{"id":6367,"date":"2018-04-23T20:37:30","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T03:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vinsuprynowicz.com\/?p=6367"},"modified":"2018-04-24T09:40:31","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T16:40:31","slug":"the-false-flag-drive-toward-registration-confiscation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vinsuprynowicz.com\/?p=6367","title":{"rendered":"The false-flag drive toward registration, confiscation"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What the heck is Donald Trump up to?<\/p>\n

The 2016 Republican Party Platform supports “the right of individuals to keep and bear arms,\u201d properly calling it \u201ca natural inalienable right that predates the Constitution and is secured by the Second Amendment.”<\/p>\n

Yes, Mr. Trump has waffled over the years on such scams as an \u201cassault weapons ban.\u201d (\u201cAssault weapons\u201d have selector switches which allow them to fire full-auto. Since the BATF won\u2019t allow them to be either imported or newly manufactured \u201cfor civilian use,\u201d they\u2019re so expensive as to be de facto banned for all but the wealthy or the extremely dedicated, already -\u2013 even before we start talking about requiring our fingerprints and that $200 \u201ctax\u201d and agreeing to let the BATF knock on your door and \u201cinspect your weapon\u201d at any time.)<\/p>\n

The failed Democratic \u201cassault weapons ban\u201d of 1994-2004 was a lie. It merely tried to ban certain cosmetic features (\u201cdescending\u201d handgrips, bayonet lugs) on certain SEMI-automatic rifles, accomplishing no reduction in crime . . . though it did produce such charming and bizarre work-arounds as the \u201cthumb-hole stock.\u201d<\/p>\n

But candidate Trump, who has a concealed carry permit and says he sometimes carries and who now says he believes trained teachers should be armed (a good step -\u2013 it\u2019s worked in Israel), said during the sixth Republican primary debate on Jan. 14, 2016, “I am a Second amendment person. If we had guns in California on the other side where the bullets went in the different direction, you wouldn’t have 14 or 15 people dead right now. If even in Paris, if they had guns on the other side, going in the opposite direction, you wouldn’t have 130 people plus dead.\u201d<\/p>\n

After last year\u2019s NRA convention, Mr. Trump tweeted “To the N.R.A., I can proudly say I will never, ever let you down.\u201d The NRA gave his campaign $30 million and endorsed him. I\u2019ve got to believe 95 percent of gun owners voted for Trump.<\/p>\n

Yet there he was, holding a big \u201cWhat can be done?\u201d White House discussion group with both Republican and Democrat congresscritters on Feb. 28, after the Feb. 14 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Florida.<\/p>\n

Rep. Steve Scalise of Louisiana, who was shot by a Democratic activist last summer because he\u2019s a Republican (Hey, \u201cLove Trumps Hate\u201d), suggested interstate recognition of concealed carry permits (\u201creciprocity,\u201d as with driver\u2019s licenses) would help. The President told him that couldn\u2019t be included in \u201cthe bill\u201d because it would never pass. (What?)<\/p>\n

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But President Trump then advised geriatric fascist Dianne Feinstein of California and her cohorts about their renewed \u201cassault weapons ban\u201d -\u2013 they keep referring to one-shot-per-trigger-pull rifles as \u201cweapons of war,\u201d when just by coincidence “weapons of war” are precisely what the Second Amendment protects \u2013- that she should \u201cgo ahead and put it in.\u201d<\/p>\n

This guy sat there and offered the scheming gun-grabbers more than they got under eight years of Barack Obama!<\/p>\n

As recently as March 9, Mr. Trump was stumping for Republican Rick Saccone in a special congressional election in Pennsylvania, warning voters not to fall for Democrat Conor Lamb\u2019s claims to be a gun person. Once he gets in there \u201cHe\u2019s going to vote the party line, . . . they\u2019ll take away your Second Amendment rights,\u201d Mr. Trump warned the cheering throng.<\/p>\n

Meantime, Mr. Trump almost simultaneously said he wanted to raise the minimum age for buying a long gun to 21, and that he wants to \u201cban bump stocks; they\u2019re going to be gone\u201d . . . even though the Florida school shooter didn\u2019t use a bump-stock.<\/p>\n

