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How about police coming inside, once a year, to have a look around?
“They always say, we’ll never go house to house to take your guns away. But then you see this, and you have to wonder.” That’s no gun-rights absolutist talking, but Lance Palmer, a Seattle trial lawyer and self-described liberal who brought the troubling Senate Bill 5737 to my attention. It’s the long-awaited assault-weapons ban, introduced last week by three Seattle Democrats. Responding to the Newtown school massacre, the bill would ban the sale of semi-automatic weapons that use detachable ammunition magazines. Clips that contain more than 10 rounds would be illegal. But then, with respect to the thousands of weapons like that already owned by Washington residents, the bill says this: “In order to continue to possess an assault weapon that was legally possessed on the effective date of this section, the person possessing shall ... safely and securely store the assault weapon. The sheriff of the county may, no more than once per year, conduct an inspection to ensure compliance with this subsection.” In other words, come into homes without a warrant to poke around. Failure to comply could get you up to a year in jail. “I’m a liberal Democrat — I’ve voted for only one Republican in my life,” Palmer told me. “But now I understand why my right-wing opponents worry about having to fight a government takeover.” He added: “It’s exactly this sort of thing that drives people into the arms of the NRA.” I have been blasting the NRA for its paranoia in the gun-control debate. But Palmer is right — you can’t fully blame them, when cops going door-to-door shows up in legislation. I spoke to two of the sponsors. One, Sen. Adam Kline, D-Seattle, a lawyer who typically is hyper-attuned to civil-liberties issues, said he did not know the bill authorized police searches because he had not read it closely before signing on. “I made a mistake,” Kline said. “I frankly should have vetted this more closely.”
Can't read, can't reason, can't be trusted. . .purge the whole lot of 'em!
Are minds of the population that dulled to not see the tyranny at their door?
Right out of the Third Reich, you know about this 'Soup?http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2020373291_westneat17xml.html
Quote from: Libertas on February 18, 2013, 07:39:34 PMRight out of the Third Reich, you know about this 'Soup?http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2020373291_westneat17xml.htmlYes, I saw it. danny westneat (the author) is a good little fascist. Like the other brownshirts, he recognizes how offensive to the law this sort of maneuver is, but applauds it anyway. It doesn't matter.Read the comments. Lots of folks think of seattle as monolithically left-wing. It isn't. Even within the city itself there are many conservatives. We just keep our heads down and mind our own business. But, like that u-toob vid of the New Yorkers responding to their new Draconian anti-gun laws, we here simply won't allow it.I will defend to their deaths my constitutional rights.nuff said
As a postscript to this story the "assault weapon" (whatever the hell that is) ban bill died a richly deserved death in committee. My inside source told me that everyone avoided it like the plague."Rust (and leftist totalitarians) never sleeps"
