In the wake of the recent shooting in the Isla Vista community near Santa Barbara, CA, U.S. Senators Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein introduced “The Pause for Safety Act.”
This is nothing short of a gun confiscation bill. What it basically does is allow anyone at any time to seek a “firearms restraining order” against anyone else, which would not only prevent them from purchasing a gun, but would also allow law enforcement to confiscate whatever guns they might have.
John C. Fields, director of the California Rifles and Pistols Association, states, “In other words, if there was somebody you couldn’t stand, and they were a firearms owner, you could in effect call the authorities to them and say, ‘Hey, this guy is a nutcase and you need to come over and confiscate his guns,’ and there would be little or no protection against that.”
The new legislation – The Pause for Safety Act – will include the following provisions:
• One, it would help ensure that families and others can go to court and seek a gun violence prevention order to temporarily stop someone close to them who poses a danger to themselves or others from purchasing a firearm.
• Two, it would help ensure that families and others can also seek a gun violence prevention warrant that would allow law enforcement to take temporary possession of firearms that have already been purchased if a court determines that the individual poses a threat to themselves or others.
• Three, it would help ensure that law enforcement makes full use of all existing gun registries when assessing a tip, warning or request from a concerned family member or other close associate.
Believing that the first line of defense against violence by unstable individuals lies with those that know them best, California lawmakers introduced a gun control bill before Congress Thursday that would permit family members to confiscate weapons from people posing a threat.Sens. Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein and Rep. Lois Capps co-authored the Pause for Safety Act, which would establish a federal grant program for states to fund a system where family members who are concerned about a person’s mental stability could petition the court for a gun-violence prevention warrant.
The warrant could prevent the person from buying a gun and would empower the police to confiscate guns already owned by the person if they’re deemed a threat by the court.
“We must do everything in our power to keep firearms out of the hands of those who pose a serious risk of harm to themselves or to others,” Feinstein said in a statement released by Boxer’s office.
“The bill would allow those who know the most about the condition of someone who poses a risk of committing violence to take steps to remove firearms from that individual’s possession.”
The bill was inspired by the May 23 mass shooting and stabbing spree by former 22-year-old Santa Barbara City College student Elliot Rodger, who killed six people and himself in Isla Vista, Calif. Before the shooting, Rodger’s mother had called police and asked them to check on her son after seeing a disturbing video he posted online, but authorities said the man didn’t meet the criteria for an involuntary hold, despite having a history of mental illness.
“It is haunting that the family of the gunman who committed this massacre in Isla Vista was desperate to stop a tragedy, and yet they lacked the tools to do so,”Boxer said. “My bill would give families and associates who fear someone close to them could commit violence new tools to help prevent these tragedies.”
The Pause for Safety Act would make checking gun registries a mandatory and universal practice in states that have them, instead of a discretionary resource for law enforcement officers.
“No one is safe in America anymore. Not in their schools, not in a movie theater, not in their workplace, not their home, and not on a beautiful college campus overlooking the Pacific Ocean,” Boxer said in introducing the measure. “We have a function here, not to allow someone who’s unstable or violent, not to allow that person to get a weapon.”
Put her in the nearest mental institution! The woman is a certified lunatic!!!
Santa Barbara has always had strict gun rules. This is just a gimmick to take away guns in the home there.
I can tell someone is touching her broom .
So we no longer have the 2nd amendment!
TURN THEM IN . IBET THEY BOTH HAVE GUNS AT HOME. AND THEY AREBOTH NUT CASES!!!
They are doing everything they can to get rid of our 2nd Amendment and stupid dumbass people are letting them do it.
$#%&!@* these crazy bitches!
Dianne Feinstein, and Barbara Boxer have killed more Americans with overspending legislation than guns ever will. These two lawmakers are killing American citizens everyday with hopelessness, with suicides, and with stress related killings brought to bear upon them throughsd reckless Congressional overspending and increased taxation, through decades of giving away money to foreign countries without taking care of our own overstressed, hardworking citizens, and through funding pork projects without prioritizing needed money for mental health and well being of our own citizens.
This lack of concern and overspending by our President and Congressional lawmakers like Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer has continued to devalue our dollar and increase prices to the point where fretful working parents are too preoccupied with paying bills to provide a living for their family and don’t have time to properly train their children anymore.
Ever wonder how many families have been broken apart or how many children from these families suffer mentally due to misappropriated Congressional overspending? Ever wonder how many people who can no longer cope with stress-related pressure from devalued dollars and higher prices have committed suicide or been killed in vehicle accidents from drug or alcohol addictions as a result of Congressional-created, legislative stress that has ruined their lives? The answer would be too staggering for anyone to comprehend. How can Dianne and Barbara sleep at night knowing that they have help created these needless deaths with their careless tax and spend voting records? The answer can only be that they need to blame guns to ease the internal torment of their own soul.
A mentally ill person, who has not received proper care and commit’s a terrible act of violence is a result of Barbara Boxer’s wrongful voting record for needless pork projects at the exclusion of needed help for the mentally ill. It is evident that mental illness has been the common factor of violence even though Dianne and Barbara blame guns.
A hopeless man who has been off work for over a year and looses everything, including his self esteem, then kills himself and his entire family is a direct result of the anti-gun duo’s wrongful overspending, over taxation votes that increases joblessness and depression.
A frustrated college graduate who lives with his parents, can’t find a job, and faced with humiliation from family and friends commits suicide is an indirect result of the same tax and spend policies.
A man who is working sixteen hours a day and still can’t support his family with devalued dollars and increased prices robs a bank to buy food, kills a policeman, and is killed by police in a shootout is another result of Diane’s and Barbara’s voting record to spend foolishly, over tax, create violence, and blame the gun instead of themselves.
Sadly to say, Dianne and Barbara will not accept the fact that they have helped create hopelessness, depression, and debt-stress related violence that kills Americans.
The blame gun duo need to cool off, stop overspending, correct America’s fiscal problems, use common sense, and acknowledge the violence they have created.
It was the wisdom of our forefathers to adopt the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution. The 2nd Amendment serves as a warning to our President and Congress that “we the people” will preserve our liberties in the spirit of resistance if necessary and assures the American people constitutional liberty to bear arms without infringement as a notification to our lawmakers that millions of Americans possess firearms and can become an instant militia to preserve our freedom, protect our constitutional rights, and to prevent our lawmakers from circumventing the Constitution to pass tyrannical legislation that could lead to a civil uprising and ouster from their cushy government jobs.
Definition of infringement: to break or disregard the terms of requirement – to encroach on somebody’s rights or privileges, especially in a minor or gradual way. What this means is that the right to bear arms cannot be lawfully restricted by any means whatsoever.
These two women can’t see past their Nose !!!
If you believe that God is in control not the government then please agree with other believers that He will give those who knowingly or unknowingly oppose Him, grace to repent.