{"id":9063,"date":"2013-01-16T05:35:48","date_gmt":"2013-01-16T05:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/01\/16\/feel-good-liberalism-high-capacity-magazines-and-high-capacity-soft-drinks\/"},"modified":"2013-01-16T05:35:48","modified_gmt":"2013-01-16T05:35:48","slug":"feel-good-liberalism-high-capacity-magazines-and-high-capacity-soft-drinks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/01\/16\/feel-good-liberalism-high-capacity-magazines-and-high-capacity-soft-drinks\/","title":{"rendered":"Feel-Good Liberalism, High Capacity Magazines and High Capacity Soft Drink Containers"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you need further proof that leftism is emotion-driven, consider the latest Obamination, the call for a ban on high capacity magazines, an abomination which the fascist-in-chief may try to ram though under Executive Order.  I take it that these are magazines the capacity of which is in excess of seven rounds.<\/span><\/p>\n

(By the way, you liberals, and especially you liberal journalists, need to learn the correct terminology: 'magazine' not 'clip.' 'Round' not 'bullet.' The bullet is the projectile.  To confuse the bullet with the round is to commit a pars pro toto fallacy<\/a>.)<\/span><\/p>\n

When I ranted about this over lunch with Mike V. on Saturday, he made an interesting comparison.  I had made the point that it is very easy to change out a depleted mag.  A skilled shooter can do it in a second or two.  Suppose I have a semi-auto pistol with a loaded seven-round mag.  I have two more loaded mags of the same capacity in my right pocket and two more in my left.  Within a minute or two I can get off 5 X 7 = 35 shots.  (My firepower increases if I have a second or third semi-auto on my person.)  Plenty of time to commit mayhem in what liberal boneheads have made a 'gun-free zone.'  (The sign ought to read: Gun-Free Zone Except for Criminals.)<\/span><\/p>\n


\n\"Gun-free-cartoon-3\"<\/a>Mike brought up Gotham's benighted mayor, Mr Bloomberg, and his call for the banning of 32 oz sodas.  Mike said, "You just order two 16 oz. drinks." <\/span><\/p>\n

Exactly.  Get the comparison?  Banning high capacity magazines is as foolish a feel-good proposal as banning 'high capacity' soft drink containers.<\/span><\/p>\n

Why is the high capacity mag ban foolish?  Because it does nothing to solve the problem.  But it is worse than foolish since it is one more violation of the liberties of law-abiding citizens, one more step on the road to full-tilt statism.  <\/span><\/p>\n

It is also foolish because it promotes a black market for the items banned and tends to undermine respect for law and for the rule of law.<\/span><\/p>\n

Laws ought ought be (i) few in number, (ii) reasonable in content, (ii) intelligible to the average citizen, (iv) enforceable, and (v) enforced.  When dumbass libruls pass stupid feel-good laws because they feel<\/em> that they just have to do something<\/em>, the result is an erosion of respect for law and an increase in readership of Thoreau's essay on civil disobedience<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

And another thing.  Passing laws is easy and beloved by the feel-gooders on both sides of the aisle.  Enforcement is much more difficult and here liberals whether Dems or Repubs demonstrate  that it is feeling alone that drives them.    Enforce existing laws and attach severe penalties to their breaking. Why hasn't the Islamist murderer, Nidal Malik Hasan, the Fort Hood shooter, been executed?  <\/span> <\/p>\n

\nRelated articles<\/legend>\n
\n
\"\"<\/a>Dems: "Government is the Only Thing We All Belong To"<\/a><\/div>\n
\"\"<\/a>A Few Random Notes on the Gun Debate<\/a><\/div>\n
\"\"<\/a>Why Would Anyone Need a Semi-Automatic Rifle?<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/fieldset>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you need further proof that leftism is emotion-driven, consider the latest Obamination, the call for a ban on high capacity magazines, an abomination which the fascist-in-chief may try to ram though under Executive Order.  I take it that these are magazines the capacity of which is in excess of seven rounds. (By the way, … Continue reading “Feel-Good Liberalism, High Capacity Magazines and High Capacity Soft Drink Containers”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112,8,163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alcohol-tobacco-and-firearms","category-crime-and-punishment","category-leftism-and-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}