January 06, 2004

It has been pointed out to me by readers that I erred in going along with the description of so-called “assault rifles” as being “weapons.” But the term “assault rifles” is a misnomer as well. And this is not by either accident or due to ignorance – these misnomers are crucial to the destruction of our Second Amendment.

Leftist gun controllers mislabel themselves as well. They’re not “controllers,” but rather abolitionists. They even deliberately mislabel their leftist agenda as being “liberal;” it’s not. Liberals are what Thomas Jefferson, George Washington and Benjamin Franklin were. And not one of them would support today’s so-called “liberal” agenda characterized by the insanity that demands that all Americans turn their guns in to government, the latter strictly prohibited from enforcing such unconstitutional, freedom-crushing statism by the Second Amendment.

The first step in destroying freedom is in controlling the language. That aids greatly in controlling the minds and the will of the people. The next step is controlling the press. These are the First Amendment issues protected by the peoples’ right to own and carry firearms, recently abolished by the Ninth Circuit Court and ratified by the failure of the U.S. Supreme Court to come to the defense of the Constitution.

This is the same U.S. Supreme Court that trashed the First Amendment with President George W. Bush’s Campaign Finance unconstitutionality. And as we see the president and the Supreme Court trashing the first two great protections guaranteed by our Bill of Rights, we now become aware of the underhanded and sneaky methods of “our” Congress in slipping more “Patriot” Act horror through the system to make the police state more of a reality for America.

The squeeze play of the ever-increasing infringements on our gun rights on the one side, and the erosion of our protections from arbitrary police state persecution originating from citizen criticism of government, as well as skyrocketing police state tactics characterized by the killing of our pets, the confiscation our cars, homes and private property on the other, is threatening to blow up in all our faces. There are those who believe government can throttle US – they haven’t seen 300 million Americans on a rampage once it becomes clear to an enraged populace that this is the only option left.

The term “assault weapon,” or “assault rifle,” is valid only when describing long arms capable of firing fully automatic, in controlled bursts, or in single trigger-pull semi-automatic. Those long arms designated by Feinstein, Schumer, Clinton and now Bush as “assault weapons,” are only capable of firing single trigger-pull semi-automatic. They are not machine-guns. The terminology was carefully engineered by Feinstein/Schumer and their ilk to set the precedent for disqualifying legitimate firearms that aren’t machine-guns on the basis that they are semi-automatic actions and rifles. The ultimate objective is to ban rifles and shotguns.

This will be accomplished by likening the semi-automatic actions of legitimate handguns to the banned semi-automatic actions of the banned and to-be dreaded “military assault weapons.” And in New Jersey at this moment, the Feinstein/Schumer representative in the New Jersey Legislature, the state where the term “assault rifle” was originated and first legislated against, Assemblyperson Loretta Weinberg rammed her “smart gun” law past a collection of linguini-spined, despicable Republican wimps and wusses. Count on the Feinstein/Schumer ilk to cut orders for the Bush regime and the gutless wonders in Congress to adopt that stupid law as well!

As might be recalled, the “assault weapons” fraud was necessitated when the citizens in northern New Jersey threatened to resort to their rifles to stop then-Governor “Toxic Tom” Kean [yeah, that one!] from poisoning constituent-sparse farmland by transporting radon-infected soil from a high constituent city. Kean warned the residents not to interfere with the truck convoy and cautioned State Police would escort it. Residents faced Kean down, and the next thing you know, his successor, Democrat Jim Florio, introduced the “assault rifle” ban.

What is desperately needed here is an open debate to educate the populace who have been brainwashed by the leftist media and Bill O’Reilly into thinking that the subject of the ban consists of military machine-guns. Looks like a job for the NRA! Where are they? In New Jersey, just prior to Loretta Weinberg’s “smart gun” ban, the NRA was cutting a deal with James McGreevey when he was running for governor. He promised not to support the legislation in return for the NRA’s backing. Surprise! He lied! Loretta scared the hell out of him and he caved!

Theodore E. Lang

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Ted Lang is a political analyst and a freelance writer.

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