Senate Bill 18 Handgun sales. Sen. Steele. Eliminates the requirement that a handgun dealer, after selling a handgun to a purchaser, forward to the state police department a copy of Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Form 4473 completed and signed by the purchaser. This passed the Senate on Third Reading unanimously.
So, Saturday night when I was watching the movie “Red Dawn,” it turns out, I wasn’t watching a crappy 80s movie (that would’ve been Rambo II which I flipped to during commercials.) No, in fact, I was doing research. Form 4473 is mentioned in Red Dawn as an argument against gun control, with the fear being that 4473s will become a “shopping list” for confiscation.
In any event, that’s certainly more believable than the idea that an invading Soviet army would send the Cubans to occupy the mountains of Colorado.
[tags]SB18-2007, gun control[/tags]
I don’t see the problem with the government knowing who has the guns, and where. I used to. I used to buy into that whole “If the government starts taking our rights, we can use our guns to rise up” argument. But the same people who have always used that argument now don’t so much mind the government reading our mail, listening to our phone calls, jailing citizens without charges indefinitely. Turns out gun ownership is more a fetish than a check on an out-of-control government.
Oh, you just wait until it’s Hillary reading our mail, listening to our phone calls, and jailing citizens without charges indefinitely. Then the same people who don’t mind now will go bat-shit, frothing at the mouth, crazy. So, while I don’t think a lot of these folks are really committed to a principled argument about civil liberties, I also don’t think it’s entirely about a gun fetish.
Mainly I think it’s more a matter of “my team” versus “your team.” As a sociological matter “us versus them” is an old phenomenon.
True. I forgot the past few years all the “When the shooting starts, we’ll get (X, New York Times traitor reporter), (X, non-Bush-enabling Congressman), or (X, liberal blogger) first.” “We’ll line ’em up and shoot ’em.” Etc. I guess the question is, how long will it take the eight-years-dormant militias to get back into fighting shape once Hillary, or Obama, or Edwards gets in?
Well, let me just shock the folks on this blog who had me pegged as some sort of big-government Leninst.
Sen. Steele: GOOD
Ummm… how will we know if the “terrorists”– who are already here lurking in “sleeper cells” scaring the piss out of Republicans everywhere–are buying guns here to kill us all? Just wondering. Because my government can’t trust me with a nailclipper in certain circumstances. Just figured the same nervous nellies might want to know a thing or two about where the guns are going…
Nail clippers are potentially dangerous. Guns are sacred.
Addressing the context of your post, and not the purpose, I have been informally conducting some sociological examination re: RED DAWN. My hypothesis is that men aged 28 to 38 who saw that movie during the Reagan 80’s all have a semi-serious mental plan for a) how to get out of town in the event of a Mexi-Cuban-Soviet invasion b) how they would acquire a weapon c) who would be on their particular Wolverines squad, and d) who is most likely to flip out and turn into the blood thirsty C. Thomas Howell character. Personally, my team all acknowledged their roles after a night of beer drinking, right down to a guy admitting he’d probably be the weak link and go back into Calumet and be forced to swallow the tracking device.