Biden: Obama Might Use Executive Order to Deal With Guns

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The Weekly Standard:

 

Biden: Obama Might Use Executive Order to Deal With Guns

 

11:42 AM, Jan 9, 2013 • By DANIEL HALPER

 

 

 

Vice President Joe Biden revealed that President Barack Obama might use an executive order to deal with guns.

 

"The president is going to act," said Biden, giving some comments to the press before a meeting with victims of gun violence. "There are executives orders, there's executive action that can be taken. We haven't decided what that is yet. But we're compiling it all with the help of the attorney general and the rest of the cabinet members

 

Perhaps this will replace the Stars & Strips

[Draggingtree]

Drudge on gun control

 

 

 

http://www.humanevents.com/2013/01/09/drudges-incredible/

[Valin]

@Draggingtree

 

Wish him good luck if he tries that....he's gonna need it.

[SrWoodchuck]

Posted on Coffee Shop yesterday:

 

 

 

http://westernrifles...security-agent/

 

Dear Mr. Security Agent,

 

Federal, state, or local. You, the man or woman with the badge, the sworn LEO or FLEA and those who inhabit the many law enforcement niches in between and on all sides. This essay is directed to you, because in the end, how this turmoil about gun control turns out will depend largely upon your decisions and actions over the coming months and years.

9. Dear Mr. Security Agent…

 

Why is this essay titled Dear Mr. Security Agent, when it dwells mainly upon the media and coastal-dwelling urban liberals and their utopian belief in the benefits of new gun control laws in the United States? Mr. Security Agent will protest that he is no liberal, he is ex-military, he’s a cop, he’s a fed—he’s one of the good guys! He took the same oath to defend the Constitution that you did, Buster! He doesn’t need any lectures on defending the Constitution! So why single him out in this essay?

Why? Because liberal bliss-ninnies in San Francisco and Boston are not issued flash-bang grenades, battering rams, body armor, flex-cuffs by the gross, and MP-5 submachine guns. No, the dirty end of the confiscation job will fall upon the shoulders of sworn law enforcement officers and gold-badged federal law enforcement agents. The LEOs and the FLEAs. That’s you, Mr. Security Agent.

Today, we already see genital groping by federal agents and at least one Texas state trooper who was caught on film. Their goal is not “public safety,” but public humiliation, intimidation, and control. Cowing the peasants into meek obeisance to unchecked authority. Can waterboarding American “detainees” in clandestine torture centers really be that far behind?

We have recently learned, Mr. Security Agent, that your law enforcement comrades can read every email we send or receive with no need for a pesky and outdated warrant. Today, our cell phones come complete with undisclosed “back doors” for law enforcement use, allowing them even to be switched on remotely, to serve as no less than a secret police microphone in our very own pockets.

Next year there will be drones patrolling the skies above America, keeping a watchful “Gorgon Stare” (Google it) mega-eye out for our “public safety.” Please read “The Coming Drone Attack on America,” by Naomi Wolf, to understand the grim implications of this development for what remains of American freedom.

Facial recognition cameras are going up everywhere. Nearly all public and corporate video camera networks have their feeds directed to dozens of new law enforcement “fusion centers,” whose very existence is kept secret from the American people they were supposedly built to protect. (Google “fusion centers” as well. Discover more news that the liberal mainstream media don’t think you need to know.) Data-mining and Social Network Analysis by our “protectors” edges steadily toward the “Department of Pre-Crime” foreseen in the science fiction movie Minority Report.

So now we’re back to you, Mr. Security Agent, and your unique role in this high drama. Let me state this very clearly, both for you and for the liberal agenda-setting elites who might accidentally stumble upon this essay. Let there be no doubt about this. Let no one later say, “But we were just trying to improve public safety. We had no idea that all these disastrous unintended consequences would happen.”

I am telling you now that disastrous unintended consequences will happen if Congress passes new laws banning presently legal firearms. To make it very easy to remember, and in the spirit of our beloved Department of Homeland Security’s old color-coded security threat levels, let me spell out three lines of demarcation.

The Yellow Line:

 

The yellow warning line will be crossed with national gun registration laws, including laws forbidding private gun sales without government permission. When that law passes, millions of Americans will feel that they have been pushed directly to the edge of the abyss above the mass graves of history. Defenders of the Second Amendment know what happened in Turkey, the USSR, Germany, China, and other nations that fell under totalitarian rule: in every case a necessary preliminary step on the road to genocide was national gun registration, followed by confiscation. The Jewish survivors of the Nazi Holocaust say, “Never again!” And so do we.

The Red Line:

 

The red line will be crossed with the passage of laws mandating that currently owned weapons, ammunition magazines, and ammunition quantities above a certain number must be turned in to authorities or destroyed, and thereafter their simple possession will be a felony. At that point, the nation will be on a hair trigger, with a thousand flaring matches nearing a thousand primed cannon fuses aimed directly at the next Fort Sumter.

The Dead Line:

 

The next line requires a bit of history to explain. In some primitive Civil War POW camps, where lack of funding or logistical constraints did not allow the construction of proper fences, a knee-high continuous railing of wooden slats encircled the prison grounds. Guards with rifles were positioned at the corners and in crude towers. If a prisoner so much as stepped over the narrow plank, he was shot dead without warning, obviating the need for a real fence to contain him. Hence the term “dead line.” Cross the line and people die, right now.

And this is what liberal utopians must understand: after passing the yellow line with national gun registration and transfer requirements, and the red line by making possession of currently legal firearms felonious, the dead line will be breached with the first SWAT raids upon citizens suspected of owning legal firearms made illegal by the new gun control laws. People will die resisting confiscation, in large numbers.

