A new study published by Johns Hopkins’ own Bloomberg School for Public Health outlines the action items on the billionaire-funded gun control lobby’s wish list and argues that those specific gun control provisions are crucial to stopping an armed insurrection in the United States.
The study’s policy recommendations include regulating the public carrying of firearms, banning “paramilitary” activities, passing unconstitutional red flag laws that eliminate due process, and finally (and perhaps most sinister) repealing of preemption laws at the state level.
The study’s authors are all veterans of the gun control lobby. A quick look at their LinkedIn pages revealed a work history within gun control groups before starting at Johns Hopkins.
In the study, the authors refer to a study titled “Views of American Democracy and Society and Support for Political Violence.” The survey, conducted in 2022, includes a statistic showing that half (50.1%) of survey participants agreed that “a civil war will break out in the United States in the coming years.” This statistic features prominently in the Johns Hopkins study.
The solutions proposed in the study are current gun control priorities of the anti-gun lobby, specifically the repeal of state-level preemption laws. For those unfamiliar, state preemption laws say local governments cannot impose stricter regulations on firearms than state law. This helps stop a web of inconsistent laws in states where some counties may disagree with state law.
Take this for example recent case in Marylandin Maryland Shall Issue Inc, et al. v. Montgomery Countywhere the court rejected a local gun restriction due to Maryland’s preemption law.
But because local laws are easier to change than state laws, gun control groups like Giffords and Everytown have sought out state lawmakers to convince them to overturn their preemption laws.
In 2021, Giffords convinced Colorado to overturn the state’s preemption law, later allowing the city of Boulder to pass its own assault weapons ban.
In a article by reigning.com on overturning the preemption law, Allison Anderman, senior counsel at the Giffords Law Center, is said to have spoken to other states about overturning their laws and that discussions were still “in the early stages.”
It seems like gun control groups are so frustrated at not being able to get laws passed through Congress that they have started looking to local jurisdictions to pass their legislative priorities. Interestingly enough, this strategy reflects the Soros District Attorney Campaigns.
The Johns Hopkins research appears to increase the legitimacy of this preemption policy and therefore make it more attractive for state lawmakers to adopt it.
Gun Owners of America stands ready to fight the anti-gun lobby at the federal, state and local level.