Posted on 03/19/2013 4:12:39 PM PDT by billorites
Yesterday Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) revealed that her "assault weapon" ban will not be part of the gun control bill that Senate Democrats plan to offer next month. Although her bill still can be offered as an amendment, Politico reports, "its exclusion from the package makes what was already an uphill battle an almost certain defeat." At the risk of reading too much into this delightful development, I count it as a victory not just for the Second Amendment but for rationality in lawmaking.
As a comparison of the testimony pro and con readily reveals, supporters of Feinstein's bill never offered a plausible, let alone persuasive, explanation for the distinction she drew between the guns she deemed "legitimate" and the dreaded "assault weapons" she sought to ban. The closer you looked at the bill, the less sense it made, a fact that Feinstein tried to paper over by encouraging people to conflate semi-automatic, military-style rifles with the machine guns carried by soldiers. That flagrant fraud sufficed to win passage of the federal "assault weapon" ban that expired in 2004 (which was also sponsored by Feinstein), and it continues to influence public opinion. But this time around it was not enough to obscure the absurdity of Feinsten's attempt to distinguish between good and evil guns by reference to irrelevant features such as barrel shrouds and adjustable stocks. With no evidence or arguments to offer, Feinstein despicably invoked dead, "dismembered" children in a transparent bid to short-circuit logical thought. Her appeal to blind fear was familiar to anyone who has watched this authoritarian centrist rail against mythical drugs or kowtow to the national security state. I savor her richly deserved defeat.
Fine-swine was just a designated foil to make the Demonic-rats' other only slightly less horrible plan look better. (We might find out that it's really worse, while our guard is down.)
I can't believe all these conservatives are falling for it.
And while people savor the bad evil AW ban defeat, more lesser restrictions get put in place.
Sometimes I think people enjoy being stupid.
If she could she'd ban guns for everybody but Democrats in the Senate, and not all of them either.
True. And when she has her Wellstone moment, watch the push to “Do it for Diane”.
Bank on it.
Seems like the old nasty ones live the longest. She ran ahead of Caliph Baraq by 3+ points in Cali in 2012 so likely in for life. Maybe she’ll be the first Senator to break 100 in office.
——At 80 years old she’d better hurry up———
Is she 80?
not so fast, the UN small arms treaty conference convened YESTERDAY.
They are under a HUGE push to sneak this through. The AWB would go in place and bypass the usconstution via treaty. (yes, there is a treaty that allows an unrejected but signed treaty to stand as if signed binding the USA)
You post.
My head.
:O
after 20 years she still does not understand the duties and powers of the three branches of gov.
I remember a ton of assurances that Obamacare wouldn't pass, too.
Anyway, that damn UN Small Arms Treaty is back again, and Obama is going all out on it.
The “assault weapon ban” was the red cape distracting
us from the sword of “universal background checks” being
plunged into our heart.
Trust no liberal.
79 going on 80.
Well, not today perhaps.
This has been a constant battle since I was a child. Certainly been going on largely nonstop since at least 1968.
I want to say that I believe in the good judgment of the American electorate. Mostly I do.
When Feinstein finally flips over with her arms and legs in the air like a dead cockroach, I’m going to that party !
That could lend itself to not just confiscation, but total destruction of people’s property; arrest, etc.
I sure don’t trust these people. They thought when Obama got elected they would have carte blanche and be able to do all this stuff. After all, we are just the stupid people and only they know best.
With this pushback, I think they’re running scared and I think they see the writing on the wall for 2014 - meaning, they won’t be able to take back the House .. and we will be able to take back the Senate. Then, Obama is done!!
I suspect Feistein’s ban was designed to fail from the outset. Sort of like a good cop bad cop strategy to gun control. We will make you feel so relieved that Feinstein’s ban isn’t passed that you will accept with relief whatever we do pass.
That’s so wasis!
Especially considering that my scary gun is tan.
You know I found it just astounding that they attempted to define what an assault weapon is by way of defining its furniture and various accessories such as the flash hider.
I mean a telescoping stock? A pistol grip? A barrel shroud that allows the operator to hold the barrel without being burned?
Madness, absolute madness.
Get me a ticket. I want to go for all the landuse restrictions/destruction she did to Off-Roading in Cali too.
So many points of evil from the mind of that communist....
We will not make any headway until we push back against the gains they made in 1968 and 1994. It is not enought to stop them, we must take back past infringements. We can start by REPEALING the failed Gun Free School Zones Act aka Free School Killing Zone Act.
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