Note to NRA: There is no such thing as a pro-Second Amendment Democrat.

Yes, they may talk a great game about being pro-gun, and may even have a good pro-gun voting record in their previous elected offices.

But, as soon as they get to the national level, and Reid, Pelosi, Obama, etc., tell them to get in line, they will stab you in the back. Every. Single. Time.

Didn’t anyone learn from the Obamacare debacle, when all of the supposedly pro-life “Blue Dog” Democrats suddenly realized that abortion wasn’t really that big of a deal after all?

Texyank on January 15, 2013 at 7:51 PM

Not much more that can be said after that. Except that flipping the burden of proof from the state to the individual, and especially, the government using proof of sanity as a permitting criterion for anything, can be applied in all other areas as well.

(I’m not crazy. My mother had me tested.)

At least two people have broken into your house and are moving your way.

With your heart pumping, you reach down beside your bed and pick up your shotgun.

You rack a shell into the chamber, then inch toward the door and open it.

In the darkness, you make out two shadows.

One holds something that looks like a crowbar.

When the intruder brandishes it as if to strike, you raise the shotgun and fire.

The blast knocks both thugs to the floor.

One writhes and screams while the second man crawls to the front door and lurches outside.

As you pick up the telephone to call police, you know you’re in trouble.

In your country, most guns were outlawed years before, and the few that are privately owned are so stringently regulated as to make them useless..

Yours was never registered.

Police arrive and inform you that the second burglar has died.

They arrest you for First Degree Murder and Illegal Possession of a Firearm.

When you talk to your attorney, he tells you not to worry: authorities will probably plea the case down to manslaughter.

“What kind of sentence will I get?” you ask.

“Only ten-to-twelve years,” he replies, as if that’s nothing.

“Behave yourself, and you’ll be out in seven.”

The next day, the shooting is the lead story in the local newspaper. Somehow, you’re portrayed as an eccentric vigilante while the two men you shot are represented as choirboys.

Their friends and relatives can’t find an unkind word to say about them..

Buried deep down in the article, authorities acknowledge that both “victims” have been arrested numerous times.

But the next day’s headline says it all:
“Lovable Rogue Son Didn’t Deserve to Die.”

The thieves have been transformed from career criminals into Robin Hood-type pranksters..

As the days wear on, the story takes wings.

The national media picks it up, then the international media.

The surviving burglar has become a folk hero.

Your attorney says the thief is preparing to sue you, and he’ll probably win.

The media publishes reports that your home has been burglarized several times in the past and that you’ve been critical of local police for their lack of effort in apprehending the suspects.

After the last break-in, you told your neighbor that you would be prepared next time.

The District Attorney uses this to allege that you were lying in wait for the burglars.

A few months later, you go to trial.

The charges haven’t been reduced, as your lawyer had so confidently predicted.

When you take the stand, your anger at the injustice of it all works against you..

Prosecutors paint a picture of you as a mean, vengeful man.

It doesn’t take long for the jury to convict you of all charges.

The judge sentences you to life in prison.

This case really happened.

On August 22, 1999, Tony Martin of Emneth, Norfolk , England , killed one burglar and wounded a second.

In April, 2000, he was convicted and is now serving a life term…

How did it become a crime to defend one’s own life in the once great British Empire ?

It started with the Pistols Act of 1903.

This seemingly reasonable law forbade selling pistols to minors or felons and established that handgun sales were to be made only to those who had a license.
The Firearms Act of 1920 expanded licensing to include not only handguns but all firearms except shotguns..

Later laws passed in 1953 and 1967 outlawed the carrying of any weapon by private citizens and mandated the registration of all shotguns.

Momentum for total handgun confiscation began in earnest after the Hungerfordmass shooting in 1987.

Michael Ryan, a mentally disturbed man with a Kalashnikov rifle, walked down the streets shooting everyone he saw.

When the smoke cleared, 17 people were dead.

The British public, already de-sensitized by eighty years of “gun control”, demanded even tougher restrictions.
(The seizure of all privately owned handguns was the objective even though Ryan used a rifle.)

Nine years later, at Dunblane , Scotland , Thomas Hamilton used a semi-automatic weapon to murder 16 children and a teacher at a public school.

For many years, the media had portrayed all gun owners as mentally unstable, or worse, criminals.
Now the press had a real kook with which to beat up law-abiding gun owners.
Day after day, week after week, the media gave up all pretense of objectivity and demanded a total ban on all handguns.
The Dunblane Inquiry, a few months later, sealed the fate of the few sidearms still owned by private citizens.

During the years in which the British government incrementally took away most gun rights, the notion that a citizen had the right to armed self-defense came to be seen as vigilantism.
Authorities refused to grant gun licenses to people who were threatened, claiming that self-defense was no longer considered a reason to own a gun.
Citizens who shot burglars or robbers or rapists were charged while the real criminals were released.

Indeed, after the Martin shooting, a police spokesman was quoted as saying,
“We cannot have people take the law into their own hands.”

All of Martin’s neighbors had been robbed numerous times,
and several elderly people were severely injured in beatings by young thugs who had no fear of the consequences.
Martin himself, a collector of antiques, had seen most of his collection trashed or stolen by burglars.

When the Dunblane Inquiry ended, citizens who owned handguns were given three months to turn them over to local authorities.

Being good British subjects, most people obeyed the law.
The few who didn’t were visited by police and threatened with ten-year prison sentences if they didn’t comply.

Police later bragged that they’d taken nearly 200,000 handguns from private citizens.

How did the authorities know who had handguns?
The guns had been registered and licensed.
Kind of like cars. Sound familiar?

WAKE UP AMERICA ; THIS IS WHY OUR FOUNDING FATHERS PUT THE SECOND AMENDMENT IN OUR CONSTITUTION.

