Let’s say you are a law-abiding citizen who would like to fly from Philadelphia to Chicago. To do that you have to either undergo a full-body scan (is your underwear clean?), or endure an intrusive pat-down. You must take off your shoes. You won’t be able to purchase your ticket in cash at the gate. You better not have a large bottle of C
Diet Coke in your carry-on bag.
Now let’s say you are at a gun show. You have a restraining order forbidding you from getting within 500 yards of your ex-wife. You have a felony conviction for an incident of road rage where you tried to force a motorist off the highway. You have been institutionalized once for threatening a judge. No problem. Do you have cash for the Bushmaster you’d like to buy?
Is this just insane?
YES!
ReplyDeleteSome nut from the NRA said that all Boston citizens should own guns so they could protect themselves. I wonder how he would explain the police officer who got killed yesterday had a gun and still died.
If all of the NRA members who say they wouldn't mind background checks were to cancel their NRA membership, maybe that might send a message to Wayne LaPierre and the 47 senators who voted against the legislation. They are all cowards!