-By Warner Todd Huston
Connecticut politicians apparently thought their people were sheep.
Gun owners lining up to toss away their rights in Connecticut.
A few weeks ago I noted that it seems that tens of thousands of Connecticut’s gun owners were refusing to register their suddenly illegal guns and large capacity ammunition magazines. Now the media in the Nutmeg State are finally starting to notice.
At the end of January, I asked the key question, “How did ‘millions’ of high capacity magazines disappear in Connecticut?,” wherein I noted that previous estimates of how many assault weapons and magazines existed in the state was far and above that of those registered by the deadline imposed by the new anti-gun legislation. And I pointed out that it seems that hundreds of thousands of Connecticut’s gun owners are simply refusing to obey the new registration laws.
Now the Hartford Courant is noting the same discrepancy I wrote about weeks ago.
The state’s biggest paper noted that the nearly 50 thousand new registrations of so-called assault weapons is only 15 percent of the guns estimated by authorities to be in the hands of citizens.
“No one has anything close to definitive figures,” the paper wrote on February 10, “but the most conservative estimates place the number of unregistered assault weapons well above 50,000, and perhaps as high as 350,000.”
Now, don’t underestimate the fact that these scofflaws have made themselves “felons.” Gun owners are so against this unconstitutional gun registry that they are willing to make themselves into “felons” to violate it.
“And that means as of Jan. 1, Connecticut has very likely created tens of thousands of newly minted criminals–perhaps 100,000 people, almost certainly at least 20,000–who have broken no other laws. By owning unregistered guns defined as assault weapons, all of them are committing Class D felonies,” the paper noted.
The most amusing quote that the Courant had in its story was that of the ranking Republican on the public safety committee, State Senator Tony Guglielmo of Stafford. He thought all he and his big government, anti-constitution political buddies had to do was pass a “law” and the people would just bow their heads like good little sheep and obey their edicts.
“I honestly thought from my own standpoint that the vast majority would register,” Sen. Guglielmo said. “If you pass laws that people have no respect for and they don’t follow them, then you have a real problem.”
Yes, Sen. Guglielmo, you do indeed have a “real problem.”
In fact, I think that Connecticut is leading the way for Americans to follow. Its time, America, to begin a wholesale campaign of refusing to comply with the increasingly unconstitutional actions of our politicians.
We don’t respect our politicians or the laws they are enacting to restrict our freedoms and liberties.
To try and save face, the state’s constitution-hating pols are proposing that the state arbitrarily change the registration due date, extending it to give more gun owners the opportunity to sign up. These guys are no different than King Obama who changes laws on his imperial whim to get the outcome he likes.
I say to Connecticut, hold fast. Continue to refuse to comply.
But the Courant noted that the state will jump to its powers to threaten, coerce, and possibly even jail citizens who refuse to follow these illicit laws and one of the ways they may chose is to use the lists of those citizens who applied for background checks to be “allowed” to buy a gun in the first place. Officials may use this list to cross check with the new registration rolls and see who did and who didn’t satisfy the new registration law.
Folks, this is one step closer to using these government lists as a means to confiscate your weapons and throw you in jail.
Gun buyer, when you applied for a background check to buy your guns, did you think the state would then use that paperwork as a way to come knocking at your door to confiscate guns that the state doesn’t like? Did you think that the purpose of a background check was so that the state could use it for purposes other than to assure you were “safe” enough to be allowed to observe your Second Amendment rights? Or did you think, rather, that the background check had a single purpose to screen those who shouldn’t have guns, but other wise wouldn’t be used for anything else?
This is the problem with allowing governments to assemble these lists of gun owners in the first place. Eventually, and sooner rather than later, government will use this information against you and will use such lists to turn you into a “criminal.”
Take this warning from Canada where government officials took lists that were supposed to be only about “safety” and began to use the information to confiscate guns.
This sort of thing isn’t a “might happen.” These abuses are “will happens.” Government will use these registries and lists of names as a weapon against us. There is no other way it can end.
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer. He has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and before that he wrote articles on U.S. history for several small American magazines. His political columns are featured on many websites such as Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com, BigHollywood.com, and BigJournalism.com, as well as RightWingNews.com, CanadaFreePress.com, StoptheACLU.com, Wizbang.com, among many, many others. Huston has also appeared on Fox News, Fox Business Network, CNN, and many local TV shows as well as numerous talk radio shows throughout the country.
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