The Washington Times (as opposed to the WAPO fishwrap) has two very good ‘points’ in two editorials today…
One is Emily Miller (aka Emily get your gun), writing on the MD kefluffle HERE.
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One is Emily Miller (aka Emily get your gun), writing on the MD kefluffle HERE.
A perverse side effect of Maryland’s gun-control hysteria is that certain proposed legislation could leave American soldiers disarmed. The General Assembly should slow down and think about what it’s doing.
The state Senate voted 28 to 19 on Thursday to prohibit manufacturers from holding any “assault weapons” in their inventory or receiving magazines with a capacity over 10 rounds. The state House of Delegates opened committee hearings on Friday on the companion measure needed for final passage. Maryland-based suppliers to the military services are concerned.
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Opponents of Mr. O’Malley’s gun-control agenda are considering asking the courts for an injunction to stop the General Assembly’s assault on Second Amendment grounds. That’s an extreme step, but extremism invites extremism.
And another from Jim Bovard, writing on police gun violence HERE.
President Obama is promoting his gun-control agenda by appealing to “all the Americans who are counting on us to keep them safe from harm.” Some perils, however, are not worth registering on Mr. Obama’s scorecard. While the president’s strident warnings about privately owned guns evoked a hallelujah media chorus, his administration is scorning a mandate to track how many Americans are shot and killed each year by government agents.
The same 1994 law that temporarily banned the sale of assault weapons also required the federal government to compile data on police shootings nationwide. However, neither the Justice Department nor most local police departments have bothered to tally such occurrences.
Instead, the Justice Department relied on the National Crime Survey of citizens to gauge the police use of force. Yet as professor James Fyfe, one of the nation’s foremost experts on police shootings, observed in 2001, “Since dead people can’t participate in such a survey, this work tells us nothing about how often police kill.”
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Jim Fisher, a former FBI agent and criminal law professor, compiled a database of police shootings and estimated that police in the United States in 2011 sThe federal government has no credibility condemning vast numbers of private gun owners as long as it refuses to compile the casualty count from government agents. Washington has deluged state and local law enforcement agencies with billions of dollars in aid in recent years. Is it too much to ask the recipients for honest body counts?
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The federal government has no credibility condemning vast numbers of private gun owners as long as it refuses to compile the casualty count from government agents. Washington has deluged state and local law enforcement agencies with billions of dollars in aid in recent years. Is it too much to ask the recipients for honest body counts?
Both ‘interesting’ reading, and I cannot help but wonder if these are ‘intended’ or ‘unintended’ consequences…
The ObamaNation’s histrionics where firearms are concerned makes a rational discussion impossible.
Progressives want to punish a seven year old boy for playing with his food by tearing up a sweet roll. He says he’s making a mountain. They say, “He’s making a handgun.” Can anything be MORE stupid?
The liberals don’t want to see a crisis go to waste and Obama is fueling the fire.
If Obama’s friends disarm US soldiers, America’s enemies will do backflips.
Foreign and Domestic.
Intended or unintended? Why not both?
The whole point is to drive through legislation without evaluation of what is being passed . . . . about the only way they will get things passed. As Nancy says: “we have to pass it before we will really know what’s in it.”
What could possibly go wrong.
Uh, hate to say it, but the second the Beretta is declared “Finished”, it becomes part of the Inventory until it is shipped off to the Customer. Each Completed Firearm is considered “Capitol” and after a certain period of time becomes “Taxable.” Same reason some Automakers have their Assembly plants across the Border in Canada and Mexico, lower Taxes.
But on the other hand, does the Maryland Law Ban the EXISTENCE of those Firearms that aren’t Grandfathered? Because if so, then again, as soon as Beretta finishes a M9, whether it has a Magazine or Not, it can be considered a Banned Firearm and taken right off the Assembly Line by the State.
So if THAT’s in the Maryland Law, once again, JUST LIKE IN NEW YORK AND COLORADO, SOMEONE HANDED THE ANTI-GUN POLITICIANS A BILL AND SAID “PASS THIS NOW!”
So who is the Man behind the Curtain telling what to do to all these local Political Hacks? Is it Soros? Bloomberg? Obama? Or are even THOSE Guys “Useful Idiots?”
LL- Yep, concur Sir.
Opus- Yep, but DHS is buying 2700 MRAPs to be used on the streets HERE (just in case)…
Rev- Possible…
eia- THAT is what scares me, TRULY scares me…
Les- Bloomie is right in the middle of this one, along with the Gov…
The whole pile of ____ will end up in the courts, State and Federal. I’m encouraged by some judges developing a backbone. Not a good idea to piss off a lawyer.
I’m tired, I’m old, can’t run, can’t fight.
If I have warning out to 300yds, ok for half an hour.
If they stack up on our door, Herself and I will change the minds of the first two or three, then we get to go see our moms.
God bless us all.
“Show good cause” is how Maryland blocks concealed weapons. Nobody in their world has a cause good enough to be given one.
WSF- Probably, but if they do like NY and implement it ‘immediately’ it puts everyone at risk until a stay is put in place.
Skip- Understood, and agreed.
PH- Yep…