(Keeping track of this stuff is like watching high-level ping pong. Three days later, on March 12 \u2013- the NRA having sued the state of Florida one hour after they enacted a similar provision — Trump indicated he\u2019d send the age-hike proposal to be studied by a special commission headed by Chief Schoolmarm Betsy DeVos (the political equivalent to burying it out behind the barn), tweeting \u201cOn 18 to 21 Age Limits, watching court cases and rulings before acting. States are making this decision. Things are moving rapidly on this, but not much political support (to put it mildly).\u201d<\/p>\n

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THE SCHOOL DISTRICT BURIED, COVERED UP ALL CRIMES<\/strong><\/p>\n

Come on. The reason Nikolas de Jesus Cruz was able to buy the gun he used to shoot up his South Florida high school on Valentine\u2019s Day was because schools officials there in Broward County -\u2013 and county government officials including the sheriff \u2013 were so upset to have their school district declared the most crime-ridden in Florida for the year 2010-2011 that they signed a formal agreement, no, not to actually reduce the felonies COMMITTED by their young charges (that might have required actually getting tough), but merely to stop ARRESTING AND CHARGING their young inmates for such crimes as housebreaking, burglary, assault, vandalism, elder abuse, torturing animals, putting a gun to someone\u2019s head, or posting Online (as young Mr. Cruz did repeatedly, using his own name) death threats, including a warning that he intended to become \u201ca professional school shooter\u201d . . . all so that the school district\u2019s STATISTICS would look better.<\/p>\n

Broward County deputies missed between 20 and 39 chances (depending on who\u2019s counting) to arrest young Cruz on any or all of those charges. Then, when he suited up and started roaming the corridors of his high school, shooting to kill, Broward deputies, who voluntarily swear an oath to serve and to protect, hid outside the building, in stairwells or squatting behind their cruisers, squatted there with their thumbs up their butts, listening to the gunfire, allowing late-arriving officers from another jurisdiction to enter the school first.<\/p>\n

The politicians’ response to THAT? “Hey, these things happen.”<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not saying –prior to his committing multiple murders, you understand — that this troubled young man necessarily should have gone to prison for decades, just for “acting crazy.” But if normal procedures had been followed -\u2013 if THE LAW had been followed -\u2013 if his crimes had led to arrests and being processed through the courts, then even if he\u2019d then received some kind of supervised probation, a paper trail would have been created which would have warned and blocked any federally licensed firearm dealer from selling him a firearm.<\/p>\n

Instead of solving that problem -\u2013 the REAL problem -\u2013 both Donald Trump and the governor and state Legislature of Florida now want to raise the age for purchasing a long gun to 21?<\/p>\n

Is that likely to reduce the crime rate?<\/p>\n

Not by very much, since a) most teen-agers who commit crimes with long guns steal them, and b) most teen-age hoodlums who commit crimes with guns prefer handguns . . . which they ALSO acquire illegally.<\/p>\n

WHY STOP WITH HALF MEASURES?<\/strong><\/p>\n

But let\u2019s concede, just for the sake of argument, that we could somehow really deprive every American aged 18 to 20 of any and all firearms. Since crime might go down A LITTLE, you can expect our sneaky totalitarian judges, whose courthouses are protected by lots of armed bailiffs, to say that would be OK, as long as it would \u201cenhance public safety even a little.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of course, we might have to raise the age for admission into the armed forces to 21, since it doesn\u2019t make much sense to let someone join the armed forces if we\u2019ve just declared it\u2019s not safe to allow them to touch firearms. But is that such a bad idea? Twenty-one-year-olds are more mature and responsible, less hot-headed. So it makes sense they\u2019d make better soldiers and sailors. Right?<\/p>\n

