They always tell us what they want. She’s not the first to make this call, and won’t be the last. What it means is mass confiscation of firearms
JUST IN: Kamala Harris references Australia as a country the United States should model themselves after when it comes to gun control.
Starting in 1996, Australia collected about 650,000 privately owned guns in a mandatory buyback.
They also established a gun registry and… pic.twitter.com/G1ruXHzlkZ
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) October 26, 2023
Australia has no 2nd Amendment. Also, only about one third to one fifth of the guns were turned in. They do not really know the exact percent, because no one told the government before or after. The GOP is missing a good opportunity, as usual, to bring legislation to the floor which would take assault weapons away from all who protect the White House, Congress, federal buildings, other than military bases. Restrict pistols to magazines that hold no more than 10 rounds. It doesn’t have to pass, it has to show that Democrats are not OK with not being protected themselves.
Maine Rep. Jared Golden says hometown mass shooting changed his mind on assault weapons ban
Rep. Jared Golden, a Marine Corps veteran who lives in Lewiston, Maine, said Thursday that in light of the recent mass shooting in his hometown he was changing his view on banning assault-style weapons.
“Humility is called for as accountability is sought by victims of a tragedy such as this one,” Golden said at a news conference alongside other officials.
Arguably the most conservative Democrat in the House, Golden said that “I have opposed efforts to ban deadly weapons of war like the assault rifle used to carry out this crime.”
“The time has come for me to take responsibility for this failure,” he said. “Which is why I now call on the United States Congress to ban assault rifles like the one used by the sick perpetrator of this mass killing.”
So, because some psycho used one, the rest of us must pay the price?
(Breitbart) Robert Card, the person of interest being pursued by law enforcement in Maine following murders in Lewiston, had reported mental health issues and was evaluated by police in July due to concerns of erratic behavior, according to reports.
Card — a member of the U.S. Army Reserves and a firearms instructor described by CNN as a “skilled marksman and outdoorsman” — is the suspect in the massacre that occurred in Lewiston late Wednesday, leaving 18 people killed and more than a dozen injured, according to an update from Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D).
According to reports, Card had a history of mental health issues and had been evaluated by police at the Keller Army Community Hospital at West Point in July after military officials expressed concern about his erratic behavior.
Maine has a yellow flag law
Maine State Police said that Card reported “hearing voices” and threatened to carry out a mass shooting. It’s the kind of warning signs that red and yellow flag laws are meant to intercept.
Jaclyn Schildkraut, executive director of the Regional Gun Violence Research Consortium at the Rockefeller Institute, says policies are only as good as the people behind them.
“So if the policy isn’t being implemented, and it’s not being utilized effectively, that’s a systems failure issue and a human failure issue,” she said.
All those issues with this guy, and no one took the steps to attempt to temporarily pull his guns, and, they had to know he had them. It’s a yellow flag, not red flag, because it takes more steps, but, no one tried. The government system failed, and, because of that, Democrats are looking to disarm Americans.
