Just sayin'...
Just ask rancher John Ladd of Arizona.
His
San Jose Ranch sits right on the Arizona-Mexico line, ten and a half
miles of land stretching from the town of Naco west toward the San Pedro
River. Border Patrol has three camera towers on his property, an
eye-in-the-sky Cyclops, and sensors hidden in the desert shrubs that
activate when smugglers pass. A pedestrian fence (pictured below)
blocks the entire ten and a half miles.
None of these security measures have worked.
Since
the end of February, Ladd has had at least nine drug drive-throughs
across his land involving 21 trucks. The smugglers cut the mesh border
fence and pull it down, then ramp over the vehicle barrier just inside it. In most cases they tack-weld the fence back up and brush out tracks to disguise the incursion.
Eight of these episodes occurred in broad daylight, and in two of them the smugglers passed within 50 feet of a camera tower.
The chaos building south of our border, and increasingly spilling over into the heartland of the US, is most definitely a foreign-policy issue, as well as a domestic issue.
Obama's back-door amnesty by executive order this summer, giving the 'get-out-of-jail-free' card to hundreds of thousands of illegals only worsens the situation. Even in OS's county, two days' drive from the border, illegals have been camped here for years, awaiting the Next Amnesty.
This only creates more chaos, giving incentive to flout the law, breaking down civil society.
Which, after all, is the goal of the present administration.
Chaos creates opportunity.
Monday, October 22, 2012
Sunday, October 21, 2012
Man. Bites. Dog. The Nashville Tennessean Endorses Romney For President
Loooosey!!! Wha' happened?!!!!
The Nashville Tennessean has been the lap-dog of the Democrat party since time immemorial. They even hired Al Gore Sr.'s ne'er-do'well son as a staff writer back in the day, keeping the boy supported until the family could find him something respectable-looking to do.
That worked out well...
There was not a spending program, entitlement, progressive social cause, or Democrat candidate too stupid or odious to not merit the endorsement of Nashville's morning paper.
OS, and hundreds of thousands of other Tennessean readers, tired of it, and let subscriptions lapse, never to be renewed. The paper kept getting smaller, saying less and less, not even employing decent grammar many times in the past few years.
Only the die-hard Left stuck with it, as the paper kept printing what they so desperately wished to read.
The Fat Lady has begun to vocalize in earnest about Barack Obama when even the most brain-dead of editorial staffs, e.g. the Tennessean, has decided enough is enough.
After several paragraphs of hand-wringing in earnest, here come the words that matter most:
However, for all [Obama's] efforts, ranging from the stimulus package to green-energy development, to bring us out of recession, he has never found the key. He has generally made poor choices of the people needed to get the job done, such as Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner. And the number of jobs created during his term simply has not kept up with demand.
Should President Obama, as some suggested, have devoted his early political capital to jobs and debt reduction and pursuing Wall Street criminals, instead of health reform? Time will tell. But it’s clear whatever shaky bridges were burned in the push for health reform only emboldened Republicans to oppose his subsequent economic proposals. That has rendered much of his presidency ineffective.
Barack Obama was elected in 2008 with a call for hope and change. Perhaps the change he spoke of could only come with the help of Mitt Romney.
Enough is enough is enough is enough...not even the Tennessean can afford to pretend that the country will survive four more years of Obama.
The Nashville Tennessean has been the lap-dog of the Democrat party since time immemorial. They even hired Al Gore Sr.'s ne'er-do'well son as a staff writer back in the day, keeping the boy supported until the family could find him something respectable-looking to do.
That worked out well...
There was not a spending program, entitlement, progressive social cause, or Democrat candidate too stupid or odious to not merit the endorsement of Nashville's morning paper.
OS, and hundreds of thousands of other Tennessean readers, tired of it, and let subscriptions lapse, never to be renewed. The paper kept getting smaller, saying less and less, not even employing decent grammar many times in the past few years.
Only the die-hard Left stuck with it, as the paper kept printing what they so desperately wished to read.
The Fat Lady has begun to vocalize in earnest about Barack Obama when even the most brain-dead of editorial staffs, e.g. the Tennessean, has decided enough is enough.
After several paragraphs of hand-wringing in earnest, here come the words that matter most:
However, for all [Obama's] efforts, ranging from the stimulus package to green-energy development, to bring us out of recession, he has never found the key. He has generally made poor choices of the people needed to get the job done, such as Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner. And the number of jobs created during his term simply has not kept up with demand.
Should President Obama, as some suggested, have devoted his early political capital to jobs and debt reduction and pursuing Wall Street criminals, instead of health reform? Time will tell. But it’s clear whatever shaky bridges were burned in the push for health reform only emboldened Republicans to oppose his subsequent economic proposals. That has rendered much of his presidency ineffective.
