Red Flag Red Flag

The House of Representatives passed House Resolution 8 back in February as part of the left's never-ending attack on gun owners and the Second Amendment.  Now, in the wake of two recent shootings, the emotional wailing of snowflakes everywhere, and the requisite legislative "need to do something" is deafening and overwhelming to politicians.  Even Mitch McConnell is now making noises about having the Senate take up HR 8, which is just more gun control in the form of expanding so-called background checks, and President Trump is eager to show the left that he "cares."

And it's all for show.  It's all about more rigid government infringements on a free people.  And it's unconstitutional.  Let's review what the Founders said about the God-given right of the people to keep and bear arms. 

“A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

Well, that's short and sweet and to the point.  But that doesn't deter politicians at all, because every single gun law now on the books - and there are currently some 20,000 state and federal restrictions on the Second Amendment alone - is clearly unconstitutional.  So the ever expanding and tyrannical federal government seeks now to restrict gun ownership even more.  

HR 8 criminalizes private sales of firearms absent that sale going "through" a FFL dealer.  It would force almost all informal, private transfers of firearms to first pass a federal background check initiated by an FFL.  Each and every time.  Give a gun to a friend or relative for a birthday or Christmas present?  Swap that old revolver to a friend in exchange for a skeet gun?  Nope.  Not without a background check and the sale, transfer or exchange administered by a Federal Firearm Licensee.  For a fee, of course.  Worse, to enforce that ridiculous law, firearms would have to registered, a long sought after goal of the insane tyrannical left.  And registration will create a database of all firearms - and their owners - and that will without question lead to confiscation.

Yet the existing 20,000 gun control laws did noting to stop the most recent shootings.  In each case, the guns used by the shooters were obtained legally.  Apparently the logic in the law-making circles is, "Well, that didn't work, so let's draft even more restrictive laws.  That should do it."  But when we analyze the shooting and the shooter's mindset, we find some instability in their cognitive thinking.

And then it gets even worse for gun owners.  Enter the so-called Red Flag laws.  That's a euphemism for the government deciding if someone is "fit" to own a gun.  Red flag laws - also known as Extreme Risk Protection Orders (ERPOs) or Gun Violence Restraining Orders (GVROs) - empower law enforcement, and sometimes family members and other concerned parties, to petition a judge to remove guns from individuals who may pose a threat to themselves or others.  Great.  Your girlfriend gets mad at you, and whines to a judge or sheriff or a cop, and bingo - you're now "a threat" to someone, and your guns are confiscated.  No due process is involved at all, despite being another God-given right of an accused.  They just come and get them.  Twelve states now have such laws, including Florida, and the insane tyrannical left wants it to become a federal law.  In reality, it's just a quasi-legal way to circumvent the Second Amendment, and have government seize guns from citizens without due process.

But we can rest easier, because our duly elected representatives will have "done something."

Consider all this gun control hysteria within the context of the left's hatred of white, conservative Americans.  They are out in the open now, with calls for the killing of white people, the killing of Trump supporters (think of the movie The Hunt), the actual shooting up of ICE offices, doxxing of conservatives, the intimidation of elected officials, and other insanely violent threats.  

So there you have it.  As the anti-American, tyrannical left continues to make war on white conservatives,  our elected representatives want to continue disarming us.  That pretty much sums up their intent, and it seems to me that an appropriate and measured response is needed.

If it's a civil war they want, they'll have to disarm us first.  And that's because white conservative Americans have way more guns than the insane lefty snowflakes. 

So bring it on.  It's your move, cupcake.