I'll just say this ...
I wish some of the people whining and raising hell about the need for "more gun control" would, at the very least, familiarize themselves with the laws already on the books.
I also wish said whiners would stop fucking exaggerating about how much nastier "assault rifles" are than a pair of fully-loaded 92 Fs. Just the other day, I caught the first few minutes of "The View." (Hey, I fap it to Bessy Hasslebeck. She's gorgeous and I've had a thing for her ever since the second season of Survivor. Sue me
.)
Whoopi Goldberg, who is surprisingly intelligent, started going off about how one "couldn't hunt with an assault rifle" because whatever you shot with one would be "completely blown away." Then she made some insane comment about how they're no good for "home defense" because "one shot would take out a wall" -- or somesuch similar nonsense.
An AR-15 or AK aren't fucking rocket launchers. Single rounds pack a hell of a punch, but they don't reduce a 10-point buck into a mess of gore. We're not talking fucking PHASER RIFLES here, where one shot at max turns someone into vapor! Exaggerating that shit is simply irresponsible. I've hunted Russian boar with an AR-15 many times in the NC mountains. Did one hit just reduce the boar to a pile of blood? Err ... heh, NO. Sometimes I was lucky enough to shoot one through the head such that it dropped pretty fast -- I don't want them to suffer -- but glancing blows did absolutely dick; even hits in non-vitals would see the pig going for many hours, if not more, before he bled out (though, again, I'd never let that happen).
What worries me most about an assault weapon ban is the slippery slope that might follow. Remember how NYC's dickhead Mayor Bloomberg banned smoking essentially everywhere? Oh, since the majority of New Yorkers don't smoke, they were all in favor of that. Fuck the 20% that do! Fuck leaving things to individual establishments' preferences. Best to just enact a sweeping law that doesn't permit
the Jews anyone any leeway.
But he didn't stop there. Then, he went after, of all things, SALT. And if that wasn't enough, those really big soda drinks = oops! OUTLAWED.
In logic, there's a fallacy called the slippery slope. I can't remember the Latin name and I'm not exercising my Google-Fu to dig it up. But the chain of reasoning behind a slippery slope isn't always fallacious; it's just bogus when someone makes wild leaps of logic from step to step.
I don't see that the assault weapon ban is a potentially illogical example of a slippery slope. A socialist like Obama, free to do as he wishes with a second term secured, might go apeshit, follow fellow socialist Bloomberg's example and try to enforce all manner of additional restrictions on healthy-minded, law-abiding gun-owners' rights to, well, own and bear arms.
I do tend to think Barack is too smart to completely alienate proud gun-owners. And while I do think he is probably a good man, I do not trust him or his goals.
The litmus test will be how he works with Congress to resolve the tax question. If it doesn't work out, I'm sure there will be plenty of finger-pointing toward the "evil, rich-O Republicans"; of course, in reality, any sane person will recognize that things aren't remotely so simple as to unilaterally blame the GOP or members thereof.
