Hillary Clinton Will End Private Gun Ownership
Posted on February 5, 2016 by Justin Stakes
By Don McDougall
United States -(AmmoLand.com)- For the 1st time in American history, the leading candidate for the Democrat party is running on a platform that would prohibit the private ownership of firearms.
How can this be? It was Kennedy and McGovern who blunted Nixon’s desire to ban handguns. Bush 41 banned more guns that Bill Clinton. Where before the 2nd Amendment was a bi-partisan issue with nuanced degrees of interpretation now one of the political party’s wants it destroyed!
The simple fact is there are no longer any moderate Democrats. When I was a kid registered Democrats were 45% of the electorate, that number is now less than 30%. One recent study showed it as low as 26%. This number will continue to decline as the last few gun owners are chased out of the Democrat party. Hillary can never go too far to the left to win her party’s nomination because all the moderate and more conservative Democrats are no more. If she wins the nomination, I’ll guarantee you’ll hear her talking about how she will respect the 2nd Amendment in her new laws.
Here’s the problem with that, as a candidate Hillary has already stated that the 2nd Amendment does not apply to you and me. She has been vocal in that Heller, and McDonald were wrongly adjudicated and should be over turned. While we could fight that battle again, it is her decision to allow civil suits against gun dealers and manufacturers if their guns are used in a crime that will spell our demise. No need for a defective product or an error in design. Forget that the Federal Government has to approve all new gun sales through the background check system. Imagine if this was applied to a car? You blow a tire on a turn on a rainy night and hit another care with your Prius. Well, then the manufacturer and the dealer where you bought the car would be held responsible as well as you.
Their liberal logic is perplexing. In Santa Barbara when Elliot Rogers loses what little of his mind he has left and stabs three people to death and then uses his car as his primary weapon in killing three more and wounding 12 it is treated as a gun crime. His knife and the car did most of the damage but never let a good tragedy go to waste I guess. Now if Hillary has her way the gun manufacturer and seller would be responsible. Forgetting that he passed his background checks, and that his family tried to involve the police early to prevent this tragedy. Why is the car manufacturer and dealership exempt and the gun dealer and manufacturer forced out of business?
This is GREAT news for the trial lawyers who are funding Hillary’s campaign. For us gun owners it will end out the ability to buy or sell a gun and put all manufacturers and gun stores and ranges out of business. That, after all, IS their goal. When this “Legislation by Litigation” was originally started back in the 2000’s Eliot Spitzer the then AG for New York bragged he would use it to bankrupt every gun maker in the country! So if we take her at her word all personal sales and inter-family transfers would also be targeted. Trial lawyers have given almost $8 million to Hillary since last year alone.
Following the Heller and McDonald Decisions Hillary was vocal; “… the Supreme Court is wrong on the Second Amendment. And I am going to make that case every chance I get.” As for gun dealers and manufactures she blamed them for mass shooting and said, “Let’s put the gun makers and sellers on notice that they’re not going to get away with it.”
Putting this in plain English. According to Hillary “There is no individual right to own a gun” and unlike ANYTOHER product in the US “the manufacturer is liable for how a criminal uses their product.”
This is Hillary Clinton’s position on guns and gun ownership. The changing face of the Democrat party means there is no middle to be concerned about. Bill Clinton’s tactic of “Triangulation” is no more, there is no center to shift too. There is only the 26% that is far to the left, and that sees the Constitution as nothing more than “A piece of paper.”
So what can you do? You’ve registered to vote, you joined the NRA, you read AmmoLand and other pro-gun sites to keep up with the news. What more can you do? Next week I’ll outline the three things you can do.
We have one chance at this, ONE!
If we lose our country will be irrevocably changed.
About Don McDougall:
Don McDougall is an NRA instructor and member of the Los Padres “Friends of the NRA” committee. If he’s not at the range you will find him setting the record straight with on gun issues and gun safety on AmmoLand Shooting Sports News.
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