First New Yorkers, and now those in Connecticut - Granite Grok

First New Yorkers, and now those in Connecticut

Well, it looks like the Esteemed Leaders in Connecticut have decided that they can no longer trust law-abiding citizens with what are standard capacity magazines for modern sporting rifles (AR-15s):

Connecticut lawmakers announced a deal Monday on what they called some of the toughest gun laws in the country that were proposed after the December mass shooting in the state, including a ban on new high-capacity ammunition magazines like the ones used in the massacre that left 20 children and six educators dead.

The proposal also called for background checks for private gun sales and a new registry for existing magazines that carry 10 or more bullets, something of a compromise for parents of Newtown victims who had wanted an outright ban on them, while legislators had proposed grandfathering them into the law.

The package also creates what lawmakers said is the nation’s first statewide dangerous weapon offender registry, immediate universal background checks for all firearms sales and expansion of Connecticut’s assault weapons ban.

PMagReally, and how many gun owners are going to come in to register their magazines? How is law enforcement supposed to know how many mags someone really has? Are you, Connecticut politicians,  going to be like that Politician in Washington State that would have a Sheriff come and inspect gun owners’ homes unannounced and without warrants to ensure compliance with this infringement (“er, just here to see if you are storing your guns safely – because we don’t trust you to do it right”)?

How far this country has fallen when those that govern us:

  • no longer trust us?
  • are so willing to turn our legal jurisprudence upside down – that you are so willing to declare a whole class of people to be guilty and must prove that they are innocent?

Forget the overwhelming number of criss-crossing laws that make us lawbreakers for just existing (at times), or the sheer mountains of regulations that now outline how we are to act and the products we can buy, or the debt you pile up “in our name” – why should we continue trust you? (note; start looking at the Pew polling – we no longer trust the Political Class)

Is this not the beginning, by yet another incremental step, the overshadowing of Tyranny?

I wrote this about the “faux community” that Progressives wish to force people into:

This is the essence of Progressivism – you WILL participate in a faux sense of community on our say-so

Now we can add a corollary:

Progressives don’t trust you.  Thus, they feel perfectly free to take stuff away from you that you will abuse (and lie to you in doing so).

And the body politic keeps voting these bullies into office over and over?  And trust me, they do not have the self-honesty, even as they decry bullies, to see that they act exactly as schoolyard bullies except instead of taking your lunch, they take your Freedoms away, one incremental step at a time.

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