I don’t know if you saw it this week, but with the Supreme Court due to hear a Second Amendment case, there has been an increased number of blog posts discussing various aspects of gun control. One of the busiest subjects has been the discussion about what you’ll do when they come for your guns. There are too many gunnie blogs out there to link them all, but if you’re interested, you can spend a whole day reading those threads. I’m amazed at the occasional commenter who doesn’t think it can happen here. They seem to think that what happened in Great Britain and Australia can’t happen here in America.
Can it? Where is the line from a few “gun control laws” to outright banning and confiscation? What would be the foundation, the baseline, the “perfectly good reason”? Washington D.C. gun laws come to mind. Rudy’s crackdown in New York City seems to raise a question or two. Of course, who can forget Waco and Ruby Ridge? What about New Orleans? How about Boston?
“Boston?”, you ask. Yeah, Boston. Jay G at MArooned brings this nugget to our attention
Boston police are launching a program that will call upon parents in high-crime neighborhoods to allow detectives into their homes, without a warrant, to search for guns in their children’s bedrooms.
This makes blood shoot out of my eyes! Jay’s too, as you’ll see when you read his post. And he reminds us that Boston has some things in common with a number of other big LIBERAL controlled cities (Washington DC comes to mind), ie, tough gun control, and out of control gun violence. But sending the cops around to “help the parents”?! Don’t look now but there’s another camel trying to sneak into the tent folks.
In the next two weeks, Boston police officers who are assigned to schools will begin going to homes where they believe teenagers might have guns. The officers will travel in groups of three, dress in plainclothes to avoid attracting negative attention, and ask the teenager’s parent or legal guardian for permission to search. If the parents say no, police said, the officers will leave.
If officers find a gun, police said, they will not charge the teenager with unlawful gun possession, unless the firearm is linked to a shooting or homicide.
Yeah, like THAT’s going to work… but you know what? I’ll bet they get it up and running. And I’ll bet that before it gets shut down for the unconstitutional piece of crap it is, they actually find a gun or two. Let’s see here… three plainclothes cops knock on some poor gal’s door, flash the badge, and tell her they have reason to believe her teenager might have a gun, and they’d like to help her. Am I the only one who sees about twelve things wrong with that? Let me ask a hypothetical question. Suppose, just suppose, that the cops show up at some lady’s house one afternoon, and they do the little drill about the kid having access to guns and might have one. And suppose they search do their helpful check of the house, and find Dad’s no paper Charter Arms .38 snubbie he’s had since college days (Jay, can you even HAVE something like that in Boston anymore?). What happens then? Are they doing database checks? Are they believing the wife and updating the database? Confiscating the no paper gun? Just askin’.
The truly sad part is that none of the gun banners and gun confiscators seem to be able to make the logical connection that gun laws don’t do squat about lessening crime, violence, or killings. Never have, never will. But that isn’t what it’s about, is it? How soon till they knock on YOUR door? By the way, one of the things I noticed in some of the confiscation threads was the unspoken but nearly unanimous assumption they’d come for your guns while you’re at home. Not a chance. They’ll come when your daughter is the only one home, or your wife. Don’t want to bum you out. These are the same folks who let the hippies pour concrete on the railroad tracks to “stop the war”, and the same folks who prosecuted the cops for being violent during the WTO riots that tore up downtown Seattle a few years back. Come for your guns while you’re there? Not gonna happen…
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