The masks worn by the political Left are slipping. They talked a good game of wanting “common sense gun reform”, but told us that they weren’t looking for confiscation or overall bans. Then, a few, including Hillary, Obama, and the NY Times, yammered about the “Australian solution”, which was overall confiscation. We’ve seen a few call for bans and confiscation, especially the more unhinged far left. Here we have Phoebe Maltz Bovy writing what the Left really thinks
It’s time to ban guns. Yes, all of them. https://t.co/aFqSDhEsl1 @tweetertation pic.twitter.com/lgodaaOJ5G
— The New Republic (@newrepublic) December 10, 2015
From the article
Ban guns. All guns. Get rid of guns in homes, and on the streets, and, as much as possible, on police. Not just because of San Bernardino, or whichever mass shooting may pop up next, but also not not because of those. Don’t sort the population into those who might do something evil or foolish or self-destructive with a gun and those who surely will not. As if this could be known—as if it could be assessed without massively violating civil liberties and stigmatizing the mentally ill. Ban guns! Not just gun violence. Not just certain guns. Not just already-technically-illegal guns. All of them. (snip)
I say this not to win some sort of ideological purity contest, but because banning guns urgently needs to become a rhetorical and conceptual possibility. The national conversation needs to shift from one extreme—an acceptance, ranging from complacent to enthusiastic, of an individual right to own guns—to another, which requires people who are not politicians to speak their minds. And this will only happen if the Americans who are quietly convinced that guns are terrible speak out.
Gotta love those “national conversations.” Of course, we aren’t allowed to have one when it comes to radical jihad, that 50% of the US shootings are performed by a group that comprises less than 14% of the population, or that crime has actually gone down as gun ownership has gone up.
Oh, and then there’s this guy, Governor of Connecticut, who’s looking to use executive action to violate constitutional rights
We're taking common sense steps in #CT to close the loophole and allow firearm permits to be denied to those on gov't watch lists
— Governor Dan Malloy (Archived) (@GovMalloyOffice) December 10, 2015
