The saying \u201cnothing succeeds like excess\u201d has been attributed to Oscar Wilde.\u00a0 It seems that Wilde has been channeled by our President, and by Dianne Feinstein, and others leading the full-court press against gun owners\u2019 civil rights in the last few weeks.<\/p>\n
From the Boston Herald <\/i>newspaper, we learn that the anti-gun Vice President designated by our anti-gun President to lead an impartial Washington review of the \u201cgun violence\u201d issue (to which no one from the gun owners\u2019civil rights side has been invited, apparently) has promised anti-gun Boston Mayor Menino sweeping new gun laws<\/a> by the end of this month.\u00a0 \u00a0This pleases the seriously ill Mayor Menino, who wonders aloud to reporters how guns can be in the hands of murderous young criminals.\u00a0 Given that before Menino or I or anyone reading this was born, laws were in place against murder and against giving guns to murderers of all ages, we can only hope that the mayor\u2019s health soon recovers to where he can think normally.<\/p>\n A summary of Senator Feinstein\u2019s bill, now before Congress with a mandate to rush it through before clear-thinking people can stop it, can be found here<\/a>.\u00a0 And if you think THAT\u2019S over the top, check out the bills introduced in the last few days in Illinois, which would have basically limited residents of that state to revolvers, Old West and WWI-period rifles, and double barrel shotguns. HB815<\/a>\u00a0 HB1263<\/a><\/p>\n Over the top? OH, yeah!\u00a0 Guns you can\u2019t bequeath to your children.\u00a0 Property legally purchased and responsibly owned, to be confiscated? Or \u2013 the history-proven first step toward confiscation \u2013 \u201cregistered\u201d? \u00a0And, of course, tens of millions of law-abiding American citizens suddenly \u201ccriminalized.\u201d<\/p>\n The Illinois bill seems <\/i>at the moment to be out of play\u2026but it is by no means off the table yet.\u00a0 READ the damn thing: it\u2019s the very definition of \u201cDraconian.\u201d\u00a0 The precedent it would set for criminalization of other lawfully-owned property is nothing less than terrifying.<\/p>\n Are they going this far over the top to create an illusory paradigm in which what last November would have been long-established, Supreme Court approved civil rights, are now bargaining chips for some politically correct \u201cmiddle ground of compromise\u201d?\u00a0 Damn sure looks that way. Or have we seen the opening of something much more frightening, much more insidious, and with much more potential to send the nation most associated with freedom down a slippery slope that is so steep it could never again be ascended?<\/p>\n Think about it. The demands in the Illinois bill, which even the day after the Newtown atrocity would have been seen by impartial observers as over the top, have now become a reality on the legislative dockets.<\/p>\n Write your representatives in Washington, and<\/i> at the state level. The anti-gunners are going state level too, with New York (confiscation in the air there!), Florida, Colorado and other states facing this.\u00a0 Let them know, politely but firmly, that this is over the top, and that Reality is still the baseline of reason.\u00a0 And if you\u2019ve let them know already, write them again and remind them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The saying \u201cnothing succeeds like excess\u201d has been attributed to Oscar Wilde.\u00a0 It seems that Wilde has been channeled by our President, and by Dianne Feinstein, and others leading the full-court press against gun owners\u2019 civil rights in the last few weeks. 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