My Fellow Bloggers and Gun Nuts:
In a few days we will have the opportunity to fight down our gag
reflexes and cast our ballots for a slightly different set of untalented
hicks and hacks than we voted for last time, under the laughable
pretext that they will do what is right for the republic and, in the
process, solve some of our problems.
Hell will freeze before this happens, but we must not be dismayed.
Congress has always been the halfwit child of American government. Mark
Twain said: "Suppose you were an idiot; suppose you were a Congressman.
But I repeat myself." Congress is the only place, outside of a
fraternity house, where acting like an ass is not only the norm, but
praiseworthy.
Even so, it matters who gets elected. The prime example for gun
owners is New York State's Governor Andrew Cuomo. Mister Cuomo is not
gifted with an unusual wisdom or honesty, but he abounds with what Ed
Zern called low animal cunning, and after the Sandy Hook shootings, he
rammed an unworkable, unenforceable, and highly restrictive gun law
through the state legislature literally overnight. Called the SAFE Act,
this work of genius requires among other things that owners of "assault
weapons" register them with the state police.
However, the state police refuse to say just how many ARs have been
reported to them. This indicates that most gun owners have chosen to
give Governor Cuomo the finger, so to speak, and risk the consequences.
But there have not, to date, been any consequences, because many law
officers refuse to enforce the thing, and Cuomo, probably having
national political ambitions, is not about to start confiscating
people's guns and putting them in prison for non-compliance. Not yet at
least.
But there is the SAFE Act, on the books, waiting for someone to
employ it and put the screws to Empire State shooters in a real and
meaningful way. And there it will stay.
The only way to prevent this where you live is to check the NRA ratings on the candidates, which can be found here.
Cuomo earns an F. Elect people with a C or lower and you're asking for it.
I know that many of you would rather that I stayed away from
politics, and I can't blame you; it is a detestable enterprise,
populated by detestable people. But be reminded: Apolitical gun owners
will wake up one day to find that while they are still apolitical, they
are gun owners no more.
Vote.
http://www.fieldandstream.com/blogs/the-gun-nuts/on-the-coming-elections
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