ANALYSIS/OPINION:
On Valentine’s Day, President Biden sent you a love letter: He’s coming for your guns.
A Feb. 14 statement from the Biden White House called on Congress to extend background checks to “all” gun sales in the country — by definition including between friends or even family members.
Such universal tracking of firearm transfers creates the paper-trail necessary for a firearm registry, which in turn sets the stage for the gun confiscation explicitly endorsed during the 2020 Democratic presidential primaries.
Mr. Biden’s statement similarly called for banning so-called assault weapons, though this is an artificial category essentially denoting “scary-looking.” In fact, that’s exactly the point: In 1988, gun ban activist Josh Sugarman told other gun control groups, “The weapons’ menacing looks, coupled with the public’s confusion over fully automatic machine guns versus semi-automatic assault weapons — anything that looks like a machine gun is assumed to be a machine gun — can only increase the chance of public support for restrictions on these weapons.”
Finally, Mr. Biden’s statement called for holding gun manufacturers legally liable for the tiny fraction of firearm owners who do evil or even insane things with the constitutionally-protected products those companies produce. This is a transparent attempt to bankrupt the entire firearm industry, throwing it to the trial lawyer wolves.
Tracking family members’ transfers of firearms? Banning scary guns — that just happen to make up perhaps 50% of current firearm sales? Bankrupting gunsmiths? That’s a heck of a valentine.
Who is this valentine for? Mr. Biden tied his statement to the Parkland shooting, even though the shooter had been referred to an Obama-Biden program that kept him out of jail and helped him buy the “assault weapon” Mr. Biden decries. Specifically, the Obama-Biden PROMISE program to which he was referred aimed at keeping potential offenders out of prison as long as possible by repeatedly refusing to call the cops, as long as the trouble-makers — or in the shooter’s case, psychopaths — fit the administration’s favored ethnic characteristics.
According to a veteran FBI agent, the shooter “probably wouldn’t have been able to buy the murder weapon if the school had referred him to law enforcement.” Suffice it to say that Mr. Biden’s gun grab does not appear to be aimed at those intent on doing harm.
No, as Mr. Biden’s inaugural speech made crystal clear, his administration is laser-sight focused on Trump supporters, whose Capitol protest Mr. Biden characterized as, “political extremism, white supremacy, domestic terrorism, that we must confront and we will defeat.”
Similarly, new Secretary of Defense and former U.S. Army Gen. Lloyd J. Austin, III has called for a military-wide “stand-down” to root out White supremacy and extremism. What does he consider “White supremacy?” According to an Army manual on the topic, so-called White supremacy includes celebrating Columbus Day; using the term “American exceptionalism;” any support for federal border security or English-only measures backed by more than 80% of Americans; “education funding from property taxes,” though every state in the Union funds education at least in part with property taxes; and saying “there’s only one human race.” Which there is.
The reality is that we are the “internal enemies” America’s left is looking for, given that in its view “the Republican Party has proven itself to be a right-wing antiliberal party,” supporting the Capitol riot Democrats have idiotically deemed an “insurrection,” because “the Republican Party is now dominated by ideas and individuals who consider it acceptable to reject the legitimacy of democratic elections when they deliver a loss.”
Funny, I seem to recall that nearly half of Democrats rejected the legitimacy of the 2016 election when it delivered a loss.
Regardless, this would be far from the first time Democrats suggested conservatives – and law-abiding gun owners in particular — were a terror threat. After a recent meeting with Mr. Biden, the president of Everytown for Gun Safety just charged that America had “armed extremists literally holding our democracy at gunpoint.” After Parkland, the San Francisco City Council smeared the National Rifle Association (NRA) as a “domestic terrorist organization.”
In fact, such a view was official Obama-Biden administration policy from the beginning, when Mr. Biden’s current Department of Homeland Security (DHS) secretary pick Alejandro Mayorkas was a director there. Within three months of taking power, the Obama-Biden DHS produced a report on “Rightwing Extremism,” which explicitly targeted America’s cherished veterans, pro-life Americans, and of course law-abiding gun owners, as “rightwing extremists.”
That report targeted Americans in “opposition to gun control efforts,” who have “perceived government infringement on civil liberties,” and who “stockpile food, ammunition, and weapons.” In it, the Obama-Biden DHS cited concerns over Americans’ “high volume of purchases and stockpiling of weapons and ammunition … in anticipation of restrictions and bans.” It explicitly red-flagged “heightened interest in legislation for tighter firearms restrictions” as something that “may be invigorating rightwing extremist activity.”
The Obama-Biden administration went so far as to fund flat-out falsehoods about the true causes of terrorism. Its Terrorism and Extremist Violence in the United States (TEVUS) database associates a towering 89% of extremist “Homicide” with “RightWing” ideologies, even though Islamic jihad strikes dominate the actual body count of terrorism for decades, according to a recent study by Americans for Intelligence Reform. TEVUS flatly excludes Antifa and Black Lives Matter (BLM), even though BLM activists and supporters have allegedly murdered at least 11 police officers alone.
Within 48 hours of taking power, the new Biden administration asked not only its DHS but the FBI and even the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) to perform a comprehensive threat assessment of “domestic violent extremism.” What are the chances they’ll tackle Antifa and BLM?
My bet is zero. Mr. Biden’s valentine is headed straight for America’s law-abiding gun owners, conservatives, veterans — and you.
• John Velleco is executive vice president of Gun Owners of America, a grassroots lobbying organization with more than 2 million members and supporters nationwide.
448355 200068Thanks for this fantastic post! It has long been quite beneficial. I wish that you will carry on posting your wisdom with us. 874511
617357 784341For some cause the picture just isnt loading appropriately, is at this time there an concern? 591061
643264 647454A genuinely fascinating read, I may nicely not agree completely, but you do make some quite legitimate factors. 229231
855164 153584When visiting blogs, i normally discover a quite very good content like yours 906169
420889 288746thaibaccarat dot com is the greatest web site to study casino games : like baccarat, poker, blackjack and roulette casino 139230
677606 511422Excellent humans speeches and toasts, possibly toasts. are hands down transferred at some time through party and expected to turn into very funny, amusing not to mention educational in the mean time. best man wedding speeches 823586
624405 168054Wow ~ Very good stuff ~ Come and check out MY ?? 458861
405186 918817There is noticeably a bundle to realize about this. I assume you produced various nice points in capabilities also. 349000
284056 686903Wohh just what I was seeking for, thanks for putting up. 938427
89804 115900Gnarly write-up mate, maintain the very good function, just shared this with ma friendz 102930
203667 383125As soon as I identified this internet internet site I went on reddit to share some of the enjoy with them. 669856
39200 557878Exceptional read, I lately passed this onto a colleague who has been performing a bit research on that. And the man truly bought me lunch because I came across it for him smile So allow me to rephrase that: Appreciate your lunch! 959300
816697 615888Glad to be one of several visitants on this awful web site : D. 374046
640085 761689I admire your piece of work, regards for all of the intriguing posts . 838850
770028 243442Paper rolls quite wonderful read you know alot about this topic i see! 780567
302754 881329You produced some decent points there. I looked on the internet for that dilemma and located a lot of people will go in addition to with the internet website. 35676
958395 271090I discovered your weblog internet site on google and check some of your early posts. Proceed to keep up the outstanding operate. I just extra up your RSS feed to my MSN News Reader. In search of ahead to studying extra from you in a whilst! 423228
877684 193441Some truly wonderful content material on this internet site , thankyou for contribution. 96763
404708 773280I really like reading via and I believe this web site got some genuinely utilitarian stuff on it! . 844724