Governor Dannel
Malloy at first allowed that legislators who were to create bills assuring
Connecticut citizens would not be exposed to another mass murder incident such
as had occurred in Sandy Hook should take their time and craft a bill that
would suit the purpose. Then he jumped ahead of his own gubernatorial
commission and publically announced his own prophylactic measures, for which he
received some mild criticism: How was the legislature to write an effective
bill in the absence of hard data furnished by three investigatory bodies, the
most important of which was the criminal investigation? Apparently, Mr. Malloy
took this objection to heart, because he then issued strong signals that the
various commissions should be allowed to complete their assignments so that a
proper bill might be written.
After all, Mr.
Malloy and members of Connecticut’s all Democratic U.S. Congressional
delegation – most prominently Senators Dick Blumenthal and Chris Murphy – had
visited Sandy Hook, met with family members of children slain by mass murderer
Adam Lanza, and assured them that effective remedies were in the offing, Mr.
Blumenthal insisting that national legislation was exceedingly important
because state borders are porous and illegal weapons might easily pass through
the semi-permeable membrane of state laws. Connecticut already has on its books
some of the most restrictive gun laws in the nation. Mr. Murphy has been running tight end around
the National Rifle Association (NRA), pummeling it defensively whenever he can
and at the same time hoping to receive a pass from the anti-weapon team that he
might carry to a touchdown.
Several difficulties
have intervened. In New York, Governor Andrew Cuomo quickly rammed through the
legislature a ban on certain weapons but neglected to exempt New York policemen
from the ban, a major boo-boo. The governor and legislature also launched a ban
on magazines that contained more than 7 rounds, only to realize when the
applause had died down that there is no company in the United States that
produces such a magazine; so the solons in New York prohibited more than 7
rounds in any magazine holding more than 7 rounds, which raises the
embarrassing question: How is the law to be enforced in the absence of X-Ray
vision glasses that would allow the rearmed New York police to count the number
of bullets in an opaque magazine? Mr. Cuomo and the anti-gun nuts in the New
York legislature are still struggling with that one.
The moral to these
goof-up is: Not only does haste make waste; sometimes, it makes you look
incredibly stupid. And state office holders do not want to appear to be
imbeciles. Idiot voters in the Unites States, it is generally supposed, are
still in the minority.
The Dick and Chris
show alighted in Connecticut days after Harry Reid, the Democratic Majority
Leader in the U.S. Senate, had buried ardent hopes for a swift federal ban on assault
weapons. Connecticut, much more progressive on this point than most states,
already has such a ban. A federal ban is the Holy Grail of senators Blumenthal
and Murphy.
Why? Because, as Mr.
Blumenthal has been telling us, gun runners, the sort of disreputable folk who
sell guns to criminals not legally authorized to use them, easily run around
porous state laws; but a federal law… well sir, that’s the ticket!
Now then, it is
important to understand that the proposed anti-assault weapon ban that was to
have been presented in the U.S. Congress – the Holy Grail of Mr. Blumenthal and
Mr. Murphy -- was not shot to death by itchy-fingered members of the NRA. The measure
was not put up for a vote in the chamber where Mr. Blumenthal and Mr. Murphy do
business -- when they are not hustling
Connecticut legislators in their home state to hastily pass a bill in the
absence of determining data -- because it was withdrawn by Mr. Reid, whose
specialty lies in counting votes. The Democratic votes in a chamber owned by
Democrats weren’t there.
Here is the
breathless Blumenthal hustle: “Connecticut’s failure to act in the next two
weeks will be a detriment when we go to the floor. On the other hand, if
Connecticut can act within the next two weeks it will provide a very powerful
momentum. It will speak volumes about determination and dedication here to
making sure our nation is safer.”
Connecticut
legislators, who wish to avoid the trapdoors through which idiot New York politicians
have fallen, are pausing to consider hard data soon to be released in
affidavits that have been carefully hidden from public view. As Attorney
General in Connecticut for more than 20 years before his elevation to the U.S.
Senate, Mr. Blumenthal should understand the importance of affidavits in
prosecution and bill writing.
Mr. Blumenthal and
Mr. Murphy need to get back to work in the Beltway rounding up votes for the
Holy Grail in THEIR Democratic dominated Senate.
They should make
haste: Time wasted is time lost.
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And, not withstanding the fact that Senate Majority Leader Reid won't bring the fraudulent Feinstein bill to the floor for a vote, we get President Barack Obama using Newtown parents as props as he pretends to clamor for new gun laws because, “Tears are not enough. Expressions of sympathy are not enough. Speeches are not enough. We have cried enough. We have known enough heartbreak."
No word from our leader on the investigation into the Benghazi incident, including into what exactly he was doing that night.
Only four more years of this utterly despicable excuse for an American.