Maybe denying gun rights will work better in the USA than it has in France, where foreign savages roam the streets with belt-fed machine guns while the disarmed native population cowers in the closet. Maybe Democrats will manage to disarm not only the law-abiding, but criminals too. Then everything will be fine, like in the liberal mecca San Francisco:

Baseball bat-wielding gangs of children are mugging mothers and nannies on the school run in the latest crime wave to hit San Francisco.

Last week Noe Valley, also known as “stroller valley” because of the growing population of young families, endured 11 phone robberies that are believed to have been carried out by the same gang who are targeting women picking up children from school.

One woman was reportedly hit with a baseball bat, while another was punched in the face, before the offender ran to a getaway car and drove off.

No wonder the moonbats running New York City abandoned the stop and frisk policies that made the city safer under Rudy Giuliani. Why bother taking away their guns when the yutes would just as soon bash your head in with a club anyway?

Violent robberies are being carried out in broad daylight in wealthy enclaves such as Noe Valley, a tight-knit community, where free yoga classes are held every Sunday in the town square.

One victim of the string of recent attacks, who only wished to be identified as CW, said the police appeared to have “zero interest” in investigating her attack.

According to the ideology of the kooks running San Francisco, the police are the bad guys. They are racist. Crime is social justice. It would hardly be surprising to learn the police department is staffed with cynics who are only there to draw a paycheck. Most cops who think civilization is worth defending probably prefer to work where it isn’t a lost cause.

Assuming the well-to-do moms of Noe Valley are Democrats like virtually everyone who hasn’t fled Nancy Pelosi’s home district, they are getting what they voted for.

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Moonbats have dominated France for about a century now, so they have had plenty of time to implement liberal policies that our Democrats have yet to achieve, such as denying law-abiding citizens the fundamental right to bear arms. Let’s see how it’s working out for them, now that other liberal policies have predictably produced a massive underclass that is at war with the core population:

Nope, moonbattery is not working over there. Let’s not go down that road. At least France won’t die for nothing, so long as others learn from its horrifying example.

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Sorry about the lost comments on the original Open Thread. The embedded tweet caused technical issues with WordPress.

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Now a word from the wannabe dictator who evidently intends to confiscate your firearms in violation of the US Constitution. At least he’s an expert on the subject:

His pointy-headed enablers in the media ought to step forward to explain to us simpletons how putting a pistol on a brace turns it into a gun, and a higher caliber gun at that.

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Meanwhile, as the wannabe dictator croaks “God save the Queen” while demagoguing against our right to bear arms, this is what the weaponized federal bureaucracy is up to in the Heartland:

[Tom] Van Hoose says for two years his Highwood Creek Outfitters gun shop [in Great Falls, Montana] has been the subject of surveillance by state and federal agencies including the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Occupational Safety & Health Administration, the Department of Homeland Security, the State of Montana and now the Internal Revenue Service.

Then on Wednesday,

“At 7:30, I came in and they pulled in behind me with 20 heavily armed agents.”

If they had dragged him off in handcuffs, it would have been the full Mark Houck treatment.

The ostensible purpose was to search for financial documents.

An IRS spokesperson confirmed to MTN News that the agency was at Highwood Creek Outfitters on official business, but declined to provide any details.

Van Hoose was told that his store had been reported.

He doesn’t know by whom, or the reason. He thinks it’s part of a nationwide pattern and feels it’s political.

That’s how things work in the sort of country Democrats are turning this into.

Van Hoose says his shop has a good relationship with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, which was also present. He says because his shop carries “fun guns” like AR-15’s and AK-47s their level of licensing draws more scrutiny.

“We have a reputation of dotting all the i’s and crossing all the t’s because there’s so much legal fun to be had,” said Van Hoose. “It’s just not worth doing things that are going to get you in trouble.”

Unless you are Hunter Biden and don’t need to worry about legal consequences.

Cascade County Sheriff Jesse Slaughter says there is no law stating that the sheriff must be notified prior to any such investigation by federal agents.

The Great Falls Police Department was notified of the investigation and provided security.

In the future, local law enforcement will be pushed out of the picture altogether. Undermining it was one of the main objectives of the establishment-endorsed Black Lives Matter rioting. Locals cannot be counted on to side with federal bureaucrats against the American population.

