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.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
“the ways in which even Georgia’s law is too restrictive”
How about Georgia gets some of that Fed ammo and GIVE it to the citizens.
Give them tax credit for Range Time.
Gun....what?
Correction, when it comes to our guns, we don't trust anyone. The fewer laws regulating when and where a responsible citizen can carry a gun, the better.
ej can have my guns, all he has to do is come and get ‘em.
“False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire from men because it burns, and water because one may drown in it; that it has no remedy for evils, except destruction. The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are of such a nature. Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.”
Cesare Beccaria On Crimes and Punishments (87-88)
I’d like for Eejay to find a single murderer among those “guys” he is telling to “party on”.
The pantywaist fails to grasp that 'asserting' his rights requires credible force to back-up the 'assertion.'
Otherwise you are at the whim of the one with actual force projection capability.
The pu55y also fails to grasp that the only reason his kind can whine about their notion of rights is because of those of us who are armed that he fears so much.
The only reason you aren't in a gulag or worse is because there are millions of your armed neighbors (whom you are in abject fear of, apparently) keeping those with predatory inclinations in check.
Dionne is worried that this may affect the implementation schedule for the USSA.
When CB wrote, most nations prohibited subjects from being armed, with the exception of certain favored groups.
In Britain that was the Protestants, in most of Europe the nobility. The idea being, of course, that these groups would support the government.
Never heard of this bozo but since he scribbles for the WaPo he has no gravitas.
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Question——— do any of you know if Georgia requires some sort of firearms owner ID like Illinois SSR does? Heard that years ago but do not know if it is true.
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.
First, and Constitution, especially the Bill of Rights, is to deny power to the state...because they didn’t trust ANY of those officials, including local ones.
Second, this “centralization of power”, proscribes powers over individuals - which is the opposite of centralizing it.
Local news station doing a special on guns in Fla.
http://www.news4jax.com/news/firearms-in-florida/25662012
These are comments from the Jacksonville Sheriff and a Sheriff in a neighboring county and I couldn't agree more:
“Guns aren't violent, people are, and that's what we need to focus on.”
- Jacksonville Sheriff John Rutherford
“The one thing a criminal fears more than police is a good guy with a gun.” - Clay County Sheriff Rick Beseler
Judging from Kiev, he is right.
If you’ve ever seen EJ Dionne on TV, you’d understand why he’s so afraid of guns. He couldn’t lift one.
You always should suspect anyone who wishes to deny you the means of resisting violent coercion...
it means that at some point, they envision violently coercing you.
“Party on, guys. I can’t wait for you to figure out the ways in which even Georgia’s law is too restrictive”
I already figured it out for E.J.. GA had a constitutional carry bill before the legislature but they refused to vote on that. It would have been even better than what passed.
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