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Ann Coulter Delivers Dire Gun Warning: Universal Background Checks Could Lead to ‘Universal Confiscation, Universal Extermination’ of Firearms

Feb. 5, 2013 8:04am Billy Hallowell

Ann Coulter Warns Against Universal Background Checks, Universal Gun Registration | Hannity

Ann Coulter on “Hannity” (Photo Credit: Fox News)

Commentator Ann Coulter appeared on “Hannity” last night, issuing a dire warning to the American people about universal background checks, a provision currently being touted by gun control advocates. Rather than embracing the proposal, Coulter warned that it could lead to “universal confiscation” and, ultimately, “universal extermination” of firearms.

After speaking briefly with host Sean Hannity about the much-discussed photograph of President Barack Obama skeet shooting, the columnist noted that the president misses the point on the Second Amendment (i.e. the purpose of the constitutional right isn’t so citizens can go skeet shooting; it allows Americans to protect themselves).

“I’m waiting for photos of him taking birth control pills to show him fighting the war on women,” Coulter quipped.

On the gun control front, she gave a passionate speech about how the real problem is mental illness, accusing the left of skirting that issue and embracing firearms control measures that may do little to actually solve the problem. Of particular note, she focused upon universal background checks, launching into claims that implementing them would be potentially-dangerous for Second Amendment rights. Here’s what she said:

“The problem with universal background checks is, we basically have universal background checks now. Any licensed gun dealer is performing a background check. The buyer may not know, someone at a gun show may not know, but if you’re walking through a gun show, everybody’s doing background checks. The only people who are not subjected to a background checks are collectors giving guns to their sons or they’re selling one to their brother-in-law or something. The only way to enforce universal — the last .1 percent of guns that are transferred by collectors and so on — is to have universal gun registration.”

It is here that Coulter noted that U.S. citizens could fall victim to a slippery slope of gun control regulations, inevitably culminating in a loss of the right to bear arms.

“Universal background check means universal registration. Universal registration means universal confiscation, universal extermination,” she continued. “That’s how it goes in history. Do not fall for universal background checks.”

Coulter also went on to lambaste the notion that a gun in the home “is more likely to be used against the owner than to kill an intruder,” something that is sometimes touted by those seeking greater gun restrictions.

“This is a lie they are telling you in order to prevent Americans from self-defense, from protecting themselves so that only the government has a monopoly on guns,” she said of other claims against guns being perpetuated in media.

Watch Coulter’s fiery defense of the Second Amendment, below:

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Comments (218)

temple62
Posted on February 5, 2013 at 4:53pm
Obama, on his 5th year of campaigning, leads me to believe he’ll change the laws so he can be elected for a 3rd term as long as the entitlement babies still support a check rather than a job! The problems are the Democrats, Liberals, Marxist, Communists, Obama’s entire administration not guns!

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ares338
Posted on February 5, 2013 at 4:41pm
Ahhhhh…I love the sound off pissed off Americans rising to meet the enemy.

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smitty1007
Posted on February 5, 2013 at 4:35pm
How about a universal background check on Obama – he he controls nuclear weapons. We should know his place of birth, his passport travel details, see his college applications, question his social security number, check out his draft card and know what he did in Pakistan & Indonesia.

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MittensKittens
Posted on February 5, 2013 at 4:11pm
Just try it mo fo!

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AllisonWunderland
Posted on February 5, 2013 at 3:43pm
Coulter mentions this as an aside, but it’s worth stressing that a great deal of crime is stopped before it starts because the assailant fears that the potential “victim” may be armed.

Axelrod this morning asserted that Chicago’s “gun problem” stems from “all the guns being brought in from outside Chicago.” Pat & Stu note that, ipso facto, all these dangerous guns in the suburbs must mean that the population in the suburbs must be all dead from shootings.

The problems with “gun violence” in inner cities like New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston . . . is that these cities have unworkable gun restrictions, out of control CRIME and CRIMINALS, and the law abiding citizens are forbidden the means to self defense — Criminals don’t pick victims who may be armed.

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sbenard
Posted on February 5, 2013 at 3:35pm
A defenseless population is eventually a DEAD one! Just ask all those millions that are no longer here to bear witness of that fact! We would all become a “statistic”!

