Posted by
Pscyclone on Friday, February 27, 2009 8:40:03 PM
I really hate to say, “I told you so.” So I won’t.
Attorney General Eric Holder revealed Team Obama’s cowardice today when he spoke of reinstating the Assault Weapons Ban, this time making it permanent. Verbally slapping the country in the face in the process he added, “I think it will have a positive impact in Mexico, at a minimum.”
If I follow Mr. Holder’s logic correctly, it doesn’t matter that an AWB is already deemed un-Constitutional by D.C. v. Heller, what matters is that we infringe upon an American’s Second Amendment right to self-preservation and freedom from tyranny in order to “have a positive impact” on a foreign nation.
Too, it seems that the Attorney General, speaking for Team Obama, has affirmed what common sense has been telling us for decades; gun control fails to save lives. We have a history (actual and ‘revised’) filled with examples of what happens to a people when a government disarms them. We have contemporary, ‘mature’ nations that are living petri dishes of gun-grab consequences; the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia. In those three countries, the government grabbed all its citizen’s guns and violent crime skyrocketed.
These are right-wing “neocon” talking points. Facts are facts.
So, since gun bans fail to save lives, Mr. Holder tries to invoke the compassion of every day America, “Can’t you just give up your guns – if not for yourself then think of the children in Mexico!”
But more than this, the Attorney General’s remarks demonstrate the cowardice that plagues modern Democrats, “progressive” liberals and apparently Team Obama. An armed society is a polite society, a free society.
John Adams said, “Arms in the hands of the citizens may be used at individual discretion for the defense of the country, the overthrow of tyranny or private self-defense.”
Now what would Team Obama have to be afraid of?