“Other countries acted immediately to prevent mass shootings.”
This seemingly innocuous observation is commonly made following mass public shootings in the U.S.
The confluence of the mass public shootings in Australia and the U.S. on December 14th naturally leads to comparisons. The Washington Post ran a story with the headline, “How countries around the world have responded to mass shootings.” Even Ms. magazine weighed in with “Two Mass Shootings, Two Countries—and Two Very Different Responses.” The humorous news site The Onion regularly joins this chorus with its oft-repeated headline, “No way to prevent this, says only nation where this regularly happens.” Its biting satire represents a commonly held point of view among liberals.
But what are you suggesting when you uphold as models the actions of the British government following the 1996 Dunblane Primary School massacre, the Australian government following the 1996 Port Arthur massacre, or the Australian government today following the Bondi Beach massacre?
You are arguing that the answer to mass shootings is to ban and confiscate the most commonly owned firearms in the U.S.: semi-automatic pistols and rifles.
Although my fellow liberals try to reassure gun owners that “no one wants to take your guns,” that is precisely what the British and Australian governments did. Don’t be surprised if gun owners leave the conversation at this point.
— David Yamane in How NOT to Talk About Guns A holiday gift to my fellow liberals
Liberals are slaves.
If ever there was a line of B S it is the quote below and it is high time everyone recognized it for what it really is:
“Although my fellow liberals try to reassure gun owners that “no one wants to take your guns,”
It should be clear that “no one” is a generalization with too few, if any, examples to substantiate the claim of “no one”. The statement is deceptive and a lie.
Best to pay attention to and act upon their actions instead of what they say.
“Although my fellow liberals try to reassure gun owners that “no one wants to take your guns,” that is precisely what the British and Australian governments did.”
They did it in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina. The left wing mayor ordered it and Police went door to door confiscating guns. Luckily, some at the state capital heard about it and put a stop to it but by then a lot of guns had been confiscated and it was years before they got returned, then only after getting a court involved, and then some of them never got returned. Then to get the guns back, despite knowing who they took them from and people proving their identity, the Police department put onerous requirements on it that this and that had to be proven to show ownership when the very records showing this or that to show ownership were lost in the flood or had been lost over time for most of the people. Then the court had to get involved again to get it straightened out. And by the time the ones that got returned were returned most were rusted junk because of the way the police stored them.
What democrat members in congress now is, and what that unconstitutional and unlawful white house office of gun violence prevention was working on was, a ‘mandatory government buy back’ which is nothing more than a forced confiscation because if you refuse to sell your guns to them for pennies on the dollar they just take them anyway then throw you in jail.
Yes, they want to take our guns and our liberty too.
They are always scheming to take your guns. Its always been a lie that ‘no one is coming to take your guns’, I especially laugh at it when it comes from anti-gunners and democrat politicians who say it with a ‘I support the second amendment’ or ‘I’m a gun owner too’ thrown into the mix some place.
useless twats, start arresting those violent guns…fuck you