Sunday, March 05, 2006

How to waste taxpayer money...

...moonbat style.

Since I know the most about NY's version, that's the one I'll bitch about. Several states have this asinine bullet registration system. Every handgun purchased in the state has a round fired, and the casing from said round is kept in a data base. If the weapon is used in a crime, the thinking goes, the gun can then be easily matched to the stored casing.

Bullshit. 4 million dollars a year for NY to collect and collate the brass, and not one crime has been solved in the 5 years they've been spending...strike that...WASTING this money. Millions of dollars a year flushed away. Maryland does it as well, but at last count I believe they were spending only a couple million a year to SOLVE NOT ONE CRIMINAL ACT.

And there's another bill in the works to tack on more forms...they LOVE forms...to the purchase of ammunition. What they just don't get is that law abiding citizens are not the ones they should be keeping track of. And forget for a moment that the "science" they are using is so seriously flawed that any honest criminal investigator will tell you that half the time they haven't a clue as to what gun a bullet was fired from, even if they have the gun and the bullets.

All it is is gun registration. Annoying gun registration designed to make it as much of a hassle as possible to keep and bear arms. In NY, the politicians are thinking about forcing the police to shoot to wound. Shoot to wound. As if THAT would stop someone, but NO, they watch so much TV and see so very many BAD movies that they believe a measly little 9mm to be a death ray incarnate. One hit to the pinky finger and the bad guy is writhing on the ground. They don't listen to the cops who tell them that men take hit after hit from all sorts of large caliber weapons and keep on ticking because guns are evil and look what happens when Bruce Willis shoots someone. They fly through the air, fer chrissake.

The blue-staters are so afraid of guns they continue to elect politicians who would rid the country of them. NY isn't going to change, neither is California, or Marlyand, or Hawaii, or Chicago. The Illinois State Police use Glock 23's in .40 caliber but their Chicago brethren must make do with 9mm's because the politicians believe that .40 is overkill.

Normally, I'd recommend moving to a free state, but follow that advice and eventually we'll have no place to live. Yes, one of the reasons Lisa and I moved to Florida was because the gun laws were reasonable, not perfect, minc you, but reasonable. The county in Iowa we hailed from was a shall-NOT issue one, as the Sheriff thought that anyone wanting to carry a firearm was a meth dealer looking to blow away the competition. I kid you not. He ran on a shall-issue platform but changed his mind once in office, and will most likely be re-elected because by that time he'll have made so very many connections with local businesses the sheeple will forget that he is anti-gun.

But don't get me started about wishy-washy Iowa. All of that home-cooking bullswaddle you read about, all of those homey corn fields...which, by the way, grow 99% dog-food quality corn...are nothing but a smokescreen to hide the fact that crime is rampant, illegal drugs are everywhere, and you're more likely to be mugged in Sioux City than downtown Manhattan.

To hell with flouridation. It's more testosterone that's needed in the drinking water.

Lots more.

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