The McCarthy Vendetta Against Guns

Washington, DC (TLS). Who is Carolyn McCarthy? We know she is a Liberal Democrat who represents the 4th Congressional District of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives. We also know she relentlessly pursues restricting gun rights with a fervor that is unwavering.

Delving into the background of Rep. McCarthy lends insight into the rationale behind the Congresswoman's desire to rewrite the Constitution by essentially removing any practical right to keep and bear firearms by loading up the U.S. Code with laws that render the 2nd Amendment useless. McCarthy's ex-husband was murdered and her son injured by a gunman who randomly opened fire on passengers of a commuter train on Long Island in 1993. No doubt this is a heart-wrenching tragedy that is only understood by those who have suffered through it.

Yet McCarthy responded to the tragedy, not by introducing strict measures that target and punish criminals, but by unleashing an assault on law-abiding citizens. Rather than target perpetrators her strategy has been to target the general public in an attempt to thwart a few criminals in the process. This strategy is tantamount to outlawing automobiles for law-abiding citizens due to the fact that Muslim extremists use vehicles to murder infidels in the name of the Jihad.

Of course, Americans would never stand for such an assault on their freedom to drive autos, no matter how many deaths and injuries are caused by them each year. And yes, a significant number of these deaths are directly attributable to those who use vehicles as weapons of murder, as we have seen all too often recently in the news in Salt Lake City and Nashville, Tennessee.

McCarthy's misplaced desire to avenge the death of her ex-husband and the injury of her son by making law-abiding citizens pay is the height of irresponsibility. The vast majority of gun owners never use their weapons to fire at a human being. It is estimated that there are over 100 million gun owners in America. Many of these citizens own multiple weapons. We can assume that there are upwards of 200 million guns, at the very least, in America today. Only a small fraction of these are used in committing crimes.

Yet McCarthy has introduced legislation that will vastly expand the provisions of the assault weapons ban that was initially passed by Congress in the early 1990s. In addition, McCarthy has further introduced legislation that circumvents due process of law by denying gun ownership to certain groups of citizens, such as those who for one reason or another find themselves on lists used by airlines to prevent certain persons from boarding aircraft. This provision is part of a bill introduced by McCarthy, H.R. 1167, which also contains these words: 'To amend chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, to extend the firearm and ammunition prohibitions applicable to convicted felons to those convicted in a foreign court.'

Thus, not only would McCarthy remove your right to keep and bear arms if you happen to get on someone's 'no fly' list, but she would also deny you that right if you are ever convicted of a crime in Libya, or Saudi Arabia, or Somalia.

Liberals have screamed bloody murder for the past six years over the Bush Administration's supposed circumventing of due process of law. Those protests have always had a hollow ring to them, precisely because of proposed legislation such as McCarthy's H.R. 1167.

These people don't give a flying flip about due process of law, except when it can to used to whip one's political opponent.

The bottom line is that this bill is one more example of the attempt by the forces of anti-freedom to gradually remove Constitutional rights from the electorate by targeting specific groups, and then expanding that list of targeted groups to include more and more citizens, such as those convicted of crimes in kangaroo courts overseas.

The day will eventually arrive, therefore, when NO ONE will have the right to keep and bear arms because the list of targeted groups will include just about everyone in the country.

Make no mistake, this IS their ultimate goal.

Americans must not allow an ultra-extremist, rogue representative such as Carolyn McCarthy to dictate firearms laws to the rest of the country because of her inability to deal with grief in an appropriate fashion. Healthy grief involves anger, no doubt. But normally that anger is directed at perpetrators of mayhem and not at innocent, law-abiding citizens. So far, McCarthy has engaged in a haphazard, subtle blaming of innocent citizens by making them pay for what one crazed gunman does.