The Party of Bad Ideas...

"They that can give up a little essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."  

                                              -  Benjamin Franklin, 1799

It seems that we currently find ourselves in the midst of a seemingly never-ending tug-of-war between some in government (and entertainment, and education, and the MSMedia) who wish to remove from its citizens the right to keep and bear arms, and those citizens who demand that their Constitutional Rights continue to be observed.

Such is the battle raging in California, and New York, and Connneccticuttt, and Chicago, and many, many other states and localities.  Those who wish to remove guns from its citizens' hands seem to believe that doing so will make society safer.  And those with the guns know that it would do the exact opposite.  The battle has been joined, and it is raging...

Virginia, as an example, just voted in a Democrat-controlled legislature to go along with its Democrat governorship.  And with all the levers of power in VA now for the first time in more than 25 years solidly controlled by the Left, extreme anti-gun legislation not surprisingly has followed.  And furious resistance has been mounted.  

"I prefer dangerous freedom to peaceful slavery."

                                             -  James Madison, 1787

So far more than 70 of VA's counties have declared themselves "2nd Amendment Sanctuaries."  Their sheriffs have sworn to deputize all their gun owners so that they will be exempt from confiscation, as is currently planned by the Democrat majority.  Their Governor Northrup has threatened to call out the Virginia National Guard to enforce this legislation.  Just imagine: Armed citizens with guns, being to sent to armed citizens' homes to unconstitutionally confiscate their arms.  Whatever, I ask rhetorically, could possibly go wrong?

"A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of individual freedom from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government."  

                                          -  George Washington, 1787

And then there's Chicago.  This city is the poster child for why gun control doesn't work.  It has essentially outlawed the private ownership of all firearms.  Its laws are designed to make it nearly impossible to buy them, and own them, and carry them, and use them.  Yet, Chicago is America's Murder Capitol.  Chicago has reported more than 2,500 shootings so far in 2019, and 560 homicides.  In other words, gun control doesn't work.  And, it serves to disarm those who need protection the very most.

"The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are of such a nature.  They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes...such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants.  They serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicide, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man."

                                               -  Thomas Jefferson, 
                                                   (Commonplace Book)

More than 100 million Americans own more than 429 million guns (source: FBI, 2019).  I would suggest that efforts to try and confiscate all, or even certain firearms from those who have legally purchased and are legally owning them is a really, REALLY bad idea.  

But then again, so was impeachment.  And that hasn't stopped the Democrats, now has it?