Post by Sailor on Feb 18, 2013 5:37:22 GMT -8
Misstep in gun bill could defeat the effort
Forget police drones flying over your house. How about police coming inside, once a year, to have a look around?
As Orwellian as that sounds, it isn’t hypothetical. The notion of police home inspections was introduced in a bill last week in Olympia.
That it’s part of one of the major gun-control efforts pains me. It seemed in recent weeks lawmakers might be headed toward some common-sense regulation of gun sales. But then last week they went too far. By mistake, they claim. But still too far.
“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.
More here:
seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2020373291_westneat17xml.html
The 3 sponsors of this bill are Senator Ed Murray (D), Senator Jeanne Kohl-Welles (D) and Senator Adam Kline (D). See anything these 3 have in common?
According to the article Kline claims he didn't see the search provision when he read the bill (didn't read it very well, did he?) and Murray, who wrote the bill says he condemns that search provision even though he wrote the damned thing, and agrees it's probably unconstitutional.
This is what passes for government "of, by and for the people" by and large nationwide.
Forget police drones flying over your house. How about police coming inside, once a year, to have a look around?
As Orwellian as that sounds, it isn’t hypothetical. The notion of police home inspections was introduced in a bill last week in Olympia.
That it’s part of one of the major gun-control efforts pains me. It seemed in recent weeks lawmakers might be headed toward some common-sense regulation of gun sales. But then last week they went too far. By mistake, they claim. But still too far.
“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.
More here:
seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2020373291_westneat17xml.html
The 3 sponsors of this bill are Senator Ed Murray (D), Senator Jeanne Kohl-Welles (D) and Senator Adam Kline (D). See anything these 3 have in common?
According to the article Kline claims he didn't see the search provision when he read the bill (didn't read it very well, did he?) and Murray, who wrote the bill says he condemns that search provision even though he wrote the damned thing, and agrees it's probably unconstitutional.
This is what passes for government "of, by and for the people" by and large nationwide.