“One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic.” Joseph Stalin

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- sbenard
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 3:54pm
  It appears that Axelrod and his fellow elitist despots like Stalin think of everyone but themselves as just a “statistic”!
  
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AboveMyPayGrade
Posted on February 5, 2013 at 3:16pm
SANDW, I responded at 10:00am to GOLDOXIDE’s 9:26am post, and I took the same line of argument you did in your 1:44pm response to him: that I believe that at least the vast majority of the military/National Guard/civilian law-enforcement will NOT obey orders from Obama to turn on the American people.

But regarding Obama using those in government agencies to forcibly disarm the American people or commit other outrages against them on his order:

while it is true that many government agencies DO have internal armed security forces, those forces are a VERY small percentage of the total workforce of these agencies. Make no mistake about it, the vast majority of the workforce of agencies like Social Security, IRS, EPA, TSA, DHS, Dept. of Education, etc. are PAPER PUSHERS who will soil themselves at even the THOUGHT of a gun.

Remember something ELSE: a substantial percentage of the workforce of any government agency is FEMALE. If Obama TRIED to arm these people to turn them loose on an aroused and defiant and ARMED American populace, I think a LOT of government agencies would VERY quickly become buildings full of empty cubicles – and NOT because they’d be out in the field doing such dirtywork, either. It’s because they’d KNOW that for many of them, Obama was sending them out on a suicide mission – and while they may like their government paychecks, they like their LIVES even MORE and will NOT sacrifice them for HIS glorification.

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Tom K
Posted on February 5, 2013 at 3:15pm
Ann Coulter is spot on correct. In case you were not taught the early history of Nazi Germany at your Government School, you might want to review how the Nazi’s took over. The steps they took are EXACTLY the steps Obama is taking. I will not Comply.

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Ranchdawg
Posted on February 5, 2013 at 3:03pm
Since Coulter started advocating for gay marriage, I stopped listening to her. This is one of the very few times that I can agree with her. She’s right, universal background checks is another way to say registration. We will not comply with that either,

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Guitar Master
Posted on February 5, 2013 at 2:49pm
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Glenn Beck is the only man in America that can lead a successful 2ND Amendment march on Wahington, on behalf of all gun owners in America.

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nonofmybiznez
Posted on February 5, 2013 at 2:48pm
The 2nd Amendment isn’t to provide for hunting or sport; it allows Americans to protect themselves and thereby protect our Republic.
Correction…It could lead to “universal confiscation” and, ultimately, “universal extermination” of firearms. No, it could result in universal extermination of people. That is the historical perspective.

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LameLiberals
Posted on February 5, 2013 at 2:47pm
Coulter is correct.

It is difficult to understand WHY she is a Chris Christy fan when is ALL FOR GUN CONTROL – of every strip including universal gun registration. Chris Christy is the BIGGEST RINO in the GOP herd. He is worse than Romney and McCain put together – THAT – my friends – is BAD.

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- nonofmybiznez
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 2:49pm
  She recanted on Christy.
  
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countrygirl
Posted on February 5, 2013 at 2:45pm
I watched the segment — she was not referring to extermination of guns, but of people. THAT has been the historical process.

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- AboveMyPayGrade
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 3:08pm
  As I opined earlier this morning on this thread about this, this is what I took away as well from Coulter’s appearance on Hannity’s show last night, which I saw when it broadcast: that the elimination she was referring to was not of FIREARMS but of PEOPLE.
  
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DAS_NIETZSCHEAN
Posted on February 5, 2013 at 2:14pm
the second day in a row posting and the edit the whole post. (notice the >QQthe peoplepower comes from a barrel of a gun -mao http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8J_lcHwkvc from the administration themselves its not what it seems put us all in chains<
how long will they wait until their enemies hall consolidated all their power to take Action????

First they came for the communists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.

Then they came for the socialists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Catholic.

Then they came for me,
and there was no one left to speak for me.

I will not Comply

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GrumpyCat
Posted on February 5, 2013 at 2:10pm
If they can do background checks prior to the constitutional right to own firearms, then why is not the same good for voters? Background check to be registered to vote.

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- SandW
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 2:15pm
  Grumpycat – because it’s okay to “disenfranchise” gun owners, but not the terminally ignorant, uniformed lemming voter base of Obama.
  
