Democratic Overreach on the Second Amendment

It appears the Colorado Legislature is going to punish the legal American gun owners with tough new restrictions of their Second Amendment rights.  Lawmakers in Colorado are about to expand background checks (which is similar to a gun registry....illegal to do), limit ammunition magazines to 15 rounds (which is a way to eliminate the AR-15)  to name just a couple of the amendments that will pass through the Democratic controlled House, Senate and Governor's office.  Hundreds of pro-Second Amendment supporters were surrounding the State Capitol building voicing their displeasure.  They were totally ignored.  Retired astronaut and Navy captain Mark Kelly told lawmakers that he and his wife, Gabby Giffords, support the Second Amendment, but he said the right to bear arms shouldn't extend to criminals and the mentally ill. Gabby Giffords, former Colorado U.S. Representative, was shot in the head by a deranged gunman a few years ago. 

It always gets to me that these people say they support the Second Amendment but.....always that "but" in there.  Democrats and gun control supporters say they want to limit access of certain types of guns to criminals and the mentally ill.   But, they are living in a make believe world if they think background checks and limits on magazines will stop gun violence.  Even gun confiscation will not stop these people from getting their hands on guns.  If you start to confiscate guns, then you will have a second American Revolution on your hands.  Not even president Obama and the Democrats want that....well, at least I think they don't want that.  I could be wrong.  As usual, Democrats are over reacting and overreaching on an issue.  Like the massive spending that led to the 2010 "Democratic shellacking,"  this gun control issue will come back and bite Democrats in the ass in the mid-terms in 2014.  Apparently, Democrats never learn.

***This will be my last post for a while.  I'm taking a couple of weeks off.  Next post will me March 20th.

Obama Memo on Gun Control

A U.S. Department of Justice memo has got the National Rifle Association (NRA) in an uproar.  The memo states, "... requiring background checks for more gun purchases could help, but also could lead to more illicit weapons sales. It says banning assault weapons and high capacity ammunition magazines produced in the future but exempting those already owned by the public, as Obama has proposed, would have limited impact because people now own so many of those items."    It also goes on to state that a total ban of assault weapons would have little effect on gun killings because assault weapons account for a very limited number of killings due to guns.  The Obama Administration continues to push for a ban of assault weapons regardless of what the memo indicates.  The Justice Department, for their part, reiterate the memo is an unfinished review of gun violence research and said it does not represent administration policy.

So, based on the above, why does the Obama Administration continue to push for a ban on some or most assault weapons such as the AR-15?   Their own research states background checks, and a federal registry for gun owners will have limited effect at best.  Everyone in the NRA has been saying the Obama Administration's initiatives will have little impact on gun violence in this country.  A gun ban will not work without mandatory gun confiscation, which so far, Obama has not advocated.  So, why the continued push for an assault weapons ban, which the Obama Administrtion admits in the memo will not work?  Why advocate a universal background check on all gun purchases when they know it will not work to curb gun violence?  Is it to just make the appearance of doing something when they already know it will do nothing at all?  This is all politics, pure and simple.  The only people who don't understand that are the anti-gun loons who follow through on whatever their Socialist masters dictate.  Obama knows his initiative will have very little effect on gun violence.  He knows banning guns tomorrow would have no effect with the millions of guns in possession of Americans, legally and illegally, across the nation.  So, why the dogged determination to push forward with a failed gun policy?  It's either politics as usual or....a precursor to undermine the Second Amendment.  I tend to believe it is both.