The right to keep and bear arms is a civil and human right protected by the United States Constitution. In the same sense that slavery was wrong—no matter how many Americans supported it at the time—civilian disarmament is wrong no matter how many school children were slaughtered by a Bushmaster-wielding madman. There I’ve said it. Deal with it. As I know you, our Armed Intelligentsia have done and will continue to do. But this message hasn’t reached residents of the [now ironically named] Constitution State. A Quinnipiac University poll reveals that CT voters support civilian disarmament by a HUGE margin. Specifically . . .
By margins of 2-1 or more, Connecticut voters support most gun-control measures, with support for universal background checks at 93 – 6 percent, including 89 – 9 percent among voters in households where there are guns, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today.
Voters support stricter statewide gun-control laws 66 – 30 percent, the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University poll finds. Support for specific measures includes:
68 – 28 percent back an expansion of the statewide ban on the sale of assault weapons. Gun owners are opposed 49 – 44 percent;
68 – 28 percent back a ban on the sale of ammunition magazines with more than 10 rounds. Gun owners are divided 49 – 48 percent;
72 – 27 percent back registration of all handguns, with annual renewal. Gun owners are divided with 48 percent in favor and 50 percent opposed;
63 – 31 percent, including 50 – 46 percent among gun owners, favor limiting handgun purchases to one per month;
85 – 14 percent, including 71 – 28 percent among gun owners, back a permit requirement to purchase and carry all guns;
86 – 11 percent, including 85 – 12 percent among gun owners, favor a gun offender registry for those convicted of gun crimes;
76 – 19 percent, including 65 – 32 percent among gun owners, back stricter gun storage requirements;
50 – 43 percent back mandatory liability insurance for gun owners, who oppose this measure 71 – 26 percent.
Nick has pointed out that gun owners are more politically active than non-gun owning voters. No doubt by the reverse margin (2 – 1) or more. We’ll see plenty of turnout at today’s pro-gun rally in Illinois (report to follow). New York’s gun owners are certainly up in arms, if you know what I mean. (If you don’t, report to follow on that, too.)
But it’s clear that Connecticut legislators are failing to factor the “enthusiasm gap” into their political calculus. Not to put too fine a point on it, Connecticut gun rights are going down.
And that means the ballistic bifurcation of America continues apace. As Dan points out, we’re looking at civil disobedience on a massive scale, not seen since prohibition (if you discount dope smoking). I reckon there will be bloodshed, and not the kind that CT pols claim they’re trying to prevent . . .
Holy Scheisse, can we clone her??
Tori is gorgeous (settle down y’all, she’s still a minor, in most states), obviously academically superb (if the Glock website’s profile stated 3.8GPA is still current), amazingly articulate for her age, considering how many people she had to talk to at the SHOT show, she communicated well, was calm & cool, treated everyone with respect.
Talk about good upbringing! Way to go Aaron Nonaka!
Talk about raising your child right. We ALL WISH we had well behaved teenagers, let alone ones who can safely and proficiently handle a lethal tool. Only if more Tori’s populated the cities in the “Coasts,” we wouldn’t be going through this BS politically expedient AWB, what seems like once every decade, interestingly enough always coinciding with recession. Pattern? WTF knows, but with Federal Reserve’s inflationary cycle, it always seems to coincide. Perfect distraction??
Sample size: 1009 people.
We’ll see. The NSSF folks will have their say too. I’m a metal mag guy, and most of mine are made in CT – that’s a fair number of jobs to kiss goodbye.
What a lot of folks don’t realize is that there already is a registry of pretty much all firearms purchases in CT anyway, so that’s really no change. I’m actually a little more hopeful than I was a month ago – even Malloy’s wishlist was not as bad as I feared.
Men fought and died to remove slavery from our country over 150 years ago. Modern men seem to be in a hurry to return slavery to this country. The next few years ought to be interesting.
The division in America is getting more pronounced, and it will be interesting to see how it unfolds over time. I can imagine a highly controlled 2nd Amendment environment in the Northeast and the West Coast and then an area of free states in between. With Illinois still fighting the good fight. And Detroit…oh well..
