{"id":32426,"date":"2012-12-17T12:00:55","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T18:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=32426"},"modified":"2012-12-17T12:32:29","modified_gmt":"2012-12-17T18:32:29","slug":"the-same-old-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=32426","title":{"rendered":"The Same Old Song"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steve Timmer – hey, when did he get an actual name? – writing at MNBlue<\/del> MNProgressive MN<\/del> MNLib<\/del>\u00a0whatever he rechristened\u00a0Cucking Stool<\/em>,\u00a0exhumes an anti-Second-Amendment argument that isn’t the oldest one, but is certainly the least compelling and convincing; “if you think an “assault weapon” is OK, why not a nuclear weapon<\/a>?”<\/p>\n

No, my synopsis is actually better than Timmer’s piece, but since good form demands it, I’ll give you a quote or two:<\/p>\n

\u00a0Scalia believes the test is your right to own a weapon depends on your ability to carry it \u2014 to \u201cbear\u201d it, in other words. There\u2019s no room here for consideration of a weapon\u2019s lethality, dangerousness, or complexity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(Except for all of those “prudent restrictions” that Scalia himself talked about in in the\u00a0Heller\u00a0<\/em>decision. \u00a0But don’t stop him. \u00a0He’s on a roll)<\/p>\n

One can imagine signs in gun shops: If you can carry it out the front door, you can own it!<\/p>\n

In the shops are rocket-propelled grenades, bazookas, hand gernades, the aforesaid MANPADS [shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles], 50 caliber machine guns, fully-automatic rifles, etc. *<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And what if Timmer’s fantasy came true?<\/p>\n

Let’s just say\u00a0<\/em>that a law-abiding citizen, one who’s never stolen so much as a candy bar in his life, walks into a store that,\u00a0per\u00a0<\/em>Timmer’s fantasy, has one of just about everything \u00a0from the international arms market that doesn’t require wheels or tracks to move?<\/p>\n

Let’s hypothetically say that that law-abiding citizen…:<\/p>\n