Shall Not Be Questioned

The police end up coming to your house to make sure you’re a good little boy responsible gun owner.

VICTORIAN police are planning a crackdown on gun owners. They are set to check whether 18,000 of the state’s registered gun owners have stored their firearms properly.

This is in the face of dropping violent crime using guns along with a drop in gun theft cases as well.  I’d hate to see what they’d institute if gun violence and thefts were on the upswing.

Superintendent Ashley said police would move to stronger enforcement of gun laws. He said it was not a “Big Brother” approach but rather police working with the community to ensure community safety.

The innocent have nothing to fear.  You know, even if you could prove to me that these types of methods actually did lower the violent crime rate, I wouldn’t care.  A society where the police can check up on me at will to ensure my compliance with “community safety” isn’t a society that’s free, and isn’t one I want to live in.

Philadelphia is continuing its campaign to act as if it is not part of the Commonwealth by exempting itself from our state’s laws.

Today’s hearing will focus on challenges to the lawsuit filed by the state House and Senate.

The hearing will be followed by an 11 a.m. gun-control rally in the City Hall courtyard.

The National Rifle Association has joined the case, opposing the city. C. Scott Shields, the NRA’s attorney, said the city is “doing an end-run” around Harrisburg.

“The argument is pretty ridiculous,” said Shields, adding that the city’s crime problem is not caused by guns. “It’s just that they don’t deal with it effectively.”

Philadelphia’s gun-control legislation, which Clarke resubmitted to Council in January for a new vote, would limit purchases of handguns to one a month, require gun owners to report lost or stolen guns to police, require a police-issued annual license to bring a gun into the city, allow police to confiscate guns from people considered a risk to themselves or others, ban semiautomatic weapons with clips that hold more than 10 rounds of ammunition and establish a registry of ammunition sales.

It’ll be interesting to see if they actually try to enforce any of this crap.  If they do, I would like to see Attorney General Corbett threaten city officials with Official Oppression charges if they do.  The state has to start getting tough with the City about protecting the fundamental rights of Pennsylvanians guaranteed by our constitution.

It looked like Nebraska’s draconian gun ban was going to get a hearing today, but apparently not.  It could go to a vote any day, so if you live in Nebraska, contact your legislators.