{"id":33342,"date":"2012-12-22T09:27:51","date_gmt":"2012-12-22T13:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=33342"},"modified":"2012-12-22T09:27:51","modified_gmt":"2012-12-22T13:27:51","slug":"loughner-judge-wants-gunmagazine-confiscation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=33342","title":{"rendered":"Loughner judge wants gun\/magazine confiscation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gabriel sends us a link to an Associated Press<\/a> article in which the judge for the Jared Loughner trial, U.S. District Judge Larry Burns, writes in the Los Angeles Times<\/a> that he supports confiscation of semi-automatic rifles and high capacity magazines;<\/p>\n

So what’s the alternative? Bring back the assault weapons ban, and bring it back with some teeth this time. Ban the manufacture, importation, sale, transfer and possession of both assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. Don’t let people who already have them keep them. Don’t let ones that have already been manufactured stay on the market. I don’t care whether it’s called gun control or a gun ban. I’m for it.<\/p>\n

I say all of this as a gun owner. I say it as a conservative who was appointed to the federal bench by a Republican president. I say it as someone who prefers Fox News to MSNBC, and National Review Online to the Daily Kos. I say it as someone who thinks the Supreme Court got it right in District of Columbia vs. Heller, when it held that the 2nd Amendment gives us the right to possess guns for self-defense. (That’s why I have mine.) I say it as someone who, generally speaking, is not a big fan of the regulatory state.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Blah, blah, blah. I’m not a big fan of regulations…well….except one that ignores the bill of rights. Does the judge relish the idea of making criminals out of people who’ve never broke a law in their life until his wish list of gun control measures take effect? Hiding behind Republican credentials doesn’t make him right, either.<\/p>\n

Some generous fellow offered me a “grandfather clause” for my weapons and magazines because I’ve been a good boy for the years since 1984 when I bought my assault rifle – as if my beliefs aren’t a principle and I can be placated because I’m just that selfish.<\/p>\n

It’s become vogue in the anti-gun reactionary thugs crowd to call us cowards for clinging to our guns, but people like this judge are the real cowards, wetting their pants and wringing their hands over law abiding citizens with guns – citizens who haven’t committed crimes and have no intention to commit crimes with their guns. Well, until you make the guns illegal, that is.<\/p>\n

Some of us have a need for weapons like the ones that the diaper-wearing crowd wants to ban. Prove I don’t. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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