The Constitutionally and Historically Ignorant Speak
thieving sidewinders...
Your hollow reassurance of the day:
"I believe in common-sense gun safety laws, and I believe in the second amendment,” Obama said at a news conference. “Lawful gun owners have nothing to fear. I said that throughout the campaign. I haven’t indicated anything different during the transition. I think people can take me at my word."
*snerk*
The “common sense gun safety laws” The One has voted for include full-out “gun bans, ammunition bans and even an increase in federal excise taxes up to 500 percent for every gun and firearm sold.” “Common” to whom, One? I ain’t clappin’ like dat, y’all.
"We don’t dispute [the gun sales hike] because the numbers from the federal system certainly confirm that there is increased activity out there. We just think it’s a bit stupid,” said Peter Hamm, spokesman for the Brady Campaign against Gun Violence.
Your contempt encourages me.
[Hamm:] “Anyone who thinks they need to rush out and buy a firearm clearly has not been paying attention to how quickly we make progress on this issue. We don’t think these are first-time buyers. We think they are people who already have more than enough guns at their homes to protect themselves and are buying more."
“More than enough guns” to protect myself from what, do ya think?
We used to live, here in The Country, in a nice, safe area - the only concern being the occasional escapee from a juvenile detention facility in the area. T’other evening—not late, but fully dark [6pm]—I dashed down the road for some milk at the little store in the up-scale ‘retirement comuuuunity’.
In the dark, I apparently took the wrong cow path into Bizzaro World. As I walked into the store, I saw Santa at the check-out counter buying a soda and some chips. Thinking it charming and kinda small-towny, I got my milk and joined the Jolly Elf in line, only to realize, Santa was half in the bag. hm…
Behind me came a hood-rat, complete with pulled-up hood and spastic muscle contractions indicating he was loaded to the gills, zoned to the bone, hip to flip-city. Making sure I had time to get into the Giant SUV™ before he was done, I left the little neighborhood store only to find a couple of other ...how ya say… bums clearly domicile challenged individuals waiting outside [an older woman and a 20-something male with an odd gait].
Sure enough, Mister Hood Spazz joined ‘em and off they wandered down toward the creek.
Lovely.
Change is in the air.
So Mister Hamm, as I wander around my home after the early dark, walking the dawgs, checking calves, feeding animules—not much more than a mile as the crow flies from such Bizarro World denizens—exactly how many guns do you believe I need to protect my home, my property, and the lives I am responsible for?
“I think people can take me at my word.”
He tells us true. The thing is, we assume the best, when in fact, “his word” is what you point out:
“The One has voted for include full-out “gun bans,...”
The neat thing about voting on both sides of an issue, and speechifying on both sides, is that you can say stuff like that, and each side will think you’re Mr Wonderful.
Eventually, though, Mr Lincoln’s axiom will come into play. The one about fooling all the pepole all the time.
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