In my email today from the NRA is an article those of you who scoff at the idea that liberals want to confiscate our guns may find enlightening:<\/p>\n
Back when Mark Glaze was executive director of Michael Bloomberg\u2019s Mayors Against Illegal Guns, and later Everytown for Gun Safety, he went to great lengths to portray his master\u2019s anti-gun positions as moderate. Glaze used the typical gun control advocate refrain that his groups were merely seeking \u201ccommonsense\u201d gun laws. The anti-gun campaigner used every opportunity to remind his audience that he was from Colorado and the son of a licensed firearms dealer. When discussing Colorado\u2019s magazine ban and private transfer restrictions in 2014, Glaze assured that the laws improved safety, but that the \u201cSecond Amendment is going to be protected.\u201d<\/p>\n
Earlier this month, Glaze finally dropped all pretense of moderation and acknowledged his and his associates\u2019 radical anti-gun goals. Writing on behalf of a new gun control group called Guns Down, Glaze endorsed mandatory firearm owner licensing, alluded to a \u201cgovernment buy-back<\/a>\u201d for commonly-owned semi-automatic firearms, and called for restrictions that would prevent even the law-abiding from accessing guns.<\/p>\n
In a departure from Everytown\u2019s messaging, Glaze downplayed the importance of background checks, claiming that they \u201calone aren\u2019t the answer.\u201d According to Glaze, \u201cTo truly tackle the gun violence epidemic, lawmakers must go further \u2013 after the guns themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n
Glaze\u2019s central thesis, and Guns Down\u2019s organizing principle, is that there are too many guns in private hands the U.S.; regardless of whether those guns are lawfully or unlawfully possessed. This oversimplified view of gun ownership harkens back to the handgun prohibitionist messaging of the 1970s and 80s.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
In other words, just as with healthcare, where liberals want to decide who gets treatment in their socialist utopia, they want the same authority to decide who should possess a gun. Want to bet those of you with those \u201cunhealthy\u201d conservative views would not be among those selected to keep and bear arms? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"