If this is how it ends up and people have to choose where they are going to live just to practice a Right..well, those problems are just beginning. Besides wanting to have control over the individuals and expand their power, I see no other reason politicians side with gun control. Every argument they make they know is BS and acknowledge it. For example, Biden commenting on how “assault weapons” aren’t used in crimes much and the bill would have very little effect on gun violence. So, as always, it just goes to show that America has elected politicians who do not like America as she stands right now. But we all knew that.
Be careful when you paint the Northeast with a broad brush. Sure, in places like CT, MA, and RI, gun rights are going down hard. That said, VT is one of the few Constitutional Carry States, NH has extremely loose gun laws, and in ME, the governor recently went on the record that he would oppose any new firearm restrictions. So, things are not all bleak up here.
You might get cut off from freely traveling to other free states with your equipment if NY keeps tightening up.
I hear they arrest travelers at NYC airports now, maybe they will search cars at the border someday, and you wont be able to take a gun thru to go to FL for the winter, etc.
Therefore, I have no pressing reason to visit NYC.
Any company can make a lemon. How the company deals with that situation determines if the company is worth doing business with. And if the company has slipshod customer service what does that say about the rest of their operation?
My son just took delivery on a new Savage Axis .308. On his first trip to the range he discovered the rifle is a tack driver and apparently it has a burr in the chamber. It cycles unfired ammo perfectly but once fired the brass is very difficult to extract and the brass has what looks like a large scratch in it.
My son contacted Savage and less than 2 days later the brown truck showed up to take the rifle back to Savage. That was yesterday. Now we’ll see if Savage, unlike Caracal, is a company worth doing business with.
You are actually correct Mr Farago. Look up the 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates leading to the 1860 presidential nomination of Abraham Lincoln.
Douglas took the position that America was a democracy, and people of its states had voted for chattel slavery. The vote of the people in democracy was the ultimate authority and thus, slavery was to be accepted.
Lincoln said no, there was absolute, external, moral aspect to the world. Constraining the liberty of another human being, of whatever origin or demeanor, for the benefit of another was a wrong in and of itself. If thousands of people voted for slavery’s acceptance, they did not anoint the institution – they made themselves wrong along with it.
It’s going to be a long and arduous job freeing the new slave-states. But once again, there are absolute, external, moral aspects to the situation.
In that picture, their heads are bowed. Does that mean they were praying? No wonder SPLC considers them terrorists.
Dees is such a douche.
Quinnipiac University is as far left and as far BS as they come. With a Sample size of 1099 these numbers are twisted to be whatever they wanted them to be.
We have a rally on 11th with the support of the NRA. Hopefully we can get some of the BS over turned. I want to be as mad as hell, but given the source, the numbers are more likely to be fudged than anything else.
Mis-information is a great play by the anti-gun crowd and I am sure it will be in every paper and every news segment this evening.
We are effed in CT. The liberal imports from NY and MA have pretty much doomed the state.
Not only that, but turned Vermont into the “People’s Republic of Burlington” – how the gun rights have survived amazes me.
I wonder* if companies like Colt will pull up stakes and leave for more favorable climes.
*I don’t actually wonder, they won’t.
“with support for universal background checks at 93 – 6 percent”
That statement is absolutely ludicrous. You probably couldn’t get 93% of Connecticut residents to agree that the sun sets in the west or that water runs downhill. I’m calling bull$hit on this one, though I have no doubt that a majority of residents of the state will swallow whatever gun control schemes the oligarchs push through.
“No matter how many children were slaughtered” Hoy…point taken, but from my view this could have been sugar coated a bit. Anti gunners take comments like that and turn us all into stark raving lunatics hell bent on shooting anyone who crosses our path.
As I go through all of these things one thought keeps popping up.
Where in the hell do they expect to find the money to administrate and enforce this stuff?!?
HR 236, the Crackdown on Deadbeat Gun Dealers Act of 2013, by Rep. James Langevin, D-RI
…tell us how you really feal about federally licensed firearm dealers.
