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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

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I really did not know that about Tom Selleck. I'd have paid for him to fire back the spoon quote and for someone to smuggle it out. Hell it would have been marvelous smack down if he'd taken what was aired and them spliced that quote in a released it as 'the real story'. I don't think he would he seems honorable.

The NRA has not been a friend in several critical cases the first DC gun case they took a crap in and lost is one. Raping Geogrians out of a better CCW system. Interference in laws and court cases going back decades pushing an agenda that favors their bureaucracy and existence. Pournelle's iron law of bureaucracy can also be applied to large organizations. That does not mean I won't support them but I will not do so without being a lot more involved.