Quote:From: "Gun Owners of America"
Our gun rights are on the chopping block.
In today’s Senate hearing, anti-gunners are attempting to exploit the tragic shooting in Colorado to restrict your Second Amendment rights.
Of course, anti-gunners will hide the fact that the shooting took place at a grocery store whose corporate policy restricts the rights of law-abiding citizens to bear arms in Boulder, Colorado.
Not only that, Breitbart reports, “Colorado is one of the few states in the Union that has the Democrats’ highly desired universal background check gun controls."
That’s why I need your help cutting through the anti-gunners’ lies and hysteria. We need to flood every Senator’s inbox, telling them to VOTE NO on gun control, which would only disarm law-abiding citizens and keep guns in the hands of evil-doers.
Please add your name to our pre-written letter to your two Senators, telling them to keep their hands off our God-given rights.
T A K E**A C T I O N**NOW!
Anti-gunners will try to use the shooting in Colorado as justification to rally behind Dianne Feinstein’s bill to ban 205 different types of so-called “assault weapons.”
The Senate will also take this moment to consider two anti-gun bills that have already passed the House -- H.R. 8 and H.R. 1446.
H.R. 8 would require background checks for every time you “transfer” your gun to anyone, even if you hand it to a neighbor for as little as one second.
For example, if you hand (or “transfer”) a firearm to your son-in-law because you hear a noise in your house in the middle of the night -- and it turns out to be a false alarm -- you’re a criminal.
H.R. 1446 could indefinitely delay the sale of a firearm.
At a time when violence is surging in major cities across America, the government wants to make it as difficult as possible for law-abiding citizens to protect themselves.
We’re fighting for the rights of those honest citizens whose God-given rights hang in the balance today.
We need you to stand with us right now.
PLEASE ADD YOUR NAME to our pre-written letter to your two Senators, telling them to keep their hands off our God-given rights.
Biden Calls for a Ban on ‘Assault Weapons and ‘High Capacity’ Magazines After Colorado Shooting
By Jack Phillips
March 23, 2021 Updated: March 23, 2021
President Joe Biden on Tuesday called for a ban on “assault weapons” and “high-capacity” magazines following a shooting at a Colorado supermarket that reportedly left at least 10 people dead on Monday, and a separate shooting at an Atlanta-area spa left eight dead last week. Gun rights groups have warned that Democratic lawmakers’ bills could potentially turn millions of law-abiding gun owners into criminals.
“We can ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines in this country once again. I got that done when I was a senator. It passed, it was the law for the longest time and it brought down these mass killings. We should do it again,” Biden said at the White House. He did not elaborate on what an “assault weapon” would be, but “high-capacity magazines” typically refer to a magazine that holds more than ten rounds.
Sens. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) and John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.) called on Congress to pass legislation in the wake of the shooting in their home state.
“It’s long past time for Congress to take meaningful action to keep deadly weapons out of the wrong hands,” Bennet said in a statement Monday.
And House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Tuesday that Congress must pass legislation following the shootings.
“For the second time in a week, our nation is being confronted by the epidemic of gun violence,” she said in a statement. “Too many families in too many places are being forced to endure this unfathomable pain and anguish. Action is needed now to prevent this scourge from continuing to ravage our communities.”
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), meanwhile, said that Democrats are engaging in “ridiculous theater” by pushing gun control measures after shootings.
“Every time there’s a shooting, we play this ridiculous theater where this committee gets together and proposes a bunch of laws that would do nothing to stop these murders,” Cruz argued.
On Monday, the National Rifle Association (NRA), the largest gun-rights group in the United States, posted the text of the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment on Twitter: “A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”
In February, the U.S. Concealed Carry Association wrote a letter to Biden, warning the president that his proposal for gun control would possibly turn 100 million law-abiding gun owners into criminals.
“While we can agree that there are several ‘common sense’ and long overdue changes needed to our nation’s gun laws, we firmly believe that the path forward should be focused on supporting and protecting responsible, law-abiding Americans—not criminalizing and punishing them,” the group wrote, noting that a significant number of Americans purchased firearms for the first time in 2020 due to left-wing riots and the COVID-19 pandemic.
Earlier this month, the House led by Democrats passed H.R. 8 that would expand background checks on commercial gun sales, and passed H.R. 1146 that would end the ability of some firearms to be transferred by licensed gun dealers before the required background checks are completed.
The last time Democrats got close to passing gun control legislation was in 2013 after the mass shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut. At the time, they held the House, Senate, and the White House under then-President Barack Obama.
In the Senate, such legislation would require bypassing the 60-vote filibuster, which Republicans oppose. Some Democrats have also signaled that it would be unwise to end the filibuster.
Democrats could also potentially vote on Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s (D-Calif.) bill she reintroduced several weeks ago that would ban 205 different “assault weapons,” including very common sporting rifles.
“It’s been 17 years since the original Assault Weapons Ban expired, and the plague of gun violence continues to grow in this country. To be clear, this bill saves lives. When it was in place from 1994-2004, gun massacres declined by 37 percent compared with the decade before. After the ban expired, the number of massacres rose by 183 percent,” she said in a statement on March 11.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/democrats-push-for-gun-control-following-colorado-shooting_3745756.html?&utm_source=news&utm_medium=email&email=%5bEMAIL_ADDRESS%5d&utm_campaign=breaking-2021-03-23-2
