From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/california/stories/mgunreg_20001216.htm > > > >Published Saturday, December 16, 2000 > > >State's assault weapons ban confusing, gun group claims >The NRA plans to challenge regulations imposed by Attorney General Bill >Lockyer >By Emily Bazar >SCRIPPS-MCCLATCHY NEWS SERVICE --big snip-- >"The most important part of the law is really not the gun owners and whether >they register and what the regulations are," Tolley said. "The most important >part of the law to us is that the weapons won't be sold in California >anymore." >-- >Then why require them to be registered? The mind boggles. > >Steve. Steve, & Mike, It really is too bad that such crap takes place. But, it is a classic example of people who, on the one hand, don't give a rat's arse about what affects the lives of yet other people, and could care less that those other people's rights are being suppressed (and so therefore do nothing to object to such crassness in the face of the truth), and still other people yet who are determined to oppress certain subsets of their fellow citizens, merely because they feel an urge to brutally oppress them, in ways that can only be described as invidiously and psychologically cruel. To know that a right has been suppressed with a defective law, and done so wantonly, willfully, and with malice aforethought, can only invite the kind of hatred which inspired the law to begin with. These despicable sorts in California, have knowingly gloated over their successes. That kind of response to enacting a law can only be the best kind of indicator that the law was in fact not a lawful enactment, but a most perverse instrument of deception, retribution, and repression. Deception because, it achieves nothing of its supposed benefit; retribution because, most firearms owners campaigned against the motivators of the law; and repression because, the citizens who exercise their rights are singled out for spiteful and hateful acts under color of law. Honest people of integrity, do not celebrate the denial of something, merely because they were successful at outlawing it. Celebration is a knowing, and conscious act which marks an occasion in passing. It, placed in its proper light, is nothing less than gloating, and jeering at those whose lives are possibly forever changed. How can such celebrations be anything other than an indicator that the law was nothing less than vindictive, and in its essence, a self-serving vehicle of spite? That, more than anything else, is reason enough to overturn those laws, every damned one of them. -- =*= =*= =*= =*= =*= =*= =*= =*= =*= =*= Liberty: Live it . . . or lose it. =*= =*= =*= =*= =*= =*= =*= =*= =*= =*= ET -- The problem in California is that the committees involved with guns are totally comprised of Democrats from urban areas. Steve. Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________________________________ T O P I C A http://www.topica.com/t/17 Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Your Favorite Topics