t terribly concerned about hunting, but are very focused on tactical and security matters.
Historically, “Fudd” types have been more open to allowing limitations on the Second Amendment as long as it doesn’t impact their ability to hunt. The problem is that the gun banners know that, and are doing everything in their power to widen that division.
What has happened before, is happening now, and will happen again is the following: Gun banners will tell you that they don’t want to ban your guns. They know you are a law-abiding citizen. They will promise that it’s just those other people, the ones who can’t be trusted, that they’re targeting with this legislation. This is, to put it bluntly, a lie on par with “the check’s in the mail.”
Yes, that is a slippery slope, and it starts with stuff you don’t care about.
The famous quote is as follows: First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
This is exactly how it works every time the gun banners set sail for the Second Amendment’s shores. They start with relatively “fringe” features, like bump stocks and multi-round magazines. Those of us who don’t mind switching our mags out more frequently might just shrug and say, “So what? Who cares?” The problem is that the Second Amendment doesn’t have any codicils or footnotes in it about adjustable buttstocks or muzzle brakes. It says, “Keep and Bear Arms.” And every time we let them get away with banning some aspect of gun ownership, we’re saying that the Second Amendment is negotiable.
They will come for your guns eventually, and that is a promise.
If you’d like to know what it looks like when a formerly gun-friendly country “negotiates” their right to keep and bear arms, just look at Australia. Although they don’t have a Second Amendment (and never will), the former English colony has a lot in common with America. That includes, up until very recently, a pretty healthy gun culture. But then a monster used a semi-automatic firearm to commit an atrocity in Australia. In the wake of the horror, Aussie anti-gunners passed knee-jerk legislation that banned pretty much everything that shoots more than five rounds, as well as a punitive licensing scheme.
Why do they always do this? Well, part of the reason is that gun bans don’t work. Never have, never will. So what happens is the anti-gunners get their ban passed, then crime goes up. Because they are incapable of admitting that they were wrong, they simply do the same thing again, only harder. They ban more specific types of firearms, and specific features…and crime goes up again. Sooner or later, they get to the single-shots and the muzzleloaders, and that’s a promise.
Don’t believe me? Just ask Elmer Fudd!
Do you have fond childhood memories of waking early on a Saturday, pouring yourself a bowl full of tooth-melting cereal, and settling down in front of the TV to watch Elmer Fudd chase Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck from Wabbit Season to Duck Season? If so, it’s time to repent of your thoughtcrime, because there’s a reboot of those old Looney ‘Tunes coming down the pike…and there won’t be a double-barrel shotgun or a rootin’, tootin’, razzin’, frazzin’ revolver to be seen.
Yes, that’s right…they actually took Elmer Fudd’s gun away.
If we’re going to save the Second Amendment, we’re going to need to stand shoulder-to-shoulder. Because the gun bans are coming, and when we’re standing in a circular firing squad, we’re doing the anti-gunners’ work for them.
If an American citizen has read the Second Amendment, and truly understands what it states. that citizen should not be amazed that these politicians stating a ” ban on weapons of war” is exactly the reason the Second Amendment was adopted and included in our Constitution. It should also cause them to be aware that these politicians are actually the tyrants that our founders had the great judgement to provide us with protection against. The gun control effort is no longer a slippery slope. It has now become an all-out, direct assault on the Second Amendment, to be directly followed by ending each of the other protections afforded by our Constitution.
Never mind Australia – just look across the border at Canada.
Arbitrary gun bans with buy-backs – without addressing the actual issue (illegal handguns used by criminal gangs, and lax prison sentences for said gangs breaking the law)
Their gun bans are so arcane that they even banned the black rifle coffee company at one point, until somebody pointed out that particular idiocy
I’ve heard from ” Fudd’s ” for years. The gun club I am a member of is mostly shotgun guys and they don’t really give a rat’s ass about anything not shotgun related. Since I don’t shoot skeet any longer, and have a long family tradition of rifle shooting, I am in the less “relevant” group of club members who even use the rifle range. Those members who only shoot shotguns have been heard to suggest that they get rid of the rifle range entirely, since it doesn’t apply to them. The coming laws are like that. It doesn’t apply to me is the rallying call of the do-nothing gun owners out there and it is very sad.
I always get a kick out of the Fudds, thick skulls are very difficult to penetrate with logic, even when you show how the Left has often stated they want all guns gone.
Remember, the ‘Coalition to stop gun violence’ started as the ‘Citizens Coalition to BAN Handguns’.
So, why the name change?
