Yet another warning shot has now been fired across
the bow of those of us law abiding citizens who choose to own a gun. We who desire nothing more than our
constitutionally guaranteed right to protect ourselves and our families from
those who would wish to do us harm. At a
time when our president has seen fit to release thousands of convicted
criminals from prison, allow millions into this country illegally and is now permitting
an unknown number of Muslim terrorists in our country, it’s members of his own
party who now wish leave the American people so thoroughly vulnerable to a
increasing population of potentially violent offenders.
This most recent shot over the bow comes in the form
of what is nothing more than a very thinly veiled threat from one of the
top-ranking Democrats in the Senate who vowed that his party will "bring a
universal background check bill to the floor of the Senate early next
year." It was none other than ‘Little
Chuckie’ Schumer of New York who made this threat last Friday while at the
Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence. He
was there, oddly enough, to be honored with the "Sarah Brady Visionary
Award," named after the wife of former President Ronald Reagan's press
secretary Jim Brady, who was shot and left brain-damaged by an attempted Reagan
assassin in 1981.
A press release issued by the pro-gun control
organization quoted Chuckie's promise/threat to pursue the legislation, and he
referenced 1993's Brady Act, which mandated federal background checks and
imposed a five-day waiting period on gun purchases in the U.S. Chuckie said, “The Brady Bill proved – proved
– that we could do something in this country to make our communities and
neighborhoods safer without in any way abridging rights or threatening a
legitimate part of the American heritage." However, there have been any number of
studies that have shown that the Brady Bill has had virtually no impact on the
number of gun homicides.
But none of that was enough to keep Chuckie from
spewing his standard anti-gun drivel to what was, I’m quite sure, a very
friendly crowd. Chuckie said, "The
Brady Bill was step one… but it was always incomplete. We need to close the
loopholes that still remain in the background check system and finish the job
that Jim and Sarah Brady started so many years ago. If we could do it then, we
can do it now.... We are going to bring the universal background check bill to
the floor of the Senate, early next year, and with your help we’re going to
win!" Well, with the president cadre of limp-wrists
Republicans, Democrats may well succeed here.
And it was in reference to a bill that would ban
people who are on the terror watch list from purchasing guns that we heard
White House Spokesmoron Josh Earnest, just yesterday, expressed his hope that
Americans would discuss the need for gun control over Thanksgiving dinner. He said, “As people are sitting around the
Thanksgiving table talking about these issues — as they should and I’m sure
they all will across the country — I hope that is a question that will be
raised and asked by members around the table.”
I’m not sure about anyone else, but any discussion about guns that comes
up at my table won’t involve any sort of gun control debate.
The new bill to which our esteemed Mr. Earnest
alluded is one that many Democrats have now dubbed the Denying Firearms and
Explosives to Dangerous Terrorists Act of 2015.
It would give the U.S. attorney general, you know the very trustworthy
Loretta Lynch, the authority to “deny the sale, delivery, or transfer of a
firearm or the issuance of a firearms or explosives license or permit to
dangerous terrorists.” And according to
several of the bill’s Democratic sponsors, the proposed law would allow the
attorney general to deny a criminal background check clearance to any
individual whose name appears on the national terror watch list.
The huge problem with this expansive new power is
that there are precisely zero statutory criteria for inclusion on this massive
list. In fact, when statutory authority
for the centralized government database was first codified into law via the
Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, Congress gave all
authority for determining criteria for inclusion in the watch list to unelected,
unaccountable government bureaucrats. So
now, if some faceless Beltway bureaucrat decides you might be a terrorist, then
guess what, you’re a terrorist. Needless
to say the NRA is wary of such a bill due to what it says are numerous
incidences of people being wrongly placed on the list.
And I think it might be worth noting here, that this
terrorism watch list already has over one million names on it. Which does cause me some level of trepidation
in light of just how eager the Democrats seem to be in their effort to violate
our Constitution. And it’s unlikely that those of us who legally own a gun will
get any meaningful assistance from our gutless Republicans in Congress. And as I have made note of before, more laws
are not what’s needed, what’s needed is for the laws currently on the books
need to be enforced. But to do so doesn’t
accomplish for the Democrats that which they so desperately want. A completely unarmed American public.
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