In fact, you know what? Instead of dismissing that argument, I\u2019m going to embrace it. Because if crime could be reduced A LITTLE by raising the legal age for possessing a firearm to 21, why stop there? Couldn\u2019t it be shown, statistically, that MOST irresponsible firearm use occurs among the young -\u2013 who certainly aren\u2019t as mature and responsible as they were in granddad\u2019s day, especially because of the way they\u2019re coddled and turned into useful idiots in today\u2019s mandatory socialist youth propaganda camps (\u201cpublic schools\u201d) -\u2013 being bused to the Legislature at taxpayer expense and conned into thinking they\u2019re \u201chelping write our firearm laws\u201d? (Government by kiddies! Brilliant!) Couldn\u2019t crime be reduced a lot more (except for rapes, of course — the rapists, I\u2019ll admit, would love this), if we were to raise the minimum age for possessing a firearm to 35?<\/p>\n

The Spartans didn’t want a man risk his life in the army till after he\u2019d fathered a child to carry on his bloodline. I think we\u2019d have a much more mature and responsible armed forces if we restricted membership to those over 35 -\u2013 many of whom need the job opportunities, frankly, after 28 years of Democrat-RINO job-destruction.<\/p>\n

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And why stop there? If it\u2019s OK to deprive some younger Americans of a God-given, constitutionally-guaranteed right in order to \u201cenhance public safety A LITTLE,\u201d what about driving? MOST reckless driving and drunk driving accidents involve drivers under 35. Why can\u2019t we raise the driving age to 35? What\u2019s a little inconvenience if it enhances public safety, even a little? Those young folks can hitchhike to work, or ride a bicycle. Be good for \u2019em.<\/p>\n

And why not the drinking age, as well? Surely those 35 years old and older tend to drink more responsibly than a bunch of 18- or 21-year-old kids. Remember, \u201canything to enhance the public safety, even by A LITTLE!\u201d<\/p>\n

And I haven\u2019t even gotten to the most dangerous thing we foolishly allow these immature young stooges to do: voting. Won\u2019t you agree with me that this country would be a whole lot better off if we restricted voting to those more mature, more thoughtful, far less socialist citizens who are 35 or older? (Frankly, I think restricting voting to those over 55 might be even better, though I want to be reasonable, here; I\u2019m willing to compromise at 35.)<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m being a bit facetious, you understand, a bit sarcastic. But if instead of dealing with the REAL problem in Florida (let\u2019s recall our corrupt, useless FBI as well as the local police ignored NUMEROUS called-in tips — not anonymous rumors, very specific reports about how dangerous this Cruz kid was, by people willing to give their names) we\u2019re going to strip away the rights of millions of Americans who HAVEN\u2019T committed any of young Cruz\u2019s many felonies, why stop with guns?<\/p>\n

Police were called out to visit with the Florida “Valentine\u2019s Day” shooter-to-be THIRTY-NINE TIMES over the past seven years, for “mentally ill, domestic violence, assault, threats, vandalism, Peeping Tom, shooting animals, putting a gun to someone\u2019s head . . .” yet neither cops nor school officials ever made use of the Florida Mental Health Act of 1971 (as revised 2009 \u2014 “The Baker Act”) to send him in for 72 hours\u2019 involuntary evaluation, at which point someone MIGHT have decided to submit his name to a list limiting gun purchases?<\/p>\n

(That\u2019s what Mr. Trump was referring to when he famously said, back on Feb. 28, that we should \u201ctake their guns first, do the due process later.\u201d Indeed, temporarily securing the firearms of someone being sent in for evaluation under Florida\u2019s Baker Act probably does make sense. What Mr. Trump needs to remember, though, is that evil empires like the Soviet Union would routinely declare political opponents \u201cmentally ill,\u201d sending them to \u201cpsychiatric facilities\u201d to receive electric shock therapy, chemical lobotomies, whatever. By which time it goes without saying they\u2019d long since been disarmed, while due process \u201cwaited awhile.\u201d Like, 73 years. This is why those of us who have read some history get nervous when the most powerful man in the world engages in such easily misinterpreted loose talk, Mr. President.)<\/p>\n

A TROJAN HORSE CALLED ‘BUMP STOCKS’<\/strong><\/p>\n

And that\u2019s not all. Mr. Trump also says he\u2019s going to get busy cooperating with the Democrats to ban bump stocks! \u201cThey\u2019re going to be gone,\u201d he said on March 9.<\/p>\n

