{"id":82328,"date":"2022-06-14T09:31:32","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T14:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=82328"},"modified":"2022-06-14T09:31:32","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T14:31:32","slug":"82328","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=82328","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

The RINOs are out in force on the ‘framework’ for new gun laws<\/a><\/p>\n

It was news that sent shudders through every person who supports the Second Amendment: ten Republican senators have signed on to a “framework” that will allegedly improve gun safety in America.\u00a0\u00a0You can guess who these RINOs are \u2014 it’s the same bunch who will always agree to limit American rights to keep up with their friends on the Democrat side of the aisle.\u00a0\u00a0And while there are a couple of good ideas in the framework, the rest of it is useless, harmful, and\/or unconstitutional.<\/p>\n

According to a statement from the bipartisan group of senators, they have an agreement in principle for legislation that includes “needed mental health resources, improves school safety and support for students, and helps ensure dangerous criminals and those who are adjudicated as mentally ill can’t purchase weapons[.]”\u00a0\u00a0More specifically, the senators have agreed on the following concepts, which I’ve listed along with my comments:<\/p>\n

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Funding for school safety resources.<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0If this means armed safety officers and hardened infrastructure, that’s good.\u00a0\u00a0Cynically, I don’t think it will mean that.<\/p>\n

Extending background checks to juvenile criminal justice records and mental health records for buyers under 21<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0This is a good idea and might actually stop some of the crazier 18-, 19-, and 20-year-olds from beating background checks because their juvenile records are under seal.<\/p>\n

Expanding mental health and support services in schools.<\/em> \u00a0Schools have become lunatic asylums that encourage race-hatred and push students to deny biological reality.\u00a0\u00a0It used to be that liberal colleges took in bright, normal kids and, after four (or five or six) years of marinating these kids in leftist gender and race theories, graduated basket cases.\u00a0\u00a0Now those same theories are part of elementary school curricula, so I don’t see schools as bastions standing ready to help students’ mental health.<\/p>\n

Penalties for straw purchases<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0Meh.\u00a0\u00a0The likelihood of this effectively ending gun crimes is limited at best.\u00a0\u00a0Other laws already cover this practice in one way or another, and they’ve been ineffectual.<\/p>\n

Federal government funds for state and tribe red flag laws.<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0Red flag laws, which deprive people of a constitutional right without due process, are unconstitutional.\u00a0\u00a0That’s it.\u00a0\u00a0They are.\u00a0\u00a0And it’s no use saying, “But they might save lives” because they also might cost lives.\u00a0\u00a0Imagine a vindictive woman calling in a red flag on her legally armed boyfriend and, once he’s disarmed, killing him.<\/p>\n

Contrary to leftist and RINO promises, there is no such thing as perfect safety.\u00a0\u00a0Everything comes at a cost, and those costs must be balanced.<\/p>\n

Before America went crazy in 2020,\u00a0around 40,000 people died annually<\/a>\u00a0from gunshots (the\u00a0majority of which were and are suicides<\/a>).\u00a0\u00a0Meanwhile,\u00a0guns are used defensively<\/a>\u00a0between 500,000 and 3 million times a year.\u00a0\u00a0To the extent red flag laws run the risk of unconstitutionally interfering with this massive number of defensive uses, they shouldn’t be passed and, if passed, should be stricken.<\/p>\n

But what about those RINOs who signed on to that red flag monstrosity?\u00a0\u00a0Here’s the list:<\/a><\/p>\n

The group on the release includes
\nRepublican Sens. John Cornyn of Texas,
\nThom Tillis and Richard Burr of North Carolina,
\nRoy Blunt of Missouri,
\nBill Cassidy of Louisiana,
\nSusan Collins of Maine,
\nLindsey Graham of South Carolina,
\nRob Portman of Ohio,
\nMitt Romney of Utah and
\nPat Toomey of Pennsylvania.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Multiple names on that list voted yes on\u00a0the $1.2-trillion “infrastructure bill<\/a>”\u00a0that is destroying America’s economy.\u00a0\u00a0Mitt Romney, Susan Collins, Bill Cassidy, Rob Portman, and Thom Tillis were all on board with that.<\/p>\n

Lindsey Graham, on January 6, urged the Capitol Police to shoot people in the Capitol and wants amnesty for illegal aliens.\u00a0\u00a0Pat Toomey has been calling for gun control for almost a decade and castigated Trump for commuting Roger Stone’s sentence (handed down as part of the Russia collusion hoax).\u00a0\u00a0John Cornyn has been working for years to try to outlaw private gun sales.\u00a0\u00a0Mitt Romney voted to impeach Trump, and he and Susan Collins sided with Democrats against Judy Shelton’s Federal Reserve Board nominee.\u00a0\u00a0Bill Cassidy supported the impeachment trial.<\/p>\n

These senators are the old “white shoe” Republicans who believe in big government but want just a little less big government than the Democrats desire.\u00a0\u00a0Generally, they like cheap, illegal labor; big spending projects; gun control; and funding foreign wars (something Democrats like when there’s a Democrat in the White House but that RINOs always like).\u00a0\u00a0They’ll always quail if called “racist,” and they try to be “hip” by jumping on board the Pride bandwagon.\u00a0\u00a0They have little sympathy for or interest in the lives and concerns of ordinary Americans because their entire world is bounded by Congress and the vicious game-playing that takes place there.<\/p>\n

If any one of these RINOs belongs to you, drop him an email explaining the problem with red flag laws along with a reminder that Americans aren’t made of money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The RINOs are out in force on the ‘framework’ for new gun laws It was news that sent shudders through every person who supports the Second Amendment: ten Republican senators have signed on to a “framework” that will allegedly improve gun safety in America.\u00a0\u00a0You can guess who these RINOs are \u2014 it’s the same bunch … 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":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82328","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=82328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82329,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82328\/revisions\/82329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}