Connecticut’s Senate has approved a draft of their new gun-control law. It’s now off to the House, where it’s expected to pass. As with New York, Colorado, and Maryland, this is a poorly-considered rush job, to be passed while emotion over Sandy Hook can be exploited and before voters can have a chance to give it careful consideration.
Naturally, many folks are dismayed by this. In our system of government, the people have the right to protest and have their voices heard. Many did just that at the capitol in Hartford today.
But there’s no law that says politicians have to listen, and in fact, Governor Malloy has chosen to avoid the capitol altogether. His security detail claims that they’re concerned for his safety. The threat?
Malloy would have had to walk through a raucous crowd of gun protesters who chanted “read the bill!” at lawmakers who passed by in the halls. Senate President Donald Williams and Ron Pinciaro, executive president of gun-control group Connecticut Against Gun Violence, were both loudly booed as they moved through the overwhelmingly pro-gun crowd.
Find me one gathering of gun-rights supporters in which there’s been an act of violence of any sort, and I might just buy that. Malloy’s afraid, but not of physical violence. He just doesn’t want to have to look his constituents in the face when he does something like this.
These laws aren’t going to solve anything. All they’re going to do is punish the law-abiding, and they’re going to waste the taxpayers’ money while they get cut apart in the courts.