Comments on: #GunControl: California Democrats aim for de facto ban via stifling regulations

By: Great White Rat

Great White Rat — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 21:21:52 +0000

I think the bear on Kalifornias flag should be replaced with a rat, cornered and with its teeth bared.

HEY!! I demand an apology for such an insulting remark, you, you.....species-ist!!!

By: Demonized

Demonized — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 20:09:56 +0000

“Ban the sale, transfer, importation, or manufacture of any semiautomatic rifle that includes a detachable magazine. (Are there any that don’t?)”

M-1 Garand, SKS, and a buncha tube fed .22′s.

By: Carlos

Carlos — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 15:56:42 +0000

Yeah, and there’s probably not ten Kalifornians (Phineas, of course, excepted) who understand the monster that has them cornered is themselves!

The archetypal example of Pogo’s famous “We have met the enemy…” saying.

By: Polly

Polly — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 15:51:34 +0000

“If it saves only one life….”

Yes, save that one life while millions of babies are murdered by sticking a scissors into their brain.

I think the bear on Kalifornias flag should be replaced with a rat, cornered and with its teeth bared.

By: Drew the Infidel

Drew the Infidel — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 10:29:07 +0000

As stated above these legislative contemplations are merely “low-hanging fruit” and ripe for a Constitutional challenge and good old country a*s-whuppin’ all over a courtroom. The courthouse shooter yesterday in Wilmington,DE was a parolee, a convicted felon in possession of a weapon. Five will get you ten he never submitted to a background check in the first place, as criminals tend to ignore such niceties.

By: Dwiddle

Dwiddle — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 00:48:06 +0000

Ban the sale, transfer, importation, or manufacture of any semiautomatic rifle that includes a detachable magazine. (Are there any that don’t?)

My first 22 that my Dad gave me when I was 14 or so had a small tube under the barrel that held the rounds. Could put 10 or so rounds there and the gun was a semi-automatic. My Dad also had a 22 with the same arrangement. What is interesting is that being active in Boy Scouts, they do not use semi-automatic 22′s. They are single shot 22′s which are hard to find.

By: Carlos

Carlos — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 22:23:59 +0000

If it “saves just one life,” would it be worth it if it costs dozens, even hundreds MORE, lives that would have never been taken had a gun ban not been instituted?

Chew on that one, DiFi and Mr. State Senate President Steinberg.

Or are the gun control measures not meant to control violence against schoolchildren but give more control to the state? Remember, at that point only criminals, including the state, will have guns.

By: Tex

Tex — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 20:08:38 +0000

Wow! If only they can ban those guns in California those criminals there with guns will all line up to turn in their guns to the police and the murder rate would go to zero there. It’s brilliant! Why didn’t we think of that sooner?

By: Francis W. Porretto

Francis W. Porretto — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 19:27:03 +0000

This is just what they do:
– Seize on an atrocity to use as a dramatic backdrop;
– Strive to make all gun-related conversation their ideological monopoly;
– Scream at the top of their lungs that “We’ve got to act now;”
– Refuse to confront, much less admit, any objection to their claims.

It’s really just a special case of the “crisis” paradigm Thomas Sowell pointed out in The Vision of the Anointed.

What’s most galling about the tactic in this case is that homicides by firearm have been steadily declining, on a per capita basis, for decades. But just try to get that fact into a major media report on the subject.

By: Conrad

Conrad — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:18:42 +0000

Why is every liberal “solution” always about more laws and regulations? It would be refreshing — and potentially even helpful — if events like Newtown prompted these self-styled organizers and activists to convene citizen groups to figure out ways to intervene in the lives of obviously crazy people before they go rampages such as we saw in Newtown, Arizona, or Colorado.