Sunday, January 20, 2008

What are they really afraid of?

WaronGuns has a post about a NY legislator trying to regulate, of all things, Geiger Counters. Why would they possible use to justify this? Just like w/ .50 cals, a scenario that hasn't happened but "might" :

"Our mutual goal is to prevent false alarms"

What are their most likely real goals?

"He and his colleagues will try to accommodate all the concerns when they redraft the bill, he said, but one way or another, the cops are going to have this new power."

Why do they want to know where they are and regulate them? Because they're afraid that people might discover the truth:

"When the Environmental Protection Agency promised that the air surrounding Ground Zero was safe, Vallone said, independent testers proved that such assurances were utterly false."

They want people to be utterly dependent on the Gov't and to rely on "official" information for their safety. Nevermind the fact that the error rate of any Gov't agency is higher than anything people would tolerate from a civilian company or organization. Also, as is typical of legislators, he realized that his proposal would cause issues, yet he cared so much that he tried to fast-track the law even w/ the problems:

"When I was first given a briefing only weeks ago, the potential problems did occur to me,"

With this type of nanny-state mentality, I can almost guarantee what his voting record is on firearms.

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