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Re: Universal Background Checks: Senate supposedly near a deal
« Reply #175 on: February 28, 2013, 01:43:23 PM »
Obligatory Universal Background Checks are not about preventing any one particularly dangerous individual from obtaining a gun, they are about creating general conditions that will make it more costly, time consuming for the general population to arm itself... with the aim of reducing, over time, the prevalence of gun ownership amongst those that are inclined to follow the law, i.e. taxpayers. More alarmingly such laws will slowly but surely condition people to accept the false premise that they must get "permission" from the State to own a weapon.

You do not need "permission" to exercise the Right to Keep and Bear Arms any more than you would need it to breathe.

UBCs= Priming the stage for registration, creating the mindset for confiscation.

Feinstein's Bill was a smoke screen, and we just got flanked by their main attack.


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Re: Universal Background Checks: Senate supposedly near a deal
« Reply #176 on: February 28, 2013, 02:27:50 PM »
Quote from: Blakenzy on February 28, 2013, 01:43:23 PM
Obligatory Universal Background Checks are not about preventing any one particularly dangerous individual from obtaining a gun, they are about creating general conditions that will make it more costly, time consuming for the general population to arm itself... with the aim of reducing, over time, the prevalence of gun ownership amongst those that are inclined to follow the law, i.e. taxpayers. More alarmingly such laws will slowly but surely condition people to accept the false premise that they must get "permission" from the State to own a weapon.

You do not need "permission" to exercise the Right to Keep and Bear Arms any more than you would need it to breathe.

UBCs= Priming the stage for registration, creating the mindset for confiscation.

Feinstein's Bill was a smoke screen, and we just got flanked by their main attack.




Given Bidens comments on how they don't go after prohibited people, I would also add anger reason. They are doing this to be able to show th public how much they care and to provide the impression that they are doing something.
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Re: Universal Background Checks: Senate supposedly near a deal
« Reply #177 on: February 28, 2013, 03:04:30 PM »

Flanked?

My assessment (from week two of this) was that their real goal was "universal background checks" --> registration --> contraband declaration --> "amnesty" --> confiscation.

For several days my Tweets expressed this. (UBC == registration == confiscation).

And every time the issue shows up, I wade in one more time to make it clear that the goal is disarmament.

This, of course, is the precursor to the criminalization of dissent.

See Venezuela for a working model of the "eliminating dissent" paradigm.
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Re: Universal Background Checks: Senate supposedly near a deal
« Reply #178 on: February 28, 2013, 03:28:06 PM »
Quote from: adively on February 27, 2013, 12:40:10 PM
NRA-ILA Letter to Senators re: Background Checks

What's that feeling?  Air above my shoulders...  It's like I haven't been thrown under the bus by the NRA, after all.

Color me surprised.

Have we kicked enough of the Fudds off the NRA board by this point that they get it?
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Re: Universal Background Checks: Senate supposedly near a deal
« Reply #179 on: February 28, 2013, 03:42:13 PM »
Quote from: AZRedhawk44 on February 28, 2013, 03:28:06 PM
What's that feeling?  Air above my shoulders...  It's like I haven't been thrown under the bus by the NRA, after all.

Color me surprised.

Have we kicked enough of the Fudds off the NRA board by this point that they get it?

I've been an NRA member about 8 or 10 years and never received a ballot.  Do you have to be a Lifer to vote?
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Re: Universal Background Checks: Senate supposedly near a deal
« Reply #180 on: February 28, 2013, 03:43:28 PM »
Quote from: zxcvbob on February 28, 2013, 03:42:13 PM
I've been an NRA member about 8 or 10 years and never received a ballot.  Do you have to be a Lifer to vote?

5 years continuous membership. You should have gotten a ballot. Perhaps it got lost amongst the other mail they sent you?
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Re: Universal Background Checks: Senate supposedly near a deal
« Reply #181 on: February 28, 2013, 04:44:42 PM »
Quote from: AZRedhawk44 on February 28, 2013, 03:28:06 PM
What's that feeling?  Air above my shoulders...  It's like I haven't been thrown under the bus by the NRA, after all.

Color me surprised.

Have we kicked enough of the Fudds off the NRA board by this point that they get it?

Did you not read the last paragraph?  Or did I miss something substantial in the preceding paragraphs?
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Re: Universal Background Checks: Senate supposedly near a deal
« Reply #182 on: February 28, 2013, 05:42:03 PM »
Quote from: roo_ster on February 28, 2013, 04:44:42 PM
Did you not read the last paragraph?  Or did I miss something substantial in the preceding paragraphs?

I think he's saying he's surprised the NRA didn't cave and end up endorsing UBC's as a "compromise" to avoid harsher BS.
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