Facing an onslaught of anti-gun measures in the state legislature following last October’s mass murder in Lewiston, Maine, lawful gun owners in the state are planning a rally on Thursday to show their support for gun owners’ rights.
The Save The Second Amendment rally is set for 10 a.m. Thursday at the Maine State House. Following the rally, participants will move to the Judiciary Committee public hearing set for 11:30.
According to Laura Whitcomb, president of Gun Owners of Maine, many of the measures currently under consideration would be detrimental to the lawful gun owners her group represents.
One piece of legislation sounds fairly innocuous based on the title, but also has negative ramifications. LD 2119 is called the “Act to Support Suicide Prevention by Allowing the Voluntary Waiver of Firearms Rights.”
“We find it to be problematic because there’s nothing saying that somebody’s not going to be coerced into giving up that right,” Whitcomb said. “And then once that right is given up under this legislation, there’s no path to get it back. So, if you find yourself to be in a rough spot, say when you’re 25, when you’re 30, 35, 40 you might seek to regain those rights after you voluntarily forfeited them and there’s no path to do that.”
Another bill, LD 2086, also sounds pretty harmless. The original bill would amend the law governing the disposition of forfeited firearms, but a poison-pill amendment has completely changed what the measure would do.
“So, we’re dealing with firearms that have been forfeited, firearms that have been seized, as a result of a crime,” Whitcomb said. “Then we found out yesterday that they are actually putting forth an amendment to that bill that would seek to redefine what a machine gun is in Maine. Basically, binary triggers would be illegal, and they’re trying to define a semi-automatic rifle would be the same thing as a machine gun if its capabilities are ‘similar to a machine gun.’ That word ‘similar’ might mean something different to you than it does to me.”
Other measures under consideration would impose a three-day waiting period on gun purchases, create an “Office of Violence Prevention,” a weaponized government agency tasked to strip gun owners of their Second Amendment rights and implement a red-flag law and so-called “universal” background checks.
Your Second Amendment Right does not hinge on criminal acts, the two are not to be connected. It is past time that was made clear to busy body Gun Control zealots who carry around their demonic agenda on the coattails of defenseless victims of crime. Abolish Gun Control.
Fight like he!! Maine gat owner’s! This bs is precisely why we had that kerfuffle starting in 1775🙄
Today is the 254th anniversary of the first demonstration against the tyranny of the British Crown. That resulted in the bloodshed of colonists and the loss of life. Crispus Attucks, a freed black slave and sailor of mixed African and Indigenous ancestry, died in Boston on March 5, 1770 after British soldiers fired two musket balls into his chest. As well as 4 other men. Samuel Gray, a worker at rope walk; James Caldwell, a mate on a American ship; Samuel Maverick, a seventeen year old male; and Patrick Carr, a feather maker. Six other people were injured. That event was the Boston Massacre. Not important men of note. Just regular men seeking the Freedom and Liberty that all people desire. Yet willing to Stand in the face of tyranny at risk life and limb. How many here today are willing?
Society: “A criminal shot someone.”
anti-gun politician response: “We will fix that problem by taking constitutional rights from the law abiding that did not do it.”
Society (again): “A criminal again shot someone.”
anti-gun politician response: “We will fix that problem by taking constitutional rights from the law abiding that did not do it.”
Criminals : 🤣 “lets go shoot someone again, this is fun having all those law abiding people suffer for what we did and will continue to do.”
Maine just keeps going further Left, wants to be like the West coast. They’re holding hearings into the Lewiston shooting, all agencies denying blame. Truth is they dropped the ball, failed to keep the shooter locked up when they did have him. It’s almost as though they wanted him to go on a rampage.
The libertarians liberals and the left are all on record. They don’t believe in locking up criminals.
But they do believe in detaining, often indefinitely, people whose “crimes” are of a “political” nature.
You just keep listening to the smartest people in the room. And you expect a different result.
“Why it’s Ok to not vote.” Catherine Mangu Ward. A great libertarian. Video 50 min long.
https://youtu.be/KSmBG1uU1ig?si=XHHdRBS9uFJsZ-t7
Libertarians are professionals with coping. They whign, cope, cry, and stay high on hopium.
Colorado went “Libertarian”, and now they’ve been subverted by the Leftists.
Libertarians fail to realize that they can’t coexist with Leftists because Leftists view Libertarians as an enemy that must be pogromed, purged, and extirpated.
aka, Leftists don’t want to coexist with Libertarians.
It’s ironic. Leftists will put stylized “Coexist” bumper stickers on their car, but by god you better not cross them.
And not crossing them is not possible.
Red Flag Laws save lives that is a proven fact and it is better to have an error in a confiscation than let a nut case have a gun and go on to commit murder. In the First case the wrongly accused man can get his guns back but in the second case we cannot bring back the dead to life. Sane people understand this but not the sick paranoid Far Right.
Universal Background Checks should be mandatory at the Federal Level to prevent Hillbilly States from shipping in guns to more advanced civilized states that already have Universal Background Checks. Still the proposed law will help by preventing a lot of criminals from getting guns because the average Joe will not risk losing his job, be fined, lose his gun rights and go to jail for not selling his gun through a licensed dealer.
Worked great in Maine………oh right your laws they do nothing.
You still don’t get it that for your much beloved Universal Background Checks to work, you would also need universal gun registration. How else can you track the sales and movements?
They already do and if you believe they don’t. You are only fooling yourself.
Whether they work or not isn’t the point.
The tyranny is the point. The control is the point. The frustration rational people experience jumping through nonsensical and pointless hoops is just a pleasant bonus for them.
to Southern Cross.
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No it is you that still “does not get it”.
Again you understand nothing about the history of gun control. The government does not need registration to ban any type of weapon because the average gun owner obeys laws and will not risk keeping a banned gun or selling a restricted gun without paperwork.
The Brady Law caught over 2 million people in just 20 years trying to buy a “new gun” and would have caught double that number if the Brady Law was extended to cover the sale of “all guns”i.e. second hand guns. No one under the Brady Law had to register their guns when they bought a new one and would not if they bought a second hand gun. As a matter of fact all used guns that were sold through a dealer had to go through a background check.
And will your criminal comrades also follow those pesky bourgeois laws?
I don’t think so. You and your kind forget that those who are NOT drug dealers, thieves, and gang members also have rights.
You are big on ideas but short on details, like many other re-volu-tion-aries.
I know the history of my location’s gun control for over 40 years. Well meaning intentions that ALWAYS punish the innocent. Without registration how will the law know who owns what and when. Otherwise someone could claim they bought a gun years ago or it was a gift.
And the Brady Law’s IBC has a more than 90% false-positive rate with barely a few percent, single digits, of denials actually resulting in prosecutions. I heard that one year had over 30,000 denials but only had FIFTEEN successful prosecutions. It’s smoke and mirrors, or security theater.
Dunderhaid:
“because the average gun owner obeys laws and will not risk keeping a banned gun or selling a restricted gun without paperwork.”
“Illannoy” gun owners just blew that one right out of the water.
As did Connecticut gun owners years ago…
I was thinking about committing suicide so I gave all my gunms to the cops. After I thought about all the money I lost and there went my favorite hobby,collecting gunms, I got so depressed I went out and lay in the middle of the highway hoping for a drunk redneck driving an F150.
Just ask a Kennedy for a ride somewhere that goes over a bridge, or perhaps let it be known that you found one of the hard drives that Hillary missed destroying.
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