{"id":32996,"date":"2018-04-03T17:22:57","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T21:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=32996"},"modified":"2018-04-03T17:22:57","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T21:22:57","slug":"we-dont-want-to-take-your-guns-she-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=32996","title":{"rendered":"“We Don’t Want To Take Your Guns,” She Said"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are millions of legal gun owners in America<\/a> who have committed no crimes. They have guns because they hunt or because they feel the need to be personally responsible for their own safety. The vast majority of them have broken no laws and have no intention of breaking any laws. Unfortunately there is also a black market in America for guns where people who cannot pass background checks can obtain guns. If gun laws<\/a> are made more strict, the legal gun owners will feel the impact–the illegal gun owners will feel no impact. In essence, restricting gun ownership<\/a> only increases the number of unarmed potential victims. Somehow some members of Congress<\/a> have forgotten the Second Amendment and ignored the consequences of taking guns away from law-abiding<\/a> citizens.<\/p>\n

Yesterday Breitbart<\/a> posted an article about one Congresswomen who has forgotten her oath to uphold the U.S. Constitution<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Rep. Debbie Dingell<\/a> (D-MI) used an April 2 Fox News Live<\/em> appearance to announce that she is preparing to introduce legislation to create a federal law allowing firearm confiscation orders.<\/h2>\n

Such laws, generally referred to as Extreme Risk Protection Orders, are already in place in California<\/a>, Indiana, Oregon, and other states, and Dingell believes the ability to seize firearms is crucial for pubic safety.<\/strong><\/p>\n

…Dingell stressed that seizure of firearms must occur in a way that protects due process, but she did not explain how such protection is possible. In California an order to take guns can be issued without the gun owner even knowing. And in Indiana, the state on which Dingell is basing her federal legislation, individuals who have their guns seized have approximately 14 days to go to court to \u201cmake a case\u201d to get them back.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Salt Lake Tribune<\/em> summed<\/a> up the Indiana law, \u201cIn Indiana, law enforcement can confiscate weapons without a judge\u2019s order. The gun owner must ask the court to get the weapons returned.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Extreme Risk Protection Orders have proved a popular gun control response to the February 14 Parkland school shooting. However, it is difficult to believe such orders would have prevented that attack. On February 23, 2018, Breitbart News<\/a>\u00a0reported,<\/a>\u00a0\u201cThe family with which [Cruz] was staying repeatedly called the police on him in November 2017 but refused to file charges when sheriff\u2019s deputies arrived. A\u00a0member<\/a>\u00a0of the family with which Cruz was staying explained away Cruz\u2019s erratic behavior by saying he \u2018had been suffering significantly from the loss of his mother\u2019 earlier in the month.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

In other words,\u00a0Nikolas Cruz received sympathy from the family with which he lived and at least one member of that family, in turn, inclined police toward non-action as well.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nikolas Cruz had a troubled history at school. Had this history been property reported, he would have failed a background check and been unable to buy a gun. We don’t need more gun laws–we need to better enforce the ones we have. Also–there is nothing to say that Nikolas Cruz would not have been able to obtain a gun illegally if he had been prevented from buying one legally. It should also be noted that the law that made schools gun-free zones was passed in 1990, making schools a soft target for a shooter. That is the law that needs to be re-examined–not the gun laws that were not correctly followed.<\/p>\n

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