...and guess what? I have more than I had in November 2008. The predicted federal gun control laws that were supposed to be enacted during the last four years never were. Nor was the predicted huge excise tax on ammunition that triggered panic buying and hoarding. Gee, I wonder what happened?
Howdy,
I have counted up what guns I have left. I have substantially less than I had in 2008. In the last 4 years stuff has been sold off due to the economy. Even when the economy was going through the supposed improvements. Both "Summers of Recovery" that were supposed to be producing 500,000 jobs per month according to those in power. Never happened. I sold stuff that can NEVER be replaced. I hope that the economy can pick up better in the next four years than it has in the last four, for everybody.
One thing that DID happen is that the elections of 2010 changed the holders of power in the House of Representatives so that the overwhelming majority held by the one party being in control of the Presidency, the House of Representatives, and the Senate could no longer do everything they wanted without a single vote from the other side. And while the Senate still remains in the control of the same party that holds the Presidency, they no longer hold a filibuster proof super majority like they did before 2010. That made it much more difficult for the one party that has a tendency propose more gun control than the other to succeed in proposing more gun control. It also rendered it impossible to tell the American people that they had to "pass the bill so they can see what is in it" as then Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi famously said about the health care bill that was opposed by the majority of the country. And still is. It also rendered it impossible and untenable for the party previously in power to attempt something as underhanded as trying to "Deem the bill passed" without a vote so as to avoid putting their name in association with the vote and then facing the voters, as was proposed by the then and current Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid, regarding that same health care bill.
In the 1990's Patrick Moynihan proposed a 15,000% (PERCENT!) increase in the ammunition sales tax. Undeniably, the goal was not to raise money for government, but to eliminate ammunition sales, rendering guns useless. Was it Alexander Hamilton who said that the power to tax is the power to destroy?
In the 1990's Senator Dianne Feinstein proposed legislation that on the surface and in it's name too if I recall right, was directed at removing guns from the hands of criminals. It failed by ONE (1) vote in the Senate after having passed in the house and was supported by President Clinton. On a national TV show she lamented that she was "only ONE vote away from saying "turn them ALL in, Mr. and Mrs. America"". I found that video on Youtube recently, and can do it again if necessary. It was never about criminals and guns, or she wouldn't have said that.
When politicians of one party do things such as this, yes, people tend to remember. Especially when the same politicians are still in power. And I recognize that politicians of both parties have proposed gun control regulations in the past, and will in the future. But I also recognize that one party in particular has a long history of proposing the most.
The Founding Fathers never in their wildest imaginations considered such shenanigans as I have described above, that actually happened. Whichever way one votes on Tuesday, vote to defend the Constitution. Many of those in power have forgotten about that document. If they ever really read it to begin with.
Take care,
Greg
