With the Sunset Comes the Vampires
While screaming that blood will flow in the streets, many leftists blame Bush for permitting the ban on 'assault weapons' to expire. We all know that if Congress wanted this to continue it would have, but as I've stated context and evidence is not enough to stop the attacks again our President.
CNN jumps on board the facts-without-context-boat claiming that, "Loopholes allowed manufacturers to keep many weapons on the market simply by changing their names or altering some of their features or accessories. And because existing weapons and large ammo clips were protected by a "grandfather" provision, many pre-ban guns remained in use."
CNN does not bother then to ask, with all of the loopholes and grandfather clauses, how could this be effective legislation?
Reality says that it was not. First of all fully automatic weaponry was already banned, and not too many militaries would really want to launch an assault with the guns this law banned as their primary infantry weapon because these still were only semi-automatic rifles.
The law said that rifles with removable magazines and two or more sinister characteristics could not longer be made for public sale, nor sold new in the US. One of these characteristics was a folding stock. Obviously these enlighten lawmaker types like Dianne Feinstein thought that a folding stock would make it easier for criminals to hide the weapons. They also banned pistol grips, and even pistol grip-like entities associated with wooden (or synthetic) stocks.
My personal favorite - because I felt safer without them being on the streets and in the hands of thugs was when they decided that bayonet lugs were worth banning as well. When two robbers want to rob a gas station I have seen so many police reports where witnesses has heard the robbers say, "Fix bayonet!" before entering the building. Often, while watching our local news, we hear about people being held up in the street at bayonet point, too. Perhaps since they've tried to ban all magazines capable of carrying more than two rounds these elected officials think that criminals will resort to poking the victim into submission if they run out of rounds.
No, these people are idiots when they claim this law did any good. I'll grant them the 'noble experiment' award and send them on their way.
They do not use logic, they use emotion to decide how to make a law, and since some guns look mean and others do not, then it is those gun that need to be banned. Basically, if they've seen the gun - or any gun that looks like it - in a movie then it probably needs to be banned. This is firearm profiling and it needs to be stopped!
CNN jumps on board the facts-without-context-boat claiming that, "Loopholes allowed manufacturers to keep many weapons on the market simply by changing their names or altering some of their features or accessories. And because existing weapons and large ammo clips were protected by a "grandfather" provision, many pre-ban guns remained in use."
CNN does not bother then to ask, with all of the loopholes and grandfather clauses, how could this be effective legislation?
Reality says that it was not. First of all fully automatic weaponry was already banned, and not too many militaries would really want to launch an assault with the guns this law banned as their primary infantry weapon because these still were only semi-automatic rifles.
The law said that rifles with removable magazines and two or more sinister characteristics could not longer be made for public sale, nor sold new in the US. One of these characteristics was a folding stock. Obviously these enlighten lawmaker types like Dianne Feinstein thought that a folding stock would make it easier for criminals to hide the weapons. They also banned pistol grips, and even pistol grip-like entities associated with wooden (or synthetic) stocks.
My personal favorite - because I felt safer without them being on the streets and in the hands of thugs was when they decided that bayonet lugs were worth banning as well. When two robbers want to rob a gas station I have seen so many police reports where witnesses has heard the robbers say, "Fix bayonet!" before entering the building. Often, while watching our local news, we hear about people being held up in the street at bayonet point, too. Perhaps since they've tried to ban all magazines capable of carrying more than two rounds these elected officials think that criminals will resort to poking the victim into submission if they run out of rounds.
No, these people are idiots when they claim this law did any good. I'll grant them the 'noble experiment' award and send them on their way.
They do not use logic, they use emotion to decide how to make a law, and since some guns look mean and others do not, then it is those gun that need to be banned. Basically, if they've seen the gun - or any gun that looks like it - in a movie then it probably needs to be banned. This is firearm profiling and it needs to be stopped!
posted by Edward W. Prather at 07:45
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