SACRAMENTO — New sales of semi-automatic rifles with removable magazines would be banned in California under a bill passed by the Democratic-led state legislature on Tuesday, and those who already own such weapons would have to register them.
California lawmakers pass expanded semi-automatic weapons ban – U.S. News
According to the FBI, you are four times more likely to be killed by a fist, hammer or baseball bat than by a rifle. And you are 100 times more likely to die in an auto accident as be killed by a rifle.
FBI — Expanded Homicide Data Table 11
But there are other reasons why progressives want to disarm the citizenry
Ban large cities, and we would become the safest country on Earth. It would also kill the democrat party, it’s a win-win.
I think we should start a campaign to do just that! Big cities – killers of a million babies!
Go(o)d point. 😉
This just means the Soviet Peoples’ Republic of California will not have enough arms and ammunition to invade the Republic of Texarkana when she declares independence. Suckers!
One must always keep one eye on the future.
Sort of like a well regulated militia. HT to Instapundit.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/in-the-hills-of-michoacan-self-defense-groups-battle-a-mexican-drug-cartel/2013/09/09/6947e47a-119f-11e3-a2b3-5e107edf9897_story.html
Who needs al Qaeda if you have government like this.
“The people are not to be disarmed of their weapons. They are left in full possession of them.”
— Zacharia Johnson, delegate to Virginia Ratifying Convention, Elliot, 3:645-6
“Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms … The right of citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard, against the tyranny which now appears remote in America but which historically has proven to be always possible.”
— Hubert H. Humphrey, Senator, Vice President, 22 October 1959
“The militia is the natural defense of a free country against sudden foreign invasions, domestic insurrections, and domestic usurpation of power by rulers. The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of the republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally … enable the people to resist and triumph over them.”
— Joseph Story, Supreme Court Justice, Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, p. 3:746-7, 1833
” … most attractive to Americans, the possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave, it being the ultimate means by which freedom was to be preserved.”
— James Burgh, 18th century English Libertarian writer, Shalhope, The Ideological Origins of the Second Amendment, p.604
An open carry group was at a major road intersection in my city yesterday. It is legal to open carry rifles in Texas. I did not see any of my fellow drivers look worried or even slightly concerned over these people or their rifles.
I guess my city of 65,000 is still under the big city threshold of Constitution haters.