[OT] Clinton Assault Weapon Ban Ending - was - RE: gmail initiations

[Dustin Decker]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: kclug-bounces at kclug.org [mailto:kclug-bounces at kclug.org] On Behalf
> Of Paul Taylor
> Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 10:34 PM
> To: 'Oren Beck'; 'Brian Densmore'
> Cc: kclug at kclug.org
> Subject: RE: gmail initiations
> 
> The Clinton Assault Weapon ban ends in 4 days. We'll be safe after a
> buying
> spree, right? ;-)

I'll bite.

That all depends on who ends up holding the weapon I suppose.  While our
founding fathers probably never expected I should have the right to a high
cyclic firing rate (and _without_ an FFL I don't), they hadn't been afforded
an opportunity to try crack cocaine back then either.

Boil it down to whatever bumper sticker slogan will fit within your
attention buffer, but don't come to me with the age old argument, "If we can
spare one innocent life, one accidental death, then banning guns would be
worth it."  Take that tired mess, and walk west.  Eventually, you'll come
across this huge hole in the ground called the Grand Canyon.  Every year,
innocent folks fall into this hole, despite fences in high-traffic areas,
and die.  Once someone fills in the Grand Canyon, this argument will hold
water with me, and I'll gladly relinquish the firearms I own.  (And for the
record, haven't killed anyone with in 34 years.)

But to pull off the gloves and be civil about all of this - it's just a law.
Laws are for _lawless_ people, and describe the bare minimum acceptable
standards of living peacefully within our society.  Those of us who think
ourselves non-criminal are called to live _above_ the law, not within the
very letter of it.  During this past ten years I am quite sure some folks
were arrested for possessing assault weapons - and I'm not talking about
Wacky Waco folks here.  Some of them were likely hard core criminals, and
some were not.  You think those hard core mofos cared that they had one more
charge piled on?  They're probably already looking at five years if they're
a felon - the assault weapon just adds gasoline.

Is there a simple answer?  No.  This is one of those flaming topics we have
to return to, when all the other 527 bullshit overloads that bumper-sticker
buffer of ours, and we have to change up again.  It serves only to divide us
as a nation.  If you're a big fan of our current two party system, then
kudos.  This will work perfectly to polarize the majority into red and blue.
Again, those parties fit within the bumper sticker buffer.  Just my $.02.

Dustin