Democrats have come up with a creative way of selectively confiscating guns from certain residents, and several Second Amendment watchdogs say the strategy could soon be coming to a state near you.
A state legislator from Manhattan has introduced a bill that would nullify gun rights from those convicted of hate crimes, even those involving nonviolent, misdemeanor offenses.
If successful, New York would become the seventh state to implement such a law.
The FBI defines a hate crime as a “criminal offense against a person or property motivated in whole or in part by an offender’s bias against a race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, ethnicity, gender, or gender identity.”
But, as Guns America News and Reviews reminds New Yorkers, the FBI makes it clear that “hate itself is not a crime” and that the agency is “mindful of protecting freedom of speech and other civil liberties.”
Since the vast majority of hate crimes fall into the misdemeanor category, those offenders do not lose their Second Amendment rights.
Enter Sen. Daniel Squadron, a Democrat from Manhattan. He wants to expand the state’s hate-crime law to include gun confiscation from those convicted of even nonviolent misdemeanors.
Squadron said he was motivated to introduce Senate Bill S5569 because hate crimes are “one the rise” in New York since the election of President Trump.
Squadron’s bill would add misdemeanor hate crimes to the list of “serious offenses” that prohibit an individual from owning a firearm.
The example he gave the New York Daily News was spray-painting a swastika on a synagogue wall. Under current law, that hate crime wouldn’t lead to the revocation of the offender’s Second Amendment rights. If SB S5569 were to pass, it would.
“New York has a duty to take actions that reject acts of bigotry, hatred, misogyny, homophobia, racism, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, xenophobia, and discrimination in any form because they violate the nation’s core values,” said Squadron in the bill memo.
Alan Gottleib, executive vice president of the Second Amendment Foundation, said Americans need to be aware of this latest attack on gun rights.
“If it were up to the gun grabbers, just owning a gun would be a hate crime. The intolerance and rhetoric of the gun control crowd is what should be a hate crime,” Gottlieb told WND.
Pamela Geller, editor of the Geller Report and president of the American Freedom Defense Initiative, called the legislation “scary” because hate crimes by their very nature are selectively enforced.
Does that mean the fact that I hate liberals will cost me my 2nd Amendment rights??
@jellybean: Only if you shoot one. That’s a misdemeanor here in Texas.
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F%%% Manhattan core values!
They ain’t Texas core values.
I am going to the range today and invited two lady friends, one I work with, to go along. Neither has every held a gun let alone shoot one. Starting them on .22’s and some simple training to keep it fun. Both we excited to go and try it. Both in their late 50’s.
The more people I can convince to take up shooting sports the better for all of us. I have yet to meet someone that didn’t enjoy it.
Upstate N.Y. is nothing like the city shitbirds. I hope the good people of NY have enough support to dump this worthless bill and then rid themselves of this worthless representative.
God Bless Donald Trump.
I just went to the link, there he is spewing hate on a loudspeaker with Dump Trump signs behind him. If this law does pass he should be the first person prosecuted and convicted as a felon. He is a hater.
why don’t the regressive left just make hate speech a capital offense and start shooting anyone that disagrees with them because they claim that anything they don’t agree with to be “hate”. hate no longer has any meaning, nor does Nazi, or racist because they have totally desensitized them through over and inappropriate use.
Lunatics!
Since the vast majority of “hate” crimes are faked by liberals, will those liberals lose their guns/gun rights when they’re inevitably found out?
What stupidity. Does that include hate against:
Christians
White elderly people
Businesses owned by Christians
Conservatives who want to speak at colleges
Victims of gangs socking people unconscious
Victims of BLM violence
Abortionists (a hateful crime to kill a baby).
Home invasions
Spouse beaters
Children abusers
Congressional liars turning against their constituents
Etc, etc, etc.
Oh, so they mean sorta like Sanctuary Cities.
Yea, go ahead and speak your hate against a sanctuary city because they are forcing the divide. Lose your weapon? Seriously, if you’re in a sanctuary city either roll over and die now or gtfo. Falls under discrimination of any kind. Let that sink in.
“…because hate crimes are “one the rise” in New York since the election of President Trump.’
Hold that standard to the T and it’s only frothing libs that will be dis-armed.
But you know they’ll define that any which way they want.
Actual facts and truth don’t apply.
What Dadod4 said.
Also:
Is there a legal definition of “Hate crime”?
Is black on black crime “Hate Crime”?
How about black on white? Muzzie on Christian?
…Melting pot, my ass.
Phuck new york, phuck their politicians, phuck
their liberal socialist agenda.
Thank GOD for the electoral college you PHUCKERS.