House Speaker David Ralston has stated that any gun bills which restrict liberty will not be moving forward. Thank goodness we have state lawmakers who respect and defend liberty like Speaker Ralston!
Photo by J. Glover (AUtiger)
That means Mary Margaret Oliver (D) can count on any of her gun ban bills going nowhere.
I'm sure there'll be a bill to ban "bump stocks" - oh wait, the prediction came true! However, the idea of banning them is ridiculous. People have been using a semi-auto rifle's recoil for years to "bump fire" (one trigger pull per shot, but with a higher rate of fire than carefully placed shots), without no special equipment at all! It just takes a little practice in how you hold the rifle. Bump stocks merely make this a little easier to do.
Owning a bump stock does not make a person blood thirsty. Thousands of people own fully-automatic weapons which fire with greater rapidity and accuracy than bump stock equipped rifles, with a single pull of the trigger, and they use them in a law-abiding fashion.
Tools which allow or facilitate rapid fire are just that, tools. Inanimate objects do not commit crime. For those who would argue that these tools increase damage to lives in a mass shooting, one need only look at the Vegas shooting. Assuming the shooter used bump stock equipped rifles, we should probably be grateful for that. The inherent inaccuracy of bump stock bullet spraying most likely cost far fewer lives than what controlled semi-automatic fire would have cost.
Had the Vegas shooter really determined to kill more people, he could have just used fully-automatic rifles. He certainly could have legally purchased them. He legally purchased his other rifles, and he had the money to buy the more expensive full-auto weapons.
While we may never know his motive as to why he didn't, we might speculate that he limited himself to tools readily available to the general public, in order to light a fire to cause them to be banned. Full-auto weapons are not so readily available to the general public due to their cost in the multiple thousands for each one.
And as for MMO's bill imposing ammo magazine limits under penalty of fines and prison, the Democrats won't be happy until American citizens are limited to single-shot weapons, which must be manually reloaded after each time they're fired. For some freedom-grabbing politicians, their magic number is ten rounds, for others it's seven. Having more than that in your pistol or rifle makes you a non-trusted criminal in their eyes. How dare you disobey them, or you will be punished!
If you are attacked by multiple criminals on the road, or by those who break into your home, stopping to reload can cost your life and that of your loved ones. There are millions of "high capacity" magazines already in circulation, and criminals will always be able to obtain them.
Even if all such magazines were confiscated (a practical impossibility) they are simple objects that can be homemade with a few tools and some sheet metal. My 9mm pistol has a total capacity of 20 rounds (19 in the magazine and one in the chamber), and it's always been well behaved. I prefer to call its magazines "normal capacity magazines."
While holding the line against anti-self-defense bills is certainly a good thing, I do hope we see a further bloom of liberty this session for our carry rights.
- Strengthen State Preemption - Define public-private partnerships as political subdivisions.
- Remove off-limits locations on public college campuses
- Decriminalize primary and secondary school carry for licensed carriers
- Decriminalize private college carry to allow them to make their own decisions on carry
- Decriminalize church carry
If you care about your rights in Georgia, please consider joining Georgia Carry, an organization well respected by the Georgia General Assembly. Georgia Carry is a classy grass-roots organization which treats our lawmakers with respect and works with them to help move liberty forward.
Call and write your state lawmakers under the Gold Dome to thank them for their service and to encourage them to pass pro-liberty carry bills so citizens can better protect themselves and their families from criminals, crazies, and terrorists.
ReplyDeleteWhen will you so-called good guys with guns, actually stop a mass shooting? Stop playing hero with kids' lives; you've saved no one!
ReplyDeleteWell, I suppose you haven't read of the case where an Assistant Principal stopped a school shooter:
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But I suppose more school shooters would be stopped more often if schools stop letting only bad guys with guns in.
Phillip Evans