Friday, March 18, 2011

If This Surprises You...

Well, all I can say is, don't trade the cow for the magic beans...

PISSED sent along a typical story out of CA (although, FWIW, it could have been out of MA, NY, or NJ, too...)

EDITORIAL: Guns for us, not for you
Some of the most far-out anti-gun laws are found on the left coast, but that could change - for privileged politicians. A California state Senate committee will consider a
bill next week that grants legislators permission to carry concealed firearms. The measure highlights the growing rift between the bureaucratic class and taxpayers who don’t have the luxury of exempting themselves from bad laws.


*Yawn*. Another stunning example of "Do as I say, not as I do." They cite the statistical aberration of the Giffords shooting - an event with an astronomically slim chance of being repeated - as their reasoning, yet flat-out refute the millions of legitimate defensive gun uses every year. Guns in the hands of politicians are safe; guns in the hands of you and I are unsafe. Because it's about control, not the guns...

Obviously gun control laws are not really about keeping guns out of the hands of criminals if politicians can get their hands on them...

That is all.

5 comments:

Karl said...

Yeah, I mean it's not like anyone besides Giffords was killed at the shooting in AZ. Tell it to the parents of Christina-Taylor Green and the families of the other 5 surfs killed.

Mr. Casey said...

Leaving NJ for TX in May and this is among the many reasons: no one I know, un-connected to the powerbase in Trenton, has ever gotten a private citizen CCW. I hear that basketball playerts have gotten them, and friends of the Governor, but no regular Joes.

Our state is practixally made of corruption so I was never surprised. Got to love that great yawning divide between we and they...

Anonymous said...

The thought of some legislators (state and federal) trying to handle firearms leaves me first rolling on the floor with laughter ("Which end do you point at the bad guy?") and then running for cover. Oh, yeah, and great way to remind your voters just how special and entitled you think you are, guys (and gals)! Sheesh.
LittleRed1

Lissa said...

"Obviously gun control laws are not really about keeping guns out of the hands of criminals if politicians can get their hands on them..."

Dammit, Jay!! Diet Coke through the nose hurts like hell!!!

dr mac said...

Oh, concealed carry ? That because they need special protection, they wouldn't do that with health care laws. Cough, cough.