As U.S. Moves Left Anti-Gun Bills Appearing

When it was announced that Barack Obama would be running for the presidency, it quickly became common knowledge that he was one of the most liberal senators in Washington. We new little about him then and today still know little about him but we are slowly finding out.

During the campaign much discussion took place on this blog and others across the Net about Obama’s anti-gun positions, even though he has attempted to paint a different picture of himself than the actions he has taken against guns. Campaigns can put spots on zebras and stripes on hippopotamus.

It appears that President Obama may not have to be the one to directly begin offering up bills that will strip Americans of their Second Amendment rights. I have said from the beginning that once Obama is elected, we’ll begin seeing an emboldened movement to support his liberal agenda.

Oddly enough, just the other day I was telling my wife, more out of disgust than anything, “You mark my words! Within 3 months a bill will be proposed, that if passed, would require that every gun bought and sold in America would have to be registered with the federal government!”

When I sat down to work this morning and opened by email, I found myself staring into information a reader sent me about H.R. 45, Blair Holt’s Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009.

This bill will do exactly what I warned my wife it would do. Not only that, if you happened to read my last post about Ann Coulter’s article on liberal victimhood, well, welcome to liberal victimhood in the form of another anti-gun bill.

(6) on the afternoon of May 10, 2007, Blair Holt, a junior at Julian High School in Chicago, was killed on a public bus riding home from school when he used his body to shield a girl who was in the line of fire after a young man boarded the bus and started shooting.

As tragic as this is and as self-sacrificing as Blair Holt was, this bill will do nothing to stop that from happening again. As has been pointed out before, it will make matters worse.

The bill spells out what it believes the purposes of the bill are.

(1) to protect the public against the unreasonable risk of injury and death associated with the unrecorded sale or transfer of qualifying firearms to criminals and youth;

(2) to ensure that owners of qualifying firearms are knowledgeable in the safe use, handling, and storage of those firearms;

The public is not going to be protected because a criminal murderer who did not register his gun. The danger in presenting this in this manner is that it leads some people to believe that if a gun is recorded it will no longer be used to commit a crime.

In number two, any intelligent person should ask if the person who killed Blair Holt was knowledgeable in the safe use, handling and storage of his firearm? And if he had registered it, what difference would it have made?

As the Obama administration continues its migration to the far left, his followers, like the sponsors and supporters of H.R. 45, will begin appearing, feeling empowered by the President’s own anti-gun past, and will attempt enactment of bills like this and others.

I’m sure Mr. Obama would consider this bill one of those “reasonable restrictions” often spoken as being necessary.

Let’s get to work and defeat this bill.

Tom Remington