Democrats are reacting to the Aurora movie shooting with new calls for gun control, but with a twist. Instead of going straight for gun ownership and running headlong into the Second Amendment right to bear arms, they are going after ammunition and specifically online sales of ammo. Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY) has already proposed legislation that would ban sales of magazines larger than 10 rounds.
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), the most prominent elected Democrats in the state of Texas, has called for the National Rifle Association to meet with her to discuss online ammunition sales. “I’m going to invite the National Rifle Association to one of my meetings,” Jackson Lee said on the House floor Monday. “I want to sit down and talk to them about how we can work together.” It’s unclear how much could be accomplished in a meeting with the congresswoman. Jackson Lee starred in a viral video in 2009, in which she spent part of a town hall meeting talking on her cell phone while a local doctor tried to ask her questions about ObamaCare.
Rep. Jackson Lee is calling for online ammunition sales outlets to report large quantity buys to the government: “I want an explanation on why someone can buy 6,000 rounds of ammunition on an Internet without any oversight whatsoever,” she said. “Why is there no basis of giving notice?” said the congresswoman, who has been in the House since 1995.
“If they’d given notice to the local police, maybe someone would have knocked on the door and found out what was going on.”
Rep. Jackson Lee, however, finds no problem with parents who took toddlers to a midnight showing of a PG-13 film. “I was a young mother with my spouse in an area where we moved away from our family, it’s hard to find babysitters, and so you take a sleeping baby to the movies. There’s no sin in that.”
“I want an explanation on why someone can buy 6,000 rounds of ammunition on an Internet without any oversight whatsoever,”
Because we live in a free country, *expletive deleted*.
What makes online ordering so magical?
Going to physical store has the exact same restrictions.
Or is it the amount? How dare people be allowed to buy a non-perishable heavy good in bulk to save on shipping or take advantage of a sale or just because they want to.
No, this is them trying to get a form of control in. Consider how an “ammo cap” would be enforced. Every seller would have to have a registry of who they sell to and how much. And would have to give out “notices” to people that bought too much.
Register left/liberals, not guns… we’ll all be safer.
I suggest this would actually lead to far greater danger for both police and civilians.
Currently, a cop goes to a home for any kind of inquiry, he must stand at the door unless he can talk his way into the home – and in most of the country will have no idea whether there is a gun in the home or not.
He must be polite and not pushy.
Now imagine the local cop being informed by the dispatcher that the home he is at had 6,000 rounds of ammo delivered the day before.
He is going to be a lot twitchier and more trigger happy – even though the resident may only be a competition shooter or someone who buys in bulk once per year.
No matter, with this knowledge the interaction between cop and citizen has suddenly been ramped up due to the cops very partial knowledge of the citizens activities – activities that are perfectly legal – and is now fully aware that there may be firearms in the residence.
Sometimes, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
I think we just need to be blunt on the reason for the Second Amendment. It is so the people, organized in their localities and states, could defend their liberties if they, as a collective in their localities, so deemed it necessary. Let us look at the history of rebellion in the English-speaking world before 1791, insurrections the founders would have been very aware of–and this is only a quick list of the top of my head.
Bacon’s Rebellion, 1676
Glorious Revolution, 1688
Jacobite Rising of 1688-1690
Jacobite Rising of 1715
Jacobite Rising of 1719
Jacobite Rising of 1745
North Carolina Regulator movement
American Revolution 1775-1783
Shay’s Rebellion
And of course, there was the Whiskey Rebellion after the Constitution was signed, and the 1830 Nullification Crisis.
The men of the First Congress knew exactly what they were doing with the Second Amendment–a deliberate act to make sure that there would never be an Act of Proscription in America:
“Whereas by an act made in the first year of the reign of his late majesty King George the First, of glorious memory, intituled, An act for the more effectual securing the peace of the highlands in Scotland, it was enacted, That from and after the first day of November, which was in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and sixteen, it should not be lawful for any person or persons (except such persons as are therein mentioned and described) within the shire of Dunbartain, on the north side of the water of Leven, Stirling on the north side of the river of Forth, Perth, Kincardin, Aberdeen, Inverness, Nairn, Cromarty, Argyle, Forfar, Bamff, Sutherland, Caithness, Elgine and Ross, to have in his or their custody, use, or bear, broad sword or target, poignard, whinger, or durk, side pistol, gun, or other warlike weapon, otherwise than in the said act was directed, under certain penalties appointed by the said act; which act having by experience been found not sufficient to attain the ends therein proposed, was further enforced by an act made in the eleventh year of the reign of his late Majesty, intituled,”
It is important to emphasize that the right of rebellion should not be viewed as the right of some loner to start his own “one man alone” campaign. But it is a right, and the people retain it, should they, in their localities, choose to indulge in it, as well as their “right”, should they choose to indulge in it foolishly or for a bad cause, to be defeated decisively and reap what may come.
But make no mistake–the Second Amendment is not so someone can go plinking. It’s a little more real and serious.
shiela jackson lee is the queen of hearts
Well, she’s certainly done quite a bit to stimulate the economy today. Was watching an item on LuckyGunner, and between 1pm and 2pm they sold 5 lots of 1,000 5.56×45.