"On Thursday, the California State Senate
passed the first in a spate of 30 gun control bills authored in the wake of
the Sandy Hook shooting, which, taken together, have the potential to
fundamentally alter gun ownership in the Golden State,” Aaron Sankin of The
Huffington Post reported.
“The bill, authored by Senator Mark Leno
(D-San Francisco) and passed in a largely bipartisan vote, would require a
mandatory background check fee on all gun purchases,” the report continued.
“The state would then use that money for a program that confiscates firearms
from people who are no longer legally allowed to own them due to a criminal
conviction, mental illness or court order.”
A court order like a vindictive ex-significant
other filing for a restraining order, among other things …? Isn’t it curious
how those who actually engage in threatening behavior against women are
allowed to plea down and keep their guns –if they’re on the right side of the
“gun control” debate and have the right connections?
For anyone else, including some whose “crime”
has been to live with someone who has received even brief treatment at a
mental health facility? Let the confiscations begin, as Kurt Hofmann and
Anthony Martin reported today in their respective columns.
“But wait,” as the late infomercial giant
Billy Mays used to say, “there’s more!”
“Other gun control bills that have been
introduced in recent months, nearly all by Democrats, include a prohibition
on ‘bullet button’ devices for assault rifles, background checks on
ammunition purchases, a requirement that all gun owners use trigger locks or
lock boxes, a prohibition on sex offenders and those deemed mentally ill from
owning firearms and expanding the list of crimes which could stop someone
from owning a gun,” Sankin continued, noting “California already has some of
the toughest gun laws of any state in the country--one of only three to
receive an ‘A-‘ ranking from the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence.”
Among existing edicts:
In California, all gun sales require a
background check and must go through a licensed dealer; all gun dealers have
to be licensed by the state; handgun owners need a special license and to
pass a written test; gun shows are tightly regulated; handgun purchases are
limited to one per month; there is a 10-day waiting period for the sale or
transfer of a firearm; all firearm sales are recorded; local law enforcement
can prevent someone from getting a permit to carry a concealed weapon; and,
in 2007, California became the first state to require micro-stamping, which
allows police to match a bullet with a database of all the guns legally sold
in the state.
They forgot The Terminator signing the ban on
.50 caliber rifles and handgun ammo registration, and probably other stuff I
can’t recall offhand and don’t want to spend time researching because it’s
not necessary for the purpose of this column -- suffice it to say it will
never be enough for those who would have us believe no one wants to take our
guns. With all the other nonsense forced on people, it’s easy to overlook a
raving Marxist tyrannical diktat or two.
So all this works in pretty neatly with
another bit of news that, for now is unrelated, and the good people of the
Golden State had better pray to Gaia Almighty it stays that way.
Because there was a 4.7magnitude earthquake in
Anza the other day – one feared to be a “foreshock.”
And understanding that devastating earthquakes
are often paired with devastating tsunamis, “Residents were urged to prepare
for a number of disaster scenarios, including how to cope for being at least
‘two weeks on your own.’”
At least two weeks. Depending on how bad
things are, perhaps longer. Perhaps a lot longer.
Can you imagine living in urban California,
around LA or Frisco (where they had the progressive foresight to “unanimously
approve” a “military style” ammo ban!) and the Big One hits? And civil
authority, the part of it that shows up for duty anyway, is triaged
protecting Tony Villaraigosa at his impregnable command center, or the SF
Board of Supes at wherever they hang out (be nice)? And that’s assuming you
don’t live in one of those cities that have gone belly up, thanks to public servants
living large. You know, like San Bernardino, where they had to lay off 80
cops, and where the best advice the city attorney could give was to lock your
doors and load your guns.
Now understand that in Los Angeles alone,
there were estimated to be 120,000 gang members (that's what, about 80
percent of the combined Allied strength at Normandy?) compared to 10,000
sworn LAPD officers and about the same number of Sheriff’s deputies and
reserves, and then recall the last time they deployed, after a lot of
destruction had already been done, the National Guard had to wait on ammo.
Perhaps some of Janet Napolitano’s crack Imperial Sardaukar can spare some of
those 1.6 billion rounds or however many they’re said to be saving for a
rainy day …
So here you are, hamstrung by all those
existing California gun laws, and assuming you aren’t pancaked into the
rubble and can make it back (probably on foot) from wherever you are to your
home (sans a gun, by the way, since concealed carry permits in these areas
inhabited by millions are rarer than Westboro Baptists in West Hollywood),
you’re now told you’re on your own for at least two weeks. Probably without
utilities and with a very limited stock of basic supplies, including drinking
water, and surrounded by neighbors in the same fix. And you’re all bordered
on, or just a quick ride from, other neighborhoods that may not be as ...
bourgeois ... as yours. How will you -- and they -- react when it turns out
millions aren’t prepared to go even two days, and besides that, there are all
kinds of opportunities to add to material happiness, now that the store
registers aren’t working anyway, nor are any credit, debit and wealth
transfer cards, and the only thing standing between those who would take and
those who have are … those who have.
Take some moment and go read this first-hand
account by the awesome screenwriter and blogger Robert J. Avrech, who really
ought to be on everyone’s regular reading list. Go now and come back when
you’re done, or make sure you continue on to that chilling story after you
finish here -- just make sure you read it.
“Can you imagine a circumstance where an AR-15
would be a better defense tool than, say, a double-barrel shotgun?” Lindsay
Graham asked Eric Holder at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing a week back.
“Let me give you an example, that you have a lawless environment, where you
have a natural disaster or some catastrophic event -- and those things
unfortunately do happen, and law and order breaks down because the police
can’t travel, there’s no communication. And there are armed gangs roaming
around neighborhoods. Can you imagine a situation where your home happens to
be in the crosshairs of this group that a better self-defense weapon may be a
semiautomatic AR-15 vs. a double-barrel shotgun?”
“[You’re] dealing with a hypothetical in a
world that doesn’t exist,” the top federal enforcer replied.I guess it
doesn’t exist in the world of someone surrounded by an entourage of the
finest armed Spetsnaz tax plunder can buy.And for those who aren’t, who exist
in that hypothetical world local authorities say will be on their own for two
weeks or more? I guess they’re going to have to can trust the AG’s judgment
on this, because all the best “progressive” media outlets are ridiculing Sen.
Graham for having the temerity to suggest that maybe times come up where
their precious omnipotent State fails to insure domestic tranquility and
provide for the common defense. Some deride “make believe gangs,” and others
laugh at Graham’s “weird survivalist nightmare” and call him “the craziest
Republican of the day.” Some go so far as to call such thinking racist,
conveniently not mentioning that the dead from the Los Angeles riots were
predominantly African-Americans and Latinos.Let’s hope these pundits -- and everyone
who voted for and supported gun-grabbers -- get the personal opportunity to
prove Graham and those who believe like him wrong, especially if the next big
disaster encompasses more than California, and if the duration until some
semblance of order capable of providing essential goods and services lasts a
hell of a lot longer than two weeks. Or not.
http://www.examiner.com/article/california-grabs-guns-and-warns-residents-they-re-on-their-own-next-big-quake
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