The Writer Must Be In The CA Legislature

[Subdeacon Joe]

 

People who know nothing about firearms making laws about them.

Back in '04 ('03?) when CA was holding hearings on whether to call any .50 BMG rifle an "assault weapon" one of the people before the committee asked Paul Koretz, the author of the bill, what he knew about that class of firearm.  The response was something like, "I don't know anything about them, I just know they are bad."

[Charlie T Waite]

Tragically even though this can be humorous it is also very true in a great many cases.  When questioned about their point of view or their personal knowledge and facts, they get very defensive and then lash out at then person or group that pointed out the problem(s) with their logic and their lack of knowledge on the subject matter.  Because of the support for this type of behavior the trend only seems to be growing an manifesting itself all facets of society today.    

 

Charlie

[Subdeacon Joe]

1 hour ago, Charlie T Waite said:

Tragically even though this can be humorous it is also very true in a great many cases. 

 

 

I'm sure we are all familiar with this anology

 

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By way of analogy, White imagines how a conversation about breed-specific animal control laws would go if we talked about dogs like we do guns:

It's hard to grasp the reaction of someone who understands gun terminology to someone who doesn't. So imagine we're going through one of our periodic moral panics over dogs and I'm trying to persuade you that there should be restrictions on, say, Rottweilers.

Me: I don't want to take away dog owners' rights. But we need to do something about Rottweilers.

You: So what do you propose?

Me: I just think that there should be some sort of training or restrictions on owning an attack dog.

You: Wait. What's an "attack dog"?

Me: You know what I mean. Like military dogs.

You: Huh? Rottweilers aren't military dogs. In fact "military dogs" isn't a thing. You mean like German Shepherds?

Me: Don't be ridiculous. Nobody's trying to take away your German Shepherds. But civilians shouldn't own fighting dogs.

You: I have no idea what dogs you're talking about now.

Me: You're being both picky and obtuse. You know I mean hounds.

You: What the heck.

Me: OK, maybe not actually ::air quotes:: hounds ::air quotes::. Maybe I have the terminology wrong. I'm not obsessed with vicious dogs like you. But we can identify kinds of dogs that civilians just don't need to own.

You: Can we?

 

[Grampaw Willie, SASS No.26996]

the enemy ain't stupid

 

would be tyrants seek to disarm us so we can be subjected to tyranny.   the attack is through specious arguments and propaganda presented through education and media.   we are being taught that properly civilized people live under government control.

 

I seem to recall something about "of the people, by the people, and for the people"

 

 

[Grampaw Willie, SASS No.26996]

Propaganda is designed to manipulate peoples feelings; facts are irrelevant.

 

Attempting to counter the propaganda with facts will be un-successful: it's like playing in the wrong ball park.

 

at issue is not whether I can put a fresh magazine in my revolver -- but whether I should have any kind of gun or magazine.   or even watch gun related videos.   

 

readers here might know that the "Hickok45" You-Tube video stream was censored recently, thankfully, just briefly.   Hickok45 videos are great fun; he does a super job.  But all he does is shoot at targets.    From hOLLYWOOD you'll see sex and violence films 24x7 and these are considered good for everyone.

 

It's easy to see Hickok45 is promoting gun ownership -- and impossible to see that hOLLYWOOD is not promoting sex and violence.

 

Suggested Reading: _Stop Teaching our Kids to Kill_ (Grossman) 1999

[Lawdog Dago Dom]

Here is photo evidence of an actual magazine fed revolver.

 

https://goo.gl/images/pLHJUR