Gun Rights Are At The Mercy Of Mass Shootings

[billt]

If we get another one any time soon, it will all but guarantee another Assault Weapons Ban. Right now there still is a very good chance it won't happen. But if another mass shooting takes place we're finished. People don't act about guns and gun control. They react with emotion. Look at all the major gun laws that were passed since the 30's. All were knee jerk reactions to criminal events that unfolded shortly before. The National Firearms Act of 1934 was a direct result of fully automatic weapons being used by organized crime, along with the infamous "Motorized Bandits" of the 30's, like Bonnie & Clyde, Machine Gun Kelly, Baby Face Nelson, etc.

The Dodd Bill, (Better known as The Gun Control Act Of 1968), came out of repercussions of both Kennedy assassinations, along with the assassination of Martin Luther King. The Assault Weapons Ban of 1994 was a direct political result that came from the Long Island Railroad shooting that resulted in the death of Carolyn McCarthy's husband.

The tide in recent years has shifted against gun control in general, but that could change in a heartbeat. If one more of these type of shootings occur, and any type of semi auto weapon is used. I doubt that anything could stop another AWB, and perhaps worse.

The only thing that we have in our favor now is an enormous amount of people who are both buying these type of weapons and ammunition, and joining the NRA in droves. Along with the fact we now have a do nothing President. He's already pawned the job off to Joe Biden, in an effort to make him the political bad guy in all of this. One more mass shooting with a big body count will change that badly for gun owners. That is the way I see it. Your mileage may vary.

[tombogan03884]

It's the same pattern we saw in England Australia and Canada.
The left has a playbook all they have to do is check off the boxes.
Do you think it is coincidence that George Soros hired the woman who organized Australia's gun laws and sent her to work at the UN ?
Mean while the damn fools on our side "wait a decent interval" and hand the initiative over to the grabbers.

[blackwolfe]

Didn't Biden author and organize the 94 AWB?.

We need to scream now and loud using the same strategies as the gay and women's rights activist.

Joseph Goebbels would be proud of the propagandist.

I wonder if this is the same mindset and social conditions that allowed the Nazis and Hitler to come to power?
Perhaps someone with more historical knowledge of the political events of that time and place can make the comparison and post back.

Are the American sheeple similar in their behavior and mindset to the Germans of the Nazi era?

[billt]

We need to scream now and loud using the same strategies as the gay and women's rights activist.

The problem is the left has no problem in buying into a "War On Women". But they have little use for gun right advocates using the same tactics about guns.

[Jrlobo]

http://www.thedailybell.com/28476/Massive-Psy-op-Obama-Can-Ban-Guns-By-Himself-And-He-Will

So, who is behind all of this and why?

[Sponsor]

[kmitch200]

Didn't Biden author and organize the 94 AWB?.
We need to scream now and loud using the same strategies as the gay and women's rights activist.
Joseph Goebbels would be proud of the propagandist.
I wonder if this is the same mindset and social conditions that allowed the Nazis and Hitler to come to power?
Perhaps someone with more historical knowledge of the political events of that time and place can make the comparison and post back.
Are the American sheeple similar in their behavior and mindset to the Germans of the Nazi era?

Read these two for starters:
(what Hitler did was "legal" and passed into law with him promising to be nice)

Reichstag Fire Decree

On the basis of Article 48 paragraph 2 of the Constitution of the German Reich, the following is ordered in defense against Communist state-endangering acts of violence:
§ 1.
 Articles 114, 115, 117, 118, 123, 124 and 153 of the Constitution of the German Reich are suspended until further notice. It is therefore permissible to restrict the rights of personal freedom [habeas corpus], freedom of (opinion) expression, including the freedom of the press, the freedom to organize and assemble, the privacy of postal, telegraphic and telephonic communications. Warrants for House searches, orders for confiscations as well as restrictions on property, are also permissible beyond the legal limits otherwise prescribed.
Febuary of 1933
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_Fire_Decree

Enabling Act of 1933
Article 2
Laws enacted by the government of the Reich may deviate from the constitution as long as they do not affect the institutions of the Reichstag and the Reichsrat. The rights of the President remain undisturbed.
March of 1933
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enabling_Act_of_1933

Paraphrasing Jack as Col. Nathan Jessup: "You sheep want me to lead, you sheep need me to lead."

[tombogan03884]

The problem is the left has no problem in buying into a "War On Women". But they have little use for gun right advocates using the same tactics about guns.

The problem is we never should have given them time to bring guns into the discussion.
We should have been screaming about mental health before the last body dropped .
I feel sorry for the families that lost members, but if it comes to a choice between them and the rights of 310 million citizens then F'em.
Greatest good for the greatest number.

[billt]

The problem is we never should have given them time to bring guns into the discussion.
We should have been screaming about mental health before the last body dropped .
I feel sorry for the families that lost members, but if it comes to a choice between them and the rights of 310 million citizens then F'em.
Greatest good for the greatest number.

I agree. This whole "Proper time to mourn" nonsense is just giving the left more time to scream. The NRA should have been all over this like stink on dog crap.

[tombogan03884]

I agree. This whole "Proper time to mourn" nonsense is just giving the left more time to scream. The NRA should have been all over this like stink on dog crap.

Bill, until I read your post I was beginning to think I was talking to rock.
You've restored my faith that I'm NOT the only one who can see the obvious.

[Respen33]

The proper time to mourn does not stop them from jumping all over gun rights. Why must we wait to jump all over mental illness and responsibility of caretakers?