“A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity.”
— Sigmund Freud, “General Introduction to Psychoanalysis”.
Via Les Jones, I see that San Francisco voters have passed Proposition H (the handgun ban).
I guess the fact that 42% of San Franciscans voted against it ought to renew my faith somewhat, but it scares me that 58% of that city has such contempt for the Bill of Rights, and self defense.
I haven’t been able to find any demographic breakdown of the vote, so I don’t know what the neighborhood vote looks like or how gay citizens might have voted.
What I’d like to know is why a city on record as opposing homophobia would want to pass laws based on hoplophobia. (Defined here.) Protecting people’s lifestyles and keeping government out of people’s bedrooms, are, I believe, fine goals. But intolerance of lifestyles (especially the lifestyle of protecting one’s lifestyle) should have no place in San Francisco.
I hope the California courts throw this one out as they did in 1982.
UPDATE: My blogfather has provided some interesting demographics on the gun ban’s direct beneficiaries.
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The Left is always tolerant…as long as you agree them with them.
Very true. I agree with Sigmund Freud’s analysis of the hoplophobes. Aaron Zelman (of Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership) once observed that, if you watch these gun-haters on TV, you wonder if they ever had an orgasm. Tragic that the majority in what was once a great city have become so spineless as to give up the right to defend themselves.
An excellent ad I once saw, in the National Review as I recall, showed a gun nestled next to some condoms and asked: “If government doesn’t belong in your bedroom, what’s it doing in your dresser drawer?”