Barack Obama was elected in 2008 with a call for hope and change. Perhaps the change he spoke of could only come with the help of Mitt Romney.
Enough is enough is enough is enough...not even the Tennessean can afford to pretend that the country will survive four more years of Obama.
Saturday, October 20, 2012
Our Embassies May Be Under Attack, But Rest Assured The Republic Is Safe: Valerie Jarrett's Secret Service Detail
Can't make this stuff up, ya'll.
OS sincerely wishes it weren't true, because it means we are now approaching that day when a Politburo rules, with motorcades of armored limos escorting the PeopleInCharge through the boulevards...
From American Thinker:
Our U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans who served us there are dead because of insufficient security while the assistant to the president for public engagement and intergovernmental affairs, a woman named Valerie Jarrett, has been given an entourage of well-armed, highly trained protectors as she goes to and from work in Washington, goes shopping or out to dinner, and travels to political events and vacations on Martha's Vineyard.
Why is Valerie Jarrett such a high priority when it comes to security, and why are our diplomats in Libya so much less of a priority? In their eagerness to serve and protect the political interests of Barack Obama, the news media do not bother to ask and then inform the American people about this administration's particularly peculiar priorities when it comes to security at a time when security is something very much in the news and of great interest to the public.
Conservative outlets which have made inquiries about why some White House staffer merits better protection than U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens was accorded are refused answers on the grounds of "security concerns." Really!
Think you might have seen a major media story -- perhaps even a great many of them -- comparing the contrast in security protection between Valerie Jarrett and Ambassador Stevens if George W. Bush were president and it were Karl Rove rather than Valerie Jarrett?
OS sincerely wishes it weren't true, because it means we are now approaching that day when a Politburo rules, with motorcades of armored limos escorting the PeopleInCharge through the boulevards...
From American Thinker:
Our U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans who served us there are dead because of insufficient security while the assistant to the president for public engagement and intergovernmental affairs, a woman named Valerie Jarrett, has been given an entourage of well-armed, highly trained protectors as she goes to and from work in Washington, goes shopping or out to dinner, and travels to political events and vacations on Martha's Vineyard.
Why is Valerie Jarrett such a high priority when it comes to security, and why are our diplomats in Libya so much less of a priority? In their eagerness to serve and protect the political interests of Barack Obama, the news media do not bother to ask and then inform the American people about this administration's particularly peculiar priorities when it comes to security at a time when security is something very much in the news and of great interest to the public.
Conservative outlets which have made inquiries about why some White House staffer merits better protection than U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens was accorded are refused answers on the grounds of "security concerns." Really!
Think you might have seen a major media story -- perhaps even a great many of them -- comparing the contrast in security protection between Valerie Jarrett and Ambassador Stevens if George W. Bush were president and it were Karl Rove rather than Valerie Jarrett?
Friday, October 19, 2012
The Poster That Says All That Needs Saying About The EU
Amazing...or not really, these days. DanHan weighs in.
Take a close look at this promotional poster. Notice anything? Alongside the symbols of Christianity, Judaism, Jainism and so on is one of the wickedest emblems humanity has conceived: the hammer and sickle.
For three generations, the badge of the Soviet revolution meant poverty, slavery, torture and death. It adorned the caps of the chekas who came in the night. It opened and closed the propaganda films which hid the famines. It advertised the people's courts where victims of purges and show-trials were condemned. It fluttered over the re-education camps and the gulags. For hundreds of millions of Europeans, it was a symbol of foreign occupation. Hungary, Lithuania and Moldova have banned its use, and various former communist countries want it to be treated in the same way as Nazi insignia.
Yet here it sits on a poster in the European Commission, advertising the moral deafness of its author (I hope that's what it is, rather than lingering nostalgia).
The Bolshevist sigil celebrates the ideology which, in strict numerical terms, must be reckoned the most murderous ever devised by our species. That it can be passed unremarked day after day in the corridors of Brussels is nauseating.
Remember, ya'll. This is the organization that won the Nobel Peace Prize this year.
This organization drinks from the same philosophical waters as the US Democrat party.
Something terribly wrong is at large.
Thursday, October 18, 2012
Thank You Cristina Odone, For Speaking Up About The REAL War On Women
Enough, finally, does become enough.
A 20-year-old Afghan girl has been beheaded, by her in-laws, for refusing to become a prostitute. Her mother-in-law and and a hired man cut off Mah Gul's head in the province of Herat last week.