This part should be pretty obvious, so let\u2019s go through it quickly:<\/p>\n

It wouldn\u2019t do any good to enact a law saying \u201cEverything called a \u2018bump stock\u2019 is hereby banned,\u201d since it would take at most two weeks for everyone to simply switch to labeling their bump stocks \u201cTrigger Helpers\u201d or \u201cRecoil Buddies,\u201d at which point such a law wouldn\u2019t be worth the paper it\u2019s printed on. So the task is figuring out to how to write a law that bans what the bump stock DOES. . . . which even Mr. Trump admitted on March 9 in Pennsylvania is \u201creally complicated.\u201d<\/p>\n

What they\u2019ll end up doing is trying to ban the manufacture, sale, or possession of anything that \u201cincreases a firearm\u2019s rate of fire.\u201d<\/p>\n

Problem is, we\u2019ve dealt with these sneaky, hate-filled gun-grabbers a lot longer than Mr. Trump. How creatively could you interpret that language, if you were a smug totalitarian gun-grabber, protected day and night by dozens of your own armed guards, but in reality wishing to strip the arms from every tax-paying peasant, so you could stop them from getting so uppity, control them as well as Stalin and Hitler and Mao used to do, slaughter a few million as an object lesson in obedience from time to time?<\/p>\n

One thing that speeds up the ability of a shooter to reload a new round and get off a second and third shot in a hurry is a \u201cgas-diversion system,\u201d which taps some of the exhaust gas from the barrel after it\u2019s sent the bullet on its way, directing that high-pressure gas back to push open the bolt, at which point a couple of springs can chamber a new round and close the bolt. In short, such language could be used to ban the \u201csemi-automatic rifle,” as developed by Thomas Crosslley Johnson and others for such firearms as the Winchester Self Loading Rifle, Models 1903, 1905, 1907 and 1910.<\/p>\n

Ban that \u201cspeed-of-fire enhancement,\u201d and we could soon be limited to our manual turnbolt 1903 Springfields and 1898 Mausers.<\/p>\n

But wait! Doesn\u2019t the manual turnbolt in fact speed up the rate of fire of the rifle, way beyond what would be possible without that breech-loading brass cartridge? I think it does. So wouldn\u2019t such a law allow the BATF to bar the magazine-fed breech-loading manual turnbolt rifle? I mean, Washington\u2019s Continental Army made do with muzzle-loading flintlocks, firing no more than two rounds a minute, didn\u2019t they? Why would you need to fire any faster than that?<\/p>\n

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Erich Pratt of Gun Owners of America told Breitbart News in early March: \u201cGOA is committed to fighting any regulation or ban on bump stocks. This issue goes far beyond stocks, because regulating devices that allegedly increase the rate of fire of a firearm can eventually be applied to match triggers, magazines or semi-automatic firearms. In essence, a bump stock ban opens the door to regulate and ban commonly-owned firearms and firearm parts. . . . That is why GOA is already looking ahead to a lawsuit challenging the regulation.\u201d<\/p>\n

