"There are countless horrible things happening all over the world and horrible people prospering, but we must never allow them to disturb our equanimity or deflect us from our sacred duty to sabotage and annoy them whenever possible." -Auberon Waugh
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Hey, some pretty famous people support gun control
I wonder if it would look better if I swapped in Mayor Daley's picture for Kim Jong Il's?
Last week the Illinois legislature passed a law to "require those convicted of unlawful use of a weapon to serve one to three years in prison if the offender was carrying a loaded weapon with no valid Firearms Owners Identification card."
This is what you do when you don't want to address the actual problems : carrying a gun concealed or unconcealed was already a felony possessing a gun without a FOID card was already a felony possessing ammunition without a FOID card was already a crime possessing a handgun in Chicago, generally, was already a crime not registering a handgun in Chicago was already a crime a felon possessing a gun is a crime brandishing a gun is a crime shooting people is a crime
Part of the reasoning for the change was "Daley complained that "unlawful use of a weapon is so common, [charges are] just thrown out. Whether it's juveniles or young adults, they're back right on the street..."" So the real problem isn't with the old law but with prosecutors and/or judges; what is to prevent charges based on the new law from being thrown out? For some people a choice between making sure the schools teach kids to read by the 8th grade or passing a redundant law is an easy one. The key is to make it look like a politician is doing something without doing anything to disrupt his political machine.
(I know at least 2 old women who possess guns in Illinois but have no idea what a FOID card is. That makes them potential felons despite their being in the statistical group least likely to commit drive-bys)
Watch out with all this right wing advocacy - you may get snubbed by Sir Elton John.
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Bruce: I can think of few people for whom I would more gladly serve in the capacity of, er, snubee, than E.J.
ReplyDeleteWell done, JeffS. Some people need a lot of reminding.
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I wonder if it would look better if I swapped in Mayor Daley's picture for Kim Jong Il's?
ReplyDeleteLast week the Illinois legislature passed a law to "require those convicted of unlawful use of a weapon to serve one to three years in prison if the offender was carrying a loaded weapon with no valid Firearms Owners Identification card."
This is what you do when you don't want to address the actual problems :
carrying a gun concealed or unconcealed was already a felony
possessing a gun without a FOID card was already a felony
possessing ammunition without a FOID card was already a crime
possessing a handgun in Chicago, generally, was already a crime
not registering a handgun in Chicago was already a crime
a felon possessing a gun is a crime
brandishing a gun is a crime
shooting people is a crime
Part of the reasoning for the change was "Daley complained that "unlawful use of a weapon is so common, [charges are] just thrown out. Whether it's juveniles or young adults, they're back right on the street..."" So the real problem isn't with the old law but with prosecutors and/or judges; what is to prevent charges based on the new law from being thrown out? For some people a choice between making sure the schools teach kids to read by the 8th grade or passing a redundant law is an easy one. The key is to make it look like a politician is doing something without doing anything to disrupt his political machine.
(I know at least 2 old women who possess guns in Illinois but have no idea what a FOID card is. That makes them potential felons despite their being in the statistical group least likely to commit drive-bys)
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