“You’re crazy,” they said. “Nobody wants to take away your guns.
“So,” they continued, “hand over your guns.”
On Tuesday, The New York Times once again revealed the ultimate agenda of gun control proponents in the United States: a full-scale gun grab. The charge was led on the op-ed page by former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, who thankfully no longer wields power in the judiciary. His piece is a mishmash of Leftist sloganeering and bad legalese.
He begins by praising the marches and rallies that have taken place since the Parkland shooting:
Rarely in my lifetime have I seen the type of civic engagement schoolchildren and their supporters demonstrated in Washington and other major cities throughout the country this past Saturday. These demonstrations demand our respect. They reveal the broad public support for legislation to minimize the risk of mass killings of schoolchildren and others in our society.
This is silly, frankly. Rallies and marches take place all the time, and they rarely lead to concerted action on the legislative front. In 2000, 750,000 demonstrators showed up to the Million Mom March to push gun control and scaremonger about the NRA; no legislation was forthcoming. Less than one-third that number showed up on Saturday in DC, but we’re supposed to believe that some sort of game changer has taken place in American public opinion?
But according to Stevens, the marches are a sign that it’s time to seriously curb weapons ownership in the United States:
That support is a clear sign to lawmakers to enact legislation prohibiting civilian ownership of semiautomatic weapons, increasing the minimum age to buy a gun from 18 to 21 years old, and establishing more comprehensive background checks on all purchasers of firearms. But the demonstrators should seek more effective and more lasting reform. They should demand a repeal of the Second Amendment.
So, it’s not enough to pass a law that would effectively bar the ownership of all semi-automatic weapons – nearly all weapons in the US, which would obviously violate the Second Amendment under both its text and DC v. Heller (2008). Stevens wants the Second Amendment gone.
Well, thanks for his honesty, I suppose.
He continues:
Concern that a national standing army might pose a threat to the security of the separate states led to the adoption of that amendment, which provides that “a well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.” Today that concern is a relic of the 18th century.
Yes, clearly Americans have nothing to worry about when a massive centralized government sweeps in to confiscate all privately-owned weapons in the United States. That’s never been followed by anything bad. And obviously the government will be able to protect us from the predation of criminals, just as they protected the children of Parkland, where the FBI ignored two credible warnings, the local law enforcement authorities ignored over 40 calls to the home, and the school ignored the behavior of the shooter.