And for all of you Second Amendment watchdogs, I'm not talking about guns like my late grandmother's .38 special, which she kept loaded in a nightstand by the side of her bed, despite the crippling arthritis in her "trigger finger."
I'm talking about tens of thousands of illegal semiautomatic handguns and assault weapons in the hands of young men who'll start blasting just because they think someone looked at them funny.
I'm trying to help you here, Tammerlin.
Maybe California ought to ban "assault weapons."
Oh, wait...
Jeeze, the Roberti-Roos and Perata bans. Tough break.
I know, maybe California could make it illegal to carry a concealed handgun unless you have permission from the police.
Ahh...scratch that.
How about waiting periods? Handgun registration? A ban on .50s? Penalties for allowing access to minors? No, no, no and no...
I know I'm starting to run out of ideas here, but maybe, I don't know, laws against shooting people?
I'm sorry, Tammerlin. I'm afraid I've let you down.
Only thing I can figure is, as soon as it becomes obvious that a young man or woman feels that the people around them are irritants and obstacles, remove them from society before they progress to considering them targets. But we suggest that to our politicians every day, and there's never enough money, enough staff, enough police, enough RESPECT FOR INNOCENT LIFE. It's hard to justify punishing and controlling the people who didn't do it if you demonstrate the ability to stop the ones who do.
ReplyDeleteI think 74 years is long enough to allow that (Gun Control Act of 1934). Now let's try it OUR way.
To our "Authorized Journalist" "friends": "An Afghan court found 24-year-old journalist Sayed Kambakhsh guilty of distributing an article that questioned the Muslim practice of polygamy. It handed him the maximum sentence on the charge of insulting Islam, death."
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Ah, control, control. When they want you to have an opinion, they'll issue one to you. What will editorial writers do? What they do now: rewrite Brady press releases.
More proof, if you needed any, that no amount of ristrictions and laws will statisfy gun grabbers.
ReplyDeleteIt is time to go on the offensive and take back our state, liberty, and lives! We can only lose by letting them set the agenda.
Notice that they did not mention more gun control laws, maybe they are starting to see reality. I think the things proposed might help a little bit, but not as much as allowing citizens to have their guns and possibly having hunting seasons for gang members and drug dealers. At first there will be wars, but if the citizens keep up the good fight the bad guys will either leave, die or give up.
ReplyDeleteI sent an email direct to Tammerlin.
ReplyDeleteThe anti's won't "get it" until THEY are the ones being shoved into box cars. Even then the majority whill close their eyes and bleet that it isn't reality happening.
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Mercurysys, if he hadn't disparaged guns, I'd have probably left him alone. They've been throwing money at various urban "jobs" programs for decades--another program run by the same old bureaucrats will not change a thing. But it will use up grant money and keep some administrators fed and looking for ways to stay relevant.
ReplyDeleteHell, a full year after the LA riots, Danny Bakewell had a news conference where he claimed he'd managed to train a dozen young worthies to be... waiters. The sullen way some of them were glaring at the camera, the hands in the pockets and the slouched posture and attitude told me I wouldn't want these guys anywhere near a restaurant I owned. And I sure wouldn't want to be a customer lodging a complaint.
The sad fact is, there is now a population that is unemployable. They are not only untrained and unskilled at doing anything useful, and totally lacking in work ethic, but are actually a liability and in many cases a danger to have on premises.
I speak from long time observation as well as personal experience. I had a real reported death threat placed on me by a couple young men I hired to fill a sudden production demand and then had to fire when their workplace behavior became disruptive and intimidating. It resulted in the first time I carried concealed--illegally I might add--on advice of an LA Sheriff's deputy and his partner. I'll flesh that story out some day--I actually owe the beginnings of my RKBA radicalization to an "Only One."
As usual, no mention of the pachyderm in the room or parental responsibility.
ReplyDeleteWell, you can blame it on affirmative action in schools they are not able to handle. High school dropouts are generally unemployable except in very menial jobs and who wants that, although I have taken some very low paying jobs in order to take care of my family, even into retirement age. The best thing is for those people to force those thugs off the streets and clean up their own mess. If all those thugs can get guns then why can't the good people. Maybe they ought to hire some young guns off the streets to help them.
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ReplyDeleteI did not say that the programs would fix the problem, just that it may help a little.
The citizens taking back their homes, streets, neighborhoods, cities, etc. is the only way that these issues are going to be resolved. Taking them back will most likely end up with a number of the untrained/unskilled/uneducated being removed from the gene pool, which will benefit society. There will be quite a few parents that did not give a crap about what their kids were up to that will end up on TV saying that their kid was a "angel", etc. when they were really the lowest form of scum.
I am sorry to hear about your experience, I myself had a couple of experiences with gangmembers when I was a teen. Luckily it was when knives were the norm and guns were not. It was when pulling a gun meant you were a "pussy".
I did not become a strident Constitutionalist until my mid-20s, it did not happen because of an encounter with anyone. I was one that also leaned towards "reasonable restrictions" and "what do I care, it doesn't affect me".