President Joe Biden mentioned it once more. Given one other time period, he’ll do gun management. This time, he’s grotesquely dismissive of the excessive value of freedom that has been paid with the lives of those that fought and died to protect American independence. Thomas Jefferson, the writer of the Invoice of Rights, famously wrote, “The tree of liberty have to be refreshed every so often with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”
President Biden advised the “Smartless” podcast, in line with Breitbart, that he’ll “make it possible for we do one thing about gun violence on this nation” ought to he be elected for a second time period, including, “this — the [tree of] liberty is watered with the blood of patriots, I imply, that’s a bunch of crap.”
President Biden particularly took purpose at re-enacting the failed 1994 Assault Weapons Ban, that even the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention admitted had no impact on crime discount. He reiterated his disproven claims about “cannon management” and once more positioned himself because the pre-eminent Second Modification authority, regardless of the U.S. Supreme Court docket clearly establishing the Second Modification with no consideration of particular person Individuals.
It’s a mantra that may be simple to dismiss if it weren’t for all of the gun management he’s already applied by bypassing Congress and abusing his government authority to assault the firearm trade.
Punishing Second Modification Freedom
He targets “rogue” gun sellers, when even his personal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) officers revealed information exhibiting they’re not the issue. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ Quantity Three of the Nationwide Firearms Commerce and Trafficking Evaluation present simply 0.1 p.c of all federal firearms licensees had been implicated in allegedly unlawful firearm trafficking between 2017 and 2021.
President Biden’s Commerce Division revealed a punishing Interim Remaining Rule via the Bureau of Trade and Safety (BIS) and slapped on new firearm export restrictions which have the intent of hobbling U.S. firearm producers and exporters. The administration grasped at straws to justify it for nationwide safety causes however it additionally belies ATF information. The ATF’s Nationwide Firearm Commerce and Trafficking Evaluation exhibits lower than one p.c of legally exported firearms are ever traced in reference to against the law happening in another country.
Lately, Everytown for Gun Security’s President John Feinblatt boasted of his gun management group’s collusion with the White Home’s workplace of Gun Violence Prevention, staffed by his former worker Rob Wilcox, and the Metropolis of Chicago to carry a frivolous and harassing lawsuit in opposition to Glock. The handgun maker is famend for his or her product’s reliability and Feinblatt and others are upset as a result of Glock refuses to alter their handgun designs as a result of criminals illegally alter them by affixing auto-sears – what ATF calls “machinegun conversion gadgets (MCD) -that are unlawful to import, make, possess and set up on a firearm. A dozen Democrat state attorneys normal are threatening to sue, as is Hawaii.
The purpose is to overturn the Safety of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA), the regulation that prohibits frivolous lawsuits in opposition to the firearm trade for the hurt brought on by distant third events. To extra simply perceive that, “distant third events” is legal-speak for criminals. Feinblatt, President Biden and the Congressional gun management cabal need to return to the times of the late 1990’s and early 2000’s when unscrupulous trial legal professionals in shiny fits in live performance with gun management teams paraded a sequence of failing lawsuits to empty firearm producers of funds with claims that had been by no means profitable.
That wasn’t the purpose, although. Disgraced former New York Gov. Anderw Cuomo served because the Housing and City Growth Secretary beneath President Invoice Clinton and infamously threatened the firearm trade with “demise by a thousand cuts.” The target was to carry the trade to its knees and drive via court-ordered settlements gun management measures rejected by Congress or ratchet up the price of litigation and shutter the trade via chapter. Nothing modified.
Look to One other American President
It’s time to reject this mentality. There was a time on this nation when Individuals shrugged off the collective blame that society shoulders duty for the ills that plague us and targeted as an alternative on holding criminals accountable. As an alternative of listening to the forty sixth President of the USA, America ought to recall the phrases of the fortieth President.
“We should reject the concept that each time a regulation’s damaged, society is responsible slightly than the lawbreaker,” President Ronald Reagan mentioned. “It’s time to restore the American principle that every particular person is accountable for his actions.”
President Reagan delivered these remarks to the Republican Nationwide Conference in Miami in 1968. These phrases are as becoming as we speak as they had been over a half century in the past.
President Biden, with the assistance of gun management cronies, desires to shift the blame for criminals misusing firearms to grab that Constitutionally-protected proper from each American. Collectively, they’re doing it via government fiat, judicial abuse and regulatory overreach. They’ve gone as far as to create an workplace inside The White Home that’s structured to try this, staffed by former gun management lobbyists.
The notion that others are in charge for a person’s failings and crimes is as juvenile because the toddler’s “the satan made me do it” excuse. Legal guidelines are enacted to guard society. They provide society the instruments by which to carry people accountable after they don’t respect the rights of others or the results of their actions. When President Biden and his gun management factions discuss of repealing PLCAA, enacting unconstitutional restrictions via the rulemaking course of as an alternative of working via Congress – the representatives of “We, the Individuals,” they’re abrogating their duty to guard the very folks they’ve been entrusted to manipulate. They break the social contract with Individuals to shift the blame for crime from the legal to those that had no half or duty for that crime.
This isn’t how Individuals need to be ruled. Weaponizing authorities – together with the courts to forged the blame for legal misbehavior on an trade or the remainder of society – is something however accountability. It offers the legal a free move. It punishes the harmless and negates rights that belong to law-abiding Individuals.
This isn’t what the Founding Fathers envisioned. Individuals should not tolerate a chief government who crassly dismisses the hard-fought liberties which have been secured by patriots with their lives. Individuals should not give up their liberties to hold the collective blame when people break the regulation. Stripping Individuals of their Second Modification rights doesn’t make the nation safer. It emboldens criminals and makes residents wards of an Orwellian authorities.
—Mark Olivia, courtesy NSSF
