Cuomo

Andrew Cuomo, the governor of New York State, held a State of the State address today.  Within it, he outlined plans to further destroy the Second Amendment in a state that already has some the strictest gun laws in the nation (TheTruthAboutGuns.com).  This crucial part of his speech shed a great deal of light on how the Left works.

The left likes to trick people.  It makes a bogus claim or claims that build public support.  The fake fact or facts also raise the bar from current legislation that already limits some aspect of life.  This way it can keep limiting until a complete ban is in place under the guise of public demand for action.

Cuomo used this tactic well today.

Cuomo said he wanted to limit high capacity magazines for guns in New York.  In his state though, no magazine can have more than ten rounds, which was not considered high capacity, until today. Here, liberals figure that the general public thinks high capacity is anywhere from thirty to one hundred rounds and doesn't tell them that only ten round magazines are legal.  So when they try to cap magazines at five rounds in the future, they raise the bar on what is considered a lot of rounds and hopefully create a public outcry for it.  If five becomes the new "low capacity," next time five rounds will be "high capacity," and it will be lowered again or magazines eliminated all together.

This continued in Cuomo's speech as he mentioned a new assault weapons ban too.  Although he didn't give specifics (the left never does), it is possible to look at Diane Feinstien's new and old assault weapons ban to exemplify the progressive propaganda.  An "assault weapon" to most is a fully automatic machine gun that sprays hundreds of bullets a minute, which is illegal in the United States (unless one goes through the federal government and has tens of thousands of dollars to spend).  But, the government's definition is simply the look or number of "features," such as a detachable magazine or pistol grip, of semi-automatic rifles.  The old ban was a gun could have two "features" and a "short" list of completely illegal firearms (Wikipedia). The newly proposed ban limits gun "features" to one and outlaws a much longer list of guns (Feinstein.Senate.gov).  Here, the new law is more restrictive, using a lack of public knowledge to push it, and future laws will continue this trend till all guns are illegal.

Cuomo also said he wanted to keep guns from getting to the mentally ill.  But, again, it uses people's ignorance to make a point that is not valid.  Those who have been forcibly committed to any hospital or labelled mentally incompetent they will not pass a background check and will not get a gun.  This statement by Cuomo was designed to include even more people.  Who will make the determination of "mentally ill?"  What will that encompass?  Will anyone, even those who were treated temporarily at any point in life, not be able to participate in the Second Amendment?  With more and more children being medicated (EducationWorld.com & NCBI.NLM.NIH.gov), that may prevent a large number of the current and future adults from owning a gun (and I can guarantee you that is part of the plan).

The progressives need misinformation and lies to pass off their ideas and policies.  Whenever a liberal speaks fact it is important to track down that fact and prove it false.  The vast majority of the time it will be a complete lie, greatly twisted, or taken out of context.  As I always say, be vigilant when dealing with the left.  They are very good at propaganda and filling the minds of Americans with rubbish.  The best defense: keep yourself well informed.