\nAlan Gottlieb of the Citizen’s Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms that the Democrats no longer represent the ideals of a free society. Due process to them is just something that stands in the way of their gun prohibitionist goals.<\/p>\n
Alan’s full statement is below:<\/p>\n
\nDems No Longer Represent Ideals Of A Free Society<\/p>\n
BELLEVUE, WA \u2013 While Capitol Hill Democrats staged a symbolic \u201csit-in\u201d today in the House chambers to demand action on new gun restrictions, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said these lawmakers clearly define by their actions how far the party has strayed from the ideals of liberty their predecessors stood for.<\/p>\n
\u201cDemocrats in the 1960s used sit-ins to expand Constitutional rights,\u201d CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb recalled. \u201cBut today, they are using a sit-in to restrict those same civil rights.\u201d<\/p>\n
While Democrats professed to be interested in curbing gun-related violence, he said, their true motives are aimed more at eroding not only firearms rights, but the right of due process. Clearly, Gottlieb asserted, the sit-in is a carefully-choreographed attempt to fool the public into believing that it is right to pass legislation to strip someone of their rights without any criminal charge, much less a conviction, by placing them on a secret \u201cwatch list\u201d without benefit of due process.<\/p>\n
\u201cTheir party no longer represents the ideals of a free society,\u201d Gottlieb said. \u201cDemocrats who are participating in this exhibition think they symbolize the frustration of American citizens. What they\u2019re really symbolizing is the fact that they have been sitting down on the job rather than addressing the genuine threat of worldwide terrorism that has once again erupted in this country while Democrat Barack Obama sits in the Oval Office.<\/p>\n
\u201cInstead of demanding direct action against dangerous Islamic extremists,\u201d he continued, \u201cthey\u2019re distracting the public by pushing gun control measures that they know would not have prevented Orlando, Boston or San Bernardino. But it creates the deceptive impression that they are doing something, when in fact they are doing less than nothing by trying to penalize the wrong people.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is an insult to many of us that participated in sit-in demonstrations to extend civil rights a generation ago,\u201d he added. \u201cMany of us were armed to protect participants from the Ku Klux Klan and other bigots. We were also armed with the facts, something that today\u2019s gun prohibitionists know little about. This demonstration is a disgrace, but today\u2019s crop of Democrats don\u2019t seem to care.\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n