Confiscation crosses the dead line, make no mistake about it.

So this essay is really for you, Mr. Security Agent, because it won’t be elite Manhattan or Malibu liberals or Ivy League professors or politicians or columnists who will be ordered to strap on the sweat-stained body armor and enforce the new gun control laws at gunpoint. No, that grim task will fall to you.

[Draggingtree]

@Draggingtree

 

Wish him good luck if he tries that....he's gonna need it.

The luck I'm wishing

[Valin]

@Draggingtree

 

Wish him good luck if he tries that....he's gonna need it.

The luck I'm wishing

 

Apparently no one ever told his Obamaness that WE THE PEOPLE have a fine very old tradition of telling the powers that be to go F themselves, wen they go a step too far. This would not be a step too far, this is 27 miles too far.

 

FYI

 

Executive Order Growth Looks Exponential

October 23, 2012

 

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Teddy Roosevelt 3

 

Others to FDR NONE

 

FDR 11 in 16 years

 

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Clinton 15 in 8 years

 

George W. Bush 62 in 8 years

 

Obama 923 in 3 1/2 years!

 

 

“Stroke of the pen. Law of the land. Kinda cool.”

–Clinton presidential aide Paul Begala, July 1998

[SrWoodchuck]

H/T:TheoSpark

[SrWoodchuck]

They would like to take guns from Americans, that had nothing to do with the deaths of 26 children & adults, in Newton CT......and yet they solicit money from & protect Planned Barrenhood....who proudly announced the deaths by abortion....of over 325,000 pre-children in one year.

 

H/T:TheoSpark

[RidesAPaleHorse]

And We The People might exercise our Second Amendment rights to resist and deal with your unconstitutional and illegal executive order:

 

[Draggingtree]

And We The People might exercise our Second Amendment rights to resist and deal with your unconstitutional and illegal executive order:

 

O wow spoken like a true patriot

[Draggingtree]

Crime and Disarmament

Daniel Greenfield Full Story

In Washington D.C., the office of the Honorable Joseph Biden was busy phoning up everyone from Mothers Against Pointy Things to the Gay Communist Gun Club of America to Wal-Mart to invite them down for a serious no-holds-barred discussion about doing to the Bill of Rights what his boss had done to the economy.

Meanwhile over in Chicago, the 13th corpse was being scraped off the sidewalk. In just nine days, Obama’s hometown, one of them anyway, was already 15% ahead of last year’s whopping murder rate. East of Second City, in the city that would be Chicago if it wasn’t for a lot of money and a Republican mayor, one of the city’s liberal judges gave civil rights activists a late Christmas present with a verdict against the NYPD’s ‘Stop and Frisk” program in the Bronx.

 

http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/52305

[SrWoodchuck]

HEY BIDEN.......Stand UpChuck!

 

H/T:IowaDawg via KnucleDraggin'

[Valin]

Video: NRA adds 100,000 paid memberships in 18 days

[Argyle58]

I ask your indulgence to consider the following scenario: Seeing the strident discord that engulfs the country as a result of the last election, the Administration decides to make a move against the 2nd amendment rights which are exercised primarily by the most conservative members of the population. Open rebellion ensues, allowing The "o" to declare martial law, suspend habeas corpus and to disband Congress. He thus has the perfect environment to "Fundamentally change America".

 

I'm not married to the idea, just something that occurred to me earlier today. You can judge the merits yourselves.

[clearvision]

I just don't think we are low enough on patriots that O could command what would be required to pull that off.

[Argyle58]

I just don't think we are low enough on patriots that O could command what would be required to pull that off.

 

The thought would never have occurred to me, had we not been so low on patriots to have re-elected him.

[Draggingtree]

The right to keep and bear arms is at the core of this anti-gun campaign, and Dan Gross knows it

 

CCRKBA to Brady Camp: ‘Yes, it IS about the 2nd Amendment!’

 

CCRKBA (Bio and Archives) Thursday, January 10, 2013

BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizen’s Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms today issued a bristling response to Brady Campaign President Dan Gross, who insisted as he left the White House meeting with Vice President Joe Biden that the current push for more gun control “is not a debate around the Second Amendment.”

“The hell it’s not,” CCRKBA Chairman Alan M. Gottlieb declared. “The right to keep and bear arms is at the core of this anti-gun campaign, and Dan Gross knows it.”

“The Brady Campaign and other such organizations are all about gun prohibition, not safety,”

http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/52308

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White House Does Damage Control on NYT Gun-Control Report

Eliana Johnson

1/11/13

 

Someone tell Dianne Feinstein: For all the Democrats’ talk about passing another assault-weapons ban, that now appears unlikely to happen.

 

According to the New York Times, the administration’s prospects of pushing an assault-weapons ban through Congress are slim and, as a result, the White House “is focusing on other measures it deems more politically achievable.” The story suggests that the White House doesn’t want to spend political capital on “a losing cause at the expense of other measures with more chances of success.” Though the administration will recommend the passage of such a ban, it’ll be a hollow recommendation. The White House is already defining success downward, “emphasizing other new gun rules that could conceivably win bipartisan support and reduce gun deaths,” which would include universal background checks and research into the causes of gun violence.

 

Now, the White House is in full damage-control mode, telling the Washington Post that “the report is false.” According to a White House spokesman, “the president has been clear that Congress should reinstate the assault-weapons ban and that avoiding this issue just because it’s been politically difficult in the past is not an option.”

 

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Biden says ‘no silver bullet’ exists to solve the problem with gun violence