THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD
(apologies to Keith Olbermann)
Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-SC)
Ask yourselves about a National gun registry database and how that might be used and why it is so wanted by progressives. Read about the Rwandan genocide, the Hutu and Tutsi tribes. Read that all Tutsi tribe members were required to register their address with the Hutu government and that this database was used to locate Tutsi for slaughter at the hands of the Hutu. (Since the government had the names and addresses of nearly all Tutsis living in Rwanda (remember, each Rwandan had an identity card that labeled them Tutsi, Hutu, or Twa) the killers could go door to door, slaughtering the Tutsis. Not with firearms, mind you, but with machetes. I use this example to warn that national databases can be used with evil consequences…. The 2nd Amendment is (or should be) equal to the 1st Amendment and the 4th Amendment and all of the others. Ask yourselves why it is under attack? Ask yourselves about a National gun registry database and how that might be used and why it is so wanted by progressives.
There’s stupid. There’s irrational. There’s paranoid. And then there’s Jeff Duncan, who evidently is no one’s idea of intelligent, rational, OR reasonable. In Duncan’s case, no rhetoric is too cheap, insane, brain-dead, or conspiratorial that it can’t be used in the service of the gun industry.
Yeah, the reason those of us on the Left want background checks is so we can register all the Conservatives. Then we can use that registry to find and murder them later with machetes (Hey, we believe in gun control, remember??). Welcome to today’s “WTF??” moment, presented by a Republican Congressman immune to reason, rationality, and simple human decency. Because LORD KNOWS what manner of holocaust the Loony Left will visit upon gun owners once they’ve created a national registry.
Never mind that we already have databases of business owners, automobile owners, doctors allowed to prescribe medication…but a national registry of gun owners is a bridge too far? Asking sellers at gun shows not to allow violent criminals and the mentally unstable to purchase weapons? TYRANNY, I TELL YOU!! TYRANNY!!
No, ‘tis far better to allow the mentally unstable access to guns that can be used to kill children and civilians…for that is the hill that FREEDOM is built upon, my friend. A national registry of gun owners? Why? You wouldn’t want violent revolution to break out, would you?
No reasonable person is going to pretend that a national registry of gun owners will magically stop violence like the Sandy Hook massacre. But does it make sense to do nothing? Are we to accept the occasional mass murder as the cost of our freedom of unlimited access to firepower? Is that an acceptable cost…as long as someone else’s children are the ones being buried far too young?
I never cease to be amazed at the bottom-floor level of intellectual discourse that so many gun nuts are capable of. Duncan may not be Louie Gohmert stupid, but he’s giving the clown from east Texas a serious run for his money. To think that we’re in danger of becoming Rwanda merely because of a proposed national database of gun owners is beyond absurd, and all Duncan has done is to cement the impression that the gun nuts have no argument but irrational bluster and ridiculous, unprovable assertions.
I understand that Duncan opposes universal background checks, but would it be too much to expect him to keep the debate in the realm of reason and rationality? Is it too much to hope that he could deal with the facts on their face?
Evidently that’s a burden Duncan’s unable to bear, because fear-mongering and paranoid conspiracy theories are all he has to offer.
