Obama's Attorney General = Gun Controls

[melensdad]

For those who don't believe that gun control will be on the table in the Obama White House, you may want to think again. Here is a piece written by noted gun writer David Kopel. Please read it. If you are NOT a member of the NRA, GOA, JFPO, SAF or CCRKBA then maybe now is the time to spend a little time/money to join the fray. We need all the help we can get.

[David Kopel, November 20, 2008 at 7:41pm]
The Volokh Conspiracy - Eric Holder on firearms policy:
Eric Holder on firearms policy:

Earlier this year, Eric Holder--along with Janet Reno and several other former officials from the Clinton Department of Justice--co-signed an amicus brief in District of Columbia v. Heller. The brief was filed in support of DC's ban on all handguns, and ban on the use of any firearm for self-defense in the home. The brief argued that the Second Amendment is a "collective" right, not an individual one, and asserted that belief in the collective right had been the consistent policy of the U.S. Department of Justice since the FDR administration. A brief filed by some other former DOJ officials (including several Attorneys General, and Stuart Gerson, who was Acting Attorney General until Janet Reno was confirmed) took issue with the Reno-Holder brief's characterization of DOJ's viewpoint.

But at the least, the Reno-Holder brief accurately expressed the position of the Department of Justice when Janet Reno was Attorney General and Eric Holder was Deputy Attorney General. At the oral argument before the Fifth Circuit in United States v. Emerson, the Assistant U.S. Attorney told the panel that the Second Amendment was no barrier to gun confiscation, not even of the confiscation of guns from on-duty National Guardsmen.

As Deputy Attorney General, Holder was a strong supporter of restrictive gun control. He advocated federal licensing of handgun owners, a three day waiting period on handgun sales, rationing handgun sales to no more than one per month, banning possession of handguns and so-called "assault weapons" (cosmetically incorrect guns) by anyone under age of 21, a gun show restriction bill that would have given the federal government the power to shut down all gun shows, national gun registration, and mandatory prison sentences for trivial offenses (e.g., giving your son an heirloom handgun for Christmas, if he were two weeks shy of his 21st birthday). He also promoted the factoid that "Every day that goes by, about 12, 13 more children in this country die from gun violence"--a statistic is true only if one counts 18-year-old gangsters who shoot each other as "children."(Sources: Holder testimony before House Judiciary Committee, Subcommitee on Crime, May 27,1999; Holder Weekly Briefing, May 20, 2000. One of the bills that Holder endorsed is detailed in my 1999 Issue Paper "Unfair and Unconstitutional.")

After 9/11, he penned a Washington Post op-ed, "Keeping Guns Away From Terrorists" arguing that a new law should give "the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms a record of every firearm sale." He also stated that prospective gun buyers should be checked against the secret "watch lists" compiled by various government entities. (In an Issue Paper on the watch list proposal, I quote a FBI spokesman stating that there is no cause to deny gun ownership to someone simply because she is on the FBI list.)

After the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the D.C. handgun ban and self-defense ban were unconstitutional in 2007, Holder complained that the decision "opens the door to more people having more access to guns and putting guns on the streets."

Holder played a key role in the gunpoint, night-time kidnapping of Elian Gonzalez. The pretext for the paramilitary invasion of the six-year-old's home was that someone in his family might have been licensed to carry a handgun under Florida law. Although a Pulitzer Prize-winning photo showed a federal agent dressed like a soldier and pointing a machine gun at the man who was holding the terrified child, Holder claimed that Gonzalez "was not taken at the point of a gun" and that the federal agents whom Holder had sent to capture Gonzalez had acted "very sensitively." If Mr. Holder believes that breaking down a door with a battering ram, pointing guns at children (not just Elian), and yelling "Get down, get down, we'll shoot" is example of acting "very sensitively," his judgment about the responsible use of firearms is not as acute as would be desirable for a cabinet officer who would be in charge of thousands and thousands of armed federal agents, many of them paramilitary agents with machine guns.​

 

[SavageEagle]

Brings this picture to mind...

 

[Bill of Rights]

Holder played a key role in the gunpoint, night-time kidnapping of Elian Gonzalez. The pretext for the paramilitary invasion of the six-year-old's home was that someone in his family might have been licensed to carry a handgun under Florida law. Although a Pulitzer Prize-winning photo showed a federal agent dressed like a soldier and pointing a machine gun at the man who was holding the terrified child

Brings this picture to mind...

I would hope so. The small boy looking scared in the above picture is none other than Elian Gonzalez.

Blessings,
B

 

[96harley]

PEOPLE CONTROL

 

[Seancass]

well this is good, it's about time. America had a good run, but i think we're all getting tired of being in the home of the free. We know the brave left a long time ago.

 

[jeremy]

Not all the brave are gone.

 

[SavageEagle]

I would hope so. The small boy looking scared in the above picture is none other than Elian Gonzalez.

Blessings,
B

That's what I figured when I read that but I wasn't for 100% sure. Appreciate the confirmation!

 

[jedi]

How on earth did a reporter get that photo?

 

[jeremy]

How on earth did a reporter get that photo?

It was probably being passed around the alphabet agencies as a feel good training tool "see this is how you do it" kinda thing. Amazing what you can find on the net once you put the right combination of words in the search block.

 

[jedi]

Jeremy, no not how the photo is "on the net" but how when the FEDs raided the house someone (fed) had a camera with them and snapped that photo?

I imagine in a raid the lead officer is going into each room first followed by his backup. Yet for THIS photo to occur the photographer must have gone into the room first, followed by the lead officer.

You see what I am getting at? The photographer had to go into the room, turn aroundand then get ready to snap the photo. Yet in a raidwhy on earth do you let the photogapher go in first?

 

[melensdad]

That is actually a Pulitizer Prize winning photograph, it shows when, under the Clinton Administration, they raided the house of Elian Gonzalaz (sp?) took him from his family and deported him to Cuba.

 

[haldir]

Wikipedia entry has the story of the picture:

In the pre-dawn hours of April 22, pursuant to an order issued by a federal magistrate, eight SWAT-equipped agents of the Border Patrol's BORTAC unit as part of an operation in which more than 130 INS personnel took part[13] approached the house; they knocked, and identified themselves. When no one responded from within, they entered the house. Pepper-spray and mace were employed against those outside the house who attempted to interfere. Nonetheless, a stool, rocks, and bottles were thrown at the agents.[14] In the confusion Alan Diaz, of the Associated Press, was able to enter the house and entered a room with Elián, his great uncle's wife Angela Lázaro, her niece, the niece's young son, and Donato Dalrymple (one of the fishermen who had rescued him from the ocean). They waited in the room listening to agents search the house. Once they found the locked door to the room, agents kicked it down and Alan Diaz took his famous picture (he won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography) showing a BORTAC Agent with a MP5 submachine gun pointed toward Elián and Donato Dalrymple. The Agent had his trigger finger along the frame of the weapon. Dalrymple had taken Elián and had tried to hide himself and the boy in the closet but it was too stuffed with clothes.[15][16]

 

[SavageEagle]

finger on the trigger or not, he's still pointing a SUBMACHINE GUN at a CHILD. How many levels of wrong is that?

 

[danielocean03]

I believe that Obama is totally against the Second Amendment, and will do all he can to tax and regulate it to hell. Maybe he'll focus on ammunition, maybe prevent future sales of firearms, go after the firearms we already own. I don't know, but I know I don't like him, Biden, or his Clinton-esque cabinet either. I'm really not trying to "fear-monger" or anything, but I strongly feel that he wants to rid Americans of their rights.

 

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