Posted on 07/30/2005 7:27:23 AM PDT by Graybeard58
Gun-control agitators were overjoyed when the City Council in Columbus, Ohio, unanimously passed an ordinance this month banning ownership of semi-automatic firearms.
Councilmen said the ordinance will reduce gun violence, but the ban is much more likely to enable violent crime.
Semi-automatic firearms are hardly the public-safety threat they're made out to be. They are used in a tiny fraction of crimes and always by criminals who don't obey gun laws.
As always, taking weapons out of the hands of law-abiding citizens will make them more vulnerable to gun-toting criminals.
Moreover, the assault-weapons ban passed by Congress in 1994 never made America safer. Its chief achievements were to erode personal liberties and give the uninformed a false sense of security.
When the Bush administration finally allowed the ban to expire last fall, gun-controllers predicted police shootings would surge and cities would be overrun by gunslinging gang members, drug dealers and other criminals.
But the most obvious consequence of that decision was to show just how useless gun-control laws are.
Executive Director Joe Waldron of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms called the Columbus ban a victory of "symbolism (over) substance; a flimsy sham that will only victimize competitive shooters, collectors and other law-abiding firearm owners. In terms of genuine public safety, this ban is a fraud, and its supporters know it."
Undaunted, Columbus has adopted the same failed strategy, and its first victim was its economy. Two months after picking Columbus to host its 2007 annual meeting and convention, the National Rifle Association decided to move the event to a city that respects gun rights and the Constitution.
An average NRA convention attracts tens of thousands of people. The Columbus Chamber of Commerce expected the 2007 event would have poured $20 million into the local economy and garnered the city copious free publicity from national news coverage.
Instead, Columbus is stuck with a worthless gun ban and its businesses are out $20 million; yet another case of gun-controllers shooting themselves in the foot.
Banning semis is banning everything except revolvers?
When will this fail Constitutional muster?
I guess I will strike Ohio off of my list of states to retire in.
"Gun-control agitators were overjoyed when the City Council in Columbus, Ohio, unanimously passed an ordinance this month banning ownership of semi-automatic firearms."
Oh, for a Supreme Court that would slap down these weenies and their violations of 2nd Amendment rights.
you make the call...
I don't think that Mayor Coleman knows the pile of dogcrap he has stepped into....yes this is all posturing in an attempted to be the next Ohio Governor, but he isn't going to be....
http://www.thenewamerican.com/artman/publish/article_1363.shtml
Ohio really isn't that bad.
Actually Columbus isn't really that bad either.
If you live in the suburbs, the areas go from relatively conservative to exceptionally conservative. It doesn't take too long to drive from Columbus and be out in very rural areas either.
Parts of the city range that way too, but as in all cities, parts of it get very liberal very quickly.
I get more confused by Ohio than the electorate in any other state.
Didn't Ohio just vote GOP?
How will pushing gun control help anyone outside of the union controlled inner cities?
it won't.
the funny part is, OHIO is more reliably GOP on midterm years than it is in Presidential years, at least recently it has been.
Coleman gets to see first hand how incompetent Bubba Bob Taft is. So he thinks he can run on that and win. The problem for Coleman is that he won't be running against Taft (Thank God). Honestly, Coleman will have trouble carrying Columbus itself, he WON'T carry the suburbs and WON'T carry Cincy. He MIGHT carry Toledo and will probably carry Cleveland. Thats about it.
Come on down to the Missouri Ozarks. We've got trout streams, turkeys in the woods, pheasants and quail in the northern counties and mild weather. You can step outside and shoot your gun anytime.
The thing to do is keep careful track of who voted for what but otherwise ignore any bans these a...holes legislate and keep your powder dry.
Someone gets it.
An average NRA convention attracts tens of thousands of people. The Columbus Chamber of Commerce expected the 2007 event would have poured $20 million into the local economy and garnered the city copious free publicity from national news coverage.
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Good move Mayor.
Looking more and more like Ken Blackwell will be the next governor. I think that's his name anyway. The current sec of state.
Yep Ken Blackwell.
He needs to get out there though. Petro has better name recognition right now IMO.
If it is Blackwell vs. Coleman, it will look like a Florida ST vs Duke Football game from the early 90's.....as in, it won't be close for Coleman.
Someday, somebody is gonna want to take away my single shot Thompson Contenders.
Gun-banning is a cult. Like Jonestown and The Davidians, it is marked by institutionalized stupidity and an unwillingness to see the real world. Cults always end in poverty or the mass deaths of their members.
Ken Blackwell, conservative first, republican second!! He has the distance from the current GOP fiasco to retain his creditability. (It used to make me angry when he didn't appear at -or wasn't invited to- the usual functions.) The Dems are floating Coleman, mayor of Columbus, tainted by a recent school rape scandal and bad handling of the gang problem in Columbus. Then there's Jerry Springer and Ted Strickland. Folks, that dog won't hunt 'round here.
-Working for Blackwell in Champaign County!!-
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