Guess what, liberals? We will NEVER know enough about guns to be "qualified" to write gun laws!

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192. When it comes to vote harvesting

guns are low hanging fruit. Democrats play politics too, it's the nature of the beast. She's able to get away with it because lots of people don't know anything about guns. Those people tend to be urban dwellers and urban dwellers tend to be Democrats.

Contrary to popular belief around here I'm not a gun nut. My knowledge of guns is actually very basic. I hadn't given "assault weapons" a second thought until I started fooling around with DU. I saw an article in Alternet about that idiot that shot those burglars in Texas and noticed all the pro gun comments from people who claimed to be Democrats, so I came here to look at it further. What I know about assault weapons I learned right here and at Wikipedia. Of course it doesn't hurt that I've always owned guns, got my first gun when I was six years old. Heck, I had one of these (image at the end of the post) when I was nineteen years old. It's a pump action magazine fed big game rifle accurate to a thousand yards. It's made for deer and it will turn a groundhog literally inside out. It makes an AR15 look like a toy. And I could shoot it just as fast as that guy in that video could shoot that shotgun.

I heard on Diane Rehm this morning that Feinstein thinks the passage of the bill will be an "uphill battle" (note the war metaphor). No shit. She can't propose any gun control legislation (short of an outright ban on autoloading firearms) that will withstand anyone's scrutiny because it isn't possible. The technology simply cannot be effectively controlled to that degree. If the bill passed today, sales of M1A's and "pump action AR's" will spike tomorrow. The gun genie is out of the bottle, and he ain't going back.

When it comes to the difference between us and Norway and all the rest it seems to me the answer is simple. We're assholes. We are a great hulking materialistic youth obsessed greedy shallow empire in decline. Libertarian ideology isn't a proposal for the future, it's apologetics for what has already happened. We're all libertarians whether we know it or not. I live in a very liberal community and you know what? The people here are just as greedy, shallow and materialistic as any other in the conservative south where I was born. It's a little disconcerting. Feinstein's legislation is just another example of one group of people having a problem with another group of people's stuff. The politics of affectation don't build functional societies, they destroy them. When legislation is designed to support ideology instead of people the stage is being set for political oppression. And the only way to avoid it is if people work to be good people and help others to do the same.


A note on images and videos. I am putting them at the end of posts because they seem to work better there. I know a lot of people don't like seeing "gun porn", but visual aids help people understand what is being discussed. A simple image works a whole lot better than a string of esoteric nomenclature and acronyms. The truth is that a gun is a gun is a gun. They're all the same. I can reduce the whole debate into four basic axioms:

1. There is no such thing as a benign bullet.
2. It is always wrong to kill, no matter why.
3. Never judge a man with a gun in your hand.
4. The cops can't jump through a rip in the fabric of time.