Because who wouldn’t vote for an insistence that government stand between them and the sale and/or purchase of private property from another law abiding individual?
On the plus side, though, all those criminals who stop their criminality momentarily to try to purchase a gun legally — and we know this is what criminals tend to do — will be thwarted in their efforts to have said gun. And may just have to find another way to get one.
So, like, victory! And all we had to surrender was more of our liberty and more of the Constitution. Which, to staunch conservatives like David Frum is a small price to pay for…well, whatever it is that douche thinks he may be preventing by cheering on tyranny disguised as “gun safety.”
“Gun safety” is treating every gun as if it’s loaded. It’s keeping the business end downrange of anything you’re not looking to destroy. It’s keeping your finger off the trigger until you are ready to fire. It’s being sure of your target and what is in line with it.
What David Frum and other statists who claim a connection to conservatism advocate for is gun control, not gun safety.
And in doing so, they seek to weaken the Constitutional protection of a natural right that is meant to guard all the others. Because icky icky rednecks!
Here’s something to ponder, Mr Frum: none of what the Declaration laid out and the constitution codified as natural rights were written on tablet and carried down from a mountain. Instead, they were part of governing philosophy that believed these were rights granted by God and thus unchallengeable by man. Because that way lies tyranny.
It matters not that you believe natural rights to be something that come from God or just part of some social compact around which the nation was constructed that contained this check on the usurpation of man of certain rights viewed as unalienable. It only matters that the people living under that social compact agree to live as-if those laws are natural or God given in lieu of some notarized edict from the Heavens.
So that should satisfy your pomo sophistry, too.
We know who you are, Mr Frum. And intellectual cowardice is not a pretty thing to behold. Please, don’t pretend to speak for American conservatism or republicanism. Its essence eludes you — and I suspect that’s something you’ve worked very hard at keeping yourself in the dark about. Because otherwise statism is baldly revealed as the road to serfdom.
Or, to put it more bluntly, you not only don’t know dick about firearms and gun safety, but you don’t know dick about liberty, private property rights, and the necessary overlap of the two. So sod off.
Since I don’t do the twitter thing, I can only guess what Frum is blathering about. But if it has anything to do with the latest school shooting tragedy, Let me just point out that those kind of things don’t seem to happen where the icky icky rednecks live.
Maybe that has something to do with icky icky redneck kids have better things to do than “murder” each other all day playing Call to Duty N.
Or maybe they’r just too poor to have a Playstation hi-speed internet.
Being that they’re rednecks.
So that should satisfy your pomo sophistry, too.
Nothing satisfies pomo sophistry! Their primary weapons are obfuscation, misdirection, prevarication, and a fanatical devotion to their power-hungry egos!
cf. Recently banned commenter “Minnow” over at David Thompson’s place.
you don’t know dick about …
Actually, he probably does know. He just prefers something else.
. . . I can only guess what Frum is blathering about.
He wrote up his joy in the Atlantic gaggazine.
California has had this rule in place for a long time. Did anyone in Washington ask if it has helped?
In that twitter feed, he was asked several times “What is the first of the 4 rules for gun safety?”
Here was his answer: “Don’t keep handguns in the house unless you are a peace officer.” He took the mask completely off. These people will stop at nothing until no one owns guns except the government.
Like you said – douche.
A sheep for the sheering.
Unless mutton is your thing.
My guess is that everyone east of the Coast Range in Washington will ignore this law.
One more state to cross of the list of potential destinations. Not that I actually wanted to live there.
dicentra says November 6, 2014 at 12:46 pm
So that should satisfy your pomo sophistry, too.
Nothing satisfies pomo sophistry! Their primary weapons are obfuscation, misdirection, prevarication, and a fanatical devotion to their power-hungry egos!
cf. Recently banned commenter “Minnow” over at David Thompson’s place.
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This is timely and describes my attempted debate with an uber liberal friend of my wife on facebook. The subject was how doctors should routinely screen their patience as to the state of their mental health and to inquire whether there is a firearm in the house.
My counter arguement was that if the dr is asking about guns he isn’t concerned about mental health.
Want to blow his mind? Ask him if he has a living will and if the answer is yes then ask him if he realizes he’s admitted to considering suicide.
Isn’t Frumpy still a Canadian Citizen [he certainly sounds like one, eh].
The CDC was pursuing gun control as a public health issue. Then came ebola.
That’s what I’d tell a doctor who had the gall to ask about guns in my house.
And we’d both have a big, big laugh together when he realized his script had no questions about ebola.
Mr. Goldstein, I notice a nice mention of you in Eric Raymond’s piece, Gramscian damage, linked today by instapundit.
In this context, Jeff Goldstein has written eloquently about perhaps the most long-term dangerous of these memes — the idea that rights inhere not in sovereign individuals but identity groups, and that every identity group (except the “ruling class”) has the right to suppress criticism of itself through political means up to and including violence.
(Not entirely off topic)
The Left loves identity politics because groups can be herded — whereas individuals cannot.
As a resident of eastern WA, I can just about guarantee that this stupidity will be largely ignored. I cut firewood with the sheriff. The prosecuting attorney lives across the street from me. Neither has the slightest inclination to even attempt to enforce this. Not to mention the political ramifications were they to try.
This will just add more motivation for us to jettison the idiocracy what exists west of the Cascades. The thinking is that WA and OR east of the mountains, plus Idaho and western Montana would make a dandy state…
I cut firewood with the sheriff. The prosecuting attorney lives across the street from me. Neither has the slightest inclination to even attempt to enforce this
All well and good, but the danger won’t be when you sell your gun privately. The danger will be if the gun you sold is used in a crime, and you are liable because you sold it without a check.
Kinda like when you illegally tint your car windows too dark. You don’t really have to worry about a cop ticketing you for the tint, you have to worry about the insurance company not covering you in an accident because of the illegal tint.
Sell one of my firearms, you might as well ask me to sell a baby!
Only sorta kidding. I have a 9mm I do not really need but, the paperwork is so darn annoying to get it, you don’t want to put much energy into getting rid of it. I’ll keep it for emergency funding.
Yeah, guns are not sold unless they are sold to a guy down the street for cash just before he moved to parts unknown. He said he wasn’t a felon, etc.
You sell a gun to buy a better gun.