This is How They See the World

Really you’d think how many anti-rights blogs and tweets and articles I read I’d KNOW how they see the world and accept it. Still sometimes I’m just floored by their divorce from reality.

The NRA strikes again: keeping criminal’s guns on the streets in Georgia

And Jason Kilgore of the Joyce foundation links this article:

Yesterday, Senate Bill 350 passed unanimously in the state Senate Judiciary Committee, along with an amendment submitted by bill sponsor and state Senator Don Balfour (R-9) that would require law enforcement agencies to begin the process of returning seized firearms within thirty days of a court’s final judgment.

SB 350, along with the supported amendment, would mandate municipal, county and state police authorities return all seized firearms, not currently being held as evidence in a criminal investigation, to the lawful owner if able. If the lawful owner is not found or unable to take possession of the firearm, SB 350 would require these agencies to sell these firearms at a public auction to a licensed firearms dealer. Current Georgia law allows for seized guns to be immediately destroyed.

SB 350 would also prevent the wasteful and expensive practice of destroying firearms that could be re-circulated through licensed dealers to the retail market. Localities would be enabled with the ability to reap the benefits of the sale proceeds and consumers would have access to affordable firearms through licensed dealers, with all of the usual safeguards that apply to dealer sales to the public.

The ONLY way I can wrap my mind around that statement is that Jason thinks that if a criminal touches or uses a gun, that gun is forever instilled with the powers of evil.

Or given that Joyce Trolls seems to always insinuate that ALL GUN OWNERS are criminals, just many haven’t been caught yet, maybe they think that having the guns transferred to FFLs where they can be sold (with background checks) to law-abiding citizens who want them.

Now note that the current law dictates the guns are destroyed. It costs money to melt or cut guns to ATF specs, and then it can only be sold as scrap metal, which when it comes to the metals used for guns, its not worth THAT much. Not saying gun metal is junk, but really how much are you going to get for Stainless steel? Silver isn’t even worth THAT much by the pound.

Meanwhile guns are crafted durable goods that are worth a good deal. Even “Potmetal Junk Guns” like Hi-Points go for north of $100 new, and generally not a ton less used. I can’t imagine you can reclaim the Zamak and Polymer from the gun for much more than $10 AFTER paying to reduce them to scrap state. So this is a colossal waste of tax payer money.

And BTW, Thugsley the Crack dealer’s Taurus sold from the police evidence locker for pennies to an FFL might make for a VERY affordable piece for a single Mom that only can afford to live in Thugsley’s old ‘Hood.

And again every gun sold this way comes with a background check!

But for somebody who hates freedom they can ONLY see a slam-dunk law like this as a BAD thing.

They are not normal, they are NOT like us. This is why they support something that is demonstrably wrong.

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0 Responses to This is How They See the World

  1. Cargosquid says:

    Returning legal property to lawful owners? How shocking!

  2. Greg Camp says:

    In the case of lawful gun owners, we’re talking about people often that a vindictive prosecutor trumped up a case against, and the good citizen had to spend lots of time and money on a DLU–defensive law use. What Kilgore doesn’t get is that someone who is found not guilty or someone who isn’t charged with anything after the police investigation is not a criminal.

    But he doesn’t want to take away our guns. . .

  3. Jack says:

    This is like destroying a car because it was used as the getaway vehicle or in a hit and run.

    Magical thinking at its finest.

    Good point Greg, these are the same folks that think those on the no-fly list should have their second amendment rights taken away, so they’re a bit muddled on the whole due process idea.

  4. Braden Lynch says:

    It makes you want to ask them where they get their fine pharmaceuticals that cause so much disassociation from reality. I have heard that LSD does a fine job of altering your perception of reality, but who would have thought that their inhaling of unicorn farts could cause such pronounced delusions of grandeur and breaks from reality?

    There is no other explanation than they believe that ALL guns are EVIL, anyone who owns a gun is EVIL, and there is NEVER any benefit associated with them. Also, any means of achieving their utopian goal are acceptable (e.g. misrepresentation/lying or advocacy of idiotic and USELESS restrictions/rules/regulations).

    • Greg Camp says:

      A couple of days ago, Dog Gone, everyone’s favorite “I’m smarter than you even though I won’t tell you why” gun grabber, let go the whopper that Jamaica is such a nice little island with its gun control laws.

      Send her the bill for any injuries incurred by falling out of your chair laughing.

      • Weerd Beard says:

        Wow, That trumps my “Go walk your dog in Central Park at Midnight” challenge. If Dog Gone were to walk through some of the substance farming villages in Jamaica after dark, I suspect her and her white skin would make a LOT of new friends FAST!

        As Alan says in the Comments to the Bill Wittle video: “Liberals/progressives/socialists are usually people who are insulated from their own bad decisions.”

        If only we could remove the insulation.

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