--this would almost be funny , if it wasn't so pitiful--
Restriction DO violate Constitutional protections. For what ever good they have done. I'll have my weapon until I am no more.
The leftists REFUSE, in spite of all the evidence, to admit that the 2nd Amendment has NOTHING to do with "legitimate sporting purposes".
The reason for the 2nd Amendment is to provide the means for the citizenry to depose the current government should the need arise. Period.
She's partly responsible for me moving to Montana. Thanks, Sayre!
How's that workin' for you, dear?
And so that's how we measure success now, is it?
I don't suppose you'd care to spout some MEANINGFUL statistics, about say, handgun crimes going down, or anything like that.
Doing through the courts what the legislature refuses to do. That is, thwart the will of the people.
For 10 years, Weaver has been working to staunch the flow of "Saturday night specials" — cheap handguns that cost less than a good pair of sneakers and are the weapon of choice in the criminal milieu.
Following in the footsteps of white racists, to deny poor people the means of defending themselves. And anyway, I thought "assault weapons," no, wait, ".50 cal sniper rifles," no, "pocket rockets" - or was it the .500 S&W Magnum was/were the weapon of choice for criminals? Gee, these moving goal posts sure are hard to track.
That success, despite a well-funded challenge by the gun industry, emboldened dozens more cities to tighten limits on weapons sales, making California a national leader in restricting handgun access.
And we can see the result of this "success" by the low levels of firearms crime present in Kali.
"These are guns that have no legitimate sporting purpose," says Weaver
"After all, the First Amendment is only about Scrabble and other games, and the Second Amendment, enshrined in the Bill Of Rights, is really just about recreation and fun, and has nothing to do with reconizing rights of citizens in a free country, nor with restricting the power of government."
For her efforts, Weaver, legal director of the Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence, was among three activists honored in San Francisco last month by the California Wellness Foundation with its 2005 Peace Prize for violence prevention.
You would think that people who win peace prizes could show some objective reduction in violence. But no study has been able to link gun prohibitions with any kind of violent crime reduction. Instead, one would have to think that this prize is modeled after the Nobel peace prize, which awards criminals and terrorists like Annan and Arafat.
And thank God these measures are in place. Else people might drink...Even get drunk...Drive their cars under the influence, get alcohol poisoning, beat their wives, stagger around singing FreeBird at three in the morning...Yep, it's a good thing that government regulation keeps all that stuff from happening.
That's not true... some aver that plugging a would be robber or rapist is great sport. If a SNS can do the trick, more power to it.
--the only usage of the term "pocket rocket" I know of was by the ignorant media--if you want the whole garbage article, latimes@spam.la and yodayoda come from bugmenot--
Weaver wants only rich people to have guns.
"For 10 years, Weaver has been working to staunch the flow of "Saturday night specials" — cheap handguns that cost less than a good pair of sneakers and are the weapon of choice in the criminal milieu."
"Saturday night specials" are the cheap firearms that the poor use to defend themselves; no self-respecting crook would have anything less than a Glock, which are not "cheap" by any reckoning.
Study after study has shown that criminals want the very best tools they can get.
PS: It must really annoy Weaver that, after 10 years of her best efforts, the tide is turned against her, and the recent federal law protecting legitimate arms manufacturers and dealers is about to put her out of business.
Lying lawyer scum that she is.
Inexpensiev handguns are also the weapon of choice for law-abiding poorer citizens who can't afford more expensive pieces.
She is obviously a racist.
What an ellitist snob! Possibly even racist to boot. So poor people shouldn't be able to afford the tools necessary to protect themselves?
This whore needs to find another line of work.
Let's do a little thought experiment. Which one would have received more respect during colonial times, a guy that crafted good reliable guns, or a guy that sat in court all day flapping his gums in an attempt to abridge the rights of other people? Hmm, the gunmaker, you say. Case closed, throw Ms. Weaver out of court. She is fined court costs and opposing attorney's fees for taking up our time.
California doesn't have a gun lobby. If we did, we'd would be on par with real states for firearms rights. Can anyone honestly see this twit getting any kind of airtime in Texas? Nope, no anti-gun bias here...