Matt Driscoll, over at The News Tribune out of Tacoma, Washington, has an opinion.
The reason you are angry about an emergency bill that bans most/all semi-automatic rifles in the state of Washington is because you are selfish.
— Matt
There you have it, reason and decency prevailed when the legislature passed and the Governor signed into law a bill that strips you of your Second Amendment protected rights. Of course, he has to mislead by saying more than 50 assault-style weapons
were banned.
First, the ban lists not just firearms by name, but entire classes of weapons. It doesn’t ban the Colt AR-15, instead it bans AR15, M16, or M4 in all forms
— Washington State, 1240-S. In addition, it also bans by feature, some of those features are:
- semi-automatic rifle with an overall length of less than 30 inches
- “Assault weapon” conversion kits, part, or combination of parts
- A semi-automatic center fire rifle that accepts a detachable magazine and has one or more of the following:
- Pistol grip
- Thumbhole stock
- Folding or telescoping stock
- Forward grip
- Any sort of muzzle device
- thread barrel
- Grenade or flare launcher
- A barrel shroud unless it on a fudd gun
- A semi-automatic rifle that has a fixed magazine that accepts more than 10 rounds
- And more!!! Including pistols
This bans almost all modern semi-automatic rifles. It seems to be even worse when it comes to pistols. Their definition of a “shroud” would include most slides. If your semi-auto, center fire pistol, takes a detachable magazine, it is an assault weapon under Washington State law.
Matt says this is reason and decency in action.
— Matt
You are giving up so little for what this law will actually do
. Let’s see what Matt thinks this law will do.
Umm, nothing. He doesn’t actually say what he thinks this law will do.
— Id.
— Id.
Don’t miss this little gem, that one that every gun infringer puts out there, the “it is just a start”. There’s also little question that reducing gun deaths in America will take more than new regulations…
— Matt
— Id.
You have a politicized cultural gun fetish
. I promise you that it is not a gun fetish, at least mine isn’t.
— Id.
And he closes with standards, he gets to define what “the right to keep and bear arms.” means. Besides, it is just a small price to pay for you to give up some of your rights.
Its just like the old OLD argument- how many more children must die for you to give up your rights?? – is it true you stopped beating your wife?? My answer is – giving up my right’s won’t cure crime because Im not a criminal… fuk em, i bet they have wide spread non compliance…
High taxes, anti-police, anti-gun. Fairly typical of a left wing rag.
My ideas and desires are reasonable because I say they are. Your ideas and desires are unreasonable because I say they are. At no point are we given any chance to disagree with these demagogues.
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More folks need to be willing to face these pampered princes and look them in the eye and disagree to break whatever magic spell they think they hold over us. “You’re unreasonable!” YUP! “You hate kids!” I mean, have you seen other people’s kids? “You’re paranoid/delusional/violent/ist/phobe” What else ya got bud?
“Either you believe your perceived individual freedoms outweigh the overall safety of society and our children, or you don’t. It’s that simple.”
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Yeah, I do believe that, quite frankly. It’s not my job to keep you or your kids safe … that’s your job. Mine is to keep my family safe. I promise this – if you leave me and mine alone you won’t have trouble from me.
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I am SO over playing nice with people who try to guilt trip me.