Posted on 04/29/2014 11:03:26 AM PDT by Red Steel
Have we gone stark raving mad?
The question is brought to mind by the gun law signed last week in Georgia by Gov. Nathan Deal. You might have thought that since the United States couldn’t possibly have more permissive firearms laws than it does now, nothing more could be done to coddle the gun lobby and tip the balance of our statutes away from law enforcement. Alas, you would be wrong.
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Oh yes, and while conservatives claim to hate the centralization of power, this law wipes out a series of local gun regulations. The gun supremacists just don’t trust those pesky local elected officials.
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Nothing better reveals the utter irrationality of our politics for the whole world to see than this madness about guns — and no issue better demonstrates how deeply divided our nation is by region, ideology and party.
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The program for the NRA’s annual convention, held over the weekend in Indianapolis, listed sessions on “Survival Mindset: Are You Prepared?”; “Creating a Constitutionally Centered Estate Plan”; and “Refuse to be a Victim.”
Party on, guys. I can’t wait for you to figure out the ways in which even Georgia’s law is too restrictive. In the meantime, the nation’s unarmed majority might ponder how badly we have failed in asserting our own rights.
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I solemnly promise not to use a firearm to defend E.J. Dionne from anyone trying to maim or murder him.
Just respecting his opinions is all.
How about Ga gets constitutional carry. The GFL is anti 2nd amendment. Do we have to have a license to exercise any other of the rights guaranteed by the Constitution?
“the nation’s unarmed majority might ponder how badly we have failed in asserting our own rights.”
I would bet that one of the “rights” that EJ thinks the majority has, is the “right” to take your stuff.
The “progressive” view of rights is that they consist of what the government lets you do, or gives to you. They do not think there should be limits on governmental power.
Not the demographics around here. Heck, there's a couple of Priuses with NRA stickers on them in my town. I wonder how our crime rate compares to his town?
E.J. is losing his temper as it begins to dawn on him that we've learned what Mao taught his little-red-book-waving hordes, that "all power proceeds from the barrel of a gun" (nice phrasing, Mao, and nice graft off Col. Lawrence overall, by the way).
So now E.J. is going to throw a tantrum and hold his breath until he gets over on us. (Party on, Eric.)
But it's officialdom that the Framers explicitly did not trust when James Madison wrote the Bill of Rights (he was smarter than to trust Alexander Hamilton, the Noo Yawk banker).
The U.S. Constitution TRUMPS local gun laws, period.
Study: Gun homicides, violence down sharply in past 20 years
(CNN) — Gun-related homicides and crime are “strikingly” down from 20 years ago, despite the American public’s belief that firearm crime is on the upswing, a new study said Wednesday.
Looking back 50 years, a Pew Research Center study found U.S. gun homicides rose in the 1960s, gained in the 1970s, peaked in the 1980s and the early 1990s, and then plunged and leveled out the past 20 years.
“Despite national attention to the issue of firearm violence, most Americans are unaware that gun crime is lower today than it was two decades ago,” the researchers say.
A Pew survey of Americans in March found 56% believed gun-related crime is higher than 20 years ago and only 12% said it's lower. The survey said 26% believed it stayed the same and 6% didn't know. . .
I would agree with the author on this point. The two of us also probably would not agree on any other subject.
Why do I get the feeling that Mr. Dionne is a wimp?
Spot on. The less power someone has over me the better be it federal, state, county or local.
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