An amazing case for reducing gun ownership in America

Wez said:
Gun control laws alone won't solve the problem, there must be a shift away from a gun glorifying culture as well.
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Catalonia Shows the Danger of Disarming Civilians

Spain has enacted, it would seem, the kind of “common sense restrictions” American gun-control advocates crave.

Armed Tyrants

Americans have grown too trustful of the State, too ready to assume bureaucrats have only our best interests at heart. Even with a maniacal man-child in the Oval Office, many are seemingly eager to turn over individual liberty to those who promise to manage our lives for us. The United States was designed to be the smallest government in the history of the world, with no standing army, and little right to intrude in the private activities of its citizens. Instead, we have the most powerful and intrusive government in human history, with 800 permanent military bases in 70 countries, unfathomable firepower, and staggering surveillance capabilities. Unchecked abuses of power are routine and tolerated.

67 federal agencies, including the IRS and the FDA, have military weapons, according to the OpenTheBooks Oversight Report The Militarization of America. Among the most intrusive programs, including the Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation Safety Authority, do not disclose their weaponry budget.
 
The number of armed government officials with arrest and firearm authority has doubled since 1996. The US now has more armed “civilian” federal officers (200,000+) than US Marines (182,000). The IRS spends millions of taxpayer dollars annually on pump-action shotguns, AR-15 rifles, riot gear, and Special Forces contractors to train thousands of “special agents” in targeting American citizens.

Local police, sheriffs, and state troopers have also been armed to wage war against American citizens. Battlefield weapons are being given to state and local police, allegedly to combat drug trafficking and fight terrorist threats at local pumpkin festivals. Military SWAT-style raids are used to serve search warrants for low-level drug possession, not hostage situations. Relatives and neighbors of alleged criminals have had government guns held to their children’s heads. Violations of civil rights, including illegal searches and the seizure of money and property without evidence of any crime, are commonplace.

Law enforcement requests military equipment directly from the Pentagon’s war-fighting machine: tanks, machine guns, rocket launchers, tear gas, camouflage, shields, and gas masks. Military equipment is often purchased with civil asset forfeiture slush funds to bypass legislative appropriations challenges.

The high percentage of civilian law enforcement who are military veterans (one in five, by some estimates) compounds the cultural risks of treating average Americans like enemy combatants.

Showdowns between civilians and heavily armed agents of the state in Ferguson, Baltimore, the Oregon Wildlife Refuge, and at various other political protests across the country should remind us that gun control advocates won’t be reducing the number of guns so much as shifting them all into either federal or criminal hands.
 
QUOTE="Bruddah IZ, post: 123803, member: 592" The number of armed government officials with arrest and firearm authority has doubled since 1996. The US now has more armed “civilian” federal officers (200,000+) than US Marines (182,000). The IRS spends millions of taxpayer dollars annually on pump-action shotguns, AR-15 rifles, riot gear, and Special Forces contractors to train thousands of “special agents” in targeting American citizens.

Local police, sheriffs, and state troopers have also been armed to wage war against American citizens. Battlefield weapons are being given to state and local police, allegedly to combat drug trafficking and fight terrorist threats at local pumpkin festivals. Military SWAT-style raids are used to serve search warrants for low-level drug possession, not hostage situations. Relatives and neighbors of alleged criminals have had government guns held to their children’s heads. Violations of civil rights, including illegal searches and the seizure of money and property without evidence of any crime, are commonplace.
Not to mention the Fire Dept's.....Few know about that move !

Law enforcement requests military equipment directly from the Pentagon’s war-fighting machine: tanks, machine guns, rocket launchers, tear gas, camouflage, shields, and gas masks. Military equipment is often purchased with civil asset forfeiture slush funds to bypass legislative appropriations challenges.

The high percentage of civilian law enforcement who are military veterans (one in five, by some estimates) compounds the cultural risks of treating average Americans like enemy combatants.

Most...and I do mean Most Law Enforcement, Sheriffs, State Troopers, DEA Agents, ICE Agents, and many others...
And yes the majority of Fire Dept Employees are Conservative by nature....



Showdowns between civilians and heavily armed agents of the state in Ferguson, Baltimore, the Oregon Wildlife Refuge, and at various other political protests across the country should remind us that gun control advocates won’t be reducing the number of guns so much as shifting them all into either federal or criminal hands.


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California Democrats have no idea the sleeping Giant they are poking daily with each and every
" New " Law they pass that moves this State closer to a MAJOR CIVIL Unrest !
They think they have the State wrapped up like Hillary thought she had the election wrapped up.
They are DEAD wrong !
 
Wez said:
Gun control laws alone won't solve the problem, there must be a shift away from a gun glorifying culture as well.
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None of the folks that own and use firearm for hunting, sporting and protection that I know are part of a gun glorifying culture....
They are patriotic, well educated, responsible people...
And yes I also know patriotic, well educated, responsible people who don't hunt or use fire arms for sport...
I don't care to find out what they keep in the night stand next to their bed or leaning against the closet wall.
 
Lion Eyes said:
None of the folks that own and use firearm for hunting, sporting and protection that I know are part of a gun glorifying culture....
They are patriotic, well educated, responsible people...
And yes I also know patriotic, well educated, responsible people who don't hunt or use fire arms for sport...
I don't care to find out what they keep in the night stand next to their bed or leaning against the closet wall.
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Hollywood and the game industry are responsible here as well. The trailer for the Bruce Willis death wish remake is a poster child for American idiocy.
 
nononono said:
QUOTE="Bruddah IZ, post: 123803, member: 592" The number of armed government officials with arrest and firearm authority has doubled since 1996. The US now has more armed “civilian” federal officers (200,000+) than US Marines (182,000). The IRS spends millions of taxpayer dollars annually on pump-action shotguns, AR-15 rifles, riot gear, and Special Forces contractors to train thousands of “special agents” in targeting American citizens.

Local police, sheriffs, and state troopers have also been armed to wage war against American citizens. Battlefield weapons are being given to state and local police, allegedly to combat drug trafficking and fight terrorist threats at local pumpkin festivals. Military SWAT-style raids are used to serve search warrants for low-level drug possession, not hostage situations. Relatives and neighbors of alleged criminals have had government guns held to their children’s heads. Violations of civil rights, including illegal searches and the seizure of money and property without evidence of any crime, are commonplace.
Not to mention the Fire Dept's.....Few know about that move !
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I know a couple of Fireman that are former Navy SEALS.
 
Wez said:
That sound funny in your head?
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He's been losing it for awhile, he may actually be conflicted between what he knows to be right and what he is being told to believe. He someday may have a Derek Vinyard type realization, we can only hope they all do.
 
Hüsker Dü said:
He's been losing it for awhile, he may actually be conflicted between what he knows to be right and what he is being told to believe. He someday may have a Derek Vinyard type realization, we can only hope they all do.
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I shit what you think, and eat what you cant comprehend.
 
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