Greater federal government power is Elizabeth Warren’s disarming new plan to cut gun deaths. Higher taxes on guns and ammo, federal licensing with training courses, a national gun owner database, expanded background checks, renewed ban on assault-style weapons…and the Democrat presidential candidate is just getting started. Is this a serious legislative proposal to save lives, or a disingenuous bit of stagecraft designed to make America meek again (MAMA).
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Make America Meek Again: Sen. Warren’s Disarming New Plan to Cut Gun Deaths
Greater federal government power is Elizabeth Warren’s disarming new plan to cut gun deaths. Higher taxes on guns and ammo, federal licensing with training courses, a national gun owner database, expanded background checks, renewed ban on assault-style weapons…and the Democrat presidential candidate is just getting started. Is this a serious legislative proposal to save lives, or a disingenuous bit of stagecraft designed to make America meek again (MAMA).
7 replies on “Make America Meek Again: Sen. Warren’s Disarming New Plan to Cut Gun Deaths”
Gentlemen, I only have one fault with this discussion and that is Steve’s mention that the suicide rate in the U.S. is the highest in the world. That statement is simply not true. According to Wikipedia (I know, I know, but this is a quick and dirty look at data), the U.S. ranks 34th @ 13.7/100k, behind such countries as Russia (#3 @ 26.5/100k), South Korea (#10 @ 20.2/100k), Belgium (#22 @ 15.7/100k), Japan (#30 @ 14.3/100k) and Finland (#32 @ 13.8/100K). You have to go down the list to #78 Yemen (of all places) to get below 10/100k. No doubt that many of the countries in the list have difficulty in reporting statistics accurately but be that as it may the data clearly shows that the U.S. is not #1.
If one were to make the statement that the U.S. is #1 in suicide by firearm I wouldn’t be too skeptical of that considering we are the most heavily armed country on the planet and it’s part of our cultural zeitgeist. I’ve read that in Japan it’s not all that unusual for people to connect on the internet, meet one or more like minded people and fire up a hibachi inside a closed automobile. Where there’s a will there’s a way.
Addressing the alarming rate of suicide in this country (especially among our veterans) is laudable and long past due. It’s not the availability of guns that’s the driver of the problem as some would like us to believe. There’s been a cultural and spiritual sea change in this country that started at the dawn of the Progressive Era and accelerated rapidly in the sixties and seventies. The social and cultural pathologies that affect and afflict our nation are many and varied. For the clear eyed empiricists/rationalists among us the the solutions are fairly obvious though they won’t be easy, simple or cheap. Engineering taught me a lot about root cause analysis and until one finds and addresses the root cause the problem simply doesn’t go away. As Thoreau once said, “There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.” It’s long past time to strike the root.
Lastly, I really liked Scott’s point about Lizzy’s attempt to move the Overton window with her smorgasbord/wet dream of policy points. It is indeed a probing action, she and her fellow sappers are trying hard to get inside the psychological wire of our body politic. We must not let that happen.
Steve asked “Has something changed in the country politically, do you think, since 1993?” Something HAS changed; CULTURE! As the culture goes, so goes politics. The entire American culture has changed since 1993, and not for the better. As John Q Public goes, so goes his government. And Warren is just a reflection of John Q. Public. Warren is simply putting her finger in the air to see which way the polls are blowing. And the polls are blowing in the direction of abdication of personal freedom and submitting to government control and dependency. Warren is not alone. That’s how you get elected. If John Q Public wants to give up his birth right, Warren will be more than happy to accept it. After all the Bible teaches fly-over country in 1Peter 2:13-14, “Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.”
Scott, there is no such thing as a “small percentage” when it comes to registered Democrat voters. Anyone with the “D” by their name is under the curse of 2 Thessalonians 2:11, “And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:” It’s been going on for over two generations since “safe, legal and rare” was hidden in plain sight. There is no division in the DNC. The glue that holds the party together is ABORTION. As long as the “right” to kill the unborn remains in the platform, so-called pro-second amendment Democrats will cave in to the delusion. The party of evil has no clue to their evil, so the parade will only continue to get bigger. The cultural landscape is slowly but inevitably slipping down the slope to tyranny. When the people finally give up their ability to defend themselves against government oppression, the control freaks will wage their war on biblical principles in earnest.
I have a gun, but I think I’ll hit the sporting goods store and pick up a bow and a few arrows just so I can use Fauxcahontas’ picture for target practice.
Every time this comes up, I think of the lines from [Kevin Costner’s] Robin Hood when the Sheriff of Nottingham is questioned by his cousin about his threat to cut out Robin’s heart with a spoon:
“Why a spoon, cousin?”
“Because it will hurt more.”
Man will always murder. People will always commit suicide. Neither are a valid reason for disarming a law-abiding population that just wants to be able to protect themselves. As the number if these incidents rise, a person with a synapsing neuron would look at why instead of what.
Exactly guys I took my kids, both girls, to the range from the time they were interested. For them it was early teens (they are mid 30’s now). They were taught extensive gun safety, shown what various guns and calibers will do to targets soft and hard and then taught how to handle shotguns, rifles and handguns I can confidently say the will not be part of the problem we have on this country. Bans, taxes, background checks and laws will never work if we do not know our kids and families and make sure they understand everything they can about guns.
When asked if a suicidal person did not have access to a firearm, would they use an alternate path to suicide, a friend of mine working in the field of suicide stated: “Research shows that in an acute moment if crisis they will not switch means.”
If we switch our view from preventing violence to preventing suicide, we might be able to address the root cause.
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/08/08/738533533/how-the-cdcs-reluctance-to-use-the-f-word-firearms-hinders-suicide-prevention
I have some problems with this. First of all, “If we switch our view from preventing violence to preventing suicide, we might be able to address the root cause.” The root cause of what? Violence? Suicide? In neither case is a firearm the “root cause.” Or is your suggestion that suicide prevention may be an effective angle to take in restricting 2nd amendment rights?
The article itself poses problems in logic and cause and effect. The NPR article spends several dozen paragraphs describing and lamenting that, “The nation’s foremost public health agency shies away from discussing the important link in this country between suicide and access to guns.” However, relatively early in the article, it states, “The trouble is, the CDC is operating under something known as the Dickey Amendment, legislation passed by Congress in 1996 that prohibits the CDC from spending any of its funds to ‘advocate or promote gun control.'”
Rather than discuss how to change that law, or work around it, the article instead goes on to attempt to make an insidious case against CDC workers who are *following the law.*
I could go on with quotes from the article. But I’m tired – tired of constantly having to address bad logic from leftist writers at NPR, etc. And tired of yelling things like, “Then change the law!” or, “Of course firearms are used in suicides, dummy! They WORK!!” at my monitor.
I mean, this is NPR on the warpath against the second amendment: “Guns get used in slightly more than half of all suicides. And people who try to kill themselves with a gun almost always die.”
If their chosen method is already available, why would they change in their ‘moment of crisis’? Guns ARE available, so that argument holds no water and I suspect your friend is on the ‘ban guns’ side of the argument, as is this NPR article.
I had a roommate eons ago that was going to use box cutters on his wrists because he stocked groceries for a living and they were readily available. People hang themselves, they drive off cliffs, poison themselves… Bullets are cheap and pretty failsafe which makes them the obvious means of choice, but if they weren’t available, some other means would be used if they’re truly serious about taking their own lives.
To quote Bob McEwen (or is it McEwer?), if guns are the cause, how does anyone get out of a gun show alive?