If we’ve learned anything from Everytown’s internal kerfuffle, it’s that no matter how much anti-gunners claim they’re not anti-gun, they’re really anti-gun. Everytown decided to offer gun safety training, and some of its members are losing their ever-loving minds, even though they’ve all claimed they didn’t want to eliminate the Second Amendment.
They just don’t want anyone getting training while also wanting everyone to have training.
No, it doesn’t make sense.
However, in Wisconsin, a group of gun control advocates took to the state capitol to push for gun control. They claim, though, that they’re not anti-gun at all.
Gun safety advocates arrived at the State Capitol on Tuesday morning in droves, eager not only to hear from community leaders, peers and lawmakers, but to urge elected officials to support a new raft of gun violence prevention bills aimed at gun trafficking.
They heard from people like UW-Madison student Nessa Bleill, who three years ago survived the Highland Park parade shooting in Illinois, and Madison Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway, who survived deadly gun violence in high school and presided as mayor during the Abundant Life Christian School shooting, the deadliest in Wisconsin’s history.
Speakers on Oct. 21 also included Rep. Joan Fitzgerald, D-Fort Atkinson; Angela Ferrell-Zabala, executive director of the national Moms Demand Action organization; Nick Matuszewski, associate executive director of WAVE (Wisconsin Anti-Violence Effort) Educational Fund; and Lindsey Buscher, volunteer leader with Wisconsin Moms Demand Action.
…The bills would target illegal gun trafficking taking place in Wisconsin, and are intended to give law enforcement the tools to go after corrupt gun dealers, trace illegal gun purchases and shut down illegal gun trafficking rings. They would also close loopholes that allow dealers to funnel weapons into the illegal market, and crack down on bulk purchases of firearms, a known indicator of illegal gun trafficking.
Their fight, emphasized Ferrell-Zabala, is not with the Second Amendment. It’s with the “reckless” practices of selling guns before background checks are complete, and with bulk firearm purchases.
“We do not have to choose between our rights and our safety,” chanted Rhodes-Conway to rousing applause.
That last line really pisses me off, because they pretend that’s what it’s about.
My Second Amendment rights are about my safety. Taking them away in any manner doesn’t make me safer. It does the contrary, because criminals aren’t exactly tripping over themselves to follow the law.
And let’s be real here, most guns that end up in criminal hands are stolen, not via straw buys. While I want to see straw buyers be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, the truth of the matter is that nothing at all being presented here would stop that. Most straw buyers are only buying one or two firearms at a time. The “bulk purchase” of guns is pretty rare, and it’s not grounds to curtail someone’s rights just because some so-called bulk purchases go to criminals.
Hell, if I hit the lottery, you better believe I’m going to the nearest gun store with a great selection and buying one of just about everything I’ve ever shown any interest in. It’s not about anything other than I finally have the money to spend on guns like I want to.
Let’s also talk about the “reckless” practice of “selling guns before background checks are complete” for a moment. You probably know what she’s talking about. That’s right. The three-day wait for a stalled background check.
The way it works, in case you’re unfamiliar, is that if there’s a delay in your NICS check, a gun store has to hold the gun for three days. After that, they’re free to sell it because nothing has returned showing the buyer is prohibited. What they want to do is kill the limit so that the gun can sit indefinitely.
Of course, the limit on waiting was put in there specifically to prevent someone from trying to make it take forever for the background checks to go through, thus denying gun sales without actually denying them.
Everything they want is an attack on the Second Amendment, as is the fact that absolutely none of this will be the last straw, should they get it passed. Next year, it’ll be something else, then another thing, and so on until the Second Amendment is nothing but a fond memory.
I don’t care how much they claim otherwise. We know the steps to this dance as we’ve all done it before.
They’re anti-Second Amendment, no matter how much they say their fight isn’t with the Second Amendment.
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