Plastic Gun Ban

[MikeBjerum]

I read with irritation the USA Today on Wednesday.  Or should I say I'm still reading it?  I picked it up during breakfast before the Symposium, and the front page said this will be like John Wayne in the Shootist.  I will keep it until I have read it all.

The front page is full of anti-gun crap.  One story is titled HOUSE SAYS YES TO ONE GUN BILL  Plastic gun ban only firearm legislation to pass since Newtown

The House has passed a simple 10-year extension of the 1988 law banning guns that are undetectable in metal detectors or x-ray machines.  Come on government!  The spring in my ball point pen sets off metal detectors.  What do you think a spring for a firing pin or striker will do.

The purpose of this is because there is a concern over these new plastic guns we can all print.  By the way, has any politician ever looked at the image TSA sees when our body or our baggage is scanned?  You can see my leather belt, my shoes, my lint brush, a toothbrush, and outlines of most everything else.  Do you not think that a high density plastic firearm would not be fully visible and recognizable?

I had Cam and Co. on in the background while working, and I caught one phrase, the only thing I caught outside of a little music all day:  A recent poll shows there is less public interest in new or extending of gun control than just six months ago.  This is the reason that people act fast.  Let no tragedy be wasted.  If they can't get emotion behind it, it will never pass.  Anybody have a parent, grandparent, mentor or teacher tell you Haste makes waste?  Think of that whenever you hear things like it must be done now, or it is for the children, or it will save the (insert special class here).

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Wouldn't the ammo set of the metal dectors?   or can they print that too...  Oh and what about injected molded guns? Or machined from solid plastic?   those are easier, strong, faster and cheaper to produce.  Besides, those that want to do harm with such guns, don't care about laws anyways.

[kmitch200]

The law was idiotic when it was passed by idiots and hasn't gotten any better with age.

Reminds me of going to an NFL game where they wanded everyone looking for weapons.
I had forgotten that my pocketknife was in it's usual place (BenchMade Auto-3.5" blade) and didn't want to walk the 1/2 mile+ to the car.
The solution?
I held it in my hand with my keys and phone!!!

When they use the walk though type, you hold your cellphone above your head towards the top of the detector. I think the same technique would work. 

Another episode of Security Theater. 
 

[Magoo541]

Wouldn't the ammo set of the metal dectors?   or can they print that too...  Oh and what about injected molded guns? Or machined from solid plastic?   those are easier, strong, faster and cheaper to produce.  Besides, those that want to do harm with such guns, don't care about laws anyways.

Did you see the new Polymer cased ammo?  I bet that sent them for a loop.  Plastic guns with plastic ammo... 

[alfsauve]

There's been caseless ammo for years, but the projectiles have always been metal.

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[Rastus]

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The front page is full of anti-gun crap.  One story is titled HOUSE SAYS YES TO ONE GUN BILL  Plastic gun ban only firearm legislation to pass since Newtown
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It will never end.  The "pain" of politician's legislative absurdity must be felt by the sheeple in a special way so that even the "Dancing With The Stars Crowd" gets it.  So...anything that looks like a gun should be on the potential ban list.....for the sake of argument lets say hair dryers.  Hair dryers look like guns.

The war here is to stop the self-serving politicians...but we need the hearts, minds (sort of) and the attention of the sheep to be truly successful.  They do not need to informed, they do not need to be on our side, they just need to be emotionally attached to an issue faux or real that runs counter to the politician or administrator making a run on the 2nd Amendment.  Understanding may never come to many of these sheep so getting them to understand is a secondary effort at best.

So I say sucker punch the pols; be it absurd or over the top....demands that anything that, for instance, looks like a gun or bullets be banned is useful and we can tell the sheep they are going to include hair dryers and lipstick.  This isn't a fair debate so...running ads that counter a pol's (or administrator's) desire to ban guns and using their legal language as proposed to show how this is going to inadvertantly affect hair dryers and lip stick is a good strategy.  Gee, how stupid, lazy and incompetent can the guy who wants this be to include hair dryers and lip stick?

Let the pols defend themselves.  That is a good strategy.  They get mired in defense and taken out of offensively promoting their plan.  Let us run ads saying, for instance, they are going to take away Barbie's hair dryer and lipstick.  Remember, this isn't a fair debate...it never was.  So...keep running the ads all the way to the election...the pols will keep having to defend themselves....because you know Barbie is not going to think this through any more than when we provide a logical argument to counter the anti-gunners. 

Face it.  Barbie is blond. 

[tombogan03884]

A thought on ALL politicians .
You are NOT being paid on "piece rate".
You azzholes already WON your elections.
You do NOT have to justify your paycheck like a factory worker by producing lots of laws.
If you put your feet up and goldbrick till the next election the whole world will be a better place.