Posted on 03/19/2013 4:12:39 PM PDT by billorites
Yesterday Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) revealed that her "assault weapon" ban will not be part of the gun control bill that Senate Democrats plan to offer next month. Although her bill still can be offered as an amendment, Politico reports, "its exclusion from the package makes what was already an uphill battle an almost certain defeat." At the risk of reading too much into this delightful development, I count it as a victory not just for the Second Amendment but for rationality in lawmaking.
As a comparison of the testimony pro and con readily reveals, supporters of Feinstein's bill never offered a plausible, let alone persuasive, explanation for the distinction she drew between the guns she deemed "legitimate" and the dreaded "assault weapons" she sought to ban. The closer you looked at the bill, the less sense it made, a fact that Feinstein tried to paper over by encouraging people to conflate semi-automatic, military-style rifles with the machine guns carried by soldiers. That flagrant fraud sufficed to win passage of the federal "assault weapon" ban that expired in 2004 (which was also sponsored by Feinstein), and it continues to influence public opinion. But this time around it was not enough to obscure the absurdity of Feinsten's attempt to distinguish between good and evil guns by reference to irrelevant features such as barrel shrouds and adjustable stocks. With no evidence or arguments to offer, Feinstein despicably invoked dead, "dismembered" children in a transparent bid to short-circuit logical thought. Her appeal to blind fear was familiar to anyone who has watched this authoritarian centrist rail against mythical drugs or kowtow to the national security state. I savor her richly deserved defeat.
That she has been compelled to throw in the towel, for now, is truly to be savored.
Also delicious was to watch her last week being spanked on the bare bottom by Senator Cruz. The anger she manifested towards Cruz was something to behold. It really brought her wrinkles into high relief.
Compared to Senator Feinstein, Wayne LaPierre looked poised, composed and beautiful. He gave a great presentation at CPAC.
Despite having a mug that only his mother could love.
and she could be jivin' too.
Creep only tables semi-auto ban, the remainder of their misguided antics continue.
I’d like to savor it, but I can’t, because they’ll be back.
They are relentless.
They will not stop, ever, until we are...
Well, I think you know the rest :D
Dirty Harry doesn’t want any of his 2014 candidates to have to vote on this one.
Americans, which excludes registered Democrats, need to stand tall and fightback!!!!!!!!!
Can’t let the guard down- Chuck-u Schumer’s monstrosity is still lurking out there.
It’s the universal background check (aka national registry) they’re really after. Everything else is just icing on the cake if they can get it. Can’t help but think something nasty is being planned if they can get the background checks passed.
Savor NOTHING.
Watch what the other hand is doing.
Those bastards are still going for "universal background checks" which is just political speak for registration. They're also stil going for magazine bans. Feinstein's so-called "assault weapons ban" was a decoy all along.
And our worthless GOP fools in both houses will probably go along to get along yet again.
Democrat insiders say the universal background check, supported only by Democrats, will not head to the floor either.
“At the risk of reading too much into this delightful development...”
Duh, I think so.
Harry: “Who’ll write the insane gun legislation that we can summarily dismiss to show how “conservative” we Democrats are on the issue?”
Feinstein: “I will! I will!”
That’s the way she always works.
Please see post #9.
At 80 years old she'd better hurry up. Not much time remaining for the musty ol' oligarch to get her POS AWB through congress.
Feinstein and her little friends are probably stupid enough (and mentally disturbed enough) to think they could ban evil looking ‘assault weapons’ by banning black spray paint!
And the NRA will still give Harry an “A” next election cycle. Feh on them.
Her comment: The enemies won ..??
If I see that video again and I can verify that she said that, I am going to call her local office here in CA and let her have it.
Hi Kyle!
the pic of feiny at drudge is priceless!
That's where almost all the mass murderers come from as well as 90% of the nation's criminals.
We could start with those lists and begin some 'house to house' that'd go right to the very nexus of the murder, crime, graft and mopery complex in this nation, and once that was over we could once again open up the 4th and 5th amendments to full enforcement!
he’s coming through for them if no one else.
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