Posted on 05/02/2016 4:25:39 AM PDT by marktwain
You are winning the culture war when the other side accepts your premises. In the 1950’s, legislatures across the country succumbed to the latest trendy weapons ban. Switchblade knives. The trend went so far as to pass a federal ban on the importation and interstate sale of of switchblades, because, at the time, it was widely understood the Constitution forbade the federal government from actually regulating the sale of an item inside of state boundaries. Seven states, including Arizona, did not enact a switchblade ban.
The ban never had any facts or logic to back it up. It was entirely emotion and media driven legislation, based on fear of the “other”, in this case, street gangs armed with switchblade knives. It was a precursor to the the “assault weapon” ban, another fear and emotion based ban with no data to back it up. The icon of the switchblade ban was “Westside Story”, of the “Assault Weapons” ban “Miami Vice”. Both bans were driven by politicians making a name for themselves and a “progressive” media revelling in emotion driven nonsense. It took the rise of the Internet and 60 years, but Conservatives, Libertarians, and Constitutionalists are winning the culture war on switchblades and weapons in general.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has deep “progressive” roots. Milwaukee, Wisconsin, has always been a center of “progressive” thought. A few months ago, Wisconsin passed a repeal of the state ban on switchblades and other knives. The repeal also placed knives in the state preemption law, so that the laws are uniform throughout the state.
The repeal of a weapons ban is reliably heralded by “progressive” media with a flurry of articles about how there will be “blood in the streets”.
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You called them psychos and viscous punks.
I will tell you again that Howard and Marion Cunningham are good people.
And you didn’t answer about the Walton’s.
Reality check.Something wrong with you.Go away.
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