the government only enforces the laws it wants to, so it shouldn't be surprised when the people only obey the laws they want too...
Posted on 02/13/2014 6:56:58 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Well. That didn’t go according to plan, did it? Via the Hartford Courant:
Everyone knew there would be some gun owners flouting the law that legislators hurriedly passed last April, requiring residents to register all military-style rifles with state police by Dec. 31. …
By the end of 2013, state police had received 47,916 applications for assault weapons certificates, Lt. Paul Vance said. An additional 2,100 that were incomplete could still come in.
That 50,000 figure could be as little as 15 percent of the rifles classified as assault weapons owned by Connecticut residents, according to estimates by people in the industry, including the Newtown-based National Shooting Sports Foundation. No one has anything close to definitive figures, but the most conservative estimates place the number of unregistered assault weapons well above 50,000, and perhaps as high as 350,000.
Which means that there are probably at least tens of thousands of Connecticut residents who, as of January 1st, are currently guilty of committing a Class D felony for the newly-established crime of failing to register what the legislature has so astutely defined as their “assault” weapons. That includes AR-15s, a.k.a. the most popular rifle in America, and at least one Connecticut lawmaker is shocked — shocked! — that more people haven’t come forward.
“I honestly thought from my own standpoint that the vast majority would register,” said Sen. Tony Guglielmo, R-Stafford, the ranking GOP senator on the legislature’s public safety committee. “If you pass laws that people have no respect for and they don’t follow them, then you have a real problem.”
Hmm. Perhaps the problem was rushing through a bunch of knee-jerk, feel-good, and ultimately impotent laws that you’re not actually sure you want to dedicate the resources to even enforce. That’s a real problem.
the government only enforces the laws it wants to, so it shouldn't be surprised when the people only obey the laws they want too...
Late night unannounced home invasions can turn deadly very quickly as they are usually perpetrated by armed criminals.
Ol’ Gov might want to think twice before sending in his jackbooted flying monkeys, even if he threatens to personally accompany them as they smash in citizens’ doors.
An NJ Gov did once. Look it up.
Thanks for the link.
Irony beyond belief.
No more or less illegal than the president and his recent lawless actions.
Law has no meaning.
If law is what he says, then law is what we say.
He is no better than any of us.
We are in completely uncharted territory, history has no parallel for what is now unfolding worldwide. I have an ominous feeling that the unstoppable force is about to meet the unmovable object.
talk about through the looking glass...
100%, something wicked this way comes...
The gov’t wouldn’t give one wit about losing thousands jackbooted flying monkeys, it is cruel, soulless and unfeeling.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
I always wondered what people from Connecticut called themselves. Sheesh...I can't even pronounce it.
Good on the 85% for refusing to obey their government's gun registration law. That's some real Yankee Spirit there.
not Connectians?
Yeah, Tony. It looks like you really do have a problem. Ya freaking Nazi wanna-be.
If is time to bury them it’s time to dig them up.
If you fear the tyrant taking your arms, it's time to lock and load - not bury them.
Thousands of Connecticutans are now criminals in possession of unregistered “assault” weapons
Is that what they’re called? I had heard “Nutmeggers.”
Perhaps the Tree of Liberty is going to be refreshed on a global scale. That would be a good thing. It's time the good people of this planet crushed leftism in all its forms, once and for all.
Heh. He's smarter than he looks! Course he thinks the problem is with the citizens rather than the legislators, so he's a little off, but still.
Great minds...etc.
I think we'd better ask one before we embarrass ourselves :-)
And I always thought it was connts.
(Pronounced cunts
— different spelling for plausible deniability.)
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