Disarm America? Here's how
The disarmament process would begin after the initial three-month amnesty. Special squads of police would be formed and trained to carry out the work. Then, on a random basis to permit no advance warning, city blocks and stretches of suburban and rural areas would be cordoned off and searches carried out in every business, dwelling and empty building. Thoroughness would be at the level of the sort of search that is carried out in Crime Scene Investigations. All firearms would be seized. The owners of weapons found in the searches would be prosecuted: $1,000 and one year in prison for each firearm.
Dan Simpson
It is depressing to me that there are people in highly visible positions who think like this. This person is dangerous. He is a fledgling totalitarian and fascist. I would pose the question to BP readers. If you lived in Germany in the 1920s and read an article like this from a young fellow named Adolf Hitler, and you knew the future, what would you do?
Dan Simpson
It is depressing to me that there are people in highly visible positions who think like this. This person is dangerous. He is a fledgling totalitarian and fascist. I would pose the question to BP readers. If you lived in Germany in the 1920s and read an article like this from a young fellow named Adolf Hitler, and you knew the future, what would you do?
posted by Anonymous | 10:02 AM
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Steve: This person is dangerous. He is a fledgling totalitarian and fascist.
Upon reading the beginning of the full column, I thought Simpson was just joking and Steve was just overreacting while missing the humor.
Simpson said, "Before anyone starts to hyperventilate about me as a crazed liberal zealot wanting to take the gun from his cold, dead hands, let me say what my experience is of guns... As a child I played cowboys and Indians with cap guns. I had a Daisy Red Ryder B-B gun. My father had in his bedside table drawer an old pistol which I examined surreptitiously from time to time. When assigned to the American embassy in Beirut during the war in Lebanon, I sometimes carried a .357 Magnum, which I could fire accurately. I also learned there to handle and fire a variety of weapons, including Uzis and rocket-propelled grenade launchers... I don't have any problem with hunting, although blowing away animals with high-powered weapons seems a pointless, no-contest affair to me. I suppose I would enjoy the fellowship of friends who are hunters."
Here, he sounds like most folks and rather reasonable; naturally I was waiting for the punch line. But as I read on with what seemed to be an intentionally ridiculous, slightly amusing ("On the streets it would be a question of stopping and searching anyone, even Grandma with her walker, with the same penalties for 'carrying.'"), and completely convoluted scheme for disarming America, that punch line never came. As my son says with both palms facing up in the air, “Where? Where’d it go?” Maybe the op-ed editor removed it (you know, the conclusion where Simpson makes the connection of how ‘we’ can't win the War On Drugs via gov't meddling so how in the hell would this dumbass idea not similarly turn the gun trade into a full-on black market industry and more wasted tax dollars spent on a self-created crisis where gun confiscation department officials chase down gun owners … using guns). Yep, that must be it.
I actually had the same initial reaction: "He's kidding, right? Right?" As you say, though, the punch line never came.
Scary guy.
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