{"id":1825,"date":"2015-12-01T19:33:53","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T02:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/?p=1825"},"modified":"2024-09-23T13:26:10","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T19:26:10","slug":"have-democrats-found-a-foolproof-way-to-pass-gun-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/have-democrats-found-a-foolproof-way-to-pass-gun-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Have Democrats Found a Foolproof Way to Pass Gun Control?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bucking our society\u2019s leftward lurch has been public opinion on two issues, pre-natal infanticide and Second Amendment-protected rights. In fact, leftists were very quiet on gun control for a long time after some analysts attributed former vice president Al Gore\u2019s 2000 election loss to advocacy of the position. But now gun control is back, and Democrats have finally perhaps found a foolproof formula for passing it: Tie it in with the fight against terrorists. Writes the Associated Press<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Congressional Democrats are trying to build support for an effort to bar gun purchases by terror suspects, hoping to take advantage of the same public anxieties about security that gave Republicans a ringing House victory.<\/p>\n

\u2026 If the Republicans who control Congress block votes on the proposal, Democrats hope to profit politically by winning sympathy from angry voters.<\/p>\n

“By leaving this terrorist loophole open, Republicans are leaving every community in America vulnerable to attacks by terrorists armed with assault rifles and explosives purchased legally, in broad daylight,” Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said Friday in a written statement.<\/p>\n

The bill by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., would have the attorney general compile names of known and suspected terrorists, likely drawing from huge lists the government already keeps. Federally licensed gun dealers would be barred from selling firearms to people on that list if government officials believed they planned to use the weapons for terrorism.<\/p>\n

Some credulous sorts might wonder incredulously, \u201cWhat could be wrong with keeping guns out of terrorists\u2019 hands?\u201d But asAmerican Thinker\u2019s<\/em> Carol Brown points out<\/a>, the glaring problem is: Who will be declared a terrorist? As she writes, \u201cThe attorney general would make a list based on data the government already has amassed. Or, potentially, based on anything else for that matter. Perhaps the Southern Poverty Law Center\u2019s [SPLC\u2019s] list of troublesome people would serve as a guide.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The last point about the SPLC \u2014 now working hand-in-glove with the government \u2014 is interesting because the organization has an unusual definition of \u201ctroublesome people,\u201d one that includes me.<\/p>\n

After I wrote a 2009 piece defending radio host Rush Limbaugh, who was prevented from buying into the St. Louis Rams due to political correctness, the SPLC put me on<\/a> their \u201cHateWatch\u201d page. My alleged offense?<\/p>\n

I used the word \u201clynched,\u201d or a variation thereof, a few times in my article when describing the persecution of Limbaugh.<\/p>\n

The SPLC didn\u2019t mention that they just so happened to find me hateful shortly after I did an expos\u00e9 revealing how they were using deceit to scare their supporters into donating money. Pure coincidence, though, I\u2019m sure. But no matter. In the article about me, they also described broadcast giant Michael Savage \u2014 on whose show I appeared regularly at the time \u2014 as a \u201chate-radio host.\u201d So one could wonder, given that Savage was unfairly placed on a list with terrorists and criminals by the U.K. government and was banned from entering Britain, could he be prohibited from buying guns under Feinstein\u2019s bill? Could I? Could you?<\/p>\n

The Left is fond of saying \u201cOne man\u2019s terrorist is another man\u2019s freedom fighter.\u201d Yet while usually a pronouncement born of relativism, the truth is apparently that an actual freedom fighter is a terrorist to the Left. Just consider a 2012 study by the Department of Homeland Security, which, as The New American<\/em> noted, stated<\/a> \u201cthat \u2018those who are reverent of individual liberty\u2019 may promote terrorism.\u201d In the same vein and proving that the SPLC\u2019s targeting of me and Savage was not an isolated incident, The New American<\/em> reported<\/a> just last month in \u201cNew Obama Terror Czar Will Target Conservatives, Christians\u201d:<\/p>\n

The Obama administration’s increasingly controversial Justice Department, in partnership with the ultra-leftist Southern Poverty Law Center, announced the creation of a new czar position to focus on \u201cdomestic terrorism\u201d \u2014 especially the alleged threat from Christians and Americans with \u201canti-government\u201d views.<\/p>\n

\u2026 The impetus for the Obama DOJ’s new focus on conservatives, libertarians, Christians, and others appears to be the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), widely viewed as an \u201canti-Christian hate group\u201d and strongly criticized even by mainstream voices on the Left.<\/p>\n

So while, as the AP reports, \u201cNRA spokeswoman Jennifer Baker noted that there have been numerous instances of innocent people mistakenly added to terror lists,\u201d one should also wonder about innocent but \u201ctroublesome\u201d people purposely added to the lists with the government\u2019s \u201cliving\u201d definition of the word \u201cterrorist.\u201d<\/p>\n

And truly troublesome is that an organization such as the SPLC would be shaping that definition. The SPLC\u2019s snake-oil-salesman status was revealed long ago by Harper\u2019s<\/em> Ken Silverstein in the startling 2000 expos\u00e9 \u201cThe Church of Morris Dees\u201d<\/a> (Dees is the SPLC\u2019s founder). Among other things, Silverstein points out that the organization\u2019s entire legal staff \u2014 liberals themselves \u2014 quit in 1986 in protest because Dees would ignore issues that truly affected the poor and downtrodden in favor of those that would make him money.<\/p>\n

Yet just like the SPLC, Feinstein\u2019s bill may be phony but effective. As Carol Brown put it, \u201cWow. I have to hand it to the Democrats. They\u2019ve devised a strategy that combines gun control, faux window dressing concern about national security, and the likely targeting of law abiding American citizens who might wind up on The List.\u201d And opposing this bill may be difficult, and politically expensive, for representatives.<\/p>\n

After all, probability dictates that there will be other terrorist attacks on U.S. soil \u2014 it\u2019s just a matter of time \u2014 and, as in Paris, they\u2019ll likely involve firearms. And this probability grows greater by the day as Barack Obama insists we absorb Mideastern Muslim migrants who, as Syrian<\/a> figures<\/a>, the Greek government<\/a>, intelligence officials including the FBI director<\/a>, and others have warned, simply cannot be properly vetted. Moreover, while the almost 70 individuals arrested during the last 18 months<\/a> for alleged involvement in Daesh (ISIS) plots included some Muslim \u201crefugees,\u201d it\u2019s also now being reported that Obama has completely ignored \u201c72 documented cases<\/a> of terrorist activity by suspected Muslim immigrants inside the United States since July of last year,\u201dwrites<\/a> WND.com.<\/p>\n

And what will the reaction be \u2014 if Feinstein\u2019s bill fails \u2014 when there is a serious terrorist attack in the United States involving firearms? The Democrats and their public-relations team (the media) will talk 24\/7 about how the GOP has blood on its hands for \u201cputting politics ahead of lives.\u201d No, it won\u2019t be true. And, no, this isn\u2019t to imply the bill should be passed, only that Feinstein may finally have found her formula.<\/p>\n

And she has long been seeking it. As she said<\/a> on CBS-TV’s 60 Minutes<\/em> on February 5, 1995 while commenting on the incorrectly termed \u201cassault-weapons ban\u201d: “If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States for an outright ban, picking up every one of them \u2014 Mr. and Mrs. America, turn ’em all in \u2014 I would have done it. I could not do that. The votes weren’t here.”<\/p>\n

Whether the votes for the current bill will be there remains to be seen. But the formula \u2014 import people who\u2019ll commit crimes and terrorist acts and then use the mayhem as a pretext for stripping everyone\u2019s rights \u2014 is here, there, and everywhere in the halls of government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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