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Title: Feds Go Door-To-Door To Inform Gun Owners Rights Not Absolute
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Information Liberation
URL Source: http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=52042
Published: Aug 26, 2015
Author: Asa Jay
Post Date: 2015-08-26 22:33:06 by Bill D Berger
Keywords: None
Views: 90
Comments: 7
Thank God criminals follow laws – otherwise we might be in trouble. This has always been the traditional attitude of government in regards to gun restrictions.
It is important to note that everybody believes in gun rights. – It is just a question of who has those rights. So-called “gun-control supporters” don’t support the absence of guns in society, they support gun ownership being monopolized and centralized in the hands of the state and their enforcers(police).
By criminalizing individuals 2nd Amendment right to defend themselves, governemnt exempts itself from its own rules and faces no repercussions.
This is certainly the case in victim disarmament areas like school zones where only magical costumes and shinny badges grant one the legal right to carry a firearm – consequently making schools a prime target for mass shootings.
Government revels in the idea of asserting itself over the population – so it is no surprise that a joint initiative launched in New Orleans is doing just that as the ATF, New Orleans Police Department and the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office go door-to-door across the metro area informing gun owners that they have no rights in school zones.
“Federal law makes it an offense to possess a firearm within a 1,000 feet of a school,” U.S. Attorney Kenneth Polite, who joined in the ridiculous display of hubris, said. “So we wanted to get the word out to the community about this work.”
The resource sucking initiative is being sold as “just a friendly reminder” by local media outlets but startled homeowners answered their doors over the weekend to costumed storm-troopers and plain clothes agents informing them that federal gun laws penalize self-defense in school zones with minimum fines of $5,000 and up to five years in prison.
“This is the second time we have focused on a school here in New Orleans East,” Polite said of the 7th District. “[The area has certainly] suffered from a lot of crime over a long period of time.”
Brilliant! What better way is there to ensure the safety of schools than by going to homes and telling everybody no one can legally defend themselves there?
Whereas a genuine market-based security service would reward individuals with lower insurance premiums who took the necessary steps to ensure their own safety, government thugs are happy to revoke your rights and tell you its for the safety of your children.
As Austrian economist Dr. Hans Hermann Hoppe points out in his essay State or Private Law Society:While states are always and everywhere eager to disarm their populations and thus rob them of an essential means of self-defense, private-law societies are characterized by an unrestricted right to self-defense and hence by widespread private gun and weapon ownership. Just imagine a security producer who demanded of its prospective clients that they would first have to completely disarm themselves before it would be willing to defend the clients’ life and property. Correctly, everyone would think of this as a bad joke and refuse such on offer.
ATF spokesperson Constance Hester said the initiative is “a good time to meet the community on a lighter note.” – And what lighter note is there than informing the tax-slaves that they will be extorted and imprisoned for attempting to protect their loved ones?
Freely financed insurance companies that demanded potential clients first hand over all of their means of self-defense as a prerequisite of protection would immediately arouse the utmost suspicion as to their true motives, and they would quickly go bankrupt. In their own best interest, insurance companies would reward armed clients, in particular those able to certify some level of training in the handling of arms, charging them lower premiums reflecting the lower risk that they represent. Just as insurers charge less if homeowners have an alarm system or a safe installed, so would a trained gun owner represent a lower insurance risk.
“One of the things that is very important for the community is to know we want to not only be reactive, but proactive,” Hester propagandized. “We also want to build a better relationship with the community.”
Despicable! This is beneath the dignity of a free people… (1 image)
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#1. To: Bill D Berger (#0)
Yes, before the community meets them on a not-so-light note. ATF spokesperson Constance Hester said the initiative is “a good time to meet the community on a lighter note.”
-Alex Kurtagic
#2. To: Bill D Berger (#0)
this got me clenching my teeth!! so infuriating--the illogic.
#3. To: christine (#2)
To us, .gov is totally illogical. Absolutely NOTHING about it makes common sense. Nothing.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
#4. To: Bill D Berger (#0)
We can thank George HW Bush for that piece of tyranny. Federal law makes it an offense to possess a firearm within a 1,000 feet of a school.
#5. To: Lod (#3)
Next thing ya' know, they be lobbying for a law where anybody who has ever been fired from a job should lose their gun rights.
#6. To: Obnoxicated (#5)
Oh, the creativity with these disqualifiers is endless. Their gasping terror of the war veterans they insist on creating would be comical if it weren't all so despicable.
#7. To: Obnoxicated (#5)
After Obamacare ramps up, they'll go after anybody who has ever been treated for depression. Take heed regarding the Gun Free School Zone Act. $5000 and 5 years in prison for having a gun in your vehicle within 1000 feet of a school. Unless it's unloaded and locked in a case or a rack (glove box or console doesn't count!). There is an exception for carrying when licensed to do so by the state that the school is in (reciprocity doesn't apply!). Most of these "licenses" are concealed carry permits for a handgun, so any gun that you're not carrying pursuant to the concealed carry permit still has to be locked away. I carry a lever action rifle when I walk the road my house is on. But if I were off my property and within 1000 ft of a school -- public, parochial, or private -- I would be committing a federal felony. Lives have been ruined over this.
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