Classical Values

We Need A Law

If the question is “what to do about xxx” and the answer is “we need a law” you are talking to a socialist.

And with laws come enforcers. And expenses. And exemptions for the connected. etc.

In the words of our ecocrazies – it is unsustainable.

But while it continues it is going to hurt like hell.

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4 responses to “We Need A Law”

  1. Gringo Avatar
    Gringo

    Every time there is a big killing in the news, President Obama invariably leads the “There oughta’ be a law” chorus. Consider federal gun prosecutions in the Chicago area.Obama’s Chicago Dead Last In Federal Gun Prosecutions.

    ustice: A murdered Chicago teen’s mother attends the president’s speech on gun control, not knowing federal gun-crime prosecutions have in fact dropped on his watch — with the Windy City bringing up the rear.

    Cleopatra Cowley-Pendleton, the mother of murdered 15-year-old Chicago teen Hadiya Pendleton, was one of 20 mothers who lost children to criminal violence who were at the White House last Thursday to hear President Obama speak once again on the need for gun control.

    Obama met with her and some of the others in a small group before his formal remarks and told them “how serious this issue really is and something needs to be done about it,” she said.
    But President Obama did not tell this group that Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) shows that the Northern Illinois district ranked 90th out of 90 in prosecutions of federal weapons crimes per capita.
    Considering that there were 522 people murdered in Chicago in 2012, one would think that the documented lack of enforcement of existing gun laws by a president seeking more of them would be a national scandal.

    “Why doesn’t NBC News start with: ‘Shocking news on Chicago. Of all the jurisdictions in the country, Chicago’s dead last on enforcement of the federal gun laws?’” the NRA’s Wayne LaPierre recently asked NBC host David Gregory, who once famously waved a banned ammunition clip on his show.

    If you don’t enforce the laws you have, there is no point in making another law.

  2. Kathy Kinsley Avatar
    Kathy Kinsley

    I think we should dismantle the supreme court and reform it as a court that may ONLY strike down laws. It may not say “partly” and it may seriously not make new ones. It may only say pass or fail.

    And, if it says “pass”, the judges who voted for pass may be sued for “unintended consequences” of said laws.

    Yeah, I know. But no harm in dreaming…

  3. c andrew Avatar
    c andrew

    L. Neil Smith proposed that any law that is nullified by a jury three times brings an automatic death sentence for all the politicians that voted for it.

    Cool!

  4. Man Mountain Molehill Avatar
    Man Mountain Molehill

    Why wait?