The [manufacture and sale] restrictions are real enough but as Complete Colorado reported last month, the law's definition effectively covers "almost every centerfire semiautomatic handgun" bigger than a .22. In fact, "There is only one centerfire semiautomatic handgun model that does not fall within the bill’s definitions. That unique item is the Benelli B-80, a collector’s item last manufactured in 1990."...Up next: House Bill 1312 and its obliteration of 1st Amendment protections and parental rights. HB 1312 says, "It is a discriminatory practice and unlawful to, with specific intent to discriminate, publish materials that deadname or misgender an individual.” The law applies to everything from flyers to blogs to newspapers, and if it becomes law, I could find myself in hot water for referring to a dude in a dress as "he."Going even further, according to Ari Armstrong:Part of the bill pertains to child custody. Existing statutes define “coercive control” as “a pattern of threatening, humiliating, or intimidating actions, including assaults or other abuse, that is used to harm, punish, or frighten an individual.” The bill adds deadnaming and misgendering someone as types of “coercive control,” and it directs courts to consider deadnaming and misgendering when deciding matters of child custody.
So, as to the latter, a mother could lose custody of her child for the offense of calling her child by the name that she, the mother, bestowed upon her child at birth.
The state should be forbidden from interfering inside families. I realize that some families are awful. It's still a good rule because governments are reliably awful.
The firearm regulation is quite terrible, although as I understand it the law does not actually ban any guns, it just complicates the process for buying them (and imposes fees). That's still an unconstitutional set of infringements that I hope will be struck down by the courts, as they ought to be. It's still not as bad as, say, Maryland's law.
As I've written before, we've reached the point that literally the only real right the left believes in is the right to abortion. Everything else is subject to restrictions, and as severe a set of restrictions as they want that day.
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There is a solution to this problem, and it will come, and I don't want to see it, but nevertheless it is inevitable. It was put well by a "Subotai Badahur" commenting on one blog or another, who stated- "we are no longer one nation, we are two separate peoples inhabiting the same geography". (or words to that effect, he is far more eloquent than I.)
I shudder to think what will happen if the insane are ever deprived of their SSRI's and their cell phones. They are already immune to reason.
...we've reached the point that literally the only real right the left believes in is the right to abortion.
Well, there's also their belief in their right to reign over (and rein in) the rest of us.
Eric Hines
Why is it that the worst people congregate in the most beautiful places? California is a beautiful state, the whole west coast even. Then it spread to Colorado. Is it their innate yearning to uglify the world?
Let us talk about rights.
It is not a right, if it has to be taken from one, to give to another.
Abortion- what greater taking than to take the life of one, so as to give another a reprieve from the responsibility that they themselves were central in creating?
Yeah, if you accept that rights require the respecting of the autonomy of other human beings, abortion is not the sort of thing that could be a right. Obviously they don’t accept that, however. They’re not even willing to respect the autonomy of other adults: they want doctors to be required to perform abortions regardless of their moral commitments, for example.
This is a general rule with them. Housing is said to be a right, so somebody can be forced to give you a house. Food is said to be. Medical care is said to be.
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