Chuck Schumer is an inveterate liar. Anyone who’s paid any attention to his career knows that. He lies about immigration, he lies about taxation, he lies about racism, he simply… lies. If there’s a topic in front of him, he’ll cook up some ridiculous falsehood to sell his agenda to the uninformed.
As you’re no doubt aware, Robert Francis ‘Beto’ O’Rourke has infamously exposed the Democrats’ 100-year-old goal of a disarmed populace. The old “no one is coming for your guns” lie has been laid bare and, behind the scenes, you can bet the left-wing strategists are having a meltdown.
They know how badly this moment hurt both their gun control push and their overall 2020 effort:
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Now, in an obvious bit of damage control, Chuck Schumer is lying about Robert Francis ‘Beto’ O’Rourke’s gun confiscation scheme. According to the Senate Minority Leader, you can all breathe a sigh of relief. He’s doesn’t know a single person in his party who agrees with Beto.
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday told reporters that he doesn’t “know of any other Democrat who agrees” with Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke’s proposal to confiscate automatic weapons.
“I don’t know of any other Democrat who agrees with Beto O’Rourke, but it’s no excuse not to go forward,” Schumer told reporters on a conference call Wednesday, according to the Times Union of Albany, N.Y.
Apparently, that means he’s never met Senator and presidential candidate Kamala Harris. She said she agrees with the plan during a recent Tonight Show appearance.
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You’ll note that she thinks the “right way” to implement confiscation includes compensating people for the “thing of value” she’s “taking from them,” but she is taking it. You’re not getting a choice here. She will confiscate your firearm, you will be forced to comply, and there will be further consequences if you refuse.
It seems that Schumer has never come into contact with Senator and presidential candidate Cory Booker, either. During an interview with Vox, Booker made it clear that he’s all for confiscation, though he knows he’ll have to change some minds before he can get it done.
To me, this is very similar to the machine gun ban that we saw many years ago. First of all, just having an outright ban on them, [we] began to see the reduction of their existence in the hands of private citizens.
I just think that we need to go as far as we possibly can in removing these weapons of war from our communities and from our streets.
I know this is something that ultimately we [need to] get the Democratic Party on board with, but I would like to see a buyback program and a mandatory turnover.
Booker, like other Dems who have embraced this idea, immediately tried to have it both ways. He said, “I do not think we should be going out and arresting people for having guns.” But he must know that wide swaths of people will resist such federal overreach. How does he think he’s going to have a “mandatory turnover” if he’s not willing to enforce such a draconian law with criminal charges?
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He says it will be accomplished through fines. Don’t buy it. Simple fines aren’t going to be enough to force people to abandon their rights…
We’re not done yet. It’s almost impossible to believe, but Schumer also doesn’t know former Vice President Joe Biden. As I wrote here, Biden wants to make sure you know that, “Bingo!” He’s coming for your guns.
During an interview with Anderson Cooper, Biden proudly proclaimed that you shouldn’t be allowed to own firearms progressives find scary, and he is absolutely coming for your guns:
COOPER: So, to gun owners out there who say, well, a Biden administration means they’re going to come for my guns?
BIDEN: Bingo! You’re right if you have an assault weapon. The fact of the matter is, they should be illegal, period. Look, the Second Amendment doesn’t say you can’t restrict the kinds of weapons people can own. You can’t buy a bazooka. You can’t have a flame thrower.
That seems pretty clear. He’s deciding what you “can have” and “they should be illegal, period” doesn’t leave a lot of wiggle room. He’s since tried to have it both ways, suggesting that “Right now, there’s no legal way” to implement confiscation, but that “right now” should make 2A supporters very nervous.
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We all know that a hypothetical ‘President Joe’ would be an empty suit who’d do whatever his left-wing overlords ordered. If they could find a way to ram confiscation through Congress, he’d do what he was told, and sign it.
Finally, is it possible that Schumer has never encountered – or even heard of – Eric Swalwell? The California Representative built his entire one-note campaign on the issue of outlawing and confiscating certain rifles, going so far as to suggest the U.S. government would “nuke” people who refused his efforts.
The truth is, there are tons of prominent Democrats who agree with Beto. Most are smart enough not to admit it publicly, but they’re out there. The rest will get on board the second they have control of Congress and the White House.
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It’s a safe bet that “Hell yes we’re coming for your AR-15” is pretty much what every one of them believes. It’s been their not-so-secret goal for longer than most of us have been alive. If any Dem dares disagree, they’ll be driven out.
Sweeping, radical, gun control is your modern Democratic Party’s most sacred of cows.
