Friday, March 05, 2004|
Alphecca has his weekly look at gun bias up. It's actually been up since Monday but I'm a little behind the times. Of course, almost all the news this week was on the bill trying to exempt gun makers and dealers from being held responsible when someone buys a gun and goes out and kills some one. However, once a couple of ridiculous amendments were attached to the bill, it got killed. The media is making a big deal about how the sponsor of the bill actually argued to kill it in the end but he was completely right to do so. The two amendments would have extended the assault weapons ban and closed the supposed gunshow loophole, a loophole that doesn't exist. The assault weapons ban needs to be sunsetted in September and once that was attached, this bill needed to die. For those of you scoring at home, the assault weapons ban isn't really about assault weapons, it's about guns that have the cosmetic characteristics of assault weapons. It's a pretty outrageous assault on the 2nd Amendment and needs to be retired which it will be in September. Concerning the gun show "loophole", the leftists like to make it sound like there are tons of unlicensed dealers at gun shows, just selling to terrorists left and right. However, most all of the dealers at gun shows are licensed dealers, meaning they have to call in an instant check no matter where they sell a gun. Granted there are a few unlicensed dealers at gun shows, but these tend to be kitchen table dealers, dealers who occasionally sell firearms that they own, and the wording of the amendment could have made it a crime for people to do that. Because of these two amendments, the bill was right to have been voted down. We'll get the protection for the gun industry eventually, protection I believe they should have. No rational person would think of suing GM because someone bought a car, got drunk and plowed through a group of school children but that's exactly what lots of leftists think should happen when someone buys a gun and then shoots people with it. There are laws on the books that make it illegal to provide a firearm to someone with the express intent to use it in a crime and they are there for just such a purpose. |
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