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.
Well, they didn’t allow the Cardinals over the age of 80 to vote in the conclave, so maybe we should bar senators over the age of 80 from introducing legislation in the senate.
Not so much registered Democrats. There are, I suspect, a good number of those folks who still buy into the tripe being spouted by the Dems which hasn't been true since the days of JFK, Patrick Moynihan, and Zell Miller. They're not the problem.
It's the "connected" people: Soros, Buffet, Corzine, Holder, Neopolitano, and some as yet to be named players (including some crony capitalists) behind the scenes that are the real problem. They're careful not to have too many fingerprints on their handiwork, but if you're going to go after someone, that's the list you want to get.
The true believers like Lisa Jackson are folks that would fall into Lenin's "useful idiots" category. They merely need to be kept away from any lever of power--think keeping the keys to the car from drunk teenagers at a party.
I savor the thought of her State Funeral.Not as much as Teddy’s,but still something to look forward to.
Giuliani proved that if you go after the ordinary street criminals you get the others as well ~ 'house to house'!!!!!
That would eliminate Boxer, Pelosi, Reid, Frank and (Fein)stein. See what I did there?
Thanks billorites.
Rahm and Obama are on the phone, both drunk and crying about the under-utilized “crisis.”
sorry, no rest. their real target is our due process rights. they want registration. national tracking databases. background checks. keep fighting and add amnesty to that. the beat goes on.
remember world history:
registration -> confiscation -> eradication.
“Id like to savor it, but I cant, because theyll be back.
They are relentless.
They will not stop, ever, until we are...”
Well, I think you know the rest :D
The Demoncrats are out there. They can’t be bargained with, they can’t be reasoned with. They they don’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear, and they will not stop, ever, until your guns are banned.
"Authoritarian centrist"??
What in the He** is that?
She's a knee-jerk totalitarian, and that only puts her in the center of the extreme left, imho.
The bill might be dead, but watch for chunks of it to pop up as amendments or riders on completely unrelated legislation.
Why else would they 'need' so much .40 hollow point?
Problem is, if you're using voter rolls, you'd spend way too much time at vacant lots and graveyards to get anything done.
Saint check, Smokin’ Joe. Don’t yacha know
naw, we know they’re in there somewhere if there’s a burned out building ~ and that we got the right neighborhood ~ with that pesky 4th and 5th out the way, we just move right in
Tax on ammo and banning standard magazines go forward.
People that old have no business being in the Senate in the first place and making laws that effect the rest of us.
I’m 72 and there are days when I don’t function very well, physically or mentally. I can’t imagine it gets any better with added years.
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