ODD COINCIDENCE: DOJ Warns SCOTUS of Dangerous “Mentally Ill” Gun Owners Hours Before Maine Shooting
BY Herschel Smith
1 year ago
Yeah, I hate to have to think like this, but my first thought was “How convenient.” It’s the FedGov’s fault that we think like this.
As for the “mentally ill,” I don’t like the supposed “yellow flag” laws in Maine and how the NRA and SAF panders to that side. I don’t believe in anything laws, much less disarmament laws.
Of course, I agree with the new Speaker Johnson.
On Thursday, Johnson appeared on Fox News, where he was asked about the murder of 18 people in Lewiston, Maine. The Louisiana Republican said it was not the right time to consider legislation and defended the Second Amendment.
“At the end of the day, the problem is the human heart. It’s not guns, it’s not the weapons,” Johnson said. “We have to protect the right of the citizens to protect themselves. That’s the Second Amendment and that’s why our party stands so strongly for that.”
The Biden White House, for its part, has renewed a call for gun legislation after the shooting in Lewiston. And it wasted little time hitting Johnson for standing in the way.
Gun violence is “not the result of an imagined deficiency in the hearts of the American people …
That isn’t what he said. He said nothing about a deficiency in the heart of the American people. He said something about “human heart.” As for what the Holy Writ says, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?” That applies to everyone.
This was a killing zone because men didn’t carry weapons. Folks, there’s such a thing as non-permissive carry. Do it when necessary.
On October 31, 2023 at 1:14 am, Archer said:
That’s not the only odd coincidence.
There’s a bill on Congress to protect veterans’ 2A rights. The VA’s current policy is to report veterans to NICS if they ask for help with their finances. Veterans lose their 2A rights with no due process, no conviction, no adjudication. Just a bureaucrat’s say-so. The bill would put an end to that policy.
So of course, while that bill is on the table, a 20-year NCO firearms instructor who’s received multiple commendations, but has spent some time in a mental institution for evaluation (but has not been relieved of duty? or been reported to NICS?), goes off and shoots up a bar and bowling alley. That perfectly reasonable bill, in all likelihood, is as good as dead.
And that bowling alley, while not outright banning firearms on the property (which they may not be able to do with any force of law), requests that patrons leave their guns in their cars. And on top of that, when the shooting happened it was a group of teenagers (a school or church group, IIRC), who couldn’t be armed anyway.
Truly some odd coincidences.
On October 31, 2023 at 8:03 am, Frank said:
If it’s a “gun-free zone” and I’m there, then it’s not a gun-free zone.
(Unless disarmament is enforced 100%, and there are armed security personnel present. Like at courthouses, or the Ark Encounter a few weeks ago … )
On October 31, 2023 at 11:04 am, foot in the forest said:
If forced, I will plead dyslexia. couldn’t read the sign man.