Watch Senator and Presidential candidate Kristen Gillibrand discuss gun control on CNN.
She supports gun buybacks. She is clear that she wants to ban assault rifles and non-arbitrarily limited capacity magazines, and she does not want them grandfathered in.
The CNN host asks her if that means prosecuting gun owners who refuse to participate in the buyback.
Senator Gillibrand then goes into hemming and hawing. I think she realizes that saying “yes, I’m going to charge millions of gun owners with a federal crime because they refused to sell their guns to the government” sounds bad.
But, she’s painted into a corner where without enforcement the law is meaningless.
So she says she’ll only go after people who “use assault weapons.” My takeaway is not people who commit mass shootings, because after you kill a dozen people, does the upcharge from using a banned gun make a difference?
I think she means anybody caught using an assault weapon. As in, if you take your rifle to the range and get caught with it in public, that becomes an aggravated felony.
Then she goes into some nonsensical part about “a special certification” for a suppressor. By that, I guess she means the tax stamp.
So now she’s equated assault rifles to NFA items, which are not outright banned. So is she saying that my AR will become an NFA item or am I totally banned from owning it?
Lastly, she goes into what to me is the most disqualifying part of her whole interview.
She says that the NRA is funded by the gun makers and the gun makers don’t care about people’s lives, they only want money.
This is the gun maker blood libel. It is an absolutely despicable position to take.
It dehumanizes every single person who works in the firearms industry and turns them into a caricature of a super-villain that somehow turns suffering into profit.
When your talking points include writing off hard-working, tax-paying, patriotic Americans as people who don’t care if children die for money, the conversation is over.
From this interview what I can surmise is that the Democrats who want to run this country want to put millions of gun owners in prison for life because they hate us personally. I feel like we all knew that already, they are just getting closer and closer to actually saying it.
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