The Purpose of Gun Laws – To Create
Criminals?
Let’s face it, it’s a whole lot easier to arrest and convict law abiding
citizens than to catch and convict criminals.
By de
Andréa
October 21,
2013
It might seem like
idiocy on steroids, but that’s kind’a how our Federal Government operates these
days.
Remember when you
were 17 and you asked a 21 year old to buy beer for you? Not legal and not a
good Idea, but what if a 35 year old asks you a 40 year old to pick up a
six-pack on the way home. Seems legal,
and okay. Well… read on my friend.
Ever thought about giving
a family member that hunting rifle they’ve been looking at, or that Glock 19 for
Christmas they’ve been talking about getting? Well my friend, prepare for prison if you buy
it for them. A well established, and yet often ignored, law that was originally
and ignorantly designed to stop criminals from getting their hands on guns
through a third party is actually making more criminals than
it catches. But then any idiot knows
that laws don’t stop crime but what they instead do’, is actually create criminals.
Anyone here
remember the “Fast and Furious” scandal? You know, where Obama the
ATF and Department of Justice decided to help straw purchasers walk guns into
Mexico for the drug cartels to use? Thousands of guns were given over to criminals,
purposely with the Fed’s knowledge and consent, to murdering cartels that take
hostages, kill civilians, and proliferate drug related violence in the US and
Mexico. Who are the criminals again?
Apparently, as evidenced by the agency’s disinterest in conducting
investigations into that illegal operation, such government run straw purchases
– that benefit drug cartels – are not considered by the government to be a
terrible threat to public safety and are perfectly legal.
But letting family
members purchase each other guns? Whoa. . . We can’t permit such dastardly, and
potentially lethal, activity to go unchecked. . .
Last week the Supreme Court heard the case of a
Virginia man who legally’ purchased a gun – then resold it to another legally’
eligible individual. According to the Washington Times, “Both men were legally entitled to own a gun. Both passed the required
background checks. As an ex-cop, Mr.
Abramski bought a Glock 19 and obtained a law-enforcement discount. He
consulted three federally licensed dealers to make sure he did everything by
the book when he transferred the gun to his uncle in Pennsylvania.” Thank
heaven the ATF caught that retired police officer who had the audacity to buy a
gun for his law-abiding uncle. I know ‘I’ll’ sleep better tonight, how about
you?
The intent behind
prosecuting straw purchases (unless the government does it in conjunction with
Mexican drug lords and ATF informants) is supposed to be to keep lawful
citizens from purchasing a gun for people who are disallowed from owning a
firearm. The High Court is expected to make a decision in regards to whether or
not this federal law should apply to situations where the straw purchaser (in
this case Mr. Abramski) purchased a firearm for a person who is legally allowed
to own a firearm.
The stunning part
of the Abramski saga, is that he only became the focus of an ATF investigation
because he is a law abiding citizen but because of an illegal unconstitutional
law he was arrested as a criminal. He just as easily could have driven to
Pennsylvania, given the gun to his uncle in exchange for cash or as a gift with
no paperwork or background check, and no-one other than the two family members
would have had any knowledge of the deal.
He would then be a criminal but he wouldn’t have been arrested. Are you beginning to get the picture?
The case should
serve as a prime example of government’s inability to regulate away criminal
behavior. The recent batch of gun control laws passed in states like Colorado
and New York, for example, routinely create criminals out of
ordinary law abiding citizens while not preventing any significant deliberate
criminal activity at all.
With a stroke of
his Mayors-Against-Illegal-Guns fountain pen, Governor Hickenlooper (D-CO)
signed a law that turned many of his state’s citizens into potential criminals. But has not, does not and will not stop violent
gun crime.
For example, as the
great state of New-New-York struggled with recent floods, thousands of Coloradoans found they were running
afoul of the state’s newest gun control laws. As homes were left abandoned, and
entire communities were cut off from aid, the newest batch of state laws made
it illegal for gun owners to have friends or family members “babysit” their
legally obtained firearms. Local District Attorneys decided not to pursue any
charges. Well at least someone in
Colorado is actually thinking!
But not all
examples of unintentional (or maybe intentional) criminalization of gun owners
have such happy endings. The state of New Jersey convicted an otherwise
law-abiding citizen for “illegally possessing” firearms
within the city – even though they were legally purchased and legally
transported – but he dared to stop at his mother’s house for a cup of coffee. You got to read it…
A concealed carry
permit holder, and former Marine, was arrested in New
York City after he saw a sign that read “no guns allowed” at the Empire State
building, and tried to turn his firearm over to the building’s security desk. That turned out to be a bad arrest because
the Empire State Building can’t make law.
So while criminals
obtain weapons from drug dealers, gun runners, and black market sources (not to
mention the DOJ and the ATF), the Feds are busy tracking down those nefarious
family “straw purchases,” and prosecuting honest people who violate an
increasingly complicated web of regulations and restrictions that are in
themselves illegal. After all doesn’t
the Supreme Law of the Land, the Constitution of these United States say that
the right TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMES SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED???
Nothing about Mr.
Abramski’s actions indicate he was focused on subverting the law, engaged in
nefarious business, or out to conduct illegal activities. He merely is a
casualty of a brainless bunch of overzealous government SS Gestapo Agents stupidly
trying to regulate away criminality. . . Which has never worked doesn’t work
and will never work. By their own admission, criminals are not prone to
following laws, regulations or even kind suggestions. Maybe that’s what makes them criminals... Da I’
doe no!
Had the retired
police officer decided to subvert the law, avoid the background checks, and
operate outside the intent of the law, he might still be
walking around today without being the center of a Federal Case. Instead, his
honest intentions landed him directly in the cross hairs of the ATF.
THE
BOTTOM LINE: Have you ever borrowed a fishing pole to do a certain kind of fishing
that you were not equipped for? What
about Bear hunting or Russian Boar hunting…have you ever borrowed a more appropriate
gun for a special hunt? You now might be
arrested for possession of a gun that doesn’t belong to you and if you are the
one who loaned the gun… well that might get you 10 to 15.
Because, let’s face
it, it’s a whole lot easier to harass arrest and convict law abiding citizens
than to chase down criminals anyway.
If you agree, please share these posts with your friends,
family and co-workers. The only way to defeat the lies and propaganda and
oppression of an evil government and its controlled media, is to spread the
truth.
Thanks
for listening – de Andréa
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