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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nFresh off their catered nap period the other day on the floor of the House, Democrats are calling for a “day of action” during their July 4th break, in order to pressure the House GOP to pass more regulations against law-abiding gun owners according to The Hill<\/a>;<\/p>\n Their suggested tactic: almost anything.<\/p>\n “Whether it [is] a press conference, roundtable, or telephone town hall, we encourage you [to] host an event showing that Democrats in Congress will keep up the fight against gun violence,” the lawmakers wrote. “Local partners including survivors, law enforcement and faith leaders can be excellent partners and can help carry our message even further.”<\/p>\n The Democrats’ lengthy and unruly sit-in, unprecedented in recent congressional history, was a direct response to the refusal of Republican leaders to consider tougher gun laws in the wake of the June 12 shooting massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando, where 49 people were killed and another 53 injured by a single gunman.<\/p>\n The Democrats are pushing two separate proposals: One to bar gun sales to those on the FBI’s terrorist watchlists; and another to expand background checks on prospective buyers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n They learned that if they can keep up the pressure and make a bunch of useless noise and throw out empty threats, sooner or later someone will cave, like that year-long whine-fest they had about the Confederacy. It was the Confederacy that caused that animal in Charleston to shoot those people in church. But, oddly, it’s not the Islamist extremists of ISIS that caused the animal in Orlando to kill those people in a nightclub.<\/p>\n Passing legislation that only the law abiding obey will not stop gun violence. I know some folks have high hopes, for example;<\/p>\n I guess young Eva doesn’t realize that she was in the center of Washington, DC – in the center of some of the most restrictive gun laws in the country – and she’s still scared of loud noises. What gun laws would protect her and her fellow DC-ians from loud noises? What gun laws that aren’t already in effect in that city? As I’ve said before, guns were effectively banned in the city in 1974 and the Metro PD<\/a> still takes nearly 2,000 illegal guns off the streets every year – 42 years later – because law abiding citizens of DC abide by the law and the criminals don’t abide by the law.<\/p>\n Those Democrats who sat on the floor of the House and think that’s work are trying to nullify two amendments of the Bill of Rights – gun ownership and due process. The Fifth and Fifteenth Amendments both stipulate that “[N]or shall any person . . . be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law . . . ” But they want a rule that deprives Americans of their 2d Amendment Rights with a couple of simple keystrokes on a computer that adds their names to a watchlist and they have no chance to contest it. It used to be that liberals wanted more freedom for citizens, but this must be a new kind of liberals.<\/p>\n The truth of the discussion is that Republicans are sticking up for the people who will abide by laws, while Democrats want to disarm law-abiding citizens, leaving the criminals and terrorists armed. Their “day of action” should be aimed at the prosecutors who won’t hold criminals accountable for their crimes rather than at the legislature to write new laws that prosecutors won’t prosecute. But, it’s harder to enforce laws than it is to write new laws that won’t work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"![\"Eva](\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Eva-Colen-500x243.jpg\")
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