Will constitutional rights be lost under Republican control?

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Texas Scorecard By Bob Hall 9/27/2019

Commentary: No Compromising on Liberty

Will constitutional rights be lost under Republican control?

The unwarranted attack on Texan’s inalienable right to self-defense is intensifying. There is no question, Texans’ GOD-GIVEN RIGHT to self-defense is under attack. The battle lines have been drawn and it is crystal clear that the socialist Democrat politicians on the left and those with a left-leaning heart have gun confiscation as their No. 1 target in Texas.

I know of no Republican who has or would campaign for gun confiscation in violation of our Second Amendment rights. We have looked but cannot find a single website or Facebook page where a Republican House or Senate member is advocating any new law aimed at increased gun control, much less gun confiscation.

In fact, most Republicans indicate strong Second Amendment support.

However, there exists within the Capitol a strong push for “expanded background checks.” This should be a real “red flag” (no pun intended) for gun owners. The natural erosion of our rights is inevitable once we start down the path of gun control. Gun confiscation in Germany, China, and European communist countries did not happen in one quick step; it happened over a period of time, one step at a time, with each small step moving closer and closer to the goal of gun confiscation.

Expanded background checks on firearm sales will result in a de facto government gun registration scheme. Currently, the information is collected by licensed arms dealers who are required to maintain the information, which means they are only one legislative session away from being required to report that information to the federal government. It is at that point, historically, that governments have begun to pass so-called “commonsense” laws to remove guns from the hands of so-called “dangerous” individuals. Unfortunately, the definition of “dangerous” is in the eye of the beholder, and political beliefs on one party’s part can be interpreted as “dangerous” by a tyrannical government.

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