“the ways in which even Georgia’s law is too restrictive”
How about Georgia gets some of that Fed ammo and GIVE it to the citizens.
Give them tax credit for Range Time.
Gun....what?
Correction, when it comes to our guns, we don't trust anyone. The fewer laws regulating when and where a responsible citizen can carry a gun, the better.
ej can have my guns, all he has to do is come and get ‘em.
I’d like for Eejay to find a single murderer among those “guys” he is telling to “party on”.
The pantywaist fails to grasp that 'asserting' his rights requires credible force to back-up the 'assertion.'
Otherwise you are at the whim of the one with actual force projection capability.
The pu55y also fails to grasp that the only reason his kind can whine about their notion of rights is because of those of us who are armed that he fears so much.
The only reason you aren't in a gulag or worse is because there are millions of your armed neighbors (whom you are in abject fear of, apparently) keeping those with predatory inclinations in check.
Dionne is worried that this may affect the implementation schedule for the USSA.
Never heard of this bozo but since he scribbles for the WaPo he has no gravitas.
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Question——— do any of you know if Georgia requires some sort of firearms owner ID like Illinois SSR does? Heard that years ago but do not know if it is true.
Oh yes, and while conservatives claim to hate the centralization of power, this law wipes out a series of local gun regulations. The gun supremacists just don’t trust those pesky local elected officials.
First, and Constitution, especially the Bill of Rights, is to deny power to the state...because they didn’t trust ANY of those officials, including local ones.
Second, this “centralization of power”, proscribes powers over individuals - which is the opposite of centralizing it.
If you’ve ever seen EJ Dionne on TV, you’d understand why he’s so afraid of guns. He couldn’t lift one.
I solemnly promise not to use a firearm to defend E.J. Dionne from anyone trying to maim or murder him.
Just respecting his opinions is all.
Not the demographics around here. Heck, there's a couple of Priuses with NRA stickers on them in my town. I wonder how our crime rate compares to his town?
E.J. is losing his temper as it begins to dawn on him that we've learned what Mao taught his little-red-book-waving hordes, that "all power proceeds from the barrel of a gun" (nice phrasing, Mao, and nice graft off Col. Lawrence overall, by the way).
So now E.J. is going to throw a tantrum and hold his breath until he gets over on us. (Party on, Eric.)
But it's officialdom that the Framers explicitly did not trust when James Madison wrote the Bill of Rights (he was smarter than to trust Alexander Hamilton, the Noo Yawk banker).
The U.S. Constitution TRUMPS local gun laws, period.
Study: Gun homicides, violence down sharply in past 20 years
(CNN) — Gun-related homicides and crime are “strikingly” down from 20 years ago, despite the American public’s belief that firearm crime is on the upswing, a new study said Wednesday.
Looking back 50 years, a Pew Research Center study found U.S. gun homicides rose in the 1960s, gained in the 1970s, peaked in the 1980s and the early 1990s, and then plunged and leveled out the past 20 years.
“Despite national attention to the issue of firearm violence, most Americans are unaware that gun crime is lower today than it was two decades ago,” the researchers say.
A Pew survey of Americans in March found 56% believed gun-related crime is higher than 20 years ago and only 12% said it's lower. The survey said 26% believed it stayed the same and 6% didn't know. . .
I would agree with the author on this point. The two of us also probably would not agree on any other subject.
Why do I get the feeling that Mr. Dionne is a wimp?