The horrific case has confirmed the plight of women and girls in Taliban-strongholds such as Herat: it comes in the wake of the Taliban's attack on 14-year-old Malala Yousafzai, who campaigned for girls' education in Pakistan.
Ms. Odone then goes on to ask:
Surely, enough is enough? How many women martyrs do Muslim leaders need before they speak out against such misogyny?
What she fails to understand is the simple truth that Islam itself is the problem. 'Muslim leaders', who are the mullahs, have zero interest in speaking out against misogyny. It would be like Larry Flint preaching against porn, or SnoopDogg preaching against pot, or the Pope denouncing the Nicene Creed. Not even Saul of Tarsus, in his new role as Apostle Paul, rejected Judaism in his embrace of Christ.
What bothers OS is that our President, while yammering away about 'binders' and 'women's rights' ad nauseum, will stand up and tell the UN that he's down with Mohammed all the way, that he won't let anybody talk trash about The Prophet, US First Amendment be damned.
Miz Hillary, you got anything to say about this? You down with this, too? Does being Secretary of State trump everything?
We need people at every level of public life who will say the simple thing: These people are monsters, and we don't truck with them. At every opportunity given, we will oppose them with every means at our disposal.
Obama will not do that. There is some basic conflict of interest inside his personality that will not allow him to state the obvious. This is not to say he is secretly Muslim--who knows, who can say? It it to say he is not the man for the job going forward.
A 20-year-old Afghan girl has been beheaded, by her in-laws, for refusing to become a prostitute. Her mother-in-law and and a hired man cut off Mah Gul's head in the province of Herat last week.
The horrific case has confirmed the plight of women and girls in Taliban-strongholds such as Herat: it comes in the wake of the Taliban's attack on 14-year-old Malala Yousafzai, who campaigned for girls' education in Pakistan.
Ms. Odone then goes on to ask:
Surely, enough is enough? How many women martyrs do Muslim leaders need before they speak out against such misogyny?
What she fails to understand is the simple truth that Islam itself is the problem. 'Muslim leaders', who are the mullahs, have zero interest in speaking out against misogyny. It would be like Larry Flint preaching against porn, or SnoopDogg preaching against pot, or the Pope denouncing the Nicene Creed. Not even Saul of Tarsus, in his new role as Apostle Paul, rejected Judaism in his embrace of Christ.
What bothers OS is that our President, while yammering away about 'binders' and 'women's rights' ad nauseum, will stand up and tell the UN that he's down with Mohammed all the way, that he won't let anybody talk trash about The Prophet, US First Amendment be damned.
Miz Hillary, you got anything to say about this? You down with this, too? Does being Secretary of State trump everything?
We need people at every level of public life who will say the simple thing: These people are monsters, and we don't truck with them. At every opportunity given, we will oppose them with every means at our disposal.
Obama will not do that. There is some basic conflict of interest inside his personality that will not allow him to state the obvious. This is not to say he is secretly Muslim--who knows, who can say? It it to say he is not the man for the job going forward.
Sunday, October 14, 2012
Arlen Specter, The Man Who Led The Charge To Smear Robert Bork, Lawyer For Ira Einhorn, Turncoat, Poster Boy For Everything Wrong With Washington, Meets His Maker
Gone, soon forgotten, mainly unmourned.
He really was completely dumfounded in 2009 when greeted with thousands of angry constituents who had begged him not to vote for Obama's stimulus press and health care bill.
He really assumed no one was paying attention, was shocked to find that he was mistaken, and was shuffled off to a friendless oblivion by primary voters in 2010.
Three cheers for the primary system, and the secret ballot.
He really was completely dumfounded in 2009 when greeted with thousands of angry constituents who had begged him not to vote for Obama's stimulus press and health care bill.
He really assumed no one was paying attention, was shocked to find that he was mistaken, and was shuffled off to a friendless oblivion by primary voters in 2010.
Three cheers for the primary system, and the secret ballot.
Saturday, October 13, 2012
Do You Remember America?
HT Palladian View
By Charlie Speight
Do you remember America?
Do you recall that magnificent, unapologetic juggernaut of democracy and freedom?
Do you remember the America that made herself into a mighty power that she used to protect the oppressed elsewhere in the world, asking for little in return?
Do you remember how America created, built, manufactured, invented, assembled, hammered, welded, bought, sold, sailed, flew, plowed, sowed, harvested and shared?
Do you remember the America that was defined by her willingness to help, even to die for, others? Do you remember that when there was war, America rescued the oppressed and rebuilt her enemies?
