- Jan 30, 2013
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There are a lot of "prophylactic," Second Amendment-infringing bills proposed this MGA session that are promoted by sponsors as "common sense" (as if our and their predecessors for over 200 years didn't have any, and they are the Enlightened Ones).
We sometimes identify their proposals as a "solution looking for a problem."
When giving testimony and communicating with Members, do we unnecessarily dignify their increasingly hair-brained schemes by even using the word "solution"? These proposed bills aren't "solutions" for crime, accidents, or suicides by gun; they're emotion-driven assaults on what too many in the MGA deem to be an outdated relic in the Bill of Rights -- the Second Amendment itself.
Is there some other way we could refer to stupid, nonsensical, illogical and sometimes idiotic legislation such as the terror watch list bill, the toy firearms bill, the antique firearms bill, and others, besides calling them a "solution looking for a problem"? They are solutions to nothing. All those legislative proposals do is provide false hope, and worse, when they fail it gives rise to calls for even more gun control.
How about calling them what they are, e.g., "nonsensical" or something similar, even "idiotic" to their sponsors' faces and colleagues? Why not call it what it really is?
Alinsky, Democrats, and Trump know what works: Mockery and ridicule of ridiculous ideas. Otherwise, we're legitimizing them.
We sometimes identify their proposals as a "solution looking for a problem."
When giving testimony and communicating with Members, do we unnecessarily dignify their increasingly hair-brained schemes by even using the word "solution"? These proposed bills aren't "solutions" for crime, accidents, or suicides by gun; they're emotion-driven assaults on what too many in the MGA deem to be an outdated relic in the Bill of Rights -- the Second Amendment itself.
Is there some other way we could refer to stupid, nonsensical, illogical and sometimes idiotic legislation such as the terror watch list bill, the toy firearms bill, the antique firearms bill, and others, besides calling them a "solution looking for a problem"? They are solutions to nothing. All those legislative proposals do is provide false hope, and worse, when they fail it gives rise to calls for even more gun control.
How about calling them what they are, e.g., "nonsensical" or something similar, even "idiotic" to their sponsors' faces and colleagues? Why not call it what it really is?
Alinsky, Democrats, and Trump know what works: Mockery and ridicule of ridiculous ideas. Otherwise, we're legitimizing them.