by Selwyn Duke, The New American:
There’s a popular meme circulating online that relates the evolution of cultural devolutionary talking points. It goes like this:
Stage 1: “You’re crazy; it’s not happening.”
Stage 2: “Okay, it’s happening, but it’s exaggerated.”
Stage 3: “It’s happening…and it’s actually a good thing.”
Stage 4: “And if you disagree, you’re a bigot.”
We see this pattern repeated with many issues, Second Amendment rights included. In fact, say some, we’re already at Stage 3 with respect to firearm seizure. As one commentator puts it, leftists have moved on from “nobody’s coming for your guns.”
It’s not as if, though, the writing wasn’t already on the wall years ago. Just consider what late Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said about modern sporting rifles (misrepresented as “assault weapons”) back in 1995. On an episode of CBS’ 60 Minutes, she confessed:
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If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States for an outright ban, picking up every one of them — “Mr. and Mrs. America, turn ‘em all in” — I would have done it.
Of course, if you’d confiscate all sporting rifles — which are just semiautomatic weapons — why not all semiautomatic firearms, period? They all can be fired just as rapidly.
More ambitious still is New York City’s current mayor, Zohran Mamdani. In 2022, he went the full gun-seizure Monty, proclaiming:
We need to ban all guns.
— Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@ZohranKMamdani) May 24, 2022
And today, Democrats around the country are putting the hammer down on gun control to move closer to this goal.
Your Grandfather’s Gun Control
The aforementioned commentator, D. Parker, writes today that it’s “bad enough when leftists lie. It’s worse when they openly tell the truth.” He points out that ,previously, left-wingers had been satisfied to incrementally strip away Second Amendment rights. This is why, mind you, we have approximately 20,000 federal, state, and local gun-control laws on the books. Of course, true safety always lies just around the corner — with the next set of anti-gun laws.
Parker also states that firearm-seizure warnings could for a long time be dismissed with the “You’re crazy; it’s not happening” line. But now history tells the tale. There have already been confiscations in the U.K., Australia, and Canada. And regardless of what happens with Las Vegas, in our small world, what happens in Europe doesn’t stay in Europe. (Why, Marxism didn’t stay there, did it? See Mamdani, et al.)
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