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[unixronin]

Gun control in the United States started out from racism.  The first gun control laws were designed to keep guns out of the hands of blacks.  New York’s 1911 Sullivan Act was to keep them out of the hands of Irishmen (and, arguably, Italians).

The more things change, the more they stay the same.  It’s now 2009, and the Illinois legislature is considering a zip-code-by-zip-code gun ban against “any assault weapon or .50-caliber rifle”, that specifically targets mostly-black neighborhoods in Chicago — and ONLY those neighborhoods.

While we’re on the subject, if you STFW for articles on the Sullivan Act mentioned above, you may stumble across a very interesting fact.  Pop quiz time!

• Q:  What senator from New York is among the three or four most vocal opponents in Congress of civilian gun ownership in the United States?  (Particularly handgun ownership, and GOD FORBID any mere citizen actually carry one?)
• A:  Senator Charles Schumer.
• Q:  What public figure is currently among the most highly-placed holders of a New York City Sullivan Act handgun carry permit?
• A:  ...Yup, you guessed it.  Senator Charles Schumer.

Oh, hypocrisy, thy name is irony.

So, let’s see, who does that put in the gun-control hypocrites club?

• Dianne Feinstein
• Chuck Schumer
• Ted Kennedy
• Josh Sugarmann

Who else?  Where does it stop?  (John Kerry’s idiotic duck-shoot photo-op hardly counts.  We want the MAJOR hypocrites here.)

Comments

[ilcylic.livejournal.com]

Oh! I totally misread. Thought you were saying the person who was doing the ranting and humiliating was on the NRA BOD. And I was wondering how the hell a vocal anti- got there.

[lebo-superman.livejournal.com]

No, Rosie invited Tom onto her show, supposedly to talk about a new movie he was in, but when he got there she turned on him and started ranting about his being on the NRA BOD and being a gun owner. What she wasn't telling anyone was that she employs a private security detail who are all CCW licensees.

To show you how classy Tom is, he refused to get baited into a gun-control debate. As he got up to leave the stage of her show, he said, "It's your show, you can talk about it after I've left if you want." And leave he did.