October 30th, 2009
NRA, others take aim at gun ban in Seattle parks
Four gun-rights organizations, including the National Rifle Association, are suing the city of Seattle and Mayor Greg Nickels over the new ban on guns in city parks.
They were joined by five individuals, including two Department of Corrections workers who say they need to carry their personal weapons in city parks to protect themselves against criminals.
“The city is acting illegally in putting a ban into effect,” said Alan Gottlieb, with the Second Amendment Foundation, and one of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit filed in King County Superior Court. “Lots of people in Seattle need firearms for self-protection.”
The story is discussed (term used loosely) at a site called Slog:
The insistence of this form of stupidity, gun rights, is like the backside of a proud water buffalo.
And the conversation (term used loosely) continues in the comments:
Let’s legalize guns in schools too, right? Legalize guns in courthouses, jails, and bars too, am I right? After all, a #2 pencil can kill someone too, right? And let’s legalize poison gas and explosives, since it’s the people killing other people, not the poison gas.
Pro-gun rights arguments are so leotarded.
That guy’s user name is i heart hunting accidents. No, I didn’t make that up.
Here’s another good one:
I failed to mention my respect for the second amendment despite personal sentiments. I just don’t respect the white man’s burden blubbering, tea-baggers who carry them.
But at least someone has a solution:
I think any law-abiding citizen should be able own and carry guns, but I also think that guns should be much more strictly regulated.
“But.”
Here are the proposals to incorporate that “but”:
Buying and selling of guns should be tightly regulated. All transfers of ownership should be registered with the state, even when between private parties. Perhaps a gun can be “scanned” out of one license holders inventory, and scanned into another. Obviously close the gun show loophole too.
All guns should be inventoried every two years. Since each transfer of a gun would have to be registered with the state, we would theoretically know who had every gun in the state.
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