How convenient...forget to take one of your evil 'high capacity' mags (ie. the same 'standard' one in the case when you bought the gun), out of the case/range bag and lock it up separately on the way home from a match, presto...felon
...no more guns, no more problems. Yep, totally fair...we're just idiots if we don't see how reasonable and common sense that is
They've taken the gloves off, and if folks in this state are lucky, in a few years, they'll still be able to own bolt gun or a double barrel shot gun...with training and annual or more frequent BGC...
Of course we know this about control by removing any real capability of the people...
But in thinking of it more, they need a 'win.' They've 'lost' on other huge issues...inability to stop the huge opioid crisis (if you want to declare an actual emergency, there is one), widespread homelessness, housing shortage, crime, drugs, traffic congestion, just to name a few. People look at those things and ask 'What are you doing? Why aren't you stopping/fixing these problems? Especially with all the $$ they've spent' But they don't want to (won't) admit they've failed. And they don't like being ignored (which criminals do).
So what's the solution? How do they get an almost guaranteed win? Go after one of the most law abiding segments of society which commits very little actual violent crime, smear them, vilify them, and then enact new laws, which by their very law-abiding nature, most will comply with under threat of arrest, and viola, they got a whole bunch of people who did nothing wrong to follow MORE suffocating laws. Good, decent folks with much to loose, personally and professionally, painted into a corner under threat of arrest. Compliance! Mission accomplished! See how good we are!! We did it, because guns are evil.
Problem is, its compliance from the wrong group of folks.
And no amount of discussing how little changed from 1994-2004 or any other logical argument is going to sway or deter them. Extremists, some in powerful positions, hate guns, they don't give d@mn about the 2A or what a Constitutional Republic is. And they're exploiting the tried & true divide & conquer tactics among gun owners. And they're gleefully (literally, with big smiles on their faces), celebrating ratcheting down on law abiding citizens who've never done anything wrong.
As vocal and active as the few dozen people here in this area are, we're a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a percent. We'd be better to have them try for an all-out firearms ban...that would make the news and maybe those asleep at the wheel might (and I mean MIGHT) actually pay attention and participate.
But they're ramrodding this though early, with little opportunity to respond, and with little media coverage. Any folks with experience with writing the paper, might start trying to raise some awareness.
Don't give up the fight yet...but options are getting very, very limited, very very soon and the consequences of failure are not good, to put it mildly.
BOSS
...no more guns, no more problems. Yep, totally fair...we're just idiots if we don't see how reasonable and common sense that is They've taken the gloves off, and if folks in this state are lucky, in a few years, they'll still be able to own bolt gun or a double barrel shot gun...with training and annual or more frequent BGC...
Of course we know this about control by removing any real capability of the people...
But in thinking of it more, they need a 'win.' They've 'lost' on other huge issues...inability to stop the huge opioid crisis (if you want to declare an actual emergency,
there is one), widespread homelessness, housing shortage, crime, drugs, traffic congestion, just to name a few. People look at those things and ask 'What are you doing? Why aren't you stopping/fixing these problems? Especially with all the $$ they've spent' But they don't want to (won't) admit they've failed. And they don't like being ignored (which criminals do).So what's the solution? How do they get an almost guaranteed win? Go after one of the most law abiding segments of society which commits very little actual violent crime, smear them, vilify them, and then enact new laws, which by their very law-abiding nature, most will comply with under threat of arrest, and viola, they got a whole bunch of people who did nothing wrong to follow MORE suffocating laws. Good, decent folks with much to loose, personally and professionally, painted into a corner under threat of arrest. Compliance! Mission accomplished! See how good we are!! We did it, because guns are evil.
Problem is, its compliance from the wrong group of folks.
And no amount of discussing how little changed from 1994-2004 or any other logical argument is going to sway or deter them. Extremists, some in powerful positions, hate guns, they don't give d@mn about the 2A or what a Constitutional Republic is. And they're exploiting the tried & true divide & conquer tactics among gun owners. And they're gleefully (literally, with big smiles on their faces), celebrating ratcheting down on law abiding citizens who've never done anything wrong.
As vocal and active as the few dozen people here in this area are, we're a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a percent. We'd be better to have them try for an all-out firearms ban...that would make the news and maybe those asleep at the wheel might (and I mean MIGHT) actually pay attention and participate.
But they're ramrodding this though early, with little opportunity to respond, and with little media coverage. Any folks with experience with writing the paper, might start trying to raise some awareness.
Don't give up the fight yet...but options are getting very, very limited, very very soon and the consequences of failure are not good, to put it mildly.
BOSS
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