Prohibition II - The Great Gun Grab

[Cow Poke]

First of all, one of our illustrious liberal posters made a claim "nobody is saying they're going to take your guns", to which I posted this video....

Beto O'Rourke; 'Hell Yes, We're Going to Take Your AR-15's'

His little speech was quite embellished, but his message was clear.

How would this be different from "Prohibition" during the early 1900s.

Does anybody really think that any attempt at getting rid of semi-automatic rifles in the US would NOT result in a criminal enterprise similar to that which resulted from Prohibition?

[rogue06]

First of all, one of our illustrious liberal posters made a claim "nobody is saying they're going to take your guns", to which I posted this video....

Beto O'Rourke; 'Hell Yes, We're Going to Take Your AR-15's'

His little speech was quite embellished, but his message was clear.

How would this be different from "Prohibition" during the early 1900s.

Does anybody really think that any attempt at getting rid of semi-automatic rifles in the US would NOT result in a criminal enterprise similar to that which resulted from Prohibition?

C'monman! You should add this from old Joe from Anderson Cooper's 360 on August, 5 2019:

ANDERSON COOPER: "To gun owners out there who say well a Biden administration means they're going to come for my guns."

JOE BIDEN: "Bingo. You're right if you have an assault weapon, the fact of the matter is that they should be illegal. Period."

You could also added a few others

"I shortly will introduce legislation banning the sale, manufacture or possession of handguns (with exceptions for law enforcement and licensed target clubs). . . . It is time to act. We cannot go on like this. Ban them!"

--Sen. John H. Chafee (R-RI), Minneapolis Star Tribune, 6/15/92

"[The country] can’t be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans to legitimately own handguns and rifles."

-- President Bill Clinton, Washington Post, 3/2/93

"Mr. Speaker, my bill prohibits the importation, exportation, manufacture, sale, purchase, transfer, receipt, possession, or transportation of handguns and handgun ammunition. It establishes a 6-month grace period for the turning in of handguns. It provides many exceptions for gun clubs, hunting clubs, gun collectors, and other people of that kind."

--Major Owens (D-NY), 139 Cong. Rec. H9088 at H9094, 11/10/93

"Banning guns is an idea whose time has come."

--old Joe again, Associated Press, 11/18/93

"If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States for an outright ban, picking up every one of them, Mr. and Mrs. America, turn them all in, I would have done it."

--Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), CBS 60 Minutes, 2/5/95

"Let’s take all the handguns we have in America, put them on a couple of old rusted ships, take them out in the middle of the ocean and sink them, that would be the best thing to do."

--Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA), Senate Democratic Policy Committee Hearing, 5/15/2000

“The Second Amendment does not extend an individual right to keep and bear arms.”

—Seth Waxman 41st U.S. Solicitor General, explaining position of the Clinton/Gore U.S. Department of Justice, 8/22/2000