“…It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people’s minds..”
–Samuel Adams

If you think this is important, please forward to everyone you know.

You had better wake up, because Obama is doing this very same thing, over here, if he can get it done

The UN Small Arms Treaty that Hilary is negotiating would take away our 2nd Amendment rights.

And there are stupid people in congress and on the street that will go right along with him.

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Just remember – the reason the Japanese didn’t invade the USA is because they knew that Most

of the citizens were armed.

flicker on January 15, 2013 at 6:10 PM

One of the best comments I’ve ever seen posted here at Hot Air! We have seen how the therapeutic-managerial state redefines questions of morality and justice as questions of health, whether physical or mental. While the initial steps of this process will be to limit gun ownership to a class of people who meet certain mental health criteria, I suspect the end goal is to define the desire to own a weapon as itself a form of mental disease.

Obamacare was FDR’s wet dream…

Myron Falwell on January 15, 2013 at 3:48 PM

I still can’t believe that the government has just mandated not only what questions doctors have to ask their patients (or risk denial of reimbursement) but that this information presumably can be compiled electronically by the US government.

I remember some years ago at my annual physical my new doctor, his face buried in his computer screen, spent the whole visit asking me questions and ticking off boxes. When he asked me if I owned a gun, I asked him why he wanted to know and he said it was a safety issue.

Now that the federal government is becoming the insurer of choice, I can’t imagine that they will not have access to this information.

But yet we survived FDR and we survived the voters who voted for FDR socialism four times… Not only we survived the SOB but we became the most powerful nation in history of mankind… We will certainly survive an incompetent socialist fool like Obama and his voters… And in the no distant future will be back much stronger than ever before…

mnjg on January 15, 2013 at 3:43 PM

..every time Pete Seeger fires up his Vega long-necked Fairbanks and starts singing one of them Woody Guthrie socialist anthems, I want to vomit. That last soliloquy by Ma Joad as Henry Fonda hikes out over the hills in Grapes of Wrath puts me into a coma.

Well let’s face, crockery has run rampant over there.

Flange on January 15, 2013 at 5:36 PM

I know. It’s a crock! /

Controlling the mentally incompetent, the psychiatrically ill and the criminally insane has always predominantly been a psychiatric issue. Controlling access to guns has been a political issue.

Now, access to guns has been subsumed into a larger mental health issue, and so mental health becomes the key to the door of gun ownership, and of the right to bear arms and to protect oneself from tyranny.

We can look forward to some form of psychiatric clearance requirements for all gun purchases and registration. And that places the 2nd Amendment under the management of the health care industry, which the US government has recently taken over. It is not a large leap to be concerned that those who want to maintain their 2nd Amendment rights will now be subject to psychological examinations designed and mandated by government bureaucracy.

So now, in addition to mandating that doctors ask about seat belts, alcohol use, gun ownership and past sexual practices, we can expect doctors to forward to the government social and psychological profiles to determine gun-ownership status.

While this is a far cry from psycho-prisons, it is the same medical-ization of political thought and dissent.

President Obama: When I get ready to eff the country, I reach for a bottle of Manchin Lube!

I can only imagine, especially if they’re not seedless.

Buttercup on January 15, 2013 at 5:27 PM

What do you have against vinifera grapes?

Soon, crockery will be banned, as well.

Resist We Much on January 15, 2013 at 5:05 PM

Well let’s face, crockery has run rampant over there.

Buttercup on January 15, 2013 at 5:27 PM

Great. Now I’m gonna be having nightmares. *wink*

I’m a produce clerk. There’s nothing scarier than someone threatening you with a bunch of red grapes!

annoyinglittletwerp on January 15, 2013 at 5:15 PM

I can only imagine, especially if they’re not seedless.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piWCBOsJr-w

Buttercup on January 15, 2013 at 5:09 PM

I’m a produce clerk. There’s nothing scarier than someone threatening you with a bunch of red grapes!

How long before they outlaw ‘pointy sticks?’

CaptFlood on January 15, 2013 at 4:59 PM

Or fresh fruit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piWCBOsJr-w

How long before they outlaw ‘pointy sticks?’

CaptFlood on January 15, 2013 at 4:59 PM

They are already moving on to ban glassware in pubs since ~8,000 stabbings occur in or outside pubs annually. Soon, crockery will be banned, as well.

Everything’s on the table.
Joe Manchin

Including his principles, his oath to uphold the constitution, the wishes of his constituents…

Bottom line, you can never trust a democrat.

AZfederalist on January 15, 2013 at 5:00 PM

The NRA should know better than to trust a democrat.

Buttercup on January 15, 2013 at 5:01 PM

Heh.

And now the Brits are even debating “knife control”.

All hail the cowardly gop.

PappyD61 on January 15, 2013 at 3:59 PM

The UK outlawed the switchblade and gravity knife in 1959.

In 1988, possession of a pocket knife with a blade larger than 3 inches in public became illegal.

In 1996, it became illegal to sell a razor blade to anyone under the age of 16.

In 2007, you needed a licence to be able to sell “non-domestic knives.”

In 2008, a group of doctors called for a total ban on all long, pointed kitchen knives demanding that 17th century French laws decreeing that the tips of kitchen, table and street knives be ground smooth be adopted for both public eateries and in the home.

Gun Bans: Mad Dogs & Englishmen

So the NRA got duped.

tommer74 on January 15, 2013 at 4:16 PM

Happens a lot. Even here in Fascist NY they managed to endorse leftist dingbats Kirsten Gillibrand and Bill Owens to name a few.
I’m still a member of the NRA but they often don’t do their homework and are fast and loose with their endorsements.
The NRA should know better than to trust a democrat.

I have a revolver, so no magazines for me. I bought a couple of more boxes of ammo, after payday I’ll pick up a few more.