Nightline on Obama, gun control

[unixronin]

Nightline broadcast a good and pretty balanced segment last night, discussing Barak Obama's gun control position and the massive gun buying rush that's going on across the US now by people concerned that if they don't buy them now, they won't be able to.

Particular points to note:

• The customer who keeps repeating to the reporter, "Never mind Obama's words, look at his actions."¹
• The gunshop owner reporting Obama supporters coming into his store wearing their Obama buttons, who just voted for him but are still afraid he'll ban guns.

[1]  You might have seen me say this once or twice.  Assuming you've been paying attention.

Comments

[ithildae.livejournal.com]

I also note the gun control lawyer saying it would be a phenomenally stupid thing to push in his first term. We will see if he is stupid.

I am more worried about his support for expanding H1B's and restricting fair use rights, and other speech restrictions. I am also fearful that Joe Biden will push him to expand police state policies beyond what even King George dared.

Both sides are all about reducing constitutional rights, the sets just differ.

[luxobscura.livejournal.com]

OMG *swoon*, someone else in this world who "gets" the Police State ambitions of the Left, instead of just blindly considering them the Superhero League of Justice and Freedom.

As I am fond of saying, I'd almost prefer the foreign wars to massive increases in police numbers, equipment and legal powers. They're an army on "my" soil, which to me is a lot more dangerous than an Islamic fundamentalist fucktard in the hills halfway around the world.

[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

I keep reminding my left-leaning friends that Joe Biden authored large parts of the Patriot Act back in the 1990s as a response to the Oklahoma City bombing, and about the Clipper chip, Ruby Ridge, Waco, etc. None of them seem inclined to listen. The proportion of people under 30 especially who think that the world is going to be kittens and rainbows and unicorns and fluffy pink bunnies starting January 21, 2009, is just mind-boggling. I guess maybe if you're not old enough to remember some of the missteps of the Clinton administration--which mostly came in Clinton's first term--you might hold the view that Democrats can do no wrong.

[luxobscura.livejournal.com]

Thank you, thank you, and thank you.

I'm positively aghast at some of the cult-like unquestioning cult of personality behavior I've been seeing around me recently.

And hell, I even voted for him as the far lesser of the two evils, but I'm certainly not under the impression that in a two-party system governing a World Empire that one choice is all evil and the other is all sympathy cards and muffin gift baskets.