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TrueColours
Posted on February 5, 2013 at 2:09pm
She’s right on, however, be careful what you wish for. You know that Communist Obama will turn the metal health argument into painting every gun owner, every constitutional defender, every law abiding person into a crazy person. He’s bumping us from one issue to the other so that we trap ourselves with our own reasoning. Barry and his Communist crew define every thing; “assault weapons”, crazy people, PST Vets, religious zealots, Republicans = extreme right wing nuts and so on. Dish it back.

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DAS_NIETZSCHEAN
Posted on February 5, 2013 at 2:05pm
yea they are scared of the STATE>the peoplepower comes from a barrel of a gun http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8J_lcHwkvc normalappropriate< Action.

First they came for the communists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.

Then they came for the socialists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Catholic.

Then they came for me,
and there was no one left to speak for me.

I will not Comply

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Arshloch
Posted on February 5, 2013 at 1:51pm
That’s exactly the end result that ‘lil berry’ and his minions are counting on to occur. Hitler made the same remark in 1936 to the effect, ‘now that we have all weapons registered the rest of the world will follow’. After making the statement, all weapons were confiscated.

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SandW
Posted on February 5, 2013 at 1:44pm
GOLDOXIDE – I don’t think the confiscation will come via the Army or any branch of the millitary because they have a greater honor for the Constitution, liberty, personal freedom, etc. than this Commander in Chief and most will not follow the orders. The “attack” will come from the EPA, SS, and other government agencies. All these groups now have internal armed “security” forces and they have purchased tens of thousands of weapons and hundreds of millions of rounds of ammo. They loyaties lie with their government paycheck and not the Constitution.

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RoDogg
Posted on February 5, 2013 at 1:38pm
If I had money right now, I would counter the left with an organization that is set up specifically to get guns in more peoples hands. People that can’t afford them etc.Communities getting together and helping each other arm themselves etc.

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raderby
Posted on February 5, 2013 at 1:37pm
the last biggie the progressive pukes did on this scale was prohibition. At least the, they passed an amendment. How’d that work out? Everybody drank, the gv’t didn’t get its taxes, and crime and violence from criminals went through the roof.

So, the progressive puke want zero guns. Get it? that is the end game for them. So, what will be the biggest, most lucrative money-making criminal activity then? Drugs? – no. Guns and ammo.

The 2nd amendment is there to protect against exactly what these (I repeat) progressive pukes are doing RIGHT NOW.

We have a faux fay “king” acting as some sort of president… and his minions are trying to make all of us bow before the gov’t.

AND for “YOUR SENSELESS EYE” : cram it up your flabby moronic pitted molding rotten ****. I am sure your syphilitic brain is right next to your ****, so we all might get a two-fer out of it. It is so, and you blow dead donkeys.

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crystalsky
Posted on February 5, 2013 at 1:36pm
by the way the U.N. security council is that another word for international background checks and international health records????

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crystalsky
Posted on February 5, 2013 at 1:34pm
Can you tell me why they want to take weapons away from u.s. citizens while the nut case in North Korea is still using a nuclear weapon? USA and South Korea expecting nuclear War? (English)Pravda.runews 2/5/2013 north Korea has been Preparing for a nuclear test and it the time when the test starts is just a matter of making a political decision representatives of the ministry of defense of south korea kim min-sec said on monday the same day the U.S. and south korea began a 3 day joint exercise on the east coast of the korean peninsula. The excecise included fire training, sea battles and identification of submarines. local media reported the activities had been planned before the DPRK’s announcement of the upcoming test. On January 22 The U.N. security council announced the expansion of sanctions against North Korea. a few days later pyongyang announced an intention to conduct another nuclear research, adding that the research would be directed against the U.S. We do not deny the fact that various satilites that will launch the launch of long range missles that we will carry out and the nuclear test that we will conduct will be directed against the U.S. the central news of the country said. previous nuclear test were conducted in the country n 2006 and 2009 on Monday there were suspicion that north korea was preparing 2 explosions. its not clear yet when the nuclear test are going to be held, experts say that they will take place feb16 to celebrate the birthday kim jong 1

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nueces
Posted on February 5, 2013 at 1:31pm
Somebody give that woman a sandwich! Anne, you must eat more. Skinny just does not look good on middle aged women.

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KKC003
Posted on February 5, 2013 at 1:27pm
“The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’” Ronny Reagan

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