I heard on the radio a commentary which really caught my attention with its clarity, plausibility and applicability to New York State and the burgeoning national assault on gunowners' yet Constitutionally affirmed rights.
The speaker said he had seen in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged the following prediction, which I can only paraphrase: a prime means in the establishment by tyrants of unassailable rule will be the incipient enactment of myriad laws establishing theretofore lawful acts as crimes. This, done thoroughly, will eventually render every citizen an outlaw and subject to the sanctions society directs to those so judged. These laws may not be extensively enforced, perhaps they will be only to make fearful examples. Their chief purpose will be to intimidate and to motivate compliance with the measures totalitarians must disingenuously seek in an essentially free America, such as the willingness to give up natural and Constitutional rights. The process would be twofold: first create a perception of guilt among the law abiding majority leading to cooperation by most in measures they perceive to be not quite as bad as they feared, at least at their inception. Secondly, for the recalcitrant, the means for official repression of any insolent enough to assert their wrong headed "freedoms" in the face of the unchallengeable wisdom of the leftist elect, is closely at hand,since all citizens would by then be criminals, yes?
The speaker saw in this a plausible perception of Andrew Cuomo's crusade to disarm the lawful, not for protection from the amoral monsters (truck mass murderers, killers of police) blithely excused by such as he but to disarm the institutions (such as NRA) which he knows stand firm against his left's determination to take full control of our lives.
He made a very good point. Cuomo's latest chapter in what he glories in being "just a step in a continuing crusade" did not contain some of the outrages which were predicted (at his behest perhaps? Oh I think so) . Unobtainable insurance policies, constant surveillance of gun owners, byzantine regulations, the proscription of hundreds of thousands of firearms presently owned by his subjects (we are no longer citizens, but then, that's what he's always thought) were not in this latest pronunciamento . But stand by!
Andrew is running for President, I am told by one who knows and even he, through the haze of his aristocratic contempt for fly over country, knows he must hold his nose and patronize it until January of 2021. He must be seen as arguably motivated by just good ol' common sense in Chariton, Iowa or McCook ,Nebraska after all. Too, those federal lawsuits do pile up and that unforgiveably lawful new Supreme Court could be trouble. "Ahh, though, sue me, just sue me, ahh, win some ,lose some", says Andrew, " as we say in our New Yawk which is an oasis of civilization and culture in an American wilderness I am destined to tame. Yessiree!"
Recently there was a terrible accident in New York State involving a stretch limousine. Andrew's proposed solution, which has met a temporary setback - "just ban all stretch limousines, yeah. I know some people have their life savings and 18 hour days invested in such businesses but what do I care? I've got a state job!" That's vintage Cuomo.
Andrew is a frantic child and he is recklessly demonstrating in N.Y. what any Dem elected President now will do if empowered. The threat to freedom and our entire proven way of life in the real America is manifest. Jack
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Jack, Emperor Andy is indeed showing his fellow leftists the way...
I assume you've seen the veiled threats coming from Democrats that, if Trump's emergency declaration stands, well then THEY will win in 2020 and then declare guns "an emergency". What exactly they would do with those guns is naturally left to our imaginations, but gun owners ought to be burning with curiosity! The Dems seem not to realize that Trump is merely redirecting funds to build a wall (and the government has built plenty of walls before), but he is not claiming blanket authority to do as he pleases to whomever he pleases. That, presumably, would be item one on President Bi-Sand-Wa-Harr's Emergency Declaration on Gun Safety...
Dr. Waddy: I don't think it matters much whether or not the Dems see anything favorable in President Trump's actions They are going to stonewall no matter what. Gunowners should pay close attention to the possibility of an "Emergency" being attempted in order to take their guns; thanks for noting it After all, their trailbreaker Cuomo declared one several years ago in order to sneak his undemocratic "Safe Act" through the legislature (wouldn't be no trouble getting it through the rubber stamp in Albany now which, among other things, has cost us the services of one of the most faithful and hard working representatives we've ever had, in Cathy Young. I rather think such an "Emergency" would have the effect of massive noncompliance in the real America.
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