TRYING TO LAUNCH THE DISCUSSION<\/strong><\/p>\n

We all know what Donald Trump is trying to do. We can sympathize, up to a point. He ran for office not just against Crooked Hillary and the Depraved Democrat Party (whose platform is basically open borders, \u201csanctuary\u201d cities for Muslim terrorists and child-rapers and Salvadoran murderers, and shooting up pre-pubescent children with inappropriate hormones to turn them into sterilized \u201ctrangendered individuals\u201d), but also against a shrieking socialist media\/entertainment complex that continues to ridicule him as a clueless oaf, predicting his demise on a daily basis, AND fully half of the REPUBLICAN Party \u2013 \u201cNevertrump\u201d RINOS who would LOVE to see Trump die of a paralytic stroke (or by any other means) so the Democrats could again recapture the White House and both houses of Congress, so these strutting “Republican” poseurs could go back to saying \u201cOf COURSE we\u2019d love to repeal Obamacare and defend your gun rights and enforce the immigration laws, if only those darned majority Democrats would let us! (nudge nudge, wink wink)\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump is pragmatic, a deal-maker. He doesn\u2019t want to sit walled up in the White House like the Man in the Ivory Tower, issuing laughable (but doctrinally pure) edicts that everyone would ignore. He wants to \u201cpeel off\u201d some of those RINOs and even some of those Democrats, get them to make some deals, “get stuff done.” So he invites them to the White House and plays \u201cMister Middle-of-the-Road,\u201d getting giddy Dianne Feinstein all wet in the panties by telling her to \u201cGo ahead, put your assault weapons ban in there, sweetheart.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ironically enough, the only thing that saved him from making some BAD deals in his first year in office was the unwillingness of the short-sighted, anti-American Democrats to go along with ANY compromise. Look how they refused to accept even his generous offer on \u201cDreamer Amnesty,\u201d since it would have meant also adopting a sensible, merit-based immigration system like every other civilized nation, and REALLY \u201csecuring the southern border,\u201d as the Democrats have been promising to do, cross their hearts and hope to die, ever since they duped Ron Reagan into signing the LAST big amnesty (“and it’ll be the last one, we swear”), back in 1986.<\/p>\n

The solution, I submit, is not to disown Donald Trump as a traitor, but simply to say, \u201cWe respect you, Mr. President, we agree with you on a lot of stuff; we\u2019re glad you\u2019re there on trade and immigration; you saved us from Crooked Hillary continuing to accept tens of millions in Russian and Arab bribes through her “Clinton Foundation”; we certainly hope you get around to Uranium One and FISA-gate, but on this you\u2019re wrong. On this we have to part company, because we\u2019ve dealt with these gun-grabbing scum for decades, and you cannot trust them to make and honor a deal, any deal.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Reaching a compromise with the gun-grabbers is like offering Czechoslovakia to Hitler because in exchange he promises you \u201cPeace in Our Time.\u201d He\u2019s lying. He just needs a few months breathing space -\u2013 while you idiots continue to disarm and dance around the Maypole and figure everything\u2019s fine -\u2013 till he\u2019s ready to invade Poland.<\/p>\n

In the past 80 years, no gun-grabbing politician in America has ever come out and admitted \u201cWhat we really want to is to register every \u2018civilian\u2019 firearm by serial number so we can proceed to confiscate them\u201d . . . have they? And when they get a half-step in that direction -\u2013 like, say, a huge, expensive, national \u201cInstant Background Check\u201d system (which would have done nothing to stop CIA patsies Lee Oswald or Sirhan Sirhan, even assuming their bullets did the jobs in question) -\u2013 do they ever tell their followers, \u201cOK, we\u2019ve accepted this compromise, so in good faith we have to be done with gun control for the next generation at least, time to move on to other issues\u201d?<\/p>\n

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Of course not. The very next morning they\u2019re scheming how to use the NEXT crime committed by some lunatic with a gun -\u2013 some restless youth doped up on mood-altering drugs in his mandatory youth propaganda camp who gets ignored by these liberal bleeding hearts for his first 39 crimes so the background-check system THEY invented can\u2019t possibly work -\u2013 to take the NEXT giant step toward universal registration and confiscation.<\/p>\n

Sorry, Mr. President. These people are never going to love you, respect you, work with you, or give you credit for anything you accomplish. We\u2019re joining or re-upping our memberships in the NRA and GOA, and informing our congresscritters in no uncertain terms: Make My Day. Go ahead and vote for ANY new gun control, baby. ANY of it. We\u2019re taking names. It\u2019s not \u201cyou or the Democrat,\u201d because we\u2019re going to bounce you in the PRIMARY, Bozo, sending a message to Nevertrumpers nationwide. And that message is \u201cYou too can be tending bar on the night shift at the Dew Drop Inn come February of 2019. You think we can\u2019t make it happen? We never did much like your lying ass, anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vin Suprynowicz was for 20 years an award-winning columnist and editorial writer for the daily Las Vegas Review-Journal. He blogs at www.VinSuprynowicz.com.<\/em><\/p>\n

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