Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.Via Sebastian, we see just what the "Gun Control Loophole" really means to the Senate:
- Napoleon
There's more, so very much more. The mask had to come off, in the form of actual text that the Senate votes on, although Chuck Schumer seems to have hid this from as many people as possible for as long as possible.
- Enacts defacto universal gun registration, because of record keeping requirements.
- All lost and stolen guns must be reported to the federal and local government. This means everyone will have to fill out the theft/loss form, and not just FFLs. You only have 24 hours to comply. If you lose a gun on a hunting trip deep in the woods, and can’t get back home to fill out the form in 24 hours, you’re a felon and will spend 5 years in federal prison.
- Want to lend a gun to a friend to go hunting? It’s a 5 year in prison felony.
Add in the Congresswoman who said that banning assault weapons was only the prelude to banning handguns. Add in the California police chief who said that they'll be able to disarm Americans in a generation. Add in the Washington law that would allow the police to come into your house without a warrant or probable cause to check on your guns. Add in the Governor of New York's comment that confiscation is an option. Add in a sitting United States Senator's remarks that confiscation might be required.
Now add John Boehner's statement that the House will consider any plan that the Senate passes.
Napoleon looks down, and smiles.
In 1949, Mao drove the Kuomintang from the Chinese mainland, taking nominal control of the Middle Kingdom. But as in any rapid takeover, the unanswered question was who was a true believing communist and who was a running dog Imperialist? Mao decided to smoke them out.
In 1956 Mao introduced a program for the People to offer criticism to the Party, with the stated aim of improving the People's Revolution. "Let a thousand flowers bloom" was the slogan, and criticism was offered liberally. Astonishingly, the next year a draconian crackdown of the criticizers sent most to their deaths or to prison. As Mao said, he had enticed the snakes out of their caves.
And so to the election of 2014. Elections are choices. The Left believes in gun control as a fundamental principle; majorities of both parties reject this. We are not often given the chance for an actual bi-partisan choice. John Boehner is enticing the snakes out of their caves.
While he may get us the snakes, and the gun grabber may be making a mistake how much damage can they do before the 2014 election is the big question. . . .
ReplyDeleteI for one fear we are closer to an armed civil war in this country than we have been in my lifetime. . . Scares the crap out of me
This is a joke, right?
ReplyDeleteThe least hypothesis (and the next thirty greater hypotheses after that involve ancient astronauts and the astral plane, before we get into a realm of plausibility where "Boehner almost outsmarts yeast" makes an appearance) about Boehner is that he's a craven imbecile with no principles, whose sole concern in life is sacrificing our interests in the vain hope of inducing the administration media to hate him a little less -- after spending years reassuring them that the more they hate him, the more concessions they'll get.
The establishment GOP will never punish him for it either, because they think he's got it all figured out.
Or another way to put it: "Never interrupt your enemy while he's making a mistake" is always good advice.
ReplyDeleteTherefore, always interrupt Boehner.
Matthew, we shall see in the next election.
ReplyDeleteIt's interesting that people are saying that Obama's and Cuomo's popularity/approval ratings are falling, and are blaming this on the sequester or some such nonsense. Obama's down 10% in a month because of gun control. Boehner may be a typial slimy pol, but he's not an idiot. He's focused on what will be a political winning argument.
I think this is more about that snake John Boehner doing whatever he thinks will get him more power by sucking up to the Democrats. With the results of the last two elections, the politicians are reading the TEA leaves: they think that we have been neutered and no longer can influence elections.
ReplyDeleteI think Claire Wolfe's "awkward time" is coming to a close.....
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