Posted on 11/09/2005 1:00:10 PM PST by neverdem
Its the confiscation part that is amusing; according to Cal DOJ records, some 22,000 pistols and revolvers were acquired by SF residents over the past decade. This is where the ACLU gets its butt in the wringer since if a confiscation is ordered, then it becomes a 4th Amendment issue. I'd like to see the Board of Stupes try it.
I guess because they are actually dumber and more stupid that we first thought.
3 guesses where the next terrorist attack will be ..??
Both the NRA and the Second Amendment Foundation have announced they will challenge Prop. H in court. Watch these two papers do an about face and go after these groups with all the fury they can muster. And once the courts toss it out, they will drag out the tired old "Dodge City" and "bloodbath in the streets" canards yet again.
Their opposition to H is pure BS, a phony sop to conservatives using a dead letter doomed to being thrown out by the courts to try and eliminate the bias charge, and keep from looking like flip-flopping idiots when they go after the NRA and the SAF for "overturning the will of the people." They also see it as a means to demagogue the issue and get the state law changed so that a future Prop. H will stand as the law.
Ok. let me get this straight. 1) New Law: Criminals now have the advantage in San Fran. 2) New Law: More babies will be aborted in San Fran. 3) New Law: Public school teachers still get a free pass to be freeloaders after 2 years. 4)Taxes are going up.
So, the liberals are aborting their young, educating the ones who do live with incompetent teachers and sending them unarmmed into a criminal ridden society that they have to pick up the tab for. Ya... a regular garden of Eden there.
+1, especially when millions of people listen to or watch the guy who just woke up. While he was hopelessly naive before Katrina, that experience and his quotes about guns being needed by the average person for self-defense against thugs make it virtually impossible for him to reverse his position.
Plus it is possible for people to learn, grow and change. Even know-it-alls.
Sometimes it takes a big event to get someone to really think about an issue. Would you rather have him, and others, not convert to the pro-gun side? Besides, it'll be hard for them to switch back to being anti-2A, simply because any of us can remind them about Katrina and other situations where the police can't protect the average person. In BOR's case, he's now got lots of words on the record - and for him to change his mind and become anti-2A again would make him look like an utter fool (as opposed to merely being a self-centered bloviating populist).
I don't like to turn away converts, because once they see the light, it is hard to go back. Besides, we should give them some positive reinforcement - make them feel welcome into our fraternity, not spurned because they didn't join. Heck, BOR still doesn't get the militia aspect of the BOR...but now that he has opened his eyes a bit, it will be easier for someone, or several someones, to discuss the issue with him, to take him to a range, etc. Now he's open to facts, and the pro-gun folks that know him or who can get access to him should take advantage of that.
One thing that I've learned is that no one has all of life's answers. We're all wrong sometimes (though Liberals are definitely "more equal" than the average person in that regard), but that is merely part of being human. Ignorance, which is a lack of information or experience, is no crime. Being unwilling to learn is, IMHO, about the worst thing a person can do.
IMHO, O'Reilly was merely ignorant regarding guns and gun laws before Katrina. Now he is less ignorant, and has recognized that he was at least partially wrong before. That does a lot to dispell my previous distaste for him, because I used to view him as just another self-important guy who ran off at the mouth. Don't get me wrong, he still does that a lot, which turns me off, but at least he's shown a capacity to learn. Now is the time for someone who's really pro-gun that knows him to take him shooting, to show him that semi-autos aren't machine guns, to show him the law that makes bazookas just slightly more difficult to get than a shotgun, etc. I just don't get people who condemn those who have admitted that they were wrong, and who are now moving in the right direction.
I'm witchoo.
There have been many events an older, seasoned newsman like BOR would have seen, each with elements of mob rule, chaos, looting, where each individual is responsible for his or her own protection and safety. Other examples include individual home invasions and other crimes where a gun toting individual saved the day, the statistics regarding conceal carry law's effect of lowering crime and other contries' and city municpalities' experiences of gun banning icreasing crime, notably violent crime. He must have missed all of that.
I'm glad he's come around to the common sense point of view, just don't count on it lasting. When next event where guns and/or gun ownership is put in a negative light, don't be surprised when he again changes his opinion.
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