Some Anti-Gunners Think ‘National Emergency’ Should Spark Gun Grab

By Tom Knighton

I read a lot of opinions on a day to day basis when it comes to the Second Amendment. In the case of letters to the editor, most of them are rehashes of what someone else says. Rarely do they contain much in the way of new ideas, and that’s understandable. Most people who write the letters are engaged politically, but they don’t spend their time considering new approaches to problems. Nothing wrong with that.

However, sometimes someone has an idea that’s so ridiculous that it has to be addressed. For example, the ideas contained in a letter titled, “Letter: Precedent exists to take guns as a national emergency.”

In mid-September, after another horrible mass shooting, Beto O’Rourke announced that “we are coming for your AK-47s and AR-15s.” I would add to his list any semi-automatic weapon of any kind and any magazine that holds more than six cartridges.

It is possible that the next Democratic president could declare a state of emergency stating that all semi-automatic weapons constitute a danger to society. Their owners would be required to give them up for fair compensation. New Zealand bought back these guns, and the process proceeded with little difficulty.

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Source:: Bearing Arms