{"id":649,"date":"2004-12-17T02:11:56","date_gmt":"2004-12-17T02:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:08:55","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:08:55","slug":"that_camels_nos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=649","title":{"rendered":"That Camel’s Nose Is Damn Cold"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s funny – over at Armed Liberal when I used to write about issues around gun regulation, I pointed out that I’m a moderate who would probably be willing to talk about some regulation around the ownership of guns, as an abstract public policy discussion. If only it weren’t my belief that those who want to regulate guns really see regulation as a step-by-step process leading to absolute bans.<\/p>\n

Many commenters suggested that I was nuts, or spun by second-amendment absolutists (take a look at Guy Cabot’s comment on this post<\/a>).<\/p>\n

They’re wrong<\/a>.<\/p>\n

(12-16) 00:15 PST SAN FRANCISCO (AP) —<\/p>\n

\nSan Francisco supervisors want voters to approve a sweeping handgun ban that would prohibit almost everyone except law enforcement officers, security guards and military members from possessing firearms in the city.<\/p>\n

\nThe measure, which will appear on the municipal ballot next year, would bar residents from keeping guns in their homes or businesses, Bill Barnes, an aide to Supervisor Chris Daly, said Wednesday. It would also prohibit the sale, manufacturing and distribution of handguns and ammunition in San Francisco, as well as the transfer of gun licenses.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I can’t begin to suggest how incredibly stupid this is – in so many dimensions. As policy, if this worked, Washington D.C., Chicago, and New York City would be the safest places in the country. They’re not? And as politics, it maneuvers the Democratic Party here in California out onto a thin branch and starts sawing.<\/p>\n

I listened to Fabian Nunez, Speaker of the State Assembly on the radio today, and he confidently asserted that California is and will always be a ‘blue state’. <\/p>\n

Hmmm. Bush lost by 9%, we have a Republican governor, and one of the two likely Democratic candidates (Rob Reiner) against him in ’06 just backed out because his people doesn’t think he could win.<\/p>\n

And for the millions of moderate gun-owners like me, I wind up taking another step over toward the no-compromise absolutist side of the room. Nice work, fellas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gun Control moderates get shot in San Francisco.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}