Quote of the day
“We have one of the highest homicide rates in the country but at the same time have the strictest [gun] law,” Fenty said, joining other urban chief executives at the bipartisan summit on the issue yesterday on Capitol Hill. “Local jurisdictions just can’t solve the problem. You need to have the federal government have one standard for dealing with illegal guns.”. . . .
This pearl of wisdom came from the mayors against gun summit. They admit their plan doesn’t work. And advocate doing it harder.
January 26th, 2007 at 9:04 am
While I agree with you, to be fair he has a point if you look at it from an analogy with the wet/dry county problems with alcohol. One county could set themselves up as dry but if the neighboring county is allowing alcohol sales, then it spills over into the dry county. Seen that way, a uniform law about alcohol would seem best.
Of course, that once led to Prohibition and we all know how that worked out.
January 26th, 2007 at 9:28 am
The Mayor of DC wants one standard for the whole country? Really? Then why isn’t he pushing for the repeal of an ordinance even he admits cannot work on its own – and which imposes a rule everyone with an IQ above room temperature knows will never become the federal standard.
January 26th, 2007 at 10:35 am
What is the old saying about feeding yourself to the alligator. The Mayors shows us two things, his stupidity and his arrogance towards his citizens and self defense.
January 26th, 2007 at 12:11 pm
The definition of insanity: “Repeating the same action and expecting different results.”
Also, it’s the same argument I hear about Socialism; “It would work if the conditions were right – if more people joined in.” Actually, Socialism works exactly the opposite.
Quite like this stupid gun control thing.
Gun control is only effective if the controller & controllee are the one holding the gun.
January 26th, 2007 at 12:19 pm
“Local jurisdictions just can’t solve the problem. You need to have the federal government have one standard for dealing with illegal guns.”
I am shocked to find myself in total agreement with this asshat. Maybe someone should point out to him that there already is a federal standard for dealing with this issue: A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
I wonder how that got in without him finding out about it.
January 26th, 2007 at 7:05 pm
Bob beat me to it. My thoughts exactly immediately upon reading what could only be set to funeral music and titled “Moron’s Lament”.
January 26th, 2007 at 8:05 pm
The thing to take away from this is simple, guys–not one more day should elapse where the gun grabbers get away with the preposterous pretense that their agenda is ANYTHING OTHER THAN the absolute prohibition of gun ownership.
Fenty and O’Malley and Bloomberg and Giuliani and their ilk have one thing in mind–a nationwide federalized anti-gun standard. Fenty is pretty much saying outloud what the rest of them pretend is some sort of secret–that gun control only makes any sense in the first place if no one in the US can buy a guy legally. We all know it won’t work then either (they’ll just smuggle guns in the country in the bales of marijuana and heroin coming in from Canada and Mexico), and that a nationwide gun ban would A) doom the Democratic Party forever and B) really finally wake up the silent majority of the 80mil gun owners in this country that aren’t NRA members…but their strategy is the same as the anti abortion crowd’s. Both groups know you can’t eat the entire elephant, but you sure can chip away at it.
January 26th, 2007 at 8:14 pm
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