Connecticut’s lawmakers have just passed legislation permitting law enforcement to seize firearms and ammunition from anyone accused of domestic abuse. The bill is headed to the desk of Gov. Dannel Malloy — and he’s expected to sign it, according to The Connecticut Post.
So, if an individual wants someone’s guns taken away, all they have to do is accuse another person of domestic violence. That’s prefect Democrat logic — guilty until proven innocent.
Again, the law would require alleged domestic abusers — in most cases, men — to immediately give up their guns if their partners seek restraining orders.
This absurdity is reminiscent of women who make false rape claims against innocent men — soon, Connecticut’s residents can make false domestic violence claims, as well, if they’re interested in infringing upon the Second Amendment rights of their fellow citizens.
The reasoning behind the Democrats’ passage of the bill was explained by The Post:
“The goal is to protect women from the increased lethality at a critical point in a relationship: when they are trying to leave their abusers. About 14 domestic homicides occur annually in Connecticut, half of which are caused by guns.”
That’s seven gun deaths a year in a state with a population of over 3.6 million. Tragic, certainly — but couldn’t lawmakers find something that caused at least double-digit death rates that could perhaps be addressed without violating the Constitution?
They would, except their goal has nothing to do with saving lives and everything to do with controlling guns.
Senate President Pro Tempore Martin M. Looney argued the “possible inconvenience to gun owners” should not come at the “expense of the great danger to victims of domestic violence.”
“That’s why this bill is exactly what we should be doing in this area,” he added.
“I do believe we have to honor the Constitution, we have to honor the Second Amendment and we have to honor the rights of individuals,” Republican Sen. Rob Kane said.
This is an inherently flawed piece of legislation and, in the end, could cause much more harm than good — because now we have a precedence that stripping people of their constitutional right to own a firearm — under an accusation — is a permissible proposition.
And how many of those individuals stripped of their Second Amendment rights and put at increased risk will suffer harm as a result — in the name of saving seven people a year who will made no safer by this bill. They will only be made safer from gun violence, but as the other half of the victims of domestic murders in Connecticut bear witness, preventing gun violence doesn’t prevent violence.
H/T TheBlaze
http://conservativetribune.com/governor-to-sign-firearm-bill/