Posted on 10/06/2015 4:57:38 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
A week ago, we noted that—negating Nicolle Wallace's notion that the woman who aided the New York prison break shouldn't do any time herself—Willie Geist observed "you can't help convicted murderers escape from jail." An NB reader remarked: "I get the sense that Willie Geist is a good guy trapped inside the leftwing matrix."
Far be it from us to cause workplace problems for Willie by praising him too much, but Geist was at it again on today's Morning Joe, this time making some common sense remarks on gun control. After Eugene Robinson praised Australia's "very serious" gun control laws, Willie first cut through the haze, noting that "Australia, to be clear, confiscated guns." He went on to make this observation—as remarkable for its truth as it is for his rarity in the MSM—"there are so many laws out there, and you can make more laws and still wouldn't capture the people, the criminal element, that wants to get his hands on a gun."
Shades of "if guns are outlawed . . . "
View the video here.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
Flying pig alert: Morning Joe co-host Willie Geist says more laws won’t stop bad guys from getting guns.
Ping to Liberal Media Criticism list.
Wasn’t Robinson found to have owned a gun??
My counter to gun-grabbing is that for every gun that is taken away from a law abiding citizen, a gun is also taken away from the hands of government.
For that matter, LAWS have not stopped anyone from crashing our borders and making themselves at home here.... illegally.
Case closed
Let's be quite clear about this. The government passed a law allowing it to commit an armed robbery. Taking peoples' property against their will, without compensation or just cause, is theft. The Australian government is (or, at least, was) composed of thieves. The demonicrat party is also composed of thieves.
Don’t know if it’s true, but according to this article, gun owners were paid “a fair price, set by a national committee using market value as a benchmark.”
http://www.vox.com/2015/8/27/9212725/australia-buyback
Sounds like Willie does a fair amount of reading on the outside.
And remember prohibition. It didn’t stop people from getting liquor.
...and will prevent good guys from defending themselves and their families.
That's why gun and ammo sales are through the roof.
Does anyone really think people are going to surrender their only means of protection to a government that cannot and will not protect them--and even prevents them from protecting themselves???
(Answer: Yes. Leftist do.)
(Leftists: People with malfunctioning brains and malfunctioning morality, who are easy prey for self-serving psychopaths.)
Exactly. The fundamental problem with trying to legislate safety from criminal acts is that criminals by definition break laws. Ergo no law will keep you "safe" from a criminal. That isn't rocket science.
Not true, they asked for personal firearms to be turned in and then reduced them to scrap metal. Since there were no records as to who might own what firearm. There was a run on every hardware store in the land down-under buying out the entire stock of 6" PVC drain pipe. the guns and ammo went in, the caps were cemented on and the arsenal went underground to wait until the heat dissipated.
Don't forget to salt the area with 10 penny nails or some odd rusty scrap metal in case someone shows up with a metal detector. If you live on a farm, the drain pipes are water tight so bury them under a manure pile or such...
I should point out that "threaded clean out caps" are available which allow the stash to be removed with out cutting the end off the pipe.
Canada attempted to register all long guns by having people fill out a card with the pertinent information and a modest fee. People being of a mind to screw around with the bureaucrats started sending in multiple registration cards with the names and addresses of politicians and bogus gun serial numbers and descriptions. The system got completely bogged down with bad data outweighing the the good by about ten to one. The cost of maintaining the database shot up into the millions. After a few years the whole idea was scrapped.
Just some food for thought...
Regards,
GtG
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