Smells Like Infringement: Gun Banners in the News (Again)
My nana always told me, “Trace, if you can’t say something nice about somebody, you just come sit down right here next to me.”
Every week, the anti-gunners open up a new can of…well, not so much whoop-ass as Whoopie Cushion. And every week, the mainstream media falls all over itself singing the praises of the latest doomed-to-failure gun-ban scheme. Although the schemes themselves change from time to time, what always remains the same is that their authors will assure us that our Second Amendment rights are safe and that we’re a bunch of paranoid losers for suspecting otherwise. (It’s sort of like how my ex-wife would float an air biscuit in church and then glare at me.) But the fact remains that no matter how often the gun banners grunt out their little plans–and no matter how hard the MSM tries to polish those little plans–it all still smells like infringement. Case in point?
Are You Now, Or Have You Ever Been, a Member of the NRA?
This is truly unique, even for California. The city of Los Angeles has recently passed and put into effect a bill requiring all city contractors to disclose–under oath–whether or not they have any ties to the NRA. Failure to disclose any ties would result in the contract being canceled. City Council Member Mitch O’Farrell (pictured above) has been quoted saying the city is “on firm legal ground” in doing this. So, not only does O’Farrell believe that the Second Amendment isn’t worth the parchment it’s printed on, he seems to think the same about the First. What makes the irony truly delicious here is that the McCarthyesque focus on what legal organizations a person belongs to is happening in Tinseltown. Yes, Hollywood, where they still haven’t gotten over being asked whether or not they were communists back in the 1950s. (Ol’ Joe McCarthy should have just waited for about 70 years; he wouldn’t need to ask that question today, would he?)
Oh, No! Please Don’t Punish the Criminals!
Universal background checks. You’d think there would be no three words lovelier to a gun banner’s ear, given how much they obsess about the NICS check. After decades of bloviating about the “gun show loophole” and “kitchen table dealers” and “private transfers,” they finally got a whiff of success with H.R. 8, known as “The Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2019.” There was only one problem: Republicans, led by Florida Representative and Iraq war hero Greg Stube, wanted the Dems to do something they just couldn’t stomach in exchange. It was a bridge too far, a river too deep. It was…
Adding a phrase that made it so people who failed background checks would be reported to law enforcement. Particularly, the Dems didn’t want failed background check information from illegal immigrants to go to ICE.
If you ever needed proof positive that anti-gunners’ proposed schemes have nothing to do with reducing violence and crime committed with guns…this is it. And if you had thought up until now that law enforcement did get notified when someone failed a background check, that’s probably because you assumed that the whole point of a background check was to cut down on crime. Silly you!
Well, that’s all the infringement I can stand to sniff for the time being, so until next week…might I recommend Vick’s Vaporub under the nostrils?
I now know how the people in Delaware feel! They now call the state “Little Jersey” because of all the people from there that are moving into there state.
New Jersey is imploding from all the Taxes they charge there and then there are the gun laws.
Texas has people from California, New Jersey, New York, and Massachusetts moving here with all there failed ideas. Texas has been doing just fine till all these people starting moving here bringing all their bright ideas. I now see signs in support of higher Taxes, outlaw firearms and vote for the left.
I feel like putting up my own sign (Go back to where you came from)
Dang skippy…
Double Skippy! Add in all of the illegals who are taking over most of the counties along the Rio Grande and the dems may very well get their wish of turning Texas ‘blue’. Case in point, how many of the 58,000 illegal votes in the last election and it is glaringly obvious what the left is trying to accomplish.
Yeah. I escaped the Dallas area 23 years ago and it is unrecognizable, politically, today. Almost all of the major metropolitan areas in Texas are “blue” while the rest of the state is red. I wish that people that move here from blue states would think before they voted and realize that the reason they moved here was to get away from the high taxes and libtard governments of their former location.
Phil in TX
I live in Washington (born and raised, 37 years) and while it has always been a relatively liberal state overall (the Eastern side, not so much), ever since California’s started mass migrating in droves to escape the realities of their terrible ideas, this state is becoming more and more like it everyday… so is Oregon. Imagine being so stupid that after you ruin your own state and seek to escape the consequences of it, you take your ideas with you….. and they do, everywhere they go. I realize that is gross generalization and millions of California’s are not progressive retards, but stereotypes do exist for a reason.
Non-citizens crossing illegally into the US , I was taught, is a violation of Federal Laws. So they are felons if they come here. The Democrats support that activity now to the point of the creation of Sanctuary Cities . A violation of Federal Laws. This activity by politicians is a violation of the oath they took to” uphold the laws of the US and support the Constitution”! These people should be removed from office and charged with crimes like “Aiding and Abetting a felon” ! So someone please tell me why I’d go to jail doing this but not them. A legal response would be nice. Mike…P2A