Liberals’ Drumbeats Start for Gun Control

All the while scratching his head at the rise in firearm sales and claiming that Obama doesn’t plan new gun controls, the Albany Times-Union’s Fred LeBrun starts making the case for it:

For the first time since 1935, with an all-Democratic national government, we are in a position to finally institute some meaningful and sensible gun control measures that will help mightily in regaining our cities from gun terror, street by street. Gun control doesn’t have to be a dirty word.

The centerpiece has to be a national identification system for handguns. A computerized system that would be accessible to all law enforcement agencies, and that would standardize the requirements for handgun ownership coast to coast. . . .

Um, Fred? In 1992 we had an “all-Democratic national government.” And within two years President Clinton and his cronies enacted a ban on some of the most popular sporting rifles in the country. That, along with some other heavy-handed legislation led in 1994 to the Republicans retaking Congress with the “Contract with America.”

Also, Fred? A “national identification system,” a rose by any other name for national registration, is what Nazi Germany enacted prior to disarming the populace — specifically Jews and other “undesirables” — and then rounding those guns up and eventually their owners.

It’s what Great Britain [and Australia] had before confiscating everyone’s firearms.

In fact, it’s what California [and NYC] had and then they started confiscating certain firearms deemed “not appropriate” for civilian ownership.

It’s the start of the slippery slope. History repeats itself, especially to op-ed writers who haven’t studied it.