Think I was Ranting? Here's a real Rant.
In the last few hours since posting my concerns about the way HR2640 will be interpreted, I’ve been accused of going off on a Tirade.
Tough. I’m a Voting Life Member of the NRA and I’ve paid for the Right to complain when they betray gun owners.
But, knowing that this is a difficult issue, I set aside my initial blogrant for something more “cerebral”, addressing the NRA's missive point by point.
But that wasn’t good enough. Apparently I was too hard on the NRA.
Tough.
You want a tirade? Here’s a tirade - the Blogrant I wrote FIRST before moderating my tone for the sake of the namby pamby dogwhistlers who won’t stand up to Betrayal when it knees you in the balls.
We “Gun Nuts” have long repeated the pithy sound bite “Gun control isn’t about Guns, it’s about Control”. There is too, the corollary “Gun Registration doesn’t register guns, it registers People". These are statements the NRA has heretofore promoted. Gun owners have long understood that all that any sort of registration scheme does is give the Government an Official List of “undesireables” to deal with at some later point. We saw this in the US with the Sullivan act, and more recently in California with “assault weapons”.
But despite our attempts at communicating this simple, historically verifiable axiom, no one believed us. No one would believe that the US Government would stoop so low as to categorize and officially classify entire segments of Law Abiding Americans as so icky that they require official registration. People. Registered. Like the Gypsies, Gays and Jews of Germany.
They all said it couldn’t happen here. How wrong they were. Apparently, Americans forgot about the last List-making McCarthy and have allowed another one to push America further into Fascist Collectivism.
Madame McCarthy learned well from the errors of her namesake. Instead of attempting to suppress an ideology, she has chosen a specific, already stigmatized group as her target. She has chosen average American Citizens with neurochemical disorders – the “mentally ill” - to wear her Judenstern; to be Officially Stigmatized, monitored and suppressed. The NRA calls them “mentally defective”.
Twice now she has proposed legislation to tattoo personal information of people who have committed no crime into a “Justice Department” criminal database. Public outcry defeated her once, but the NRA helped her win when no one was looking..
Twice she has proposed legislation to Place an Official Judenstern on people the Government decides are “mentally defective” for having a treatable, often short term illness. Public outcry defeated her once, but the NRA helped her win when no one was looking, and no one could be held accountable.
Carolyn McCarthy (D) NY and her totalitarian Democrat cronies, with the collaborationist aid of the NRA PR/Appeasement “prevent defense” program has categorically proven what we have always claimed about “gun control advocates” - that they desire nothing more than to track and control the lives of People. Why else build an Enemies List that contains names of people who have no desire to own guns?
Simply, they want the power to Officially classify anyone expedient or that they disagree with as “socially undesireable”.
They intend to perpetuate the noxious idea that the lives of people so labeled are not worth defending. That people so labeled are worth less than the lives of everyone else. That those whose lives are Officially declared to be worth less can have their Self Evident, Inalienable Rights suppressed or terminated – including the Rights of Life and Liberty. Worth less.
Every Jew in the world knows, or should know, what it means when a Government begins to believe it can declare Honest Citizens to be “socially undesireable” simply for being alive.
This is fact. This is History. And the NRA supported it this time.
The NRA Collaborated with the one of the most Anti Gun Owner politicians in America and laid the groundwork for Owner Registration and Gun Confiscation.
This bill creates an enemies list of “prohibited persons” whose only “crime” is that of having a treatable, often short term neurochemical disorder, and labels them as “mentally defective” – destroying decades of advocacy that has attempted to lessen the stigma of neurochemical disorders.
This list, when correlated with existing lists of firearms owners (CCW permits, Firearms ID Cards, etc.) constitutes probable cause for the search and seizure of all firearms in a household on the pretext of “firearms in the possession of a prohibited person”.
The only way to prevent the above pre-dawn raids from happening will be to either Register Legal Gun Owners along with an Inventory of all firearms “owned”, or to redefine the legal term “Possession” in such a way as to make all Drug Raids meaningless. (You guess which they will prefer...)
From a Political and Litigation standpoint, regardless of what “program” may be established by Government agencies, in practical terms no one but the Rich and Politically Connected will ever gain “relief from disability”.
There is no way that the virulently anti-gunowner Rep. McCarthy and the Brady Bunch didn’t see or plan this. Why else would they be so happy?
The NRA Collaborated with the one of the most Anti Gun Owner politicians in America and laid the groundwork for Owner Registration and Gun Confiscation.
They betrayed gun owners and non-gun owners alike.
If you don’t think so, prove me wrong... Prove that my interpretation of History and the Law is wrong.
Labels: CultureOfCorruption, Politics