So, it costs more than an M1A and an average AR-15 put together (well, at their preban crises prices) and it doesn’t do anything as well as either? Pass.
Not to mention the BS they are trying to pull in Florida. Anger management classes before you can buy ammunition.
Foxnews has the article.
People who gamble with their lives are STUPID.
When they want to gamble with mine, that makes them TYRANTS.
RESIST TYRANNY.
I expect this kind of ignorance from politicians, but police?
It’s not ignorance. Cops tell themselves we’re “civilians”, while they are not. Deluded, but true. In their minds, this puts them in a superior position to us. If they wanted us armed, they’d have to see us as equals.
I advise a few people every month to get guns and as much training as they can. I also make it clear that I will not be able to provide the training myself, especially if it’s a young woman I’m speaking to. Not worth even the chance of a complaint.
Then I tell them my wife has guns and a clear plan of action if someone breaks in, and that my own home defense gun is more powerful than my duty gun.
Lastly I tell them about the limits of police response time, and that they are legally and morally in the clear to defend their own lives with force.
There are a few guys I work with who do the same, but then, we don’t work in NY.
Add Florida to list:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/03/06/florida-lawmaker-wants-anger-management-courses-for-ammunition-buyers/
I wouldn’t believe the Southern Poverty Pimp Law Center if it told me that the sun rises in the East. As far as believing that the feds intend to confiscate all guns and deprive citizens of their civil liberties, does such a belief make the Republican Party a radical group? I sure hope so.
The truth is in the proposed or passed legislation. Gun confiscation, suppression of self-defense rights and draconian penalties for failure to come to heel — that says all.
This reminds me of a famous case at a NY housing complex where, over a course of hours, a young woman was raped multiple times and ultimately murdered by her attacker in the bushes right outside. It is estimated that although over 100 people heard the attack, witnessed her screams and cries for help during the periods her attacker would leave, not one called the police. No one wanted to “get involved.”
boot to the face
I don’t consider a registry of those convicted of gun crimes so they cant buy more guns an “anti-gun thing”. In fact I thought the background checks already caught this stuff.
As far as insurance, it is totally racist for reasons previously stated and won’t pass anyways.
And storage requirements? How do you think they (the authority) will verify? Unannounced searches of your property/house. I believe that 32% would change their mind real quick if they knew the ATF/DHS would shop up at your front door without a warrant and demand to search your home and toss your kid’s bedroom.
I am not surprised at the people who simply walked away. This what we have become in this country. Self absorbed and afraid. For the libtards, its never their fault, and when there is a problem, it is someone else problem, not mine.
Another reason to carry, because nobody is going to help you.
Its a good thing no one had a large soda. Somebody would have died in the ensuing SWAT response to that.
Nevada Senator Hudak says the statistics are not on our side…
Civilian disarmament collaborators have flooded state and federal legislatures with scores of bills to disarm the citizens and infringe on their right to possess the property and firearms of their choosing — citizens who have not committed any crimes and who no courts have found guilty through due process of law.
I am as horrified as anyone that one mentally ill person murdered 26 people. Nevertheless that is not a legitimate basis for attacking millions of citizens who have certain firearms, certain magazines for certain firearms, or even certain kinds of ammunition. How can we perceive this as anything other than an aggressive attack on millions of U.S. citizens — an act of war?
Excellent takedown. Why is “classic” education so important? Why is the study of English so important? Here it is in concise terms. Commas and clauses have purpose beyond a pause.
Why is Tracy Jordan trying to pass legislation in drag?
As the Communist say TRUST ME! NO WAY ! what a pack of RATS and lies … and DRONES only kill bad guys. SURE …. All LIES>>>>>>>>>>
I thought I read something a while back that stated the Beretta folks in Italy were none to happy with the way things were playing out and expressed interest in moving?
Anyways, will be interesting to see what LWRCI does if this is signed by the gov.
Caught this video about magazine bans on You Tube. It’s a dramatization and looks professionally filmed:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7F1nPSNnaBo
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