{"id":373,"date":"2009-04-30T20:18:37","date_gmt":"2009-04-30T20:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monachuslex.com\/?p=373"},"modified":"2009-04-30T20:18:37","modified_gmt":"2009-04-30T20:18:37","slug":"are-gun-owners-facing-a-perfect-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monachuslex.com\/?p=373","title":{"rendered":"Are gun owners facing a ‘perfect storm’?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"In the gripping novel\u00a0The Perfect Storm<\/em>, author Sebastian Junger describes the convergence of forces that lead to the brutal Halloween Gale of 1991. While the thought of facing such a storm at sea is terrifying enough by itself, the true terror of the phenomenon was the way that seemingly manageable weather patterns came together to make a monster that was far more powerful than the sum of the individual parts.<\/p>\n

I\u00a0was reminded of this phenomenon earlier this week when I visited the Drudge Report only to find that Senator Arlen Specter had switched parties. With that act of betrayal, Senator Specter set the stage for the Democrats to achieve a filibuster proof majority in the Senate should Al Franken be seated as the senator from Minnesota.<\/p>\n

As I thought about the implications of this unexpected development, I began to fear that this might be the final factor that allows the anti-civil-rights forces to submerge gun owners in the fury of a perfect storm of gun control.<\/p>\n

Why do I believe that this single act may be the proverbial flap of the butterfly\u2019s wing that sets the storm in motion? The answer is simple. If the democrats achieve a filibuster proof majority in the Senate, then the precious system of checks and balances that allows our two-party system to protect the interests of all citizens begins to break down. The party in the majority need not listen to any voice other than their own.<\/p>\n

So \u2026 what are the voices that now speak alone in the halls of power?<\/p>\n

President Barack Hussein Obama<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI would support action to ban the sale or transfer of all forms of semi-automatic weapons.<\/em>” \u2013 Illinois State Legislative Election National Political Awareness Test (1998)<\/p>\n

\u201cI support federal legislation that will ban citizens from carrying concealed weapons, except law-enforcement.<\/em>\u201d \u2013 Chicago Tribune (2004)<\/p>\n

White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Calls for Americans to lose all rights as an American if they are placed, without due process I might add, upon the secret federal \u201cno fly\u201d list.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Attorney General Eric Holder<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think our Second Amendment will stand in the way of efforts we have begun and will expand upon.<\/em>\u201d \u2013 Wall Street Journal (April 2009)<\/p>\n

Speaker of The House Nancy Pelosi<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe want them [firearms] registered. We don\u2019t want them crossing state lines<\/em>.\u201d \u2013 Good Morning America (April 7, 2009)<\/p>\n

Is it any wonder that firearms and ammunition are flying off the shelves across the country? The memory of the Clinton era semi-auto and normal-capacity magazine ban is still fresh in the minds of gun owners and they sense the gathering storm in the air.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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