At a recent Town Hall meeting in Colorado, a concerned citizen brings up the question of defending himself against more than one attacker. With more and more limitations on the size of magazines allowed, the situation where the homeowner may need to reload to defend himself should raise serious questions about his right to self-defense. But no. Colorado Representative DeGette succinctly points out, "You'd probably be dead anyway."
Besides, she notes that the gentleman lives in Denver, so it's all good. The police will be there lickety-split to clean up the mess. I'm sure this gentleman feels better about his safety now. If he doesn't, it must be that he is a right-wing extremist with limited brain capacity and fantastical ideas of personal autonomy. You simply can't reason with those types.
She speaks with smug assurance of someone who knows they can have an officer camping out in front of their house any time they like, assuming she hasn't already hired a bodyguard.
ReplyDeleteYup. She need never worry. So why should we? Losing our life to an attacker is a small price to pay for her piece of mind that we are unarmed and therefore compliant.
DeleteThere is another clip from that hearing where she informs us that magazines are the same thing as ammunition, and all the high capacity mags will be used up soon as people shoot them and render them useless, so it's all good.
ReplyDeleteIf she were my Rep (not that mine's much better), I'd be asking her whether she has armed security, and if she says yes, I'd suggest that she doesn't need it in Denver because the Denver PD would be there in minutes. I suspect I'd be leaving the meeting very quickly after that, and not under my own power.
Heh. Then a spokesman came out later and "clarified" that Degette misspoke and actually meant clips because those aren't reusable. Ummm, yeah, about that... Gosh, aren't we lucky to have giant brains like these running the country?
DeleteYesterday Hugh Hewitt actually said the trouble with politics nowadays is that the Democrats just aren't very smart. He even then defended his statement, saying that it wasn't mean of him to say it, referencing the new pope asking for kindness, because it was just true.
DeleteAnd it is. These jokers are bone-dumb, hard stupid.
Yep. The problem is the GOP leadership isn't much smarter. Somehow they're never quite able to figure out how to take advantage of these opportunities.
DeleteOf course, I have to point out I live in Connecticut where they have now decided that everyone with a high capacity magazine has to register them by 12/31 or else be guilty of a Class D felony which is a mandatory minimum one year in jail. Though our jails are so overcrowded that they are giving folks 5 days off of every 30 for good behaviour, so you'd probably get two months off that sentence.
ReplyDeleteYou also have to have some sort of certification to buy ammunition, though no one seems to know yet what that is.
And no carve-outs for law enforcement, which should make registering all the departmental magazines across the state fun.
We're broke so it's not like we have the money to pay for all this idiocy anyway.
Never mind that our state constitution reads, "Article 1, SEC. 15. Every citizen has a right to bear arms in defense of himself and the state."
And not a single part of this would have prevented the school shooting.
Don't worry, they have a plan for that being broke thing.
Delete1. Decrease the tax base by running arms manufacturers out o the state.
2. ??????
3. Profit!!!!
Sounds about right. We've succeeded in getting Pfizer to leave. First they convinced the town to illegally claim land by right of eminant domain and sell it to them (see the Kelo case) and within 5 years they were gone, and most of the land was never built on and has been vacant for the last 13 years. Which I'm sure really improved the New London tax base. Not.
DeleteAnd now in Groton, they are tearing down a huge building which they won't sell for very specious reasons; the state's economic development folks were supposed to be helping but they screwed one major deal so that the company is going to VA instead, and the town will be losing over $2M off our tax rolls, which is around 5% of the non-BoE portion of the town budget, the only place we can cut.
The state has raised our taxes, raised our fees, is giving us less and less in the way of services, and can't understand why things are going pear-shaped.
That they only care about the areas in the triangle between NYC, New Haven, and Hartford, is just icing on this particular excrement cake. We've got the two casinos, and they give Bridgeport more in impact aid than any of the surrounding towns who actually have to deal with them. At the state Republican convention three years ago, someone commented on the way everyone ignores this part of the state saying something along the lines of "Of course they're doing that to us, we're SE CT, we're the armpit of Connecicut!"
Bitter? Who, me?
They do everything you can think of to demonize and eliminate profits. They even vacuum up and spend any extra cash anybody might want to spend for themselves and for some mysterious reason wind up short on tax revenues. It's a head-scratcher alright.
DeleteThe government is ultimately at war with the private citizen. That's its nature and why the Founders put chains on it called the Constitution.
DeleteAnd the government has been busily and surreptitiously sawing away at those chains with a nail file for that last century. Almost through now.....
They're not very surreptitious anymore. I'd feel a lot better about it if they still felt any need to work in the shadows.
DeleteThe zit is coming to a head.
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