It’s so nice of them to keep score for us on how badly they’re loosing.
Posted on 02/20/2012 5:03:14 PM PST by Nachum
Last Thursday, the Brady Campaign released its annual "scorecards," ranking each state on how draconian its gun laws are (with, naturally, the more tyrannical those laws are, the better). Their press release, starting with the very first word, praises California's ultra-restrictive gun laws:
California continues to blaze legislative trails in adopting lifesaving gun laws, rising to a high of 81 points (out of a possible 100) on the 2011 Brady State Scorecard rankings, while too many states remain in the Zero-Sum Club with the weakest gun laws, the Brady Campaign announced today.
In comments at John Richardson's No Lawyers - Only Guns and Money blog. an alert reader pointed out the Brady Campaign's bad news:
What they DON'T announce is that California is the ONLY state that gained points, from 80 to 81, while fourteen states passed enough gun-rights legislation to DROP a total of 33 points [Correction--the total net drop is 34 points--apologies for the error].
Blogger Thirdpower has more.
They call it a 100 point scale, but through "extra credit" and "demerits," the actual range of possible scores extends from a "comfortingly" authoritarian 102, on down to a "terrifyingly" free -4. Speaking as we were of California, that state, as it happens, is the only state to have received the "extra credit." How does a state earn that? Let's see:
Disarm Prohibited Handgun Possessors: State law enforcement matches firearm records with prohibited person records to identify, disarm, and prosecute illegal firearms possessors.
California has for years required handguns (and any grandfathered "assault weapons") to be registered.gun registration is pushing that nation.
(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com ...
Jim was not against guns.
Crazy Sarah still wheels him out when ever she gets the chance.
Jim would be sad.
It’s so nice of them to keep score for us on how badly they’re loosing.
n 1919, the German government passed the Regulations on Weapons Ownership, which declared that “all firearms, as well as all kinds of firearms ammunition, are to be surrendered immediately.” Under the regulations, anyone found in possession of a firearm or ammunition was subject to five years’ imprisonment and a fine of 100,000 marks.
On August 7, 1920, the German government enacted a second gun-regulation law called the Law on the Disarmament of the People. It put into effect the provisions of the Versailles Treaty in regard to the limit on military-type weapons.
In 1928, the German government enacted the Law on Firearms and Ammunition. This law relaxed gun restrictions and put into effect a strict firearm licensing scheme. Under this scheme, Germans could possess firearms, but they were required to have separate permits to do the following:
own or sell firearms, carry firearms (including handguns), manufacture firearms, and professionally deal in firearms and ammunition. This law explicitly revoked the 1919 Regulations on Weapons Ownership, which had banned all firearms possession.
Stephen Halbrook writes about the German gun restriction laws in the 1919-1928 period, “Within a decade, Germany had gone from a brutal firearms seizure policy which, in times of unrest, entailed selective yet immediate execution for mere possession of a firearm, to a modern, comprehensive gun control law.”
[edit] The 1938 German Weapons Act
The 1938 German Weapons Act, the precursor of the current weapons law, superseded the 1928 law. As under the 1928 law, citizens were required to have a permit to carry a firearm and a separate permit to acquire a firearm. Furthermore, the law restricted ownership of firearms to “...persons whose trustworthiness is not in question and who can show a need for a (gun) permit.” Under the new law:
Gun restriction laws applied only to handguns, not to long guns or ammunition. Writes Prof. Bernard Harcourt of the University of Chicago, “The 1938 revisions completely deregulated the acquisition and transfer of rifles and shotguns, as well as ammunition.”
The groups of people who were exempt from the acquisition permit requirement expanded. Holders of annual hunting permits, government workers, and NSDAP party members were no longer subject to gun ownership restrictions. Prior to the 1938 law, only officials of the central government, the states, and employees of the German Reichsbahn Railways were exempted.
The age at which persons could own guns was lowered from 20 to 18.
The firearms carry permit was valid for three years instead of one year.
Jews were forbidden from the manufacturing or ownership of firearms and ammunition.
Under both the 1928 and 1938 acts, gun manufacturers and dealers were required to maintain records with information about who purchased guns and the guns’ serial numbers. These records were to be delivered to a police authority for inspection at the end of each year.
On November 11, 1938, the Minister of the Interior, Wilhelm Frick, passed Regulations Against Jews’ Possession of Weapons. This regulation effectively deprived all Jews of the right to possess firearms or other weapons.
Where do I collect my “Credits”?
Ah, what a passel of fallacies the Bradys are pushing.
The only thing they can possibly say that would be accurate is that no system is perfect on this mortal coil. It would still have been nice if the rat that shot Jim and wounded Mr. Reagan had been spotted drawing by others who could have shot him first.
Attempts to ban guns usually hurt the power of honest citizens far worse than they hurt the power of criminals. Even if the fallacious Brady hypothesis of “zero sum” (which seems to assume that honest armed citizens do not greatly outnumber criminals under open firearms policies) were not a fallacy, now they would want to see it turned into a negative sum.
When the Nazis invaded Norway, one of the first things they did was go to the local City Hall and get the gun registry, then to each home to gets the guns and talk to the men - who were put on a watch list.
My dad’s cousin was a teen at the time, hid in a coal bin to escape notice. Was very active in the underground, and would not talk about it at all - even 50 years later.
And while an avid hunter and sportsman (and very wealthy); for the the rest of his life he only owned one, old rundown single shot shotgun. Norway still requires gun registration. ;)
I assume the GA (and others) numbers include justified stops of violent assaults & home invasions.
Ping!
Where do I collect my “Credits”?
Congratulations! You receive a perfect score of 100. Nazi Germany is the Gold Standard of gun control law.
That’s disappointing. Texas is only tied for 39th. We need to work on that.
Woman gone insane because husband injured severely by gun-wielding President assassin maniac.
Tell me how the country is better off by a woman such as this and her warped organization? It’s not.
And Nebraska was a couple points “above” Texas. We need to work on lowering our score too.
The purpose of gun control is not to prevent crime. That can be proven statistically. It can also be proved by simple logic, criminals don't obey the law.
The real purpose of gun control is to render the compliant citizen defenseless in the face of rulers who govern without their consent. It's an easy step for the criminals to move from petty crime to taking over the government and major institutions.
Back in the 1950s, my dad worked in Arabia. A Norwegian worker was talking to him about hunting & shooting. He told my dad that, unlike Americans, Norwegians didn't have any guns...but a great many knew where they had buried them.
LOL! It is funny until you realize that he his serious. I guess one needs to live through it to fully understand it. My dad could never get his cousin to talk about his involvement with the underground. He was still afraid that if the wrong people knew they would hurt him or his family.
It doesn't get much better than that...but we're working on it!
The guy my dad worked with was absolutely serious. He had been in the underground. As an aside, he also said that a lot of the buried weapons were German.
My daughter, when she was 13, wrote a short story about a little girl being taken to a Japanese internment camp. It was very well written - I was surprised how well she caught what might be a real reaction. A line in there went something like “Why are they doing this? I’m not even Japanese - I’m an American.”
Of course that was back when we didn’t have the full understanding of what our rights as American citizens were. That sort of trampling on our rights could NEVER happen now. /s
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