{"id":1182,"date":"2011-02-05T22:26:51","date_gmt":"2011-02-06T02:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=1182"},"modified":"2011-02-05T22:26:51","modified_gmt":"2011-02-06T02:26:51","slug":"gun-control-and-practicality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/gun-control-and-practicality\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cGUN CONTROL\u201d AND PRACTICALITY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new high capacity magazine ban coming to the table in Washington must, like all legislation, pass the test of practicality. Realist Howard Nemerov depicts here <a href=\"http:\/\/pajamasmedia.com\/tatler\/2011\/02\/03\/u-s-attaining-third-world-status\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/pajamasmedia.com\/tatler\/2011\/02\/03\/u-s-attaining-third-world-status<\/a> , a nation that no longer has the superfluous wealth to allow ridiculously expensive \u201cfeel-good\u201d legislation that will offer no genuine benefit to the populace.<\/p>\n<p>Do Google searches on the devastating police layoffs that have taken place from Camden, NJ to Oakland, CA. The thin blue line is being stretched past the breaking point as it is, and is far too thin to be burdened with enforcing a law that would criminalize millions of honest citizens for owning a \u201chigh capacity magazine\u201d they have legally purchased and responsibly possessed. Our police are already overburdened and underfunded.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s read the proposed legislation carefully. The original Clinton \u201chigh capacity magazine ban\u201d that lasted for a decade \u201cgrandfathered\u201d possession of existing magazines. If the new legislation criminalizes the possession of millions of existing magazines, logic would demand that these be paid for when confiscated, as the British government paid so much for the handguns it began confiscating from its citizens by legislative fiat in the late 1990s. Millions of magazines\u2026let\u2019s say $40 value apiece\u2026plus the countless hours it would consume for police officers and prosecutors\u2026<em>you <\/em>do the math. Insane expense in dollars and manpower, for little if any return in terms of improved public safety.<\/p>\n<p>Are they planning to confiscate <em>without<\/em> fair market value compensation? Ooohhh\u2026here come some <em>other<\/em> Constitutional issues that will be very expensive and time consuming to litigate.<\/p>\n<p>The people who propose these foolish measures don\u2019t do their research. They don\u2019t understand the real issues.<\/p>\n<p>We need to remind them \u2013 and the huge number of middle-road voters \u2013 of this. Don\u2019t expect the NRA to do it for you. Contrary to popular belief, they\u2019re not a giant monolith made of money. Brother Nemerov points <em>that<\/em> out, here: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/pajamasmedia.com\/blog\/did-the-national-rifle-association-buy-congress\/?singlepage=true\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/pajamasmedia.com\/blog\/did-the-national-rifle-association-buy-congress\/?singlepage=true<\/a> Write your representatives in Washington. Write letters to the editor to your local papers. Point out the \u201cunintended consequences\u201d of knee-jerk legislation that does not encompass reality or logic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new high capacity magazine ban coming to the table in Washington must, like all legislation, pass the test of practicality. Realist Howard Nemerov depicts here http:\/\/pajamasmedia.com\/tatler\/2011\/02\/03\/u-s-attaining-third-world-status , a nation that no longer has the superfluous wealth to allow ridiculously expensive \u201cfeel-good\u201d legislation that will offer no genuine benefit to the populace. Do Google searches [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1182","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-firearm-owners-civil-rights"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}