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Posted: 1/7/2005 11:23:58 AM EDT
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Clarification: Gun Ban Story Tue Jan 4, 6:37 PM ET SAN FRANCISCO - In a story sent Dec. 15, The Associated Press described a proposed ballot initiative on a weapons ban in San Francisco. The story should have specified that the ban would apply only to handguns of private individuals. Other firearms such as sport rifles could be kept by private owners in the city. A separate provision of the proposed initiative was described as a ban on the sale, manufacture and distribution of handguns in San Francisco. Instead, it would apply to all firearms if the measure passes next November. I predict that it will pass in a landslide! |
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Finally! some resonable, sensible gun control that will curb gun violence in the streets, and it will reduce old west-style shootouts. |
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It just goes to show you what happens when a governmental system loses the ideal of rights and liberties belonging to individuals. Instead, they see their juristiction as a child whose every current and future need is governments resposnibility. Gone are the days when elected officals play adminstrator of public services. Enter the days utopian socialist agendas...
The bright side of a law like this is that it is bad enough and gets to the basic point enough, to make a good case for the SCOTUS. |
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Cool. This may be the Second Amendment case we've been looking for.
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Seems like that would be the best place to be a criminal, plenty of unarmed sheep to victimize.
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HEY! Welcome back! |
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Let's just watch their violent crime rise so we can use them as an example of why gun control doesn't work.
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Might we be witnessing the formation of the "perfect storm"??? www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=311718 |
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But we already have Britain, Canada, and Australia... |
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"Ban on sale, manufacture, and distribution..." all of which can only be done by FFLs in Californistan.
I've heard there are only two FFLs in the city of San Francisco. |
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Let's hope they both do a booming business before the ban goes into effect, then take their profits and set up shop outside the city limits. It's the law of unintended consequences. leelaw, howdy bud. |
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It can't break off and fall into the ocean fast enough for me.
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November, unless it's withdrawn or stalled in court. |
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They will learn the hard way when violent crime sky rockets as it has done in every other big city where guns are heavily regulated/banned.
They deserve every bit of it too. |
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Never works that way. "An increase in crime?" "More gun control." |
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chicago, nyc, dc |
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There is but one tiny problem - the state constitution prohibits local gun control laws - a tiny problem that the city will ignore, just as the entire state of New York, New Jersey, Illinois, and California do with the US Constitution.
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San Francisco is gambling that they might have a chance though given the legal victories that West Hollywood (?) had in banning saturday night specials. |
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Damn, I won't be able to bring my 6" magnum into the bath house.
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++1 why couldn't that 8.9 quake have taken out the blue counties of PRK? wganz ¶ |
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Go easy on the gays and the RKBA, remember, the Pink Panthers are on our side! |
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There is something appealling about having the most liberal city in CA advertise that they are "gun free". Perhaps is a form of Darwinism at work.
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Nope, stuck with your stubby |
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You do mean your firearm..............don't you? |
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Just another reason why I never accepted a transfer to the SF bay area. Nice scenery and great weather but the gun laws are bad enough here in New York without having to out and seek something worse.
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Maybe I will just pretend I am a holster? |
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San Francisco tried gay marriage, and the whole country turned against it. Hopefully this gun grab will have the same effect.
BTW, wife of Mayor of SF Newsom just filed for divorce. Coincident? |
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Coincidence? Yes. |
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Precisely. |
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Well if the ban all guns in SF, don't seem right that they still get to read SWAT and SOF ect...Maybe they will ban those types of mags too, after all it is protected by the 1st amendment: why settle for only one amendment to rape.
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Because the ACLU supports the first and not the second? |
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will you be able to keep guns you already own? or will they have to turn those in?
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Yeah. I've heard about that. Last time I checked, criminals didn't really care about the law though. My the chowderheads in SF will figure that one out too. I doubt it though, because we have those types of people in King County.
I don't live in King County, thank your deity of choice. |
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.wa.us has good pre-emption laws, though. as does .ca.us |
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You'll have to surrender your handguns for the good of the community. You'll be able to keep your "sport rifles" though. |
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I dunno what you guys are all worried about....San Fran...just what I wanna do...hang out with some poo stabbers...
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