In both the State Legislature and Congress, Colorado Democrats are supporting restrictions on our Right to Keep and Bear Arms.
In Congress, the following is currently under consideration:
H.R. 8: Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2021
This bill makes private gun sales illegal, forcing law-abiding gun buyers to go through licensed firearm dealers, which are required to use the government’s “National Instant Background Check System (NICS).”
This means that all legal gun purchases MUST have permission of the Federal Government.
If this passes, it will be easier than ever for politicians and bureaucrats to DENY YOU YOUR RIGHT to purchase and sell weapons legally!
This includes anyone who could be put on a government watchlist for disagreeing with a government policy.
To make matters worse, H.R. 8 creates de facto Gun Registration for all legal gun owners.
By creating a record in the NICS system for every legal gun purchase, it is possible for a government agency like the ATF to know who every legal gun owner is.
REGISTRATION IS THE FIRST STEP TOWARDS CONFISCATION!
H.R. 1446: Enhanced Background Checks Act of 2021
This allows the government to delay your legal gun purchase.
This delays an individual from exercising their right to purchase or sell a firearm.
H.R. 1808: To regulate assault weapons, to ensure that the right to keep and bear arms is not unlimited, and for other purposes
This is a BAN on the legal sale of specific guns and gun parts that politicians decide we should not own.
Even though the text of this legislation has not been released to the public, there are already 194 cosponsors in Congress.
All three of these bills are co-sponsored by all four of Colorado’s Democratic Congressmen.
Looking locally, in the Colorado State Legislature, the following anti-gun bills have been introduced:
HB21-1106: Safe Storage Of Firearms
This requires gun owners to keep their firearms secured, otherwise they can face criminal penalties.
If your gun is locked up, and someone breaks into your home in the middle of the night, you might not have time to unlock your safe and retrieve your firearm before a criminal harms your family.
This raises the cost of firearm ownership, making it more expensive for a poor person to be able to defend their families.
Not only that, but gun sellers would be required to provide a gun lock to every purchaser.
SB21-078: Lost Or Stolen Firearms
This creates a new criminal penalty if a legal gun owner fails to report their lost or stolen firearm within 5 days.
One of the intentions of this bill is to track firearms, because it “requires a law enforcement agency that receives a report of a lost or stolen firearm to enter information about the lost or stolen firearm into the national crime information center database and report the information to the Colorado bureau of investigation.”
This assault on our rights is just another example of Colorado Democrats attempting to create more laws.
More laws mean more Coloradoans in jail.
The most affected will be the poor and the disadvantaged.
Wealthy individuals always have an advantage when dealing with criminal justice problems.
After all, gun control was originally imposed in the United States to prevent freed slaves from owning guns.
Colorado Democrats claim to be in support of criminal justice reform, but the opposite is actually the case.
Anti-tobacco, anti-cannabis, and now anti-gun laws are just recent examples of their efforts to further criminalize society.
Why is the Right to Keep and Bear Arms so Important?
Because every human being has rights.
These human rights include the right to self-defense.
If you are not capable of defending yourself, you will always be subject to someone who is willing to use violence to control you.
Free men can buy and sell weapons.
Slaves cannot.
Any infringement on our Right of Self-Defense is an affront to our human dignity.
Every infringement on our Second Amendment is one step closer to total slavery.
History has shown what happens to disarmed populations.
Watch Innocents Betrayed (Caution, it is graphic) to see how gun confiscation preceded genocide in the modern era.
Firearms save lives because they are the great equalizer.
I will leave you with the best essay I’ve seen which outlines this simple point:
Why the Gun is Civilization
By Marko Kloos
Human beings only have two ways to deal with one another: reason and force. If you want me to do something for you, you have a choice of either convincing me via argument, or force me to do your bidding under threat of force. Every human interaction falls into one of those two categories, without exception. Reason or force, that’s it.
In a truly moral and civilized society, people exclusively interact through persuasion. Force has no place as a valid method of social interaction, and the only thing that removes force from the menu is the personal firearm, as paradoxical as it may sound to some.
When I carry a gun, you cannot deal with me by force. You have to use reason and try to persuade me, because I have a way to negate your threat or employment of force. The gun is the only personal weapon that puts a 100-pound woman on equal footing with a 220-pound mugger, a 75-year old retiree on equal footing with a 19-year old gangbanger, and a single gay guy on equal footing with a carload of drunk guys with baseball bats. The gun removes the disparity in physical strength, size, or numbers between a potential attacker and a defender.
There are plenty of people who consider the gun as the source of bad force equations. These are the people who think that we’d be more civilized if all guns were removed from society, because a firearm makes it easier for a mugger to do his job. That, of course, is only true if the mugger’s potential victims are mostly disarmed either by choice or by legislative fiat–it has no validity when most of a mugger’s potential marks are armed. People who argue for the banning of arms ask for automatic rule by the young, the strong, and the many, and that’s the exact opposite of a civilized society. A mugger, even an armed one, can only make a successful living in a society where the state has granted him a force monopoly.
Then there’s the argument that the gun makes confrontations lethal that otherwise would only result in injury. This argument is fallacious in several ways. Without guns involved, confrontations are won by the physically superior party inflicting overwhelming injury on the loser. People who think that fists, bats, sticks, or stones don’t constitute lethal force watch too much TV, where people take beatings and come out of it with a bloody lip at worst. The fact that the gun makes lethal force easier works solely in favor of the weaker defender, not the stronger attacker. If both are armed, the field is level. The gun is the only weapon that’s as lethal in the hands of an octogenarian as it is in the hands of a weightlifter. It simply wouldn’t work as well as a force equalizer if it wasn’t both lethal and easily employable.
When I carry a gun, I don’t do so because I am looking for a fight, but because I’m looking to be left alone. The gun at my side means that I cannot be forced, only persuaded. I don’t carry it because I’m afraid, but because it enables me to be unafraid. It doesn’t limit the actions of those who would interact with me through reason, only the actions of those who would do so by force. It removes force from the equation … and that’s why carrying a gun is a civilized act. (Source)
Please consider joining Rocky Mountain Gun Owners, they are Colorado’s No-Compromise Second Amendment Group. Watch my interview with RMGO’s Taylor Rhodes from last year.
Also consider joining the National Association for Gun Rights if you want to help stop gun control at the National level.
Also check out Rally for our Rights, another local pro-gun group.
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