And we are so overcome with emotion and desperate for the bargain that we often fool ourselves into believing in fiction, in illusions, in downright magic, the way children believe nothing will happen to their parents if they jump over the cracks in the sidewalk. It seems to be a Democrat issue to end the Second Amendment or misinterpret it so they can go after our guns.
I never supported a total gun ban in my life until the FL school massacre. “You don’t need a federal license to drive a car,” Mr. Biden said The candidates’ licensing plans vary, but the common threads are a federal background check and an interview. Why Do Democrats Keep Trying to Ban Guns That Look Scary, Not the Guns That Kill the Most People? There are other silver bullets, as it were, that gun control groups believe will magically put an end to mass shootings and gun violence, like a ban on high-capacity magazines in order to limit the amount of rounds a gun can fire. This one is one of them. There is also some support for a federal gun registry, an idea that many Democrats used to dismiss exasperatedly as gun-lobby scaremongering. But mass shooters use all kinds of guns, from so-called "assault rifles" to shotguns and handguns. Anything short is either a shortsighted fallacy or political window dressing. We'll see if they're willing to put their own elections on the line, or continue to talk about fantastic new laws that won't actually solve our problem.Catch up on the day’s top five stories every weekday afternoon.
Beto O’Rourke admitted as much, going as far as to call for a mandatory buyback program for each and every AR-15 and AK-47, as documented by This doesn’t come as a shock to conservatives; it simply confirms what many Americans have known for quite some time: the endgame of gun control has always been a mass confiscation of guns from all, thus leaving innocents at the mercy of criminals who illegally obtain firearms. Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy tweeted out, presumably to Republicans, "To my colleagues: your cowardice to act cannot be whitewashed by thoughts and prayers." I would imagine that there are some who would like to ban all guns but these people are so few in … Based on the Times survey, 11 candidates support a registration requirement in at least some circumstances. However, its difficult when the issue is presented as binary between pro-gun and anti-gun as many people would like to present it.
You will also hear that, just because gun owners and those who defend them know all of these ideas won't actually solve gun violence, it means we must lack courage. Here Are the New Dividing Lines. It's impossible to fathom that we are simply unable to prevent such atrocities, and so we make bargains — with each other, ourselves, God — that if we just do this or that, it will codify some cosmic agreement to stop terrible people from doing terrible things. Posted at 12:30 pm on December 29, 2015 by Bob Owens Yes, they really are coming for your guns…
Democrats are finally being open and honest about their agenda to trample on your Second Amendment rights.
Former Vice President Joseph R. … But will they? © Powerhouse News.
O’Rourke had no explanation of how stripping law-abiding citizens of their constitutional rights will stop criminals with no regard for the law; however, the 2020 hopeful did take great pleasure in expressing what’s been very well-known amongst Democrats for quite some time!“I want to be really clear that that’s exactly what we are going to do. The truth is, the scary-looking guns many Democrats want to ban account for just 2 percent of gun deaths in the U.S. While they described penalties for noncompliance, they did not explain how, if the owner of an AR-15 kept it, officials would ever know. It’s time to change that. This is a step in the right direction—and I'm grateful Walmart has taken action—but we can't rely on corporations to stop gun violence.
“We expect people to follow the law here in the United States, and we know that Americans are law-abiding people.”Fourteen states and the District of Columbia require a license or permit to buy a gun, and But at the national level, a federal gun licensing program was barely part of the discussion until this May, when Senator Cory Booker In a vivid example of how quickly the Democratic field The outlier is Mr. Biden, whose gun plan would incentivize states to enact licensing programs but would not require them to do so.
*Specified that a registration requirement would apply only to assault weapons.Some, including Mr. Biden and Mr. Sanders, said the requirement would apply only to assault weapon owners who chose not to participate in a voluntary buyback program.
No. No one is able to really tell you what those regulations would mean because that is a moving target.