Surprise,
Surprise: March For Our Lives Once Again Shows Why The Left Can’t Be Trusted On
Gun Control, by Matt Vespa, 3/25/18, Townhall
There are areas where gun control
activists and the pro-Second Amendment camp can meet. There are gun violence
protective orders; keeping guns out of the hands of criminals, domestic
abusers, and the mentally ill. But we’ll never get there. It’s all a trap. Even
bills that strengthen the National Instant
Criminal Background Check System
(NICS) are a dangerous game because if you give the Left an inch, they’ll take
a mile. They admitted it yesterday.
Deleney Tarr, a Marjory Stoneman
Douglas High
School student, gave an impassioned speech about
how they’re going to do exactly that concerning gun control legislation, which
is why Republicans, conservatives, pro-Second Amendment supporters, an any
American who supports the Bill of Rights and the Constitution needs to start
packing more sandbags and make sure our base turns out in 2018.
The Huffington Post had
a transcript of her speech from yesterday’s
March To Take Away Our Rights…I mean—March For Our Lives rally
[emphasis mine]
My name is Delaney Tarr, and I’m
here today because I’m a Marjory Stoneman Douglas student. However, I’m not
here today for the media. I’m not here for the crowds, as great as you all are,
for the fame, for the fun. I’m here on this stage today and I’ve been working
every day for my 17 fellow Eagles who were pronounced dead because of gunfire.
I am here for every person that has
died at the hands of gun violence and for the many more whose lives were
irreparably changed because of it. I think, I hope that that is why we are all
here. Because this is more than just a march. This is more than just one day,
one event, then moving on. This is not a mere publicity stunt, a single day in
the span of history. This is a movement.
This is a movement reliant on the
persistence and passion of its people. We cannot move on. If we move on, the
NRA and those against us will win. They want us to forget. They want our voices
to be silenced. And they want to retreat into the shadows where they can remain
unnoticed. They want to be back on top, unquestioned in their corruption, but
we cannot and we will not let that happen.
Today, and every day, we will
continue to fight for those things that are right. We will continue to fight
for common sense. We will continue to fight for our lives. We will continue to
fight for our dead friends. There will be no faltering, no pauses in our cause.
Every moment will be dedicated to those pieces of legislation, every march,
every meeting, every moment. All for that assault weapons ban to keep these
weapons of war out of the hands of civilians who do not need them. All for the
prohibition of high-capacity magazines. Because no hunter will ever need access
to a magazine that can kill 17 in mere minutes. All for the reinforcement of
background checks and closing of loopholes, because there must be more of a
requirement for a person to access a gun than just a wad of cash.
There are so very many things, so
many steps to take. Like right now, sign our petition. It takes two seconds and
it matters. We will take the big and we will take the small, but we will keep
fighting. When they give us that
inch, that bump stock ban, we will take a mile.
We are not here for bread crumbs. We
are here for real change. We are here to lead. We are here to call out every
single politician, to force them into enacting this legislation, to addressing
this legislation, to doing more than a simple Band-Aid on a broken bone. The
pressure is on for every person in power, and it will stay that way. Because
they know what is coming. They know that if there is no assault weapons ban
passed, then we will vote them out. They know that if there is no tightening of
the background checks, we will vote them out. They know that if there is no
shrinking of magazine capacity, then we will vote them out.
If they continue to ignore us, to
only pretend to listen, then we will take action where it counts. We will take
action every day, in every way, until they simply cannot ignore us anymore.
Today we march, we fight, we roar. We prepare our signs, we raise them high. We
know what we want, we know how to get it, and we are not waiting any longer.
"When they
give us that inch, the bump stock ban, we will take a mile" - the current
speaker at the #MarchForOurLives
She then listed
off demands for universal background checks, an assault weapons ban, and a ban
on so-called high capacity magazines.
Today, we grab
our signs, we lace our shoes, and we get ready to roar. See ya there. #MarchForOurLives
First of all, let’s drop the myth
that America is a shooting gallery. It’s not, especially in our schools, which
are safer than ever. School
shootings are still rare. Mass shootings are rare. Second, Fix NICS was
part of the omnibus bill that was signed into law by President Donald Trump on
Friday, so background checks have taken a step forward in being tightened. The
NRA and the National Shooting Sports Foundation supported Fix NICS.
So, what if the anti-gun mob has their way and gets magazine
limits, a new ban on so-called assault weapons, and universal background
checks. They want to take a mile, many more miles, if we give them an inch.
It’s a gun ban. It’s gun confiscation. It’s the abolition of the Second
Amendment. And this is not just something that was a byproduct of the tragic
shooting in Parkland, Florida. This has been on the progressive agenda for
years. They’re just using aggrieved teenagers to push it because emotions are
valued more than facts in this battle—and the Left has all the feelings in the
fight to strip Americans of their rights.
That’s where we’re heading if
these people
win. We cannot let that happen, which
is why I’m worried about 2018. House Democrats already have a bill that virtually bans firearms in this country, with 82 percent supporting
the ban on all semiautomatic firearms, which includes handguns. This is where
their base is on the issue of gun control.
The conservative movement needs to
unite and defeat this upswell. This is not just a fight over the Second
Amendment. It’s for the Bill of Rights. It’s for the heart and soul of the
country that is being put in the crosshairs. This isn’t just some other fight;
it’s a deeply entrenched and highly intense cultural one. Things could get
messy. It’ll start with these action items. The universal background check
system the Left wants would have to be a national registry to track private
transfers, which are mostly family inheritances, like a father passing down his
guns to his son or daughter, which is common. This will be the blueprint from
which mass gun confiscation could occur. If it does—let’s just entertain this
for a second—then, we’ll see police going door-to-door to grab these firearms
from law-abiding citizens. I’m sure the Left would have zero problems with
this, though they become incensed when federal agents round up illegal aliens;
illegals over citizens, sounds like where the progressive Left is today, huh?
Let’s not give them an inch. It’s
times like these that defending freedom is difficult. Stick to your guns (no
pun intended). Use their hate to motivate you; head to that voting precinct on
2018 and don’t check that box that reads “Democratic.” When the Left calls you
a terrorist for being an NRA member or says that you have blood on my hands for
supporting the Bill of Rights? Renew or join the NRA and start donating to
other pro-Second Amendment organizations and politicians. Also, you can be both
for gun rights and keeping schools safe.
We know what the end game is with
these people. After they’re done with the Second Amendment, the great progressive
campaign to shred the Constitution of its institutional mechanisms that prevent
mob rule through transient majorities will begin. And that’s when we cease, in
my eyes, to be a country. This is merely the first round of a long battle. This
is what’s at stake. The long war with the Left never ended. It was just an
extended halftime. Just remember they can’t be trusted.
Comments
The right
to self-defense is inalienable according to Cicero. Our Constitution recognizes
this in the 2nd Amendment in our Bill of Rights. Countries like the UK, who have already
banned guns makes citizens helpless to ward off criminals and their crime data
supports this. The Brits are now
demanding their guns back for self-defense.
The Obama
years taught us that we very well might face a fascist national police force and
a brutal, corrupt Communist government that we would ultimately have to remove.
The Japanese didn’t attack the US mainland during World War II, because most
American citizens had guns. I would not
even ban assault rifles for these reasons. We own guns for deterrence. The Left
is an existential threat to our liberty.
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody Tea Party Leader
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