Like Rahm Emanuel said, “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” 

I don’t have to map Rahm’s statement our for you, do I?  Well --- considering how many of our neighbors are government educated, and thus un-schooled in such skills as logical thinking – perhaps I can map it out for them: 

Let’s say you have a long-held goal.  Let’s say that long-held goal has been to disarm the American public.  Let’s say you’re a liberal Democrat politician, and as a good liberal you earnestly believe that most of the people who own guns are uneducated knuckle-dragging rednecks who don’t particularly like their superiors … Northeastern liberal intellectuals such as yourself. 

So a horrible event like the Sandy Hook shootings occurs.  You know that even illiterate Southerners love their children, and they’re probably putting down their moonshine and parking their pickup trucks long enough to dwell on the horror of what happened in Connecticut, and their emotions are on edge.  It’s a crisis!  Time to go to work!  Now you know that you don’t have any legislative suggestions that, if they had been law, would have prevented this mass killing of children.  That doesn’t matter.  Emotions are raw.  People are in crisis mode.  You can get almost anything passed right now … so let’s get this show on the road!

Well .. they just didn’t move fast enough.  The Congress was in a transition period.  The holidays had many legislators at home and not ready to make instantaneous use of the tragedy.  There’s an inauguration coming up.  So we have some congressman introduce legislation to ban the ownership of handguns.  That went nowhere and only served to alert and alarm those who believe in the Second Amendment.  So Obama appoints Joe-the-dogwasher to form a panel and report on some ideas.  Joe, actually being a bit smarter than his boss, understands that the panic is ebbing, and hurries up the report to Dear Ruler --- now scheduled to come out tomorrow.

And what will be Number 1 on Biden’s laundry list?  Ending the private sale of firearms. 

Now this used to be referred to as “ending the gunshow loophole.”  But those damned right-wing nut-job talk show hosts and others finally managed to spread the word that there IS NO gun show loophole.  The laws that apply to selling guns at a gun show are EXACTLY the same as the laws that apply everywhere else. 

So the language has changed a bit. Now they’re simply saying that they’re going to require background checks on ALL firearm purchases, even from a private party to a private party.  Now wait … are you telling me that we’re going to allow private individuals to check into the criminal history of other private individuals?  Are we going to allow private individuals to access medical records – especially mental health records – to see if there are mental health issues that might make someone unfit to own a gun?  I don’t’ see that happening, do you?  So ... maybe we’ll have to have these background checks run through federally licensed firearms dealers!  Maybe we’ll just have the FFLs handle the transaction!  Well .. there you go!  The end of private sales!

But wait!  Will this really be the end of private sales?  Sure!  But only for people who chose to abide by the law!  If you’re a gang-banging, drug-dealing thug; or if you are someone who wants a gun to use in committing an illegal act, you are simply going to find another criminal to sell it to you, or you are going to steal one.  Maybe you’ll even go to the home of someone who has been identified by your local newspaper as owning guns!  Just break into their homes and take theirs!  This actually happened over the weekend in New York!

I’m proud of my fellow Americans here.  They see Obama’s intentions, and they’re swarming the gun stores to buy handguns for their protection.  Applications for concealed carry permits are at an all-time high.  Criminals are approaching panic.  They are realizing that the possibility of picking on someone with a weapon is going up.  As a result, gun violence is going down.

But … help is still on the way.  Maybe Obama and the Democrats in DC will succeed in making it tougher for law-abiding Americans to get their guns.  So stand by.  This story isn’t over.