Posted on 03/23/2013 12:38:28 PM PDT by John Semmens
Before it has even gone into effect the gun-control law championed by Governor Andrew Cuomo has run into insurmountable problems. Under the law it is illegal for anyone in the state to have a weapon with a magazine that holds more than seven bullets. Aside from converting the majority of the state’s gun owners into criminals virtually overnight, hardly any seven bullet magazines are available.
Rather than admit this law is infeasible, Cuomo is pressing the legislature to amend it to allow larger magazines, but forbid anyone from loading more than seven bullets in them. Skeptics wondering how law enforcement personnel would be able to tell how many bullets were loaded in these magazines were assured by the Governor that “an energetic stop-and-frisk program would be implemented by police. Not only will we catch those who’ve loaded too many bullets, but those without permits to bear arms will also be snared.”
Under Cuomo’s proposed amended law, those who inadvertently or innocently violated the law could be pardoned by the Governor—a feature Cuomo contends will augment civil peace. “My ability to differentiate between those who are essentially good citizens who’ve made a simple mistake and those who are flouting the government’s authority is a potentially powerful tool for maintaining order,” the Governor argued. “People who pay their taxes and obey the laws will get a break. People who have a history of challenging authority can expect to bear the full penalty. The incentives for citizens to behave themselves will be strengthened.”
Another explanation for Cuomo’s reluctance to abandon his infeasible law may be the anticipated surge of revenues from fines. Turning hundreds of thousands of previously legal gun owners into criminals is seen as an equitable way of covering the state’s deficit. “If anyone deserves to pay more for the cost of state government it’s those who insist on having guns they don’t need,” the Governor declared.
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Liberals have a talent for screwing up everything that they touch.
FACT.
This is a good one.
These people wouldn’t be able to organize a beer bash in a brewery.
In their haste to pass a law, any law, and to “protect the children” they didn’t think it through.
Lol! Cuomo should be ‘energetically stopped and frisked’ to determine if any remote trace of working brain cells could be found.
FACT (no satire)
So the New York governor essentially is saying he'll arbitrarily pick and choose when, where and how citizens may exercise their intrinsic rights and freedoms. He represents that not-withstanding the constitution and individual circumstances, he knows better than citizens. This law is not about safety, or decency or equity, it is about arbitrary, frivolous overriding individual freedom and choice. Sort of like limiting how much soda one might purchase at any given time...No one would ever do that, now would they? Oh, wait...
He also proposes thought as a crime: whether or not he is of the opinion on any given day that a citizen is flouting authority will be the basis of guilt or innocence. What if he's really busy one day and gets it wrong? Or is he infallible?
This presumptuousness should be ridiculed for the folly that it is and rejected with prejudice.
No shit! lol
Thanks John - spot on to the point where satire meets reality and you can’t see the seam.
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