Rep Matt Rosendale (R-MT) sent a letter to ATF Director Steven Dettelbach and IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel, putting it on the record that the incident was “outrageous”:

“Under Director Dettelbach’s leadership of the ATF, a pattern of intimidation and harassment against hardworking Americans has emerged – Montanans will not tolerate these political witch hunts. I remind both Director Dettelbach and Commissioner Werfel that Congress has the power of the purse, and I will ensure that funding for these agencies is not weaponized against the American people,” Rosendale said in his letter.

That is only conceivable so long as Democrats do not control Congress.

This incident suggests preparations for a roundup of firearms, which will require federal bureaucrats to know who legally owns them. Via Gateway Pundit, here’s Rep Rosendale on Newsmax:

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The liberal agenda can never come to fruition so long as we are able to defend ourselves. That’s why Democrats never cease whittling away at the Second Amendment from every conceivable angle. Fortunately, we still have judges who respect the Constitution:

A federal judge in Virginia has ruled that a law banning licensed federal firearms dealers from selling handguns to young adults under 21 violates the Second Amendment and is unconstitutional.

The ruling Wednesday by U.S. District Court Judge Robert Payne in Richmond, if not overturned, would allow dealers to sell handguns to 18- to 20-year-olds.

In his 71-page ruling, Payne wrote that many of the rights and responsibilities of citizenship are granted at the age of 18, including the right to vote, enlist in the military without parental permission and serve on a federal jury.

Not to mention, 3-year-olds are regarded as competent to decide they are actually members of the opposite sex, according to liberal establishmentarians.

“If the Court were to exclude 18-to-20-year-olds from the Second Amendment’s protection, it would impose limitations on the Second Amendment that do not exist with other constitutional guarantees,” Payne wrote.

Hats off to Judge Payne. Due to the subversion of law schools by leftists, we cannot take it for granted that there are more like him coming down the pipe.

“Because the statutes and regulations in question are not consistent with our Nation’s history and tradition, they, therefore, cannot stand,” he wrote.

From the progressive viewpoint, it is that history and tradition that cannot stand. Democrats are at war with both, and are increasingly aggressive toward those who defend them.

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Our most fundamental right is the right to life. For adults, this means the right of self-defense. Liberals leap with appalling enthusiasm to exploit mass shootings to attack this right. Their shameless eagerness is a reminder of how essential it is that we defend it.

Even Robert F. Kennedy Jr, no conservative to put it mildly but at least a free thinker, understands that the right of self-defense does not cause mass murder, whether the weapon of choice is a car as with Darrell Brooks and George Alvarez or a gun as the media prefers. As he told Mark Stein:

“[I]t appears that almost every one of these shooters were on SSRIs or some other psychiatric drug, and this is only happening in America, where all these people are taking these psychiatric drugs. We take four times as many as any other country in the west, average European country. And there’s no time in history — I mean, we’ve always had guns in this country. Switzerland has more guns per capita than we do, and you don’t see that happening there. … Prior to the introduction of Prozac, these kind of — those shootings just were almost unknown. And now they’re, you know, they’re an everyday affair. But NIH will not study that because it will offend the pharmaceutical industry, and it’s something that we ought to be studying.”

The opposite of a free thinker is Keith Olbermann, former face of MSNBC. He projectile vomits the position of leftist true believers:

2nd amendment does not contain the word “own” or a synonym. You have no such right to own one and it wouldn’t do you any f***ing good. If guns made things safer we wouldn’t have mass shootings every hour, moron. Shove your gun up your ass.

It would be self-abasement to stoop to disputing this level of idiocy. You can read the Second Amendment for yourself, just as any reasonable person can figure out the need for the vulnerable to defend themselves, especially in a country run by liberals who allow violent criminals to run loose.

All kooks like Olbermann actually have to say is, “IF YOU ARE NOT A LEFTIST I HATE YOU HATE YOU HATE YOU!” Letting them disarm us would not end well.

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Lest you take seriously anything liberals tell you about guns:

Let’s hope Catherine Herridge appreciates the education provided by a Twitter reader who added this context to her misleading tweet:

The “guns” shown in the video have orange tips to mark them as toys.

These clueless weenies together with more formal members of the Democratic Party apparatus think they should decide which guns the Constitution meant for you to have.

No doubt the “racist” comments were every bit as scary as the gun collection.

Too bad for Jack Teixeira he didn’t leak the docs during the Vietnam War. The media would be fêting him.

Congrats, CBS News. You have topped the tweet on rubber bullets used to oppress mostly peaceful Ferguson rioters:

Don’t be too hard on Ryan J. Reilly, currently of NBC News. Liberal elitists avoid guns and manual labor, so how would a journalist know what earplugs are?

On a tip from Occam’s Stubble.