NOBODY saw this coming, right?

[unixronin]

"I'm not going to take your guns away."

"I respect the Second Amendment."

"Lawful gun owners have nothing to fear."

"As President Obama indicated during the campaign, there are just a few gun-related changes that we would like to make, and among them would be to reinstitute the ban on the sale of assault weapons," Holder told reporters.

Yeah, so he lied.  But it's for the children ...er, the Mexicans!  Wait ... Mexican children!  That makes it alright, doesn't it?

"Some recent Mexican army and police confrontations with drug cartels have resembled small-unit combat, with cartels employing automatic weapons and grenades," the [State Department] warning said.  "Large firefights have taken place in many towns and cities across Mexico, but most recently in northern Mexico, including Tijuana, Chihuahua City and Ciudad Juarez."

So, the Mexican government is concerned about their drug cartels using fully-automatic weapons (that's "machineguns" to you) and grenades.  Weapons which you can't legally buy in the US without a Class 3 permit (and, for the grenades, a destructive device permit), and which command astronomical prices because no new ones have been allowed to enter private hands since 1986.  (All the legal full-auto weapons that are in civilian hands in the US are in private collections.  As a matter of fact, about three quarters of them are in the private collection of Reed Knight, president of Knight Armaments Corporation and about the closest person in the US to a real-life Tony Stark.)  And barring law-abiding US gun owners from buying semi-automatic rifles that look like them will stop the drug cartels from getting the real thing, which they're already not getting here.

Yeah.  Right.  The logic of that is crystal clear.

Democratic administrations change, but Democratic party bullshit goes on forever.  For all those of you who trusted Obama's promises, and assured those of us who own guns that Obama wasn't going to be Just Another Democratic Gun Grabber, there's a stack of warm washcloths in the bathroom for you to wipe the egg off your faces with.  We told you Bush's chair would scarcely have cooled before Obama and Biden were pushing a new round of gun control laws.  Well, bend over, because here it comes.

Also see this post.

Q:  How do you tell when a politician is lying?

A:  His lips move.

Comments

[luxobscura.livejournal.com]

*raises hand*

I saw it

[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

The sad part is that the party that usually supports the Second Amendment spent most of the previous seven years trampling roughshod over the other nine. With the apparent support of most of the pro-2A supporters in the Red States. Because OMG TERRORISTS.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

I live in hope that sooner or later, a majority of the electorate are going to wake up and realize that NEITHER of the two major parties actually give a rat's ass for anyone's interests except their own. The only important way they differ is in their priority lists for how to screw the taxpayers to get more power for themselves.

[n5red.livejournal.com]

All of the billions of dollars wasted by the previous administration doesn't hit home like the current administration making a gun grab. I know that I am going to communicate to my Congresscritters that their next election could be a single issue election for me. Vote for any anti-gun bill and I will volunteer for your opponent's campaign.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Especially when the Obama administration's proposed solution for the Bush administration throwing away trillions of dollars is to throw away more trillions of dollars.

[pernishus.livejournal.com]

I am not terribly worried -- there is much to be said for piano wire unobtrusively placed at ankle-level... should my arsenal be confiscated, I mean...

[luxobscura.livejournal.com]

I wonder if they're going to ban Silly String, now that you made me think of it.

[http://users.livejournal.com/crossfire_/]

Yeah, I was afraid Obama and his administration were going to do this. However, not being a single-issue voter, I had to factor other issues in to my voting decision. I'm still disappointed, but I'm not going to claim I didn't see it coming, nor do I think my vote was in error.

[perspicuity.livejournal.com]

your vote is your vote. at least you voted.

however, he's very much not the right choice for me, in so many ways.

and it's not so much that he LIED, it's that he simply didn't answer straight up when asked early on, and they kept changing the official web page pre, during, and post election. now that he's official, he can say any damn thing he wants.

unfortunately, he's no better than the rest at this stage, and possibly worse. he's going to have to pull a lot of walking on water miracles just to seem reasonable, imho.

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[unixronin.livejournal.com]

I still can't understand why the fuck the Republican party was able to delude itself into thinking McCain ever realistically had a chance. My only working theory that makes any kind of sense at all is that they figured they'd lost this round even if they raised George Washington and Thomas Jefferson from the dead and ran them on the Republican ticket, so they may as well throw away a low card. Get McCain's "turn" out of the way and run a realistic candidate in 2012 or 2016.

[zaitcev.livejournal.com]

McCain was selected by the liberal media that managed the republican primaries. McCain started to gain in particular in open primaries. Why the fuck Republicans allow open primaries in the first place is a good question though.

[ithildae.livejournal.com]

It was also Huckabee, and his rabid paranoia against having a Mormon as president. Personality and individual prejudice played a big part in this also.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Personally, I'd sooner see a moderate Mormon as President than a fundamentalist zealot of whatever exact flavor Huckabee is. After eight years of Bush, I think just about the last thing the US was ready for was a President who'd make Bush look like an agnostic.

[ithildae.livejournal.com]

I am more worried about his speech the other night. If I heard it right, he wants the Government to start directing the national economy, instead of anything like a market. That means that our current economic situation will become calcified into place, we will not have economic freedom until we have a change in government policy.

What good is a right to have a gun, if no one can ever afford one? Let alone learn how to use it.

[koyote.livejournal.com]

While the Libertarian Dream of educated and enlightened and cheat-free self interest is quite nice, deregulation is generally what gets us into these messes. Government isn't there to "direct" the economy, but the mulish insistence by many that ANY government regulation AT ALL is evil won't work.

It was Adam Smith who wrote that any time two or more businessmen meet out of the public eye there is automatically a conspiracy again the common good. As with many other warnings that come from that era, it's wise to heed that one.

[ithildae.livejournal.com]

Guilty. I admit that my general tendency is to look at man much the way Thomas Jefferson did, to expect them to rise to their angelic natures when left to their own devices.

That said, I do indeed favor regulation in the markets for the purpose of keeping them open and free. Quite a bit of the regulation proposed is to prevent disruptive ideas from changing the current power structures. (It is very oddly conservative coming from the liberals.) Regulation for the sake of saying the markets are regulated is insane. What is the purpose of the regulation proposed? Answer that question, and we can discuss the merits of the regulations.

bobo-Obama

[koyote.livejournal.com]

I think that there is a big mistake in using Obama as a focus point, since it distracts from the general bilateral tendency to completely destroy our liberties for personal and corporate gain.

The one good thing that could possibly come out of the focus on Obama himself is that the Republican Machine will be so busy fighting Everything Obama Does Just Because He Does It, that they may end up inadvertently restoring a few of the liberties they've taken over the past 3 decades.

Re: bobo-Obama

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

The one good thing that could possibly come out of the focus on Obama himself is that the Republican Machine will be so busy fighting Everything Obama Does Just Because He Does It, that they may end up inadvertently restoring a few of the liberties they've taken over the past 3 decades.

It's a possibility.

My main point was all the Obama-worshippers who kept saying "Oh, he doesn't mean that, he won't do that, why are you being so paranoid, the Democratic Party has said gun control is a dead issue, he wouldn't risk the backlash, he certainly won't do anything in his first term, if he does anything at all he won't make a play until late in his second term, he says he supports the Second Amendment, he'll respect DC v. Heller, yadda, yadda, yadda, yadda."

It barely took him a month.

The scorpion can't help it; it's a scorpion. That's what it does.
Obama can't help it; he's an anti-gun Illinois Democrat. It's what he does.