Because it was TOO pushy and upfront, and they realized it was giving away their REAL GOAL!
In the great scheme of ‘say one thing and do another’ Left Wing world, it was necessary to change the name to get more fools on board, after all, GOOD people don’t want gun violence, right?
But the GOAL remained the same, only the names was changed to fool the gullible.
And the Fudds just keep on believing it.
I would be willing to bet that what will happen is that once ALL Assualt Type Guns are Banned they will switch their focus from the gun itself to the ammunition. A Hunting Rifle uses the same .223 Ammo as an AR-15, therefor if the Ammo is for an Assualt Weapon then that Ammo must also be banned. Likewise, the AK-47 uses 7.62 Ammo, and therefore the Ammo is an assault weapon ammo and therefore should also be banned. .45 Cal Ammo has been around since 1911, hence the model for the Colt .45 handgun. This weapon was used in the First World War, WW-II, Korea, and Vietnam, therefore it is obviously a weapon of war, and therefore it and it’s ammo must be banned. At some point in time, they will ban BB and Pellett guns, the only thing left will be slingshots. No wait didn’t David KILL Goliath with a slingshot, there go slingshots and rocks
Slingshots have been outlawed in New York State for decades.
I used to be a hunter. I have absolutely no issues with hunters. However, hunting wasn’t the reason our founding fathers added the 2nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Their big concern was that big government would become tyrannical. They wanted the citizens of the country they were founding to have the right to bear arms for their personal defense and for their defense from their government should that government start ignoring the Constitution.
You hit the nail on the head! The 2A gives us the ability to fight and defend ourselves from the government. That’s it! Had the militia not had guns, they would not have been able to defeat the British army.
Too many people have a simple and basic misunderstanding about “gun control.” “Gun control” is not now, and has never been, about crime or criminals. Quite frankly, the Left couldn’t give a rat’s behind about crime or criminals. Gun control is, and has always been, about disarming the citizenry so they cannot represent a threat to the government once the Left establishes the dictatorship they have been working toward for well more than half a century and, thanks to the stolen elections of November and January, are now in the process of consolidating. The key word in the term “gun control” is not “gun” – it is “control.” A quick study of basic world history will show that one of the first actions taken by every Communist government upon their takeover was to go to all of the local police stations, get the lists of gun owners, and then go door to door and disarm everyone. That is why the Communists – er, I mean the Democrats – want a national gun registry. Is there really anyone at this point in time who still does not understand this?
Good points. I don’t own an AR or AK type rifle with a multi shot magazine.
I do own couple of lever action rifles with tubular multi shot magazines.
Since most of my uses for firearms is for hunting purposes, never saw the need for any fire arm with a 10-30 round magazine capacity, but your point about chipping away at our freedoms is well taken by me.
Keep up the good work.
I’m an NRA. member and a member of Michigan coalition of responsible gun owners. I do everything I can but feel that none of my representatives give a rats a– about us. I will not comply and if they come to my door to take my righs away I will die defending those rights!!
But but but – they haven’t come for Yosemite Sam’s sixguns – yet. What are ya worried about? Seriously folks, they pinky swore that they were only going after ‘evil’ guns so we have nothing to fear.
Yeah right – the antis have never met a gun that they ‘liked’ nor an infringement that they don’t. I recently saw a post on a very pro-gun site where the poster claimed that anyone who thinks that the hoplophobes are coming for all of our guns is just crazy/paranoid. Yet that person claimed to be a gun owner and a supporter of the 2A. Yep, some of our supposed ‘friends’ like that we are truly in danger. Oh don’t forget that bobby frank AND slow joe have both promised to go after all guns. As a reminder, in my best wicked witch voice: ‘we’ll get your ARs and AKs and your little pistols too’ – ’nuff said.
Trace-This has been an excellent article. and really focuses on something we, as gun owners, need to be thinking about. I just hope it isn’t too late! Thanks for writing it and for keeping us all better informed re-the current threats to the 2nd Ammendment.
Let them come, I’ll give them the ammo first
The democrat party is the reason we have the 2nd amendment and that is why they want to take our guns. To save themselves from being shot. In 1775 the British tried to take our guns and they were shot. Will history repeat itself?
I think every one that voted for the Left-wing Socialists should have their rectums kicked up around their ears.
Look at what’s going on at the Texas border! BIDEN IS LED BY AND IS AN INCOMPETENT FOOL!
That idea is good as far as it goes, but far more people voted for President Trump than for Biden.
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The “alleged” results were the result of massive fraud.