It’s one day after Christmas, and we’re off to the races. Carolyn McCarthy is pushing to get her high-capacity magazine ban out of committee, where it’s been wallowing in obscurity since January of 2011. Bobby Rush is trying to revive the Blair Holt gun registration bill, as he’s done every year since 2000.
I don’t give either bill good odds of progressing, but if you’ve got a Representative on the Judiciary Committee, it’s worth dropping them an email. If yours is a Democrat, it’s even more important, since most of those on the committee have a history of supporting gun control.
In other news, Dianne Feinstein is proposing a national buyback program on so-called assault weapons. In case you’re not familiar with the idea, several major cities offer financial incentives for gang members and drug dealers to turn their guns in for gift cards or pittances of cash.
Never mind that those initiatives are a big expense to taxpayers and that they don’t work. New York Governor Cuomo jumped on the bandwagon, telling a local radio show, “confiscation could be an option. Mandatory sale to the state could be an option.”
That’s exactly the kind of talk I want the American public to hear on the evening news. It may actually goad folks into some semblance of civic involvement.