Gun control then and now
Carnaby runs down past pipe dreams and makes predictions about the future of gun control:
Here’s my prediction for what’s coming from the BC: Go back to what’s tried and true: The Slippery Slope. Just need to start higher. We were on the slope, but somehow the gun nuts got some traction. Start over and keep it well lubed. Maybe go back to “Nobody NEEDS 364 guns. Darn it, that’s an Arsenal! What if the terrorists had an arsenal? Only criminals need an arsenal. Blood will run in the streets if private citizens have arsenals! Ban ’em!”
I recall some incarnation of a brady bill having an arsenal tax and registration scheme.
June 9th, 2006 at 4:03 pm
what? No “Heh”??
I’m, like, totally a second class citizen, er, blogizen here.
June 9th, 2006 at 7:54 pm
California has some kind of “Arsenal Tax”, on ammo not guns. IIRC you need a license or something to possess more than 1000 rounds of ammo or equivalent components.
June 9th, 2006 at 9:37 pm
Future gun law proposals? We already know, ’cause it’s happening in other countries;
Since more gun laws equals more crime, the resulting higher crime rate will be blamed on guns, so more gun laws will result, etc., until KNIFE CONTROL will be needed.
After that I guess it will have to come down to SHARP STICK CONTROL, and then ROCK CONTROL. We will of course need several thousand new tax payer funded paper pushers to compile lists of catagories and sub catagories of what exactly does and does not constitute a “ROCK”, and who may and who may not posses each catagory and each sub catagory of ROCK or STONE or artificial ROCK or STONE, BRICK, CLINKER, etc., etc., all sorted precisely by weight, shape and color.
The BATFE will need to be renamed, the BATFESESS (Bureau of Alchohol Tobacco Firearms Explosives Sharp Extruded Sticks and Stones (pronounced “Bat Feces”)
After that, large, MUSCLES will need to be confiscated, ’cause with no weapons, small and weak people will be prayed upon in unprecedented numbers, all while the police are busy chasing down stick & stone possession violations. (the BATFESESS then becomes BATFESESSM) (pronounced “Bat Feces, Mmmm!”)
Oh yeah, and we must of course totally ignore the Constitution, so any mention of the Constitution, either in print, electronic text, in recorded audio form, or in speech, will need to be subject to “reasonable controls” (banned).