I'm pretty much aware that many local governments have tried to enable legislation and new laws framed around a RED FLAG system, and then always the expanded background checks, which I considered Washington speak for first demanding, and then enforcing, a national gun registry. With one evil turn of the screw, such a beast could result in attempts at disarmament.
I know that might sound extreme, but I'm sorry to say, that's not paranoia. I worked in Washington, D.C., and other nearby locations for about 30 years in agency work etc., lived through several administrations, and the godless nonsense and detachment from reality that fuels that place never once failed to amaze me. So, if you will, one day I was having a bag lunch outside the office with a Mr. Dobbs, his real name, and I was picking his brain on local history, mostly Civil and pre-Civil War. And before we traded ham for tuna, he said, so what do you think about a national gun registry? I know I said something pretty stupid, like that might happen in, let's say, Australia. He said flatly, I mean right here in the USA. Well, I remembered I laughed. I was only five years away from college and the Academy, and I never asked why he would bring that up, but he was a history nut who could chart disarmament back centuries, and the conversation turned to area battlefields. He said he would fight disarmament to the bitter end, would even like a return of the tri-corner hat, but should be long gone by then. And here's why I'm living this memory again. Mr. Dobbs is indeed gone, and that is a pity. He was a GS-15 career officer with ATF. Because of my grade, family contacts and interests, he felt comfortable talking with me. About ten years later I was deputy (DDO) to a gentleman who was like family, he was absolutely brilliant, a term difficult to ascribe to today's suffering system. I once asked him if he thought Americans would ever be disarmed, or our constitution subverted. He said too many Americans like us would never stand for that, either at the ballot box, or any other public pox. But if it did, he said, it would have to start with a national gun registry. First they'd have to know who has the firearms. And there you have it. I seriously don't know why all this just came flooding out, but it's like I said, I find these attacks on the Bill Of Rights to be nothing more than attacks on law abiding citizens, and that is deeply disturbing. Now, making it worse is what I read about the President's new position. Or maybe it's just new to me and I wasn't paying attention. Again. But I was always a supporter. I'm writing him a letter.
