Under the skin...

[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

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Obamette's comment is pretty much the Washington DC 2009 equivalent of "Let them eat cake."

[perspicuity.livejournal.com]

totally my thought a while ago. a big old "smack in the face". "why yes, you all SHOULD be eating better, like us, natural whole foods..." nice.

i'm not really sure what special skills she has, unlike some other First Ladies... so gardening and minding the kitchen staff to make sure they don't put fat in her daughters spinach puree is perhaps in line. dunno really, the transparent O method hasn't reached out with the information rays and informed me and i guess i haven't really been that interested to find out - she doesn't seem at all interesting, and even less so the daughters.

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[mrmeval.livejournal.com]

Think we could get Tom to record 15 comebacks to the froth monkey?
"Guns cause crime like spoons make Rosie O'Donnell fat"
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