McAulliffe Wants Your Guns

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From the Virginian-Pilot this morning, courtesy of the Washington Post:

Gov. Terry McAuliffe on Monday will call for a package of gun restrictions, including a renewal of the state’s one-a-month limit on handgun purchases and a requirement that private vendors at gun shows perform background checks.

McAuliffe will also propose keeping guns away from people convicted of crimes related to domestic violence and revoking concealed-handgun permits for parents who are behind on child-support payments.

There’s about five or six things in there that pass the smell test at some level: conviction on sexual misdemeanors, revoking permits for folks behind on child support, background checks, and so forth.  In the words of Terry McAuliffe:

“Our Commonwealth and our nation have seen too many tragedies as a result of dangerous weapons getting into the hands of the wrong people,” McAuliffe said in the release. “These common-sense proposals will keep guns out of the hands of criminals.”

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Indeed, Mr. McAuliffe… indeed.

Much of that is smoke for the real meat of the gun control schematic, which is the re-imposition of “one gun a month” — meaning that if you have two boys and wanted to buy them new firearms for hunting season or Christmas… well, Terry just doesn’t smile kindly on that.

But let’s talk about what McAuliffe is really trying to accomplish here.  First, this is an issue known to divide Republicans south of the Rappahannock vs. those in Northern Virginia.  McAuliffe is desperate to try to recapture any narrative he can… and in the wake of Del. Morrissey’s renewal of the “war on women” and the notification that hundreds of thousands of Virginia families are losing their healthcare thanks to Obamacare, the Dems are desperate for a game changer.

Second — and perhaps more of concern — is the greater question as to whether or not Americans would tolerate such restrictions on their First Amendment rights?  Of course not… would you be satisfied with “one letter to the editor a month” laws?  Banning people convicted of a misdemeanor from public comment at meetings?  How’s about one-post-a-month on blogs or new media sites?  I mean, who really needs these “assault news” websites with their high capacity clips magazines?  Shouldn’t you be forced to pass some sort of English competency test to participate in the public square?  What about reckless speech?  The pen being mightier than the sword, shouldn’t we be more concerned about reckless assault speech?

Wait… you mean our First Amendment rights are sacrosanct?  We shouldn’t restrict them restrictions on our constitutional rights?  At all?

…so why tolerate them on the Second Amendment?

One gun a month is nonsense.  It’s my right to purchase firearms for my daughters for self-defense.  It’s their right to own one (or many) as they choose.  That’s a free society, and either we start trusting one another to be responsible actors in a free society in speech or deed, or we start having a conversation as to what ought to replace a free society.

Slick move by Fast Terry to drive the wedge, but cloaking gun control with regulations better aimed at a specific Democratic member of the General Assembly?  Physician, heal thyself.

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