- She’s grandstanding for her local electorate.
- It’s a feint to draw the attention away from the economic depression.
- She’s got some terminal disease and wants to become a martyr instead.
- She thinks this is the best time to actually accomplish a full ban on modern defensive arms.
Could be a combination of those factors. Just looking around, I see many formerly anti-gun people buying weapons, getting training and carry permits. I don’t think this is going to get very far.
As an inmate of California and a long time observer of Ms. Feinstein:
1. She has no need to grandstand: she’s in the safest of safe districts. There’s no way this insanely liberal state would ever turn her out.
2. Possible; she’s a creature of the Democrat Party. Don’t think it’s very far up on her list.
3. The good die young — just sayin’.
4. Bingo. She’s long been an ardent foe of the RKBA. She’s a Statist: wanting all power in the hands of the government — her hands. For years, she has said that all weapons should be removed from the populace. However, she’ll keep her pistol permit: as an elite, she’s above all laws. We’re looking at the face of a liberal fascist.
Whatever the judgement of the likelihood of this monstrosity being successfully foisted on us, we cannot afford to take a wait-and-see position.
The time is _now_ to tell our critters how we feel about this bullshit, and tell them that what happened after the 1994 “Omnibus Crime Bill” aka “Assault Weapons [sic] Ban” to all those who voted for it WILL happen to them this time. Namely, they were voted out of office.
And it’s not just Democrats. Remember that George Bush Senior enacted the 1986 “Firearm Owners Protection [sic] Act”, which included the amendment which banned transfers of new “Post May” machine guns.
The time is now to put pressure on our elected officials and leave no uncertainty: This WILL NOT STAND.
Rick, George H.W. Bush didn’t become President until January, 1989, 2 1/2 years after FOPA was enacted. It was President Reagan who signed that into law.
You are of course absolutely correct sir. I stand corrected.
I pray your calculated assumptions are right, and that this will slowly go away… unfortunately, I think (as always) that Obama is out to make himself one step closer to ultimate power… both him and his wife are literally the sickest megalomaniacs I’ve ever seen… nothing is ever their fault… At any rate, I don’t see a logistical way to confiscate guns, unless Obama wants to try and then by excuse declare martial law and, as another excuse, asks for U.N. troops to come do the dirty work… better change those blue helmets is my only advice… you can pick those out at 400 yards with a good Leopold and some high grain.
lol hyperbolic partisan nonsense
really? If I exaggerate it is because I rather expect the worst so I’m pleasantly surprised when it doesn’t happen. The only partisan I know is my Mosin-Nagant. 🙂
I’ll be honest, I’ve understood the UN troops argument, but beyond that, his statement has some meaning.
It’s the usual lefty tactic: seize on an event, and try with all the might that you and your allies (for example, the media) have to get something passed. They get nowhere during ordinary times — and they know that their only chance is when people’s emotions are stirred up and they aren’t thinking clearly.
In this case, these items have been on Feinstein’s shopping list for, well, decades. I suspect that even if it passes in the Senate, then the House will stop it. But if Obama declares it by Executive Order, then we’re all in a different situation altogether. In that case, all bets are off on how it would turn out. And what the future of the country would be.
It’s best to think of the left as like water under high pressure. That is, it never sleeps, and it will find and enlarge any hole it can, however small, to advance the cause of statism.
An EO blatantly usurping the House &/or Senate’s legal legislative authority is more than they will stand for: it would mean a loss of power and influence for them. And regardless of party, when in the past the President has tried to ‘adjust’ the balance of political power he’s almost always gotten slapped down hard. Those Reps and Senators are certainly not just going to sit idly by and watch themselves lose a single dram of power of any form – it’s one of the few things that is utterly consistent in US politics, regardless of party affiliation.
I’d like to think so, but the Senate won’t care if it accomplishes something they’d like to do, but can’t get through the House, and the house can impeach but not convict, and after the Clinton fiasco they won’t go that route unless they think they can get a conviction. So if he WERE to to do something like this via executive fiat, the remedy would be in the courts… and that would take a while.
She has no fantasy that her proposal will be enacted. Even if it were supported by the populus, it would be a logistical nightmare to emplement. She proposes something this extreme so that anything less can be characterized as a “compromise.”
I suggest for DiFi and many other lefties:
1. Target fixation. Gun control has been on their “to do” list for years if not decades, and they sense an opportunity to scratch it off;
2. Reflexive hatred for the other side. “You’re for it, so we’re against it. We’ll show YOU who’s in charge here!”
The gun ban fever is already withering and dying on the vine.
I fail to see the logic in expending loads of political capital without an obtainable objective in mind. While the Left is often long on feelings and short on logic, it concerns me that some in media who feel comfortable enough to publicly call for the undoing of the Second Amendment.
When it comes to gun control, I think Bob Owens accurately states where things stand:
“There is an earnestness now on both sides, and a great chance for unintended consequences.”
The mood around here has been more 1860s than 1934ish…
One thing for sure, it isn’t 1994 any more.
As someone else reminded me, back then we had three TV networks that were the only rapid national media.
I remember going down to my local Representative’s office, ordering a copy of the “Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act,” and waiting a couple of weeks before I could go back down and pick up a bound copy.
Now we’ve got Thomas.gov and places like olegvol.net and http://www.txchia.org.
And a lot more guns on the street.
Gun control is the poison bait of the left. Obama and the Democrats quite obviously left gun control off the agenda until he was safely re-elected. Let’s just say I only wish there was an organization as effective as the NRA when it came to the rest of the Bill of Rights.
I’m going with #3.
Oleg,
I’ve always appreciated your visual aesthetic/s as an artist, and now I’m really coming to appreciate your thoughtful and insightful writing as well. I wanted to know, a few weeks into this, Biden’s committee continuing to meet, other bills being presented, momentum growing for the nuclear option, etc., etc.–do you still feel the same way, that this isn’t going to have the traction to make it over the finish line.
Would love to hear your thoughts.
-B
So far, I am not worried much. More importantly, more connected people aren’t either. They stepped on far too many toes all at once.