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GUNS AND GREASE: TWO MUST-READS

STRUGGLING IN THE FEVER-SWAMPS of deadline, I have little time for posting to this blog. But the two links featured today are must-reads. The first is for anyone nostalgic for the days of Willie the Pardoner, aka President Bill Clinton: it is a report on how Clinton Pardonee Mark Rich is emerging as a key criminal suspect in the ever-more-greasy United Nations Oil-for-Food scandal. It is linked here, especially for those who live in areas where Clinton-protecting media have suppressed the story. The second must-read, linked here, is about the Washington state gubernatorial race: how King County officials, nearly unanimously radical Democrats, have found sufficient uncounted ballots to almost certainly put Christine Gregoire in the Governor’s Mansion.

I post the second link because, if Gregoire wins, it lays the groundwork for a pivotal revelation on Second Amendment matters: have the Democrats really gotten rational, or are they just waiting for an opportunity to revert back to the tyrannically anti-gun policies that cost them the presidency in 2000? Second Amendment advocates fear the latter is true: that a Gregoire victory will be a disaster for Washington state gun owners.

While Gregoire herself has demonstrated a surprisingly reasonable attitude toward gun rights – including making it clear she opposes proposed new restrictions on the state’s concealed-carry permits – the Democrats who now control both houses of the Legislature may not be reasonable at all: many favor imposing on Washington state a local version of the draconian New York City gun law (which they already attempted via the failed Initiative 676 in 1997). And Gregoire may not be able to stand up to them – especially if she owes King County Democrats, Big Time, for engineering her come-from-behind triumph. The King County Democratic Party is essentially nothing more than a political-action agency of the radical feminist movement: matrifascist to the core, it despises all firearms as extensions of the hated penis and, if it could, it would ban gun ownership completely.

At the very least, say Second Amendment supporters, they expect a Gregoire victory to clear the way for the King-County-led Democrats to once again abandon their post-Gore pretense of neutrality toward firearms owners and revert – with a vengeance – to the hateful policies of old: total prohibition of gun shows, criminalization of even the most minor mental problems, California-style bans on so-called “assault weapons,” bans on various other types of firearms, universal registration disguised as “ballistic imaging,” mandatory storage requirements complete with criminal liability for any gun owner whose firearm is stolen and then later used in a crime.

Especially given the Bush Administration’s sly expressions of anti-Second Amendment policy – notably the Mineta and Gonzales appointments – Washington’s firearms owners are prayerfully hoping the Democrats truly learned a lesson in 2000: that anti-gun activism leads ultimately to defeat. But knowing the anti-Second Amendment hysteria that has bubbled up in the (thoroughly feminist-dominated) state Democratic Party in years past, gun owners aren’t optimistic.

Posted by Loren at December 14, 2004 03:37 AM