Thursday, April 27, 2006

Napolitano Retains Power to (Try) Seizing Weapons

State senators failed by one vote Wednesday to override Gov. Janet Napolitano's veto of legislation to trim gubernatorial powers to seize weapons.

The 19-10 vote — one vote short of the necessary two-thirds margin — came even after Sen. Dean Martin, R-Phoenix, speculated that Napolitano vetoed the measure so she could use her emergency powers to take weapons away from members of the Minuteman Project patrolling the Mexican border.
Why this is even debatable is beyond me. Special contempt goes to Rebecca Rios, who fled like a coward from taking a stand, and Robert Cannell, who's "not willing to override the governor" on the Bill of Rights.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Janet,baby, you should look at what a chick named Coucescuea in Romania had to go through when that commie thing lost it's luster a few years back. She pretended to know what's best for "her people" too, even going so far as to wear lab coats on tv,so as to appear scientific, although she only finished high school. She would lecture Romanian women on how to best raise children(she was childless) and cook and such.She also rounded up dissidents and made their life hell, and in general,abused any authority she may have had. When the "peasants" got the upper hand (read the word :"guns") and THEY had authority over their own lives, they took her and her tin pot husband out into an alley, stripped them,beat them senseless, set them on fire, and finally shot them. Then they dismembered the bodies and threw them into a hog pen. Oh, and by the way, one of the things the Coucesecuea's were real hot on was civilian disarmement. Take a big whiff, sweetheart, and ring a ding ding.

E. David Quammen said...

Sean -

Thanks! It always warms my heart to find out about tyrants getting their just rewards! Would you happen to have a link to more info on that?

Anonymous said...

I don't hold with animal abuse. They should have never done that to those poor hogs.

Anonymous said...

I was going on memory, but if you were to google Romania, you would come up with it.