FTA: Then how about because the one thing that scares the living hell out of them is an armed citizenry, the most egalitarian power-sharing arrangement yet conceived, with the capability to say “No” to would-be tyrants — and to back it up? How about because that’s the one thing that stands in their way from establishing a “monopoly of violence,” with the power to do whatever it wants and to get away with it every time?
How about because, when you get right down to it, what they really demand is “commonsense totalitarian safety legislation”?
“Joe Biden and Kamala Harris want to ban certain types of semi-automatic firearms that are rarely used in crimes. These firearms are also commonly owned; estimates from 2018 peg the number owned in the U.S. at more than 16 million,” the National Rifle Association’s Institute for Legislative Action noted in a late-September article titled “The Truth about ‘Assault Weapons’.”
“So why are Biden and his would-be Florida man, Michael Bloomberg, so focused on these semi-automatic firearms?” ILA asks. “Why are certain types of semi-automatic rifles ‘uniquely deserving of prohibition?’”
They make all the arguments we’ve seen before, including, that, contrary to what the antis claim, the firearms being banned are not “weapons of war,” that they only fire one round for each trigger pull, that they are not as “powerful” as many hunting rifles, and that they are not “uniquely lethal.”
Of course, they want to take our guns. All our guns.
By David Codrea
