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CT gooobernor says you can’t be tough on crime “if you’re weak on guns”<\/a><\/p>\n Most of the time, anti-gun politicians couch their real agenda with language designed to make them appear moderate; for every Beto O\u2019Rourke bellowing \u201cHell yes we\u2019re coming for your AR-15\u201d there are a dozen Democrats proclaiming \u201cI support the Second Amendment, but we need a few more commonsense gun safety regulations.\u201d<\/p>\n It\u2019s not that they really\u00a0are\u00a0<\/em>moderate on the issue, of course. They\u2019re simply trying to package their unappetizing ideology in a way that\u2019s palatable to more people.<\/p>\n Every now and then, though, you\u2019ll run across someone who\u2019s willing to give the public a peek at what they\u00a0really\u00a0<\/em>think about the Second Amendment, and put their\u00a0authoritarian impulses on display<\/a>\u00a0for all the world to see. On Monday, it was Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont who made his desire to go after legal gun owners clear.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have more damn guns in this state than ever before,\u201d Lamont said with more than a dozen advocates and lawmakers in the Capitol\u2019s historic Hall of the Flags. \u201cWe have more legal guns, we have more illegal guns. You\u2019re not tough on crime if you\u2019re weak on guns.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Got that? According to Lamont, in order to get tough on crime you\u2019ve got to crack down on guns; and he made it clear that he doesn\u2019t really give a damn if they\u2019re legally possessed or not.<\/p>\n In fact, one of Lamont\u2019s proposals for this year is all about making it easier for police to stop and question those carrying a firearm, even if there\u2019s no suspicion of criminal activity. For Lamont and his fellow Democrats, simply exercising your Second Amendment right to bear arms should be reason enough for law enforcement to suspect a crime.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cI want to see 500 more cops on the street by the end of the year,\u201d Lamont said. He proposed identifying chronic juvenile offenders faster and to get them in courthouses, before judges, within 24 hours of their arrests.<\/p>\n Lamont also wants law enforcement officers to have the authority to ask people who openly carry their firearms to show their gun permits. In recent years, legislative attempts to require the presentation of permits have been rejected by lawmakers from urban communities concerned that such requests amount to racial profiling.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n If Lamont were simply talking about things like putting more cops on the street and ensuring that juvenile offenders face actual consequences for criminal acts, he\u2019d probably get the support of a lot of Connecticut gun owners. But Lamont is a true believer in restricting the right to keep and bear arms as much as possible. In fact, the Connecticut Citizens Defense League\u00a0sued Lamont<\/a>\u00a0and several police chiefs across the state last year for putting policies in place that made it impossible for many would-be gun owners to successfully apply for the state-mandated license required to own and carry a firearm.<\/p>\n When Ned Lamont says you can\u2019t be tough on crime if you\u2019re weak on guns, what he\u2019s really saying is that the only way to reduce violent crime is to restrict the rights of law-abiding citizens to protect themselves with a firearm. Not only does that fly in the face of the Constitution, it\u2019s also a\u00a0terrible crime-fighting strategy<\/a>.<\/p>\n It\u2019s also (whether Lamont realizes it or not) an admission that all of Connecticut\u2019s current gun control laws aren\u2019t doing squat to either reduce violence\u00a0or\u00a0<\/em>legal gun owners. The state has imposed all kinds of restrictions on law-abiding gun owners over the past decade, all supposedly designed to make Connecticut a safer place, but last year saw some of the highest homicide totals\u00a0in decades<\/a>\u00a0in cities like Hartford. The state has universal background checks, a ban on so-called assault weapons, and requires a license to own and carry a firearm, as well as to purchase ammunition.<\/p>\n I wouldn\u2019t call that \u201cweak on guns,\u201d but I wouldn\u2019t call it effective at reducing violent crime either. Lamont and his fellow Democrats can easily adopt strategies that focus on those actually responsible for the shootings, carjackings, and killings that are escalating across the state, but they\u2019re choosing instead to make it harder to exercise our civil rights instead. I\u2019d say that doesn\u2019t just put them on the wrong side of the crime-fighting equation, but on the wrong side of history as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Again, they’re so accommodating to provide pictures for positive ID CT gooobernor says you can’t be tough on crime “if you’re weak on guns” Most of the time, anti-gun politicians couch their real agenda with language designed to make them appear moderate; for every Beto O\u2019Rourke bellowing \u201cHell yes we\u2019re coming for your AR-15\u201d there … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,9,50,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crap-for-brains","category-enemies-foreign-domestic","category-goobermint","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77094"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77097,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77094\/revisions\/77097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}