Pretend gun control!
Now this is a great idea: Pretend gun control!
What we can do is pass a law banning a bunch of made-up things that sound scary, and many gun control proponents already have great ideas along this line. For instance, I read a column in which Howard Kurtz mentioned a ban on high-magazine clips — we can certainly do without something that nonsensical. And I’ve heard the press before mention armor-piercing hollow points and plastic guns (actually, I think we already banned that made-up weapon in the ’80s). And as long as the NRA and Wayne LaPierre go apoplectic about it (“This ban on sorcerer-enchanted guns is just a slippery slope toward eliminating all witch-hexed weaponry!”), gun control proponents won’t know the difference between this and actual gun control.
Considering the level of ignorance about guns exhibited by every one of the gun control advocates, both politicians and media pundits, I almost think we could get away with this.
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Now this is a great idea: Pretend gun control!
What we can do is pass a law banning a bunch of made-up things that sound scary, and many gun control proponents already have great ideas along this line. For instance, I read a column in which Howard Kurtz mentioned a ban on high-magazine clips — we can certainly do without something that nonsensical. And I’ve heard the press before mention armor-piercing hollow points and plastic guns (actually, I think we already banned that made-up weapon in the ’80s). And as long as the NRA and Wayne LaPierre go apoplectic about it (“This ban on sorcerer-enchanted guns is just a slippery slope toward eliminating all witch-hexed weaponry!”), gun control proponents won’t know the difference between this and actual gun control.
Considering the level of ignorance about guns exhibited by every one of the gun control advocates, both politicians and media pundits, I almost think we could get away with this.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Real gun control, fake gun control, I heard two NY state senators being interviewed this morning
and when the interviewer confronted them on the banning of high capacity magazines, assault
weapons and the high capacity of hand guns and there ability to fire at will up to ten rounds
their tap dancing around their pandering logic began to fall apart. Its a slippery slope, real or fake.
When a citizen becomes elevated to elected office in government they become the enemy
of the peoples freedoms. The Constitution is designed to create this counter balance
and it is always under assault.
I have been waiting for a public figure to state this, but so far I have not heard it. So, allow me: We can debate and discuss the gun-control issue ad nauseum, and demagoging politicians can propose all the legislation they wish — and our opportunistic president can sign whatever legislation arrives on his desk, or issue executive orders at his pleasure. But the guns are not going away, because the nation’s 40-million-plus gun owners are not going to surrender them. This has nothing to do with hunting, which is a state-controlled, licensed activity. It has everything to do with self-defense, including self-defense against a tyrannical government. That is what the founding fathers intended, and that is what serves as the insurmountable obstacle to a complete takeover of our liberty. Putting it as concisely as I can: Say what you wish, do what you wish, but you will not be taking guns from citizens. And if you try, may the consequences be upon your heads.
When you think about it, the Constitution and the second amendment, if the One World / socialist /
eutopian / Marixist / Obama type model is to be successful, must be destroyed.
That is the miracle of the Constitution, it has pre calculated this assault on the individuals freedom
over the collective and creates unassailable logic to counter balance it.