Hoplophobe Hypocrisy

Brace yourself for a double-barrel blast of moonbat hypocrisy regarding the liberal jihad against our fundamental right of self-defense.

From New York, where antigun hysteria whipped up after Sandy Hook has resulted in some of the country’s most draconian violations of the Second Amendment:

A Buffalo, N.Y. community activist who is well known locally for pushing for a highly restrictive 2013 gun control law has been arrested for — wait for it — carrying a gun illegally at a public elementary school.

The arrested gun-control advocate, Dwayne Ferguson, caused quite a scene at Harvey Austin Elementary School, reports local CBS affiliate WIVB.

At about 4:15 p.m. on Thursday, police acted on a pair of anonymous 911 tips. A battalion of cops quickly swarmed the school. The brigade included over a dozen squad cars, the SWAT team and K9 units. The Erie County Sheriff’s Air One helicopter and what appears to be an armored vehicle also turned up.

The school was immediately placed on lockdown. Parts of two streets were closed.

About 60 students who were still on campus participating in after-school activities were funneled to the cafeteria.

Cops searched the school room by room and would not let parents on campus until they were satisfied that no shooting threat existed.

All this because of a report that an American citizen was exercising his natural right to bear arms. The cost to taxpayers: enormous. The purpose: to instill hysteria deep into children’s minds so that they will not object to the government disarming them when they are older.

In the sane and free past, an adult with a gun on school property would hardly raise an eyebrow. The less than one in a million who would want to shoot children with it would restrain himself lest he be shot by others.

Ferguson, 52, was at Harvey Elementary because he works as a mentor in an after-school program for disadvantaged students.

He said he frequently carries a pistol. He has a license but the license does not matter under the strict state law Ferguson helped pass.

Among much else, the 2013 law, deemed New York’s SAFE Act, made it a felony to carry a gun on school property, according to The Buffalo News.

While it was always illegal to carry a gun on school grounds, the new law bumped the crime from a misdemeanor to a felony in response to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.

The community activist has claimed that he forgot he was carrying his gun in a felony gun-free zone he helped create. …

Ferguson now faces two felony charges of criminal gun possession.

Not many people could deserve to be imprisoned on this charge. For helping impose these penalties on the rest of us, Ferguson does.

Want more? Here you go:

On February 6th former astronaut Mark Kelly testified in favor of more gun control before Oregon’s legislature, then went target shooting at the Portland Police Bureau Central Precinct Range.

It’s hardly Kelly’s first indulgence in hoplophobe hypocrisy:

In April 2013, Breitbart News reported that Kelly was shooting a Glock 9mm with a 17-round magazine in Arizona. Two months earlier he had testified in favor of limiting magazine capacity to 10 rounds.

Also, he committed two felonies during an attempt to buy an AR-15.

Nonetheless Kelly is hoping to ride sympathy for his gun-owning anti-gun wife Gabby Giffords — who was shot by a maniac — to high public office.

Artfldgr, Dean D, Henry, and Bob Roberts.