The great gun grab

This is updated as I get more stories of gun bans.

I thought I was done with this. Apparently not.

So, yeah, they are coming for our guns. I hear the screaming "NO! THEY ARE NOT!"

Hey. Don’t take my word for it.

It is already happening.

GUN GRAB REALTIES

Get you some gun grab realities, ripped from the news.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/five-states-allow-guns-to-be-seized-before-someone-can-commit-violence/2018/02/16/78ee4cc8-128c-11e8-9570-29c9830535e5_story.html

http://krcrtv.com/archive/california-gun-confiscation-law-takes-effect-jan-1-1

https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-10-08-nra-katrina_N.htm

https://merryjane.com/news/hawaii-medical-marijuana-gun-ownership-controversy

http://www.kgw.com/mobile/article/news/local/oregon-initiative-would-ban-assault-weapons-require-owners-to-surrender-certain-guns/283-530640255

http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2018/03/john-boch/nc-sheriff-candidate-kill-gun-owners-who-wont-give-up-their-guns/amp/

So you say some of these guns are returned.

Some ain't all. Most ain't all.

SHOULDN'T HAVE GUNS ANYWAY

You say some of these people shouldn’t have guns in the first place. Ah so. What gives you the right to determine that?

Shall we jettison the 4th and 5th Amendments along with the 2nd?  Is Due Process is just a phrase?

You may point to "medical diagnosis" by mental health professionals which state a person is unfit to have a firearm. I point out to you that "mental health professionals" have declared homosexuality to be a mental illness. The history of "mental illness" is rife with massive abuses.

You want to lean on a science branch of medicine field of study woo factor that relies on a vote to determine what is a mental illness and what is not? If When the standards of "mental health" were are applied to other fields of healthcare, we get jade eggs for the yoni.

 "Psychiatry’s diagnostic criteria are literally voted into existence and inserted into the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders (DSM).  What is voted in is a system of classification of symptoms that is drastically different from, and foreign to, anything in medicine. None of the diagnoses are supported by objective evidence of physical disease, illness or science."

Voting is how we got the people who hold elected office today. How is that working for you?

JACKING THE 2nd AMENDMENT

To some people, taking our guns is more than just a phrase, It is a cause. They are jacking the 2nd Amendment.

https://psmag.com/social-justice/repeal-the-second-amendment-already

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/05/opinion/guns-second-amendment-nra.html

https://www.americamagazine.org/repeal-second-amendment

Google “Repeal second amendment” for lots more exactly like this.

OK, so that is the First Amendment speaking there. That’s the 4th Estate and people in general doing the talking. Anyone else putting forth the same ideas?

How about a retired Supreme Court Justice pontificating on why substantive changes need to be made?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-five-extra-words-that-can-fix-the-second-amendment/2014/04/11/f8a19578-b8fa-11e3-96ae-f2c36d2b1245_story.html

And AGAIN - https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/27/opinion/john-paul-stevens-repeal-second-amendment.html

He is gone from the court, yes but you have it in his own words what he believes needs to be done. All it takes is 5 people, five not elected, appointed-for-life people to change things. Congress can pass any law unanimous and the president enthusiastically sign it. The Supreme Court can knock it down with five votes.

Gimme your pet political stand. I can find a Supreme Court decision that you will vehemently disagree with. And yet, that decision is the law of the land, whether you, I or that hacker reading your screen along with you right now agree.

But the Second Amendment is an Amendment!

And?

This nation has repealed sections of the Constitution, including amendments. The 21st Amendment repealed the 18th. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-first_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution

Now I tell you a member of Congress introduced legislation to repeal the Second Amendment

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/103/hjres81/text

Also, a lot of people want it repealed.

https://d25d2506sfb94s.cloudfront.net/cumulus_uploads/document/h8n9gvrqyj/econTabReport.pdf

TAKE OUR GUNS

You have the temerity to say “No one is coming to take your guns.”

Proof to the contrary is hereby presented above. These people are also extremely serious about this.

LIVING IN AN OXYMORON

You may deny this reality. Some of you will certainly deny this reality. You may live your oxymoron in any way you see fit. 

Reality is under no obligation to conform itself to your expectations.

If the truth hurts, yer living wrong.

Do not expect me to accept your version.

Here's a reality for you. People are bizarre. We - you, me certainly, your BFF, your stalker - can hold totally contradictory ideas at the same time and see no problem with this. Living an oxymoron is just another day in this hell of a paradise or this paradise of hell.

Some of you may say there is no way government could confiscate all those weapons. It would be impossible, you say.

You are the same people who say there is no way we gun owners could stand against the might of the US military.

Which is it gonna be? Government won’t take our guns or we can’t stop them from doing it? These are mutually exclusive ideas. Either government can take our guns OR we gun owners can rise up and overthrow the government.

Pick one. Except you won't. Rose colored glasses? How about Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses, a towel wrapped around your head and the covers pulled over your head?

VECTORING AGAIN

Approach this from another angle. Show me, please, any government that has voluntarily relinquished power and backed down without physical force being applied. I don’t mean over minor matters. I mean giving up and quitting. Abandoning the effort. Show me any government that has ever undergone a substantial reduction in size, scope and power without physical force applied against it.

If you can find one, and a few exist, I’ll show you dozens of examples where only physical force caused the substantive changes. Those few I said do exist? They underwent voluntary reduction after spending years of bloody conflict. Guns were involved.

You say this can't happen today? You are not reading international news. But that's another topic for another day.