By: Anthony Morelli
This is one of the most shocking things a government agency has done.
They directly called for gun confiscation.
And now they have stoked more controversy than they could have ever imagined.
Arizona is a state where the idea of gun confiscation is not going to go over very well, considering how widespread gun ownership is in the state.
Guns are very much a part of the culture in the western United States and have been for many years, and they’re not going to take kindly to a government agency suggesting confiscation.
But that is exactly what came out of a review by the Arizona Department of Health Services which suggested taking guns away from families with children.
This, of course, represents a huge number of families all across the state of Arizona who would now apparently be subject to having their guns forcibly removed.
While a plan like this is unlikely to pass during this upcoming session of the Arizona legislature, the fact that it is even being proposed should be very concerning.
Gun owners need to ask their legislators, especially Democrats, whether this is something they would support.
According to The Truth About Guns, “A report from an Arizona government entity suggesting that the best way to protect the state’s children from so-called ‘gun violence’ is to ‘remove all firearms in households with children’ is getting some major pushback from Republican state lawmakers.
“The annual report to the legislature by the Arizona Child Fatality Review Team (CFRT), which reviewed child deaths in 2023, includes the team’s recommendation that it ‘believes that the most effective way to prevent firearm-related deaths in children is to remove all firearms in households with children because the presence of firearms in a household increases the risk of suicide among adolescents.’”
The best way to cut down on firearm deaths involving children is for people to store their guns safely, not for a widespread government crackdown on millions of people.
A crackdown like that would be extremely dangerous in and of itself, not to mention wildly illegal.
The article continues, “If you think confiscating guns from every Arizona home that has a child in it sounds extreme, rest assured that the chairman and vice chairman of the state House Judiciary Committee feel exactly the way about the proposal, according to a news release issued by them. State Reps. Quang Nguyen and Selina Bliss, Judiciary Committee chair and vice-chair, have issued a letter to Jennie Cunico, cabinet executive officer of the Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS), voicing strong objections to the report.”
The fact that this is being publicized is a good thing as it shows just how extreme some gun control supporters have become.
Mass confiscation of firearms is still not a mainstream view in America, but it’s picking up steam among some of the more radicalized fringes of the gun control movement.
Gun owners need to be very aware of what is being proposed here and do everything they can to peacefully push back on it.