Posted on 12/19/2004 1:24:42 AM PST by Stoat
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THE SAN FRAN GUN BAN
By Michelle Malkin · December 17, 2004 04:11 PM
You've got to hand it to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. They are unrepentant, unabashed, and undeterred gun grabbers--and there ain't nuthin' that's gonna stop 'em from trampling all over the Second Amendment. Here's the AP/SFgate.com story outlining the board's sweeping gun ban proposal. Volokh notes it would ban the possession of handguns as well as the sales of all firearms and ammunition, including shotguns and rifles.
Defending the proposal, an official explained: "The hope is twofold, that officers will have an opportunity to interact with folks and if they have a handgun, that will be reason enough to confiscate it." Clayton Cramer responds to this deadly Big Nannyism: I love that: "an opportunity to interact with folks...." What they mean is that if the police find someone carrying a gun, they can arrest them and confiscate the gun. Oh, but they already can do so. It is unlawful to carry a concealed handgun in California without a permit (Cal. Penal Code 12025), or to carry a loaded firearm in an incorporated area (like San Francisco) openly (Cal. Penal Code 12031) and when they arrest you for either violation, they confiscate the gun.
Some of the gun ban advocates are using the old public health rationale and are touting the measure as a suicide-prevention strategy. Which prompted two great comments. One from Cramer and one from Opinion Journal.com's James Taranto: Cramer. Wait a minute: I thought liberals supported the right to suicide. They certainly support physician-assisted suicide. But they oppose suicide with a gun? Does anyone besides me find that just a bit bizarre? Advocates of the ban present it as a suicide-prevention measure. Says Bill Barnes, an aide to Supervisor Chris Daly: "We know that for even law-abiding folks who own guns, the rates of suicide and mortality are substantially higher. So while just perceived to be a crime thing, we think there is a wide benefit to limiting the number of guns in the city."
Update: Xrlq notes this is a repeat from 22 years ago. |
Damn, man...where the hell did you learn to type?
I took a correspondence course. Now shut up. People don't mind when you talk to yourself...but when you argue, that's a different story.
One for your SF ping list, CJ. These idiots think they're above the laws of the land. Laws mean whatever they want them to mean, including the second amendment.
Is this what they mean when they say the constitution is a
"living document"?
A "living document" is a death wish.
Of course it's a living document. It can be amended any time the people agree. But there comes a time when proposing and passing unconstitutional laws and untennable changes to the constitution becomes an act of treason. Hillary Clinton's railings against the Electoral College comes to mind. It's the media's job to shame these enemies of the republic. Where are they? Aiding and abetting the treason.
Anyone know if Barett and Windrunner are still located in CA. I think I heard Ronnie Barrett packed up and went to TN or someplace?
Yet another business driven out of Kaliforniastan?
Does anyone in SF even own a gun to be confiscated? Of course crime will rise, and they will blame it on economics (brought on by Bush) or lack of "early education" programs for children or some such nonsense.
By itself, California is the 5 or 6th largest economy in the world. In and of itself we are bigger than France. NY is only 60% of our economy. No kidding, lets keep it rather than give it to Mexico.
From my cold, dead hands.
Charlton Heston. ...
And
ME!
Please add me to SF Ping List.
I take this to mean the law provides the opportunity in other words, if a cop suspects you are carrying, he can stop you in other words he can stop anyone because 'i thought they were carrying'.
"San Francisco supervisors want voters to approve a sweeping handgun ban that would prohibit almost everyone except law enforcement officers, security guards and military members from possessing firearms in the city."
I wonder just who will tell DI FI that she has to give up her concealed carry permit?
Dasher has another request to join your ping list, CJ.
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