Dorchester Reporter Offers Rant Filled Editorial
While meant to be humorous, James W. Dolan’s rant about guns for The Dorchester Reporter is anything but funny. He is a retired Dorchester District Court judge who now practices law. We suggest to Mr. Dolan that he keep his day job because no amount of practicing with comedy is going to get him near Carnegie Hall – or even a local open mic night in Dorchester for that matter.
He writes, in response to pending Massachusetts legislation that would limit the number of guns that could be purchased each month by individuals in the state, that the United States has a strange fascination with guns. The problem with this type of humor (if you can call it that) filled piece is that he mixes facts with jokes. For example:
“Germany produces good cars. In France, it’s food. In Italy, it’s fashion. Here in America, it’s guns. We are the most ‘rootin-tootin,’ ‘gun-toting,’ ‘butt-kickin” ‘make-my-day’ country in the world.”
Actually, Mr. Dolan Germany has a large arms industry as well. I mean (to take a cue from you) this is Germany – the nation that celebrated by building up an empire with a World War! Germany created one of the most popular bolt-action rifles ever, which was essentially copied by everyone! Germany invented the first assault rifle with the MP-44, a gun widely noted for looking a heck of a lot like the later AK-47. Today many nations used H&K small arms. H&K is as German as strudel and Volkswagen.
Italy might also be a fashion hub, but Beretta isn’t just an old TV show from the 1970s. It is also one of the world’s oldest gun makers – and it is as Italian as spaghetti and Fiat. France… OK, you got me. France makes crappy guns. They always have, they probably always win. But in fairness, I think their food sucks too.
But in all seriousness, the problem with rants such as Dolan’s is that they don’t really explain the facts. Clearly Mr. Dolan is an anti-gun zealot who has no facts to back up his argument. So instead he tries silly humor. The problem is that it isn’t funny. Let’s hope for the sake of his clients that Dolan is a better lawyer than comedian.
Associate Press Highlights New Gun Laws With Expected Bias
The mainstream media has said for the past year, since Barack Obama was elected president that gun owners were concerned about new gun legislation, but now that many new favor gun owners, the Associated Press has noted these with concern. Here is a rather one-sided point on the issue:
“The NRA has a stranglehold on a lot of state legislatures,” said Kristin Rand, legislative director of the Violence Policy Center, a gun control group in Washington. “They basically have convinced lawmakers they can cost them their seats, even though there’s no real evidence to back that up.”
Are these really a stranglehold, or actually just the perseveration of second amendment rights?
Canada Vote Could Abolish Gun Registry
Another story is developing north of the border, and it is of the type that our American mainstream media doesn’t want you to know about it. Call it a real inconvenient truth and it has nothing to do with global warming or climate change. Rather it is about attitude change and warming opinions on firearm ownership. The CBC (Canadian Broadcast Company) is reporting that law makers in Canada are seeking to overturn a law that requires registration of firearms.
In other words, while liberal law makers in the United States cite Canada as a perfect example of socialized medicine, and the MSM hypes the low gun crime, no word is being made that Bill C-391 would according to the CBC:
“…scrap the decade-old registry and destroy existing data within the system on about seven million shotguns and rifles.”
Of course this is something that the American media probably don’t want you to know about!
Huff Post Writer Sees Irony but Misses Real Irony
Is this guy for real? Author Dennis A. Henigan, who is also Vice President for the Brady Center, and an established anti-gun author/zealot claims in a piece for The Huffington Post that some states on the verge of secession for their gun laws, yet never sees the irony of other anti-gun zealots over reaching beyond what might be considered reasonable.
Case in point, Henigan calls out two states:
“I refer to the extraordinary legislation passed into law by the states of Montana and Tennessee declaring that guns or ammunition manufactured and retained entirely within the borders of those states are “not subject to federal law.” Apparently, similar legislation has been introduced in Texas, Alaska, Minnesota, South Carolina, Florida, Arizona and Colorado.”
So I ask Henigan whether he sees any problems with New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg trying to change the laws in Virginia and Ohio? Well, Denny, what’s the difference?
