Posted on 05/15/2003 10:41:09 PM PDT by Sender
CNN just aired a documentary piece by John Zarella titled "Gun Battle", subtitled "Assault Weapon Ban set to expire in 2004".
The piece featured Broward County Florida Sheriff Ken Jenne and deputies at a live firing range. The deputy demonstrated a "banned Chinese AK-47" on FULL AUTO, firing bursts into a stack of concrete blocks.
Sheriff Ken Jenne held up a semi-auto hunting shotgun in one hand and the illegal full-auto AK-47 in the other hand and stated that the full-auto AK was "the type of gun covered by the ban".
Sheriff Jenne used the phrase "these weapons have no place on the streets" approximately 57 times. Sheriff Jenne stated that he has no problem with "tools for hunters and sport" but that "this issue is WAY ABOVE THE SECOND AMENDMENT" because "no one has the right to own a weapon designed to kill", only for "hunting birds".
CNN John Zarella kissed butt of said Sheriff Jenne approximately 63 times, stating he was awed by the "incredible firepower" and destruction of the full-auto AK-47 because the concrete blocks eventually broke.
Sheriff Jenne also demonstrated how the full-auto AK made holes in a minimum-spec kevlar vest, which proves in his mind that "these weapons are killers with no place on the streets", implied that no other rifle could have penetrated the thin vest.
Sheriff Jenne states that with the ban "no one can own a 30-round magazine", only 10 rounds. 30-round magazines are "designed to kill police officers".
Sorry for the semi-vanity but I am so p*ssed off by this blatant, nationwide broadcast of disinformation. We're in for a lot of this before September 2004. Stay tuned.
But even so, he's outright lying about which weapons are affected by the AW ban, and he's outright lying about the intent of the Second Amendment being only about bird hunting. And he's clearly trying to scare up a frenzy among the soccer moms. Now I love soccer moms, but they don't know the difference between a banned Norinco sporter and a converted machine gun. We don't need them getting their education from dishonest jerks with an agenda.
I will not vote for traitorous RINOs who will sell my freedom in pieces, until my freedom is gone.
My point exactly!
He is just wrong. The founders had very little discussion about "hunting birds" but lots of discussion about keeping the citizenry armed to protect themselves against government.
The constitution says nothing about anyone in government having any right to decide why a law abiding citizen wants a gun. The citizen can have one just because he wants it.
Period.
If that moron can even read, I'll bet that he'd be shocked out of his socks to see what Madison wrote in Federalist #46. To conclude that the same people who had (less than 10 years before) just completed a vicious and bloody revolt against the most powerful central government in the world (which began, BTW, with an effort by that same powerful central government to implement gun control at Lexington and Concord), would waste any ink on modifying the most precious document in American history to protect the "right" to hunt is the most shallow, ill-considered, uninformed, anti-American opinion that one could imagine. Which explains why so many anti-gunners hold exactly that view.
It should also be interesting to see whether the USSC has the cojones to take on the Silveira case. A constitutionally proper decision there would nullify every gun control law on the books.
I just hope no jokers are dealt, such as a well-timed super Columbine to panic the knock-kneed RINOs.
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