Society Is Safer With The Second Amendment

guns1The far left gun grabbers put their collective heads in their little bag of dirty tricks and pulled out yet another subtle “never let a crisis go to waste” gun control bill. This time it is Congressman Mike Thompson of California, chair of the House Gun Violence Prevention Task Force, using the shooting deaths in Isla Vista, California, to promote his “Healthy Minds for Safer Communities Act of 2014.”

As usual, the gun control portions of the bill are hidden beneath general mental health reforms and yet again, more funding.   We get to the meat of Thompson’s bill in Title III, which lays bare its real intent.

Title III authorizes the Center for Disease Control to study gun violence, a leftist code phrase that once again attempts to smear the concept of lawful gun ownership while wasting taxpayer dollars, something the government is really good at.   It also authorizes doctors to question their patients about ownership, possession, use, and storage of all guns and ammunitions in their homes, regardless of whether or not the patient presents potential mental health problems during their visit. This provision alone would totally eliminate protections provided in ObamaCare to keep doctors out of the debate.

Title IV of Thompson’s bill expands the existing “prohibited person” categories under the Federal Gun Control Act to include outpatient mental health treatment. Misdemeanor prohibitions are also expanded to include any stalking conviction, whether or not the conviction included any findings of violence or violent intent, and whether or not it occurred between persons with pre-existing relationships.   Existing domestic violence misdemeanors would be expanded to include not only current outpatient commitments or convictions but those that occurred in the past.

The bill also blackmails states into enacting restrictive gun control laws by withholding certain federal grants. One option Thompson is promoting for states is to authorize local police to seize firearms and ammunition of anyone they believe would pose an “elevated risk of harm,” anyone with a “history” of substance abuse or a ‘determination’ that the person lacks “impulse control.”  He is also promoting an option that would allow states to “temporarily” prohibit possession of a firearm to anyone involuntarily hospitalized for at least 48 hours for mental health reasons even if mental health officials determine that the person does not pose an elevated risk. By the way, the term “temporary” is never defined but under socialist policy would more than likely mean “forever.”

California has some of the most restrictive gun control laws which, I might add, have done nothing to prevent gun violence. With an A rating from that bastion of gun control lobby, The Brady Bunch, California prohibits the private transfer of all types of guns, requires extensive background checks and registration, a 10 day waiting period, an assault weapons ban, restrictions on magazine capacity, and the requirement of CCW license or Handgun Safety Certificate.

Let’s be honest! No law will ever stop those with intent to do harm. The best defense against those people is to be armed yourself. “When good people have the freedom to carry concealed firearms, society gets safer,” so says Sheriff David Clarke, Jr. of Milwaukee County.

“I’ve had it, and I’m tired of seeing the Second Amendment treated like the bastard child of the Bill of Rights. I’m tired of seeing courts of law and liberal congressional and state legislators contort the meaning of the right to keep and bear arms into a definition so limited that we don’t even recognize it. I’m tired of law-abiding citizens being viewed by leftist government officials as clingers, blood-thirsty racists and extremists. These people know that the first step into putting us back into subservience to government is to disarm us. . .The armed citizen made America free. And the armed citizen will keep America free.” Sheriff David Clarke, Jr., at the 143rd NRA Annual Meeting

 

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