They really are coming for your guns . . . After the Charleston church shootings, President Obama praised Australia's draconian gun laws, which included a mandatory buy-back program, AKA confiscation.
On today's Morning Joe, Mika wondered "why" we couldn't institute a similar gun ban in the United States, throwing in support for a database of all gun ownership for good measure. Joe Scarborough was actually obliged to explain to Mika that her gun ban was never going to happen because we have the Second Amendment here. That left Mika grimacing in regret [see the screengrab].
MIKE BARNICLE: Can you do something to prevent this guy [Oregon college shooter], 26-years of age, from legally purchasing 14 weapons? It's not in the books.
MIKA BRZEZINSKI: I don't think anything can happen now but over time if, sorry, but if a lot of different regulations are put into place. It does start to close in on the problem, including a national database tracking these guns, tracking the amount of guns that are owned by people. I know it sounds completely constraining to the members of the NRA, but are we going to do nothing? Just wait until it comes to your front door?
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JOE SCARBOROUGH: The question is what do we do? And the president is talking about confiscating guns like they did in Australia: well, that's never going to happen here.
MIKA: Why?
JOE: Because we have a Second Amendment, and also you talk about a national registry, I mean, do we really trust the federal government to know where all the guns are, the same federal government that runs the IRS and is capable of doing what they're doing? That's, I don't think most Americans would want --
MIKA: -- that's where we really --
JOE: -- want confiscation or want the federal government to have a national database. If you buy a gun, the feds are going to know what gun you bought?
MIKA: Yes. Yes, actually.
