The Next Prohibition
By Mitch Berg
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
President Obama and Candidate Clinton suggest The Australian plan: ban possession of guns and ammo, buy-back from those who will voluntarily participate, and wait for attrition to eliminate the rest.
How does this plan differ from the federal government’s treatment of cocaine, which has been banned for 101 years but remains widely available and reasonably priced?
Put another way, which is harder to smuggle into the country: a pound of cocaine or a pound of bullets?
Joe Doakes
Obamas inability to learn from world history is legendary.
Why would American history be any different?
November 5th, 2015 at 8:50 am
Australia also has a law allowing the police to demand you remove any fortification of your home. Tall fences, cameras, steel doors, bars on windows all trouble the police. They need to be able to break your door down with ease….for the good of the community.
November 5th, 2015 at 9:33 am
I’ve noticed that hipsters are deeply offended when you point out how much bloodshed and terror is necessary to maintain the distribution system that permits them to affordably indulge in the occasional “harmless toot” they enjoy. Since the overwhelming majority of the people who MUST die to maintain the system are black and Hispanic it further enrages the hipsters to be confronted with the truth ( yes I said truth DG) that black lives really don’t matter when it come to their “harmless toot”.
November 5th, 2015 at 10:18 am
Drug overdoses kill more Americans than car crashes or firearms. So we have to ban drugs!
Errr… wait. We already do.
Nevermind.
(See, DG, this is why your brand of puritanism depends entirely upon the law abiding, moral people of this country continuing to be moral and law abiding even when you trample their rights. But the problem is NOT the law abiding, which is where you run off the logic train in the whole gun debate.)
November 5th, 2015 at 10:21 am
Obama’s (sic) inability to learn from world history is legendary.
That’s giving him entirely too much credit. History doesn’t mean diddlyjack to him. He (and the rest of the progressive left) has an agenda, and all else be damned.