Obama said in a recent
address that he’s become ‘frustrated’ with America’s lack of movement
toward civilian disarmament. As police in the USA become increasingly
militarized (with Obama’s help), the president is using crime as an
emotional tool to soften Americans toward gun control. ~ Video
Surrounded by
heavily armed body guards, Obama said on June 10th:
Couple of decades
ago, Australia had a mass shooting, similar to Columbine or Newtown. And
Australia just said, well, that’s it, we’re not doing, we’re not seeing
that again, and basically imposed very severe, tough gun laws, and they
haven’t had a mass shooting since.Our levels of gun violence are off the charts. There’s no advanced, developed country that would put up with this.
The law he speaks of was
Australia’s 1996 National Firearms Agreement. “Very severe” might be
putting it mildly. Australia’s gun laws are draconian. The right to
keep and bear arms was eviscerated, leaving only a privileged, licensed
few citizens who could legally own firearms.
Between 1996-97, an
estimated 700,000 firearms were surrendered to the government by
citizens wanting to avoid being classified as criminals.
Sales were restricted.
Importation was restricted. Carry was restricted. Personal storage was
restricted. The few remaining Australians (5%) bearing a
government-granted license became subject to having their property
inspected by the government.
People who bring firearms into Australia
without permission face a potential life sentence in prison.
All semblances of
firearm freedom were destroyed. The government was empowered to pick
and choose who would be granted privileges and who would be denied.
The
government became the decider of who had an invalid reason to own a
firearm, an invalid physical condition, an invalid medical condition, an
invalid background, or was unsuitable for any other contrived,
arbitrary reason.
The Library of Congress documents some of the relevant information about Australia’s gun laws:
In 1996, following
the Port Arthur massacre, the federal government and the states and
territories agreed to a uniform approach to firearms regulation,
including a ban on certain semiautomatic and self-loading rifles and
shotguns, standard licensing and permit criteria, storage requirements
and inspections, and greater restrictions on the sale of firearms and
ammunition.Firearms license applicants would be required to take a
safety course and show a “genuine reason” for owning a firearm, which could not include self-defense.The reasons
for refusing a license would include “reliable evidence of a mental or
physical condition which would render the applicant unsuitable for
owning, possessing or using a firearm.”A waiting period of
twenty-eight days would apply to the issuing of both firearms licenses
and permits to acquire each weapon.
Citing this as an
example of legislative success is disturbing on so many levels. It is
the classic false-presentation of enjoying more safety with less
freedom. Its a ruse.
Consider this: America
has spent decades fighting a “War on Drugs,” and yet drugs are still
available in every town in the USA.
The prohibition, which has served
to enhance government power and erode personal freedoms, has also proven
beyond a shadow of a doubt that bans cannot possibly keep things out of
criminal hands.
The government cannot even keep drugs out of its own
tightly-controlled prisons! How does one imagine the U.S. government
would do a better job with firearms?
However, we should never
hinge our liberties on efficacy. Favorable statistics will never trump
a law’s immoral foundations. No amount of promised safety is worth
the sacrifices in liberty. The concept of groveling to the government
for permission to own something is anathema to a free society.
June 13, 2014 – posted at GovtSlaves
Doesn’t this make more sense? ~ SadInAmerica
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