Democrats are nothing if not predictable. In the wake of Robert Card’s shooting at a crowd of disarmed Mainers, the solution is to disarm them further and grow the government.
Legislators have introduced a handful of bills that you can probably work out without me naming them. They include more money for mental health and restrictions on firearms (waiting periods and enhanced background checks). Maine would also embrace federal regulations and definitions for certain types of firearms.
- LD 2238, “An Act to Address Gun Violence in Maine by Requiring a Waiting Period for Certain Firearm Purchases.”
- LD 2086, “An Act to Amend the Law Governing the Disposition of Forfeited Firearms,”
- Speaker Rachel Talbot Ross has offered LD 2237, “An Act to Strengthen Public Safety, Health and Well-being by Expanding Services and Coordinating Violence Prevention Resources.”
- Gov. Mills’ legislation also extends background check requirements and strengthens the existing protection order process in Maine.
Wash, rinse, repeat.
The one thing they all have in common is that they do not work. Government interventions and restrictions on the Second Amendment right to self-defense lead inexorably to more crime, from property to violent. There will be more burglaries, muggings, rapes, assaults, and murders, at least in the bigger cities. Most of Maine’s rural landscape, which is enormous, will present opportunities for criminality but only among those who disarm, which is less likely.
Not that the State of Maine won’t try. Democrats are, as I noted in the opening, predictable. And you can’t get where they want to go politically if people are armed. Related: Lessons from Lewiston Maine
But, just like Washington State or Oregon or even California or Illinois, they do not have enough voters in the hinterlands to stop the Dems from following the same failed, bloodstained paths as progressives who have gone before.
Much like Vermont, they are in blue waters and swirling the bowl, making the same mistakes because voters fail to believe the threat or understand the risks of long-term Democrat rule.
Robert Card’s despicable and gruesome success is a result of disarming citizens and a culture that opposes the right to self-defense. That teaches and encourages individuals to not jut give up the right but to fear it.
The further along that road they go, the worse it will get for everyone except criminals whom the same party, Democrats, think better of than law-abiding citizens.
