Enough Is Enough: Oregon Freedom Is Next On The Collectivist Menu
BY Herschel Smith
9 years, 9 months ago
A handful of Oregon Episcopal School 12th grade students will ask Portland’s City Council on Wednesday to adopt a strict gun control measure.
It’s part of a semester-long class research project on engaged citizenship, says Mike Gwaltney, chairman of the OES History Department and a teacher at the Raleigh Hills school on Southwest Nicol Road.
During the council’s Wednesday morning meeting, OES students Maddie Mosscrop, Elizabeth Keeney, Zach Solomon, Rowan Berridge, Nut Cheepsongsuk, Meredith Loy, Teddy Morrissette, Jackson Thomas, Peter Graham and Chelsea Choi, will propose that the city adopt an ordinance banning the manufacture or sale of “assault weapons” and large-capacity magazines for semi-automatic weapons …
Portland Mayor Charlie Hales, who has advocated for stricter gun safety laws, in January 2013 signed on to a statement of principles endorsed by Mayors Against Illegal Guns, a national group formed in the wake of the December 2012 shootings at Clackamas Town Center and at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. Hales proposed requiring criminal background checks for all gun sales, banning “military-style” assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines and making gun trafficking a federal crime.
The OES students’ measure is modeled on similar ordinances adopted by Sunnyvale, Calif., Highland Park, Ill., and Washington, D.C. It’s also an extension of ordinances adopted by Portland’s city commissioners in December 2010.
[ … ]
The students’ proposal comes on the heels of a plan by U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer announced Monday to treat gun safety like automobiles and tobacco use.
Blumenauer, a Democrat representing Oregon’s 3rd Congressional District, outlined his proposal during a Feb. 9 press conference with the introduction of a new report, ‘Enough Is Enough.’
Blumenauer plans to turn the report’s nine proposals into federal legislation later this year. The proposals are based on the federal government’s response to automobile safety and reduction of tobacco use “two significant public safety challenges where the government responded in ways that dramatically reduced injury and death, success came from defining the problem, identifying risk factors, testing prevention strategies, and ensuring widespread adoption of effective solutions,” Blumenauer said Monday in Portland …
Among Blumenauer’s proposals:
• Closing the private sale loophole so no guns could not be sold without a background check.
• Improve the mental health system so some people with mental illnesses cannot get guns.
• Authorize and increase research on ways to prevent gun violence.
• Limit access to “the most dangerous weapons.”
• Include firearms in the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Act.
If you read Blumenauer’s report – and I have – you will find a veritable orgy of government control over every aspect of your rights, from giving the government bureaucrats control over the design, testing, sale and manufacture of guns, to involvement of the CDC and other health professionals in whether any one individual or class of individuals should be allowed to have weapons, to prohibition of certain types of weapons and magazines, to ending what they call the “private sale loophole” (see page 11). It’s a collectivist’s wet dream of government regulation and control.
Now, this won’t get passed in either the House or Senate. I have come to believe that this isn’t the point of the report. This “protest” by the school children (probably all orchestrated by their collectivist teachers) was timed to begin with the push for federal legislation, which won’t pass but that fact will be used to pressure local officials because “we can do something even Congress can’t.”
Money will eventually flow into Oregon from Bloomberg and Gates if it hasn’t already started. The new paradigm for gun control efforts is the state level, not the federal level (where they will lose) or the local level (where preemption laws turn their efforts to waste).
This serves as a warning to all readers in Oregon. Saddle up your horses now. Get you bedroll ready, strap it on to the saddle, get some oats, salted pork, and horse feed. Grab your oilskin coat. Get your carbine and pistols ready, clean them, and get your ammunition. Hit the trail now, your posse is needed. It will be a long time before you sleep.
Get busy immediately or you will be the next in line after Washington’s I-594. The evil one has designs on your soul. You’re in the fight of your life. It has already begun while you were sleeping.
|
|
On February 11, 2015 at 10:17 am, Native Baltimoron said:
I assume that “treating guns like tobacco” means illegal for minors to possess, not “cash & carry after showing an ID at point of purchase.” They’d never give up the NICS and 4473s.
The mental illness thing is a huge canard, given that the overwhelming majority of mentally ill people are not a danger to themselves or others. They often have difficulty with tasks of daily living, especially when off their meds, and I certainly support psychiatric hospitals denying inpatients access to firearms. That said, given that involuntary commitment already bars someone from firearms ownership for life, they are pretty clearly relying on the average person’s ignorance of gun laws to get another bite at the apple.