Do you remember Château-Thierry, Marne or St Quentin Canal? Do you remember the Maine? Do you remember Guadalcanal, Normandy, the Philippines, Iwo Jima, Sicily, North Africa, Inchon, Puson or Pork Chop Hill? Do you remember Khe Sahn, Dak To, or Hue? Do you remember the Berlin Airlift? What about Kuwait, Bosnia, Somalia, Basra, Karbala, Baghdad or Fallujah? Kabul, Tora Bora, Kandahar or Abbottabad?
Do you remember Arlington or the two dozen foreign cemeteries where American warriors are laid to rest?
Do you remember America when her citizens didn’t expect – demand – that government provide for them?
Do you remember when children thought the greatest thing in the world was to be President of the United States?
Do you remember when America’s President “preserved, protected and defended” America and would never apologize for her or bow to the ruler of another country?
Do you remember when America was hated by men of evil because we threatened their intent, and not by countries that question her commitment?
Do you remember when America’s Founding Fathers were revered as visionary pioneers of liberty and not reviled as “a bunch of old white men?”
Do you remember when America was trusted and respected?
Do you remember the America that cherished and not challenged religious freedom?
Do you remember when America looked to her Constitution for guidance and not loopholes?
Do you remember America when a movie for adults meant that children couldn’t understand the plot, not because it was full of foul language and nudity?
Do you remember when you could watch the news in America and not have facts washed out by political ideology?
Do you remember when it was safe for children to play outdoors until dark and walk to school by themselves – and be safe in those schools?
Do you remember the American soul?
She was never perfect. America had her own internal troubles. We need to remember that she hasn’t always treated all of her citizens equally and that prejudices, corruption, greed and vanity have left their stains on her history. Nor should we ignore that technology, scientific discovery, ethnic diversity, social maturity and practice have made America better in thousands of ways.
Through all the sad and dark times, self-imposed or forced upon her, America has been good. Though, at times she has tolerated her own injustices, she has been sought for justice by peoples around the world. For over two hundred years, America’s destiny has been the providence of liberty and freedom for millions of people around the globe.
And America’s fate – her future – is yours to decide.
Don’t ever forget that.
By Charlie Speight
Do you remember America?
Do you recall that magnificent, unapologetic juggernaut of democracy and freedom?
Do you remember the America that made herself into a mighty power that she used to protect the oppressed elsewhere in the world, asking for little in return?
Do you remember how America created, built, manufactured, invented, assembled, hammered, welded, bought, sold, sailed, flew, plowed, sowed, harvested and shared?
Do you remember the America that was defined by her willingness to help, even to die for, others? Do you remember that when there was war, America rescued the oppressed and rebuilt her enemies?
Do you remember Château-Thierry, Marne or St Quentin Canal? Do you remember the Maine? Do you remember Guadalcanal, Normandy, the Philippines, Iwo Jima, Sicily, North Africa, Inchon, Puson or Pork Chop Hill? Do you remember Khe Sahn, Dak To, or Hue? Do you remember the Berlin Airlift? What about Kuwait, Bosnia, Somalia, Basra, Karbala, Baghdad or Fallujah? Kabul, Tora Bora, Kandahar or Abbottabad?
Do you remember Arlington or the two dozen foreign cemeteries where American warriors are laid to rest?
Do you remember America when her citizens didn’t expect – demand – that government provide for them?
Do you remember when children thought the greatest thing in the world was to be President of the United States?
Do you remember when America’s President “preserved, protected and defended” America and would never apologize for her or bow to the ruler of another country?
Do you remember when America was hated by men of evil because we threatened their intent, and not by countries that question her commitment?
Do you remember when America’s Founding Fathers were revered as visionary pioneers of liberty and not reviled as “a bunch of old white men?”
Do you remember when America was trusted and respected?
Do you remember the America that cherished and not challenged religious freedom?
Do you remember when America looked to her Constitution for guidance and not loopholes?
Do you remember America when a movie for adults meant that children couldn’t understand the plot, not because it was full of foul language and nudity?
Do you remember when you could watch the news in America and not have facts washed out by political ideology?
Do you remember when it was safe for children to play outdoors until dark and walk to school by themselves – and be safe in those schools?
Do you remember the American soul?
She was never perfect. America had her own internal troubles. We need to remember that she hasn’t always treated all of her citizens equally and that prejudices, corruption, greed and vanity have left their stains on her history. Nor should we ignore that technology, scientific discovery, ethnic diversity, social maturity and practice have made America better in thousands of ways.
Through all the sad and dark times, self-imposed or forced upon her, America has been good. Though, at times she has tolerated her own injustices, she has been sought for justice by peoples around the world. For over two hundred years, America’s destiny has been the providence of liberty and freedom for millions of people around the globe.
And America’s fate – her future – is yours to decide.
Don’t ever forