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Quick one https://www.themeateater.com/hunt/firearm-hunting/what-the-universal-background-check-bill-means-for-gun-owners?fbclid=IwAR3GYjfupaQ25Sd0zhg63PztxQFWWK-QAVLPKuLzzM-wvyFDzC5BJ_9aeww “Government Watch List” Second Amendment advocates and gun industry representatives worry that H.R. 8 will be used in the future to justify a national gun registry. While the bill does not establish such a registry, Mark Oliva of the National Shooting Sports Foundation warns of a slippery slope towards gun confiscation. “This bill doesn’t work without a national gun registry,” he told MeatEater. “And a registry is the first step towards confiscation.” Oliva argues that even hunters who do not purchase firearms in private transactions or hunt with semi-automatic rifles should be concerned about H.R. 8. For the federal government to enforce universal background checks, regulators will need to establish a database listing which firearms were sold when and to whom.

I can, but not right now. Doubt it at your own demise.

Because it's illegal for it to exist at this time. The Dems plan to change that after this bill passes, saying it's required for the bill to work.

Belo, read info on pages 5 through 8. If this law passes, full gun registration will be needed for it to work. It's next. https://d3uwh8jpzww49g.cloudfront.net/sharedmedia/1507342/nij-gun-policy-memo.pdf "The challenge to implementing this more broadly is that most states do not have a registry of firearm ownership. Currently NICS background checks are destroyed within 24 hours. Some states maintain registration of all firearms. Gun registration aims to 1) increase owner responsibility by directly connecting an owner with a gun, 2) improve law enforcement’s ability to retrieve guns from owners prohibited from possessing firearms. Gun registration also allows for the monitoring of multiple gun purchases in a short period of time"

If you believe the paperwork you fill out when you buy a firearm is completely destroyed and no records are electronically maintained illegally by the federal government, you are being naive. Besides, how would they check the sale of private firearms you own without recording their sales to you from someone else and without the serial #'s and make/model of the gun on file? How can the private sale idea work without it?

How can they track private gun sales unless every gun is registered? They don't need to put it in the bill, it happens by default. That's the whole plan. This has been presented to the American people by many who criticize this bill.

Everything that has been presented so far. And add this: Schumer wants to end the filibuster to ram it through. But.... A trip down memory lane: "[The legislative filibuster] is the most important distinction between the Senate and the House. Without the 60-vote threshold for legislation, the Senate becomes a majoritarian institution like the House. ... No senator would like to see this happen." —Senate Democrat Leader Chuck Schumer on April 7, 2017 Leftists gun control is about CONTROL. Try to make them understand that and what they stand to lose if they succeed.

"Want to see some serious racism? Study the history of how gun control laws have been used." —Congressman Burgess Owens

Representative Ben Cline (R-VA) argued that all the Democrats' bills would accomplish is to make Second Amendment rights harder for Americans to access while doing nothing to address crime. "I will not stand by and allow our rights to be stripped away," Cline said. "My colleagues on the other side of the aisle claim that these bills will save lives. However, nothing in them would have stopped any of the recent mass casualty shootings that have occurred in our country. Rather than go after criminals who break the law, Democrats want to create a false narrative that will criminalize private gun ownership. Democrats will tell you that these bills close loopholes. But the loophole they believe exists is that law-abiding Americans are even able to own guns in the first place."

Johnson and Kennedy were Democrats too.

Feel the same about Viet Nam War memorials?

It seems that our polished politicians in Washington have forgotten their oaths to protect and preserve our Constitution. In 1776, Thomas Jefferson said, “No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.” In 2021, the left envisions a world in which “all shall be debarred the use of arms; no man shall be free.” This is about creating a gun registry to track guns of the American people. There is no way to implement what the Democrats are trying to implement without doing that. It’s easy to be sucked into the D.C. bubble. Many on the left seem to think that their narrow viewpoint is representative of the majority of Americans, but outside this bubble, in real America, those that respect the Constitution will never let anyone take away our right to bear arms. Despite overwhelming evidence that gun ownership decreases crime and saves lives, leftists want you to believe that law-abiding citizens are the problem. The left wants you to believe that those who follow the law are somehow less trustworthy than those who break the law. It’s time that we understood the left’s stance for what it is: an effort to remove every single firearm from the hands of Americans nationwide.

I think seasonal migrant workers have work visas, so they are not the same as illegals, who come in without any papers and never migrate back where they came from.

60 votes are only needed to stop a filibuster, which Republicans will do. That's why the left wants to eliminate the filibuster. Otherwise 51 votes makes it law.

Nah, you're just one of the "useful Idiots" as Stalin would say.

Amy Anderson, DNP, RN, FAAN, is a visiting fellow at The Heritage Foundation and a professor at the Harris College of Nursing and Health Sciences and the School of Medicine at Texas Christian University. She is a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing and founder of Global Nurse Consultants Alliance. In his first prime-time speech as president, Joe Biden stated Thursday night that our nation is in “one of the darkest periods in American history” and “the only way to get our lives back, to get our economy on track, is to beat the virus.” This also was a common statement made during his campaign. But what does “beat the virus” mean, and what if the coronavirus is now endemic—as some scientists suggest? When will we know we have won? Biden declared in his speech that small groups maybe could meet on July Fourth if we all do our part, but not larger gatherings. With those words, he ended any hope that Americans would retake their freedom—freedom that so many fought and died for—and return to normal by Independence Day. Americans were supposed to be safer after a year suffering through the COVID-19 pandemic, a time replete with often contradictory public health declarations, government mandates, and executive orders. But the government’s passion for public safety has become the Achilles’ heel of our personal liberty. Public health officials seem trapped inside a self-made COVID-19 bubble. With the support of a fawning media, too many are prone to blame and bully the public, instead of the virus, for our conditions. Politicians and business leaders are told they must continue to follow their often contradictory but restrictive public health guidelines, regardless of whether the data or the scientific evidence supports such prescriptions. Obsessed with the virus, public health officials seem unable to balance protecting the public from the virus and other valuable social goods. Those social goods include Americans’ quality of life, children’s education, the economic survival of small businesses and their workers, and the need to refocus on mental and physical health problems induced by chronic isolation, among other issues. President Biden has one thing right—“the details of life matter.” To beat the virus, the president also said we must “follow the scientists and the science.” OK, so let us follow the science. A recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on mask mandates indicates the impact isn’t significant compared with areas without such a mandate. With 2,123 counties out of 3,142 U.S. counties employing a mandate from March through December 2020, mask mandates accounted for a decrease of less than 2% in the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths. Couple this CDC finding with continued changing advice on the use of masks and other failed measures, and there is legitimate public concern surrounding continuation of other restrictions. The price: a dangerous erosion of trust in the public health system. Science requires constant evaluation and reevaluation as new data and variables, such as vaccinations and reduced hospitalizations, emerge. Public officials should adjust their policies to match the conditions on the ground. But the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also has some explaining to do. The CDC guidelines require mask and distancing requirements beyond the global standards with little if any evidence that this expanded set of rules makes a significant difference. The global experience, marked by different approaches in different countries, shows that much of the COVID-19 mitigation science is subjective. The result: Americans live under more oppressive pandemic restrictions than many other countries around the world. Consider CDC’s advice amid the vaccine rollout. Instead of trusting the efficacy of the vaccines and allowing vaccinated Americans to return to normal activities—the norm for past vaccinations—the agency released a complicated set of guidelines for vaccinated adults as a “first step towards normalcy.” Nonessential travel, including visiting low-risk individuals such as family outside your local area, still is not recommended. The guidance for being out in public places has not changed. Clearly, what is not “normal” is a further ratcheting down of Americans’ personal freedom and ability to make choices for themselves. The latest tool of social control is the proposal for a vaccine passport. This could turn out to be a complex and potentially invasive and dangerous path to obtaining private health information. Americans should be rightly concerned with the ethical implications and legal consequences of such an intrusive requirement. As the nation sees improvement in the COVID-19 case numbers and hospitalizations, several governors and local officials are returning personal and economic freedom to the people. Public health is critical, but that means health in all of its dimensions. Indeed, health is a holistic concept. The World Health Organization, for all of its past errors, has got this right: Health is not merely the absence of illness or infirmity, but a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being. Government officials should strike a balance to ensure the public’s health is supported. This is not March 2020. It is March 2021. Public officials should act like it. The public is now educated as to what the virus is and who its chief victims are (the elderly and the infirm), and most understand the risk to themselves and others.

^^^ There's one of your neighbors right there.

https://www.dailysignal.com/2021/03/15/biden-border-crisis-incompetence-or-part-of-presidents-plan/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&utm_content=httpswwwdailysignalcom20210315bidenbordercrisisincompetenceorpartofpresidentsplanutmsourcerssutmmediumrssutmcampaignbidenbordercrisisincompetenceorpartofpresidentsplan&mkt_tok=ODI0LU1IVC0zMDQAAAF72V9xHq5Scr2xdm42bKoMZyCONppGQkLmYIJD1er8YPhwmrsntBWVKPAbtBKX1rYyUSmXA4lX0Oci3hpV_6gHaRAqnZHG7mCNh1mDjVI2oQ29vKc Rather than rushing to secure the border, the Biden team appears to be sending processors to the border for the purpose of moving illegal immigrants into the U.S. as quickly as possible.

The country is loaded with "American Communists" who intend to transform the US into a totalitarian state. Lots of your neighbors support them too, because they don't understand the goal and believe the propaganda.