One of the things that always annoyed me about the Libertarian Party was its’ members predilection for purity-testing each other to a fine sheen, to the point where nobody could ever really get supported for anything.
The good news? Apparently they’re not doing that anymore.
The bad news? We know this because they’ve apparently endorsed a non-Libertarian for office.
Democrat “Libertarian” Veep nominee Bill Weld is as clueless about firearms as any NPR reporter.
The “clueless” is so strong, I won’t bother fisking it. I’ll just let the statement sit in its full glory, and wait ’til the footnotes:
“The five-shot rifle, that’s a standard military rifle; 1 the problem is if you attach a clip to it so it can fire more shells and if you remove the pin so that it becomes an automatic weapon, 2 and those are independent criminal offenses, 3” Weld said. “That is when they become, essentially a weapon of mass destruction. 4 The problem with handguns probably is even worse than the problem of the AR15.” 5
Weld also said he believed no one on a terrorist watch list should be allowed to purchase guns, even though, as the Huffington Post pointed out, it isn’t too hard for an innocent person to end up on the list.
Indeed, that’s the point – which Weld would know, if he were a Libertarian.
Footnotes:
1: The “standard military rifle” hasn’t been “five shots” since about 1942.
2: If you “remove the pin”, it becomes a club.
3: No, it becomes zero offenses; adding a larger magazine isn’t a crime (except in places like DC, Chicago, California and Massachusetts (unless you’re Brian Gregory)), and “taking out the pin” is called “Field stripping and cleaning”. Converting a gun to full automatic is a federal felony – but Weld is not curious enough to know that’s practically impossible with a garden-variety AR15. Not that I’d know, because guns scare me.
4: No, they do not become nuclear, biological, chemical or high-explosive weapons. They become rifles that are easy to use, don’t jam, and don’t run out of bullets before the bad guy runs out of attack.
5: Well, duh. Handguns kill two orders of magnitude more people than “assault weapons”. Or, put correctly, criminals use handguns to murder two orders of magnitude more people – disproportionally brown or black, most of them in Democrat cities.
Johnson is no better.
But they have Libertarian views on pakalolo and porn, and if you look at who funds the Libertarian party, you will discover why those are such important attributes for a wannabe Libertarian politician to have.
And yet, in the polls, the LIbertarians are gaining ground at a steady rate, almost as fast as the right keeps losing rapidly in those same polls.
You’re losing. Your 2A resistance to regulation is unpopular and not supported by anyone but a few crazies.
Fisk all you like; this is what you losing looks like — and long overdue.
Your 2A resistance to regulation is unpopular and not supported by anyone but a few crazies.
The legislative record (outside blue-state cesspools like CA and CT) disagrees with you.
As always.
Your 2A resistance to regulation is unpopular and not supported by anyone but a few crazies.
Like Mitch said:
How many states had liberal carry permit laws in 1987?
How many states have liberal carry permit laws today?
How can you survive in such a thick isolation tank?
You’re losing.
Good to see you’re still using that “debate” tactic, DG. Are you still trying to convince us or yourself?
Good to see you’re still using that “debate” tactic, DG.
No kidding.
That’s the big annoyance with you, DG. You don’t debate. You string together a series of factoids (maybe – very often risible) with a bunch of condescending chanting points, write it into a gassy, bloated mass of rhetorical goo, dump it like it’s the revealed word of God, and scamper away, never to see how badly your case gets clobbered by people who know what they’re talking about.
It’s easy to think the earth is flat, when you ignore everyone who shows you it’s round.