“[O]n a random basis to permit no advance warning, city blocks and stretches of suburban and rural areas would be cordoned off and searches carried out in every business, dwelling, and empty building,” an Op-Ed column by retired diplomat and editorial board member Dan Simpson in the Toledo Blade titled “The disarming of America” demanded. “All firearms would be seized. The owners of weapons found in the searches would be prosecuted: $1,000 and one year in prison for each firearm.”
OK, but that’s from 2007. Why bring it up now?
I was actually searching the old version of my blog for key words to bolster arguments for a new post (something many of us with history in the fight do all the time) and came across a blistering criticism by ostensible Second Amendment/NRA “loyalist” bloggers that friend and colleague Mike Vanderboegh and I called “prags” (self-styled “pragmatists”). They were going ballistic on Mike for being a “principles freak” and “making us all look bad” because of his frank talk about unintended consequences from pushing die-hard gun owners too far (as opposed to employing their preferred tactic of writing polite letters to rabid gun-grabbers as a the most “effective” way to win support from fence-sitters).
Click the link for the whole article: Old Editorial Showing Goal Behind ‘Commonsense Gun Safety’ Lie
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