Opponents of private firearms ownership are always looking for ways to keep people from buying, possessing or using firearms for legitimate purposes. They refuse to acknowledge the rights protected by the Second Amendment of the Constitution which was included in the Bill of Rights by America’s founders to prohibit the new government they were creating from “infringing” on the pre-existing right of people to protect themselves, their communities and their families from those who would deprive them of their freedom.
When Hurricane Katrina in 2005 devastated New Orleans, the Mayor sent police house to house to confiscate firearms from law-abiding citizens even as marauding gangs were looting the city. They were stopped only after gun owners got a federal court to put a stop to the practice.
It’s happening again in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic and not just in New Orleans. Anti-gun politicians across the country are using the pandemic to advance their anti-Second Amendment agenda in new and sometimes imaginative ways. New Orleans is suspending gun sales. New Jersey has said they will no longer process firearms transfers through the federal National Instant Check System which makes them, in effect, illegal and other states are closing gun stores as “non-essential.”
Colorado, a center of “progressivism” in the mountains has, at the state level at least, refused to shut down firearms sales, but the Mayor of Denver announced this week that while he considers liquor stores and marijuana retailers “essential” enterprises exempt from the shutdown I effect there, firearms retailers do not qualify for the exemption as “essential.”
All of this is happening in jurisdictions where police are instructed to ease up on law enforcement and prisoners are being released from jails and prisons. Citizens who can no longer rely at all on the police for protection in these jurisdictions are now being told they have no right to legally obtain the firearms they want and need to protect themselves, their homes and their families. Such protection goes to the core of the Second Amendment especially at a time when law enforcement is often consciously AWOL.
These efforts will continue and increase as the shutdown continues. Liberals are appalled at the fact that since the pandemic began firearms sales have been increasing as more and more Americans are deciding that if they aren’t prepared to protect their families, no one will.
The National Rifle Association has just launched a new website designed to keep firearms owners and Second Amendment supporters apprised of these new threats to the Second Amendment. It’s to be found at www.nraila.org/coronavirus and those concerned about their rights in these challenging times would be wise to keep up with how the gun control community is working to take advantage of a crisis to enact new restrictions on those rights.
Those Democrat politicians are violating the Constitution but they’re not being arrested and that’s the problem, they think they’re getting away with it and they are as long as noone stops them which is the DOJ job to do – Barr apparently has little regard for allowing our Constitution to be obeyed b/c he should’ve acted by now since looting is a problem and those out of work and small businesses shut down need to defend themselves b/c Thugs ALWAYS have the guns.
Barr is a known anti gunner, so no surprise there.
he is also unable to arrest people that have admitted to a crime at a sub-committee hearing. He is a swamp creature, nothing will change. Socialist Amerika must die….restore the republic
Well, hopefully the American citizens will see just how evil democrats truly are and will turn away from satan!
Amen
Apparently the DOJ is Leaving it up to Us the People to Take the Appropriate Action as Envisioned in the 2nd Amendment, So these Scum Who are Deliberately Violating the Constitutional Rights of Citizens will Eventually be Removed Permanently!
“We the Slaves can’t remove them for violating their oath. Isn’t that called fraud ?
Spktruth I TOTALLY Agree with you. There iS ONLY So Much President Trump or Barr CaN Do! The AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE GOING TO HAVE TO PICK UP THEIR ARMS AND DEFEND OUR COUNTRY AND WAY OF LIFE BEFORE IT’S GONE FOREVER ! The Enemies ARE Picking up steam and Blanton corruption Since NO ONE IS STOPPING THEM. THE ILLEGALS INVADED OUR COUNTRY AND STILL ARE BY THE HUNDREDS DAILY! THE CLINTONS, SOROS, MULLER, OBUMMER, COMEY, ETC.. ARE STILL ALIVE, WALKING AROUND AND COMMITING TREASON AGAINST THE USA.. PLUS ALL THE OTHER CRIMES THEY’VE ALL COMMITTED. I DON’T THINK THE QUESTION IS ARE WE GOING TO HAVE TO DEFEND OUR COUNTRY IT’S WHEN ARE THE PATRIOT AMERICANS GOING TO GET OFF THEIR BUTT AND FIGHT TO SAVE OUR COUNTRY AND OUR WAY OF LIFE WE AND OUR FOREFATHERS FOUGHT FOR?? WHEN??
4TH OF JULY MIGHT BE A GREAT TIME.
GET OUR INDEPENDENCE BACK FROM THOSE SELLING THE USA OUT !
INDEPENDENCE DAY 2020
Look at the Democrat mayors who are shutting down entire cities. They are mostly Democrats taking orders from the elite. There is no real crisis. IN DFW, with 7.5 million people, on 10 dead from corona. How many dead from drunks and flu in the same period of time?
Pray.
Then obey II Chronicles 7:14
If God does not intervene, trust John 14:1=3
A.D. Roberts, It IS A Crisis.. SCIENTIST CREATED ANOTHER BIOLOGICAL WEAPON! ONE OF MANY! H1N1, SARS, CARONA TO name a Few +++ . The UNIVERSITIES ArE FUNDED BY BILL GATES SO HE CAN THEN SELL PHARMACYS and Consumers the MEDICINE TO FIX IT! ALL PROVEN! They NEED STOPPED FROM BEING ALLOWED TO MAKE THESE ! WhY do we need VIRUSES that’s going to KILL People?? Oh yeah, so the Universities scientist have a job, so pharmacy can sell the Cure for the VIRUSES THEY CREATED. And so BILL GATES and WIFE CAN FUND THE DEEP STATE, THE ELITES, PEDOPHILES AND CONTROL THE PEOPLE. They trying everything imaginable and unimaginable to impeach President Trump, THE Russian election interference didn’t work, the obstruction of Justice, lol didn’t work so here we ARE. BILL Gates and FRIENDS CREATING sinking economy, sick and D dead people, unemployment, sickness to people throughout the world. STILL PRESIDENT TRUMP, MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL, AND PATRIOTS HANDLING IT GREAT As can be Expected. ( No matter what President Trump did to take action, with some people, he’d be damned if he did and damned if he don’t) . BILL GATES NEEDS A CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT BROUGHT AGAINST HIM BY EVERYONE EFFECTED! AND STOP MAKING VIRUSES!! There ARE MANY that ALSO Die from the different “FLU/VIRUSES. AND THERE’S MEDICINES AND VACCINES FOR THOSE ! Guess who HAS PATENTS ON THEM? BINGO…. BILL GATES AND HIS FUNDED UNIVERSITIES!
A.D. Roberts what’s John 14:1=3?
I PRAY Also. Thank you ?
Guns for sport and self defense are essential; those politicians and activists who oppose the right of a citizen to own a gun are not essential.