On February 11, 2015 at 10:29 am, Herschel Smith said:
See my tag “guns and mental health.”
http://www.captainsjournal.com/tag/guns-and-mental-health/
On February 11, 2015 at 12:07 pm, Archer said:
RE: “treating guns like tobacco”: Quite right. They want to make it illegal for minors to buy, possess, and use; they want them “regulated” by unaccountable agencies like the EPA, FDA, and CPSC (as if they weren’t already); they want to have grounds to release PSA videos like they do with drugs and tobacco, to make guns – as a former CDC head said – “dirty, deadly, and banned”.
Also, “treating guns like cars”: sure, why not? Short class, quick test for a license to prove you can operate them safely, and then you can buy as many as your budget allows, in all 50 states and Canada (all licenses valid everywhere), no background check, cash & carry, license/registration unnecessary if they’re never leaving your land, can be taken onto school property, can be gifted/loaned with no repercussions, possession is not a crime anywhere…. Somehow, I don’t think that’s what they’re wanting.
Personally, I think guns should be “regulated” like chlorine bleach and rat poison (which kill more small children every year): Aisle 4, between the flypaper and laundry detergent; buy as much as you want/need and your budget allows; mind the warning labels on the packaging.
On February 11, 2015 at 11:49 am, Pat Hines said:
Yet another proposal from a member of that tribe which can’t be named.
Figures.
On February 11, 2015 at 12:16 pm, Archer said:
We’re watching this in Oregon. Thank God Earl Blumenauer is a federal level official and his proposal will go nowhere, but we’ve got plenty of committed anti-gunners in the state legislature already, and since we actually came out bluer after the last election, we’ve got our hands full.
Good news, though: The Oregon Firearms Federation (OFF) is reporting that county commissioners are advancing and passing resolutions opposing increased “gun control” measures, with the overwhelming support of their county sheriffs and deputies. While largely symbolic, they put the state legislature on notice that expanding “gun control” is an unwelcome, unnecessary, and unwanted agenda.
On February 11, 2015 at 4:14 pm, Jack Crabb said:
That’s not an education the students/inmates are getting at Oregon Episcopal School – its a brainwashing.
On February 12, 2015 at 9:25 am, Ned Weatherby said:
Good observation, Jack. I was wondering, when, in the Episcopal church – or any other church for that matter – did personal responsibility get tossed out the window? I was taught that it was the person who committed an act, and should be held accountable, and would be held accountable by God. When did tools, or any object with a useful purpose, become something that “Christians” couldn’t be trusted with? Should there also be a ban on fast cars? Because _people_ driving cars often kill other people in accident, and some time on purpose. Ban the internet – because, porn? Perhaps they should just pray to the government to ban violence. War.
So, do they pray for the forgiveness of sins, or pray to the almighty state for the removal of the offending tool that they apparently now believe causes a sin? How bizarre is that premise, in re Christianity?
What are these people teaching? “Thou shalt pray to the King to remove all objects, like hammers, rocks, pitchforks and all other implements that may potentially be used by one of us to hurt or to kill people.”
These are the kinds of – what my wife calls “Christians of convenience” – who can’t seem to accept personal responsibility. Must be the object’s fault. So – does the murderous perp go to heaven and the gun to hell? Crazy stuff.
In the big picture, the Church is essentially acceding power to the almighty state, and asking them to intercede on their behalf, asking for the theft of God-given rights against those who choose modern tools with which to protect their families.
Perhaps their next move is to ask their almighty state to prevent them from taking sacramental wine. Heaven knows, booze causes many problems amongst the general population, and, I suspect, with many of their own church members.
Brainwashing is likely right – but whatever it is, this crap has nothing whatsoever to do with Christianity. It likely has something to do with the fact that 501(C)(3) corporate churches are creatures of the state, and who exist at the pleasure of the state within specific parameters.
On February 12, 2015 at 4:41 pm, Jack Crabb said:
You are on fire here, Ned. LOL. Between Post of the Month and this comment – awesome.
I took a course on the U S Constitution (by The Institute on the Constitution/www.theamericanview.com) in which the instructors describe “The Four Walls of Government”. They liken it to a square building – the walls being Self-Government, Family Government, Church Government and Civil Government – with the roof being God, overlooking each wall of government.
Pastor David Whitney is one of the lead instructors and his sermons are archived at the aforementioned website. He is not afraid to tell the truth. In fact he rails against 501(C)(3) organizations.
On February 13, 2015 at 12:34 pm, Ned Weatherby said:
Thanks, Jack.
On February 14, 2015 at 10:55 am, Jack Crabb said:
The IOTC also puts on a great seminar on “The Case Against Case Law”. It boils down to throwing out biblical law and replacing it with secular humanism.