Skip to main content

Slippery slopes? Nah, it's that damn paranoid Libertarian imagination

Because nobody is going to ever use de facto gun registration information to confiscate weapons>

Of course not:
In 2011, the ATF issued a memo that declared that it is illegal for anyone with a medical-marijuana card to possess a gun or ammunition.

Comments

The Last Ephor said…
and Cyprus is learning what the government can do once they've disarmed you.
March 26, 2013 at 11:03 AM
Mike W. said…
Of course many gun control advocates know very well that we've been right all along about registration leading to and enabling confiscations. Nothing paranoid about being right.

Doesn't matter that we're right in their minds. Guns are the problem. "Less guns" is the solution and so confiscation is a good thing.

March 28, 2013 at 12:14 PM
tom said…
Exactly where is the "Gun Crime" problem that Gov. Markell and his co-conspirators claim they want to protect us from?

According to the Criminal Justice Council’s Statistical Analysis Center (a Delaware’s Executive Department agency that reports to the Markell Administration), the annual average number of arrests for all firearm offenses combined, over the two most recent two years for which complete data is available (2010 & 2011) was 2426. Less than 1 in 8 of these arrests (311) resulted in convictions far the original charge or a lesser offense.

According to the 2010 Census, Delaware's population is about 917,000.

That is an annual rate of gun crimes of 0.03% of the population (or 33.9 per 100,000 population if you prefer the way the FBI reports crime rates).

And the scariest part of all of this is that the majority of this tiny number of arrests and convictions probably were complete bullshit.
March 29, 2013 at 3:49 AM
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

A Libertarian Martin Luther King Jr. Day post

In which we travel into interesting waters . . . (for a fairly long trip, so be prepared) Dr. King's 1968 book, Where do we go from here:  chaos or community? , is profound in that it criticizes anti-poverty programs for their piecemeal approach, as John Schlosberg of the Center for a Stateless Society  [C4SS] observes: King noted that the antipoverty programs of the time “proceeded from a premise that poverty is a consequence of multiple evils,” with separate programs each dedicated to individual issues such as education and housing. Though in his view “none of these remedies in itself is unsound,” they “all have a fatal disadvantage” of being “piecemeal,” with their implementation having “fluctuated at the whims of legislative bodies” or been “entangled in bureaucratic stalling.”   The result is that “fragmentary and spasmodic reforms have failed to reach down to the profoundest needs of the poor.” Such single-issue approaches also have “another common failing — ...
44 comments
Read more

Libertarian National Committee Deathwatch Part 1

As the LNC continues to lurch towards collapse, with the latest news of mass layoffs at HQ, I've decided to begin tracking those things leading the national party to irrelevance, even as state and local parties gain power. As news, rumors and rhetoric break out, I shall chronicle them in this ongoing series at Delaware Libertarian. Organizations approaching failure have a number of characteristics. One of the most striking is renunciation of their purpose and effort to reinvent themselves as a "me-too" provider of services in the marketplace. In this, the LNC has been on a collision course with destiny for a while now. Recently, for example, it hired Republican Party web site developer TerraEclipse to redesign the LNC web site . Terra created a web site very similar to those of the clients it brags most about -- far-right Republican conservatives like Tom McClintock and BJ Lawson. A quick look at the web site they built for the LNC is instructive. The tagline on the ...
22 comments
Read more

The disturbing decline of the Delaware blogosphere: a very unfortunate Around the Horn (even if it's not Friday)

I've noticed a change in my own blog-checking habits over the past several weeks, and I don't know if it's just me or the reality of the last month of a divisive political campaign. I automatically used to check out Delawareliberal first and several times a day, because it was where I could find edgy, thought-provoking, and (dare I say it) funny banter going on. These days visit several other spots first, and my visits to DL are both shorter and less engaged. Why? Because the combination of invading neo-con commenters with the stridency of some of the major contributors has led to such pleasant exchanges as a post dedicated to labeling another blogger racist by donviti, whose own sense of provocative humor is generally so far out there that he makes John Belushi doing Samurai bartender on the SNL look positively pro-Asian. Or I can find Delawaredem and jason periodically spewing the idea that anybody who is not a liberal or progressive Democrat is somehow a non-American,...
27 comments
Read more