Drake's Place: Bernie Sanders Wants to Confiscate our guns.

Thursday, March 21, 2019

Bernie Sanders Wants to Confiscate our guns.

And other knee-jerk reactions to the New Zealand mosque shooting because knee-jerk reactions are always the wisest reaction:

Townhall: Bernie Sanders "more gun laws; go after the NRA."

[Following New Zealand's ban on all military-style semi-automatic weapons] Democrat presidential candidate and socialist Bernie Sanders endorsed the move right away and said it needs to happen in the United States. He wants to strip Americans of their Second Amendment rights overnight.

The Independent: Sanders, "This is what real action looks like."

“This is what real action to stop gun violence looks like,” [said Sanders] on Twitter. “We must follow New Zealand’s lead, take on the NRA and ban the sale and distribution of assault weapons in the United States.”

Conservative Review: NZ's knee-jerk gun ban is EXACTLY why we have the Second Amendment.

That’s just one thing that’s so great about having a Constitution that’s hard to change by design and has language specifically protecting the right to keep and bear arms. Every human being is born with the intrinsic right to defend themselves. Period. Our Founders knew this and wisely put a backstop in place that keeps reactionary impulses from trampling over that right.

Washington Examiner: Democrat's celebrating New Zealand gun ban exposes the Left's authoritarian impulses.

Democrats cheered the actions of the government of New Zealand. Even as liberals often insist that nobody is talking about taking away guns, many applauded the decision of a government to quickly confiscate weapons from law-abiding citizens without any debate or legal arguments.

Breitbart: Bernie Sanders calls for NZ style gun ban in U.S.

...the DOJ released a study showing handguns are the weapons of choice for criminals. The study looked at roughly 300,000 federal and state inmates, finding that 18 percent of them used handguns in the commission of their crimes while 1.4 percent used rifles of any kind. The percentage of “assault weapons” used would have necessarily been even lower than 1.4.

But Sanders and other Democrats want to ban commonly-owned semiautomatic rifles under the guise of keeping us safe.

The Guardian via MSN by Lois Beckett: 25 years of inaction in U.S. gun laws. (Lois be smokin' some potent nugs):

In the US, where conservative politicians have blocked even moderate gun control for 25 years, New Zealand’s swift action was greeted as a powerful inspiration – and a reminder of how far behind the country is.

Freedom Outpost: 50 Years of Federal Gun Tyranny.

One of the biggest infringements upon the rights of the people regarding arms is the 1968 Gun Control Act. It's been fifty years since that unconstitutional piece of legislation was foisted upon the American people and we are still under its tyranny.