President Obama is reportedly “evaluating” a Democrat-sponsored bill that could effectively ban online sales of gun ammunition. The bill, filed Monday by a pair of blue state Democrats, would require reporting of bulk sales of ammunition to law enforcement. It would also require photo ID at the time of ammunition purchase. The Democratic sponsors, Sen. Frank Lautenberg of NJ and Rep. Carolyn McCarthy of NY, filed the bill in response to the mass shooting in Aurora, CO on July 20, 2012. The bill, if it became law, would represent an infringement on the Constitutionally-protected right to bear arms.
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, a longtime foe of the Obama administration who led the lawsuit challenging ObamaCare and is fighting to retain the state’s new voter ID law, reacted quickly to the news that the president will evaluate the anti-gun legislation. On Facebook, Abbott posted a link to a Huffington Post article about the bill, with this headline:
Pres. Obama may limit gun ammunition sales. Unbelievable. In Texas, we have a saying for that: COME & TAKE IT.
That line is a reference to an incident that happened in Gonzales, TX on October 2, 1835. Texas, then a part of Mexico, dared Mexican troops sent to retrieve a cannon loaned to the town for protection. The townspeople flew a flag adorned with a cannon and the words COME AND TAKE IT, and the ensuing clash marked the beginning of the Texas revolution.
Look also at the intentions of the Redcoats marching to Lexington and Concord.
MOLON LABE
Molon Labe works, too – but is inappropriate since it uses the plural?
Nah — they’re talking about multiple rounds of ammunition.
Leave to the “non-Wimp”(??) (chuckle, snort, guffaw) MISadministration of Ozymandias-on-the-Potomac to “bring a gun” to a CANNON fight.
That’s our Dear Leader — someone of small caliber yet immense bore.
The General Campaign Ads write themselves…. we already know that this President will issue an Executive Order for anything he pleases…
I have not a single problem with this new law being proposed…but not for reason many would assume.
The DoJ would HAVE TO sue to have it overturned. Again for those that missed it: HAVE TO
why? because it is their position that to require an ID to vote is an unconstitutional infringement on minority franchise. Therefor, to require an ID to buy ammo (another element of ‘to bear arms, also in this “Constitution” thingie) would have to fall into the same category…
Mr. Holder, do you want to disarm the minoritiesof our great nation? If so why? Do you oppose minorities the right to defend themselves? If you do not oppose this oppression on minorities rights to bear arms, when will you sue to have this unconstitutional law overturned?
Just seeing the cognitive dissonance causing heads to explode would be worth the price of letting this stupid law pass as constructed.
You cannot have it both ways.
Interesting theoretical exercise but you are not accounting for the unlimited hypocrisy of these criminals….
Random,
Sure they can have it both ways. Remember who you are dealing with here.
Secession