{"id":59893,"date":"2020-09-21T23:36:32","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T04:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=59893"},"modified":"2020-09-22T08:34:24","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T13:34:24","slug":"59893","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=59893","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BLUF:<br \/>\n<em>Even \u2014 let\u2019s just pretend for a moment \u2014 if they were sincere and didn\u2019t intend to come after all firearms, when has the federal government ever shown restraint in matters like this? Give the bureaucratic behemoth an inch and it will immediately seek ways to take every mile on Earth.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The obvious takeaway from all of this is that we were right all along about the Democrats\u2019 intentions, which provides a perfect example for future debates when they\u2019re pretending to be anything other than what they truly are:<br \/>\nSoviet-esque control-freak statists.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/columns\/stephen-kruiser\/2019\/09\/13\/democrats-finally-fly-their-gun-control-fascist-freak-flag-in-the-open-n121194\">Democrats Finally Fly Their Gun-Control Fascist Freak Flag in the Open<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In all of the decades that the modern version of the contentious debate in America over guns, freedom, and the Second Amendment has been going on, the gun-control advocates have repeatedly assured gun owners of one thing: they don\u2019t want to take our guns away from us.<\/p>\n<p>My, what a difference one presidential primary full of unabashed Democratic statists makes.<\/p>\n<p>After years of being told that we are paranoid for saying that the anti-gun Left wants to confiscate our weapons, the anti-gun Left is letting us know in no uncertain terms that they want to confiscate our weapons.<\/p>\n<p>Loudest among them is Robert Francis \u201cHorse Mouth\u201d O\u2019Rourke who, seeing his relevance as a candidate dwindling by the hour, has decided to go all-in on making a pitch for being America\u2019s gun-grabber-in-chief:<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=true&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1172342680178716672&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fpjmedia.com%2Fcolumns%2Fstephen-kruiser%2F2019%2F09%2F13%2Fdemocrats-finally-fly-their-gun-control-fascist-freak-flag-in-the-open-n121194&amp;siteScreenName=PJMedia_com&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=219d021%3A1598982042171&amp;width=500px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1172342680178716672\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This Soviet turn marks a departure for Beto in a couple of ways.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, when the only constituency he was trying to woo consisted of residents of the great state of Texas, O\u2019Rourke was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/trending\/beto-last-year-if-you-purchased-that-ar-15-if-you-own-it-keep-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">still paying lip service to being a supporter<\/a>\u00a0of legal gun owners.<\/p>\n<p>So much for that.<!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"pullquote\">\n<p class=\"ab-testable\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400;\">As recently as a few weeks ago, Beto was talking about a federal \u201cbuy-back\u201d of AR-15s. Yes, that\u2019s euphemistic garbage \u2014 the government can\u2019t buy back something it never owned in the first place. It\u2019s semantic whitewashing of what the program really would be: a huge first step to federal gun confiscation.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>As of Friday, Cory Booker was still pretending a bit, but tipping the Democrats\u2019 hands nonetheless:<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-1\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=true&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-1&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1172494116627865600&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fpjmedia.com%2Fcolumns%2Fstephen-kruiser%2F2019%2F09%2F13%2Fdemocrats-finally-fly-their-gun-control-fascist-freak-flag-in-the-open-n121194&amp;siteScreenName=PJMedia_com&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=219d021%3A1598982042171&amp;width=500px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1172494116627865600\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So\u2026it\u2019s a mandatory surrendering of the guns to the federal government that will no doubt be unpopular with 99.9999999999% of the people it targets and we\u2019re supposed to believe that there will be no heavy-handed enforcement by the feds.<\/p>\n<p>Has this clown even met the Internal Revenue Service?<\/p>\n<div class=\"pullquote\">\n<p class=\"ab-testable\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400;\">Kamala Harris got out in front of everything earlier in the year when she promised that she would almost immediately become an <\/span><a style=\"font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/videos\/politics\/2019\/04\/23\/kamala-harris-congress-gun-control-schools-town-hall-vpx.cnn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">executive-action nightmare<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0on gun control if Congress didn\u2019t give her what she wanted.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>While the Democrats keep referring to the AR-15 specifically, they also repeatedly use the phrase \u201cweapons of war,\u201d which puts the slippery in \u201cslippery slope.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWeapons of war\u201d is a catch-all that can also refer to sidearms, knives, and anything else ever used in a battle. They used to use rocks back in the catapult days, you know.<\/p>\n<p>They naturally dismiss this idea as just more paranoia, even as they work to prove that none of us are actually paranoid.<\/p>\n<p>Even \u2014 let\u2019s just pretend for a moment \u2014 if they were sincere and didn\u2019t intend to come after all firearms, when has the federal government ever shown restraint in matters like this? Give the bureaucratic behemoth an inch and it will immediately seek ways to take every mile on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>The obvious takeaway from all of this is that we were right all along about the Democrats\u2019 intentions, which provides a perfect example for future debates when they\u2019re pretending to be anything other than what they truly are: Soviet-esque control-freak statists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BLUF: Even \u2014 let\u2019s just pretend for a moment \u2014 if they were sincere and didn\u2019t intend to come after all firearms, when has the federal government ever shown restraint in matters like this? Give the bureaucratic behemoth an inch and it will immediately seek ways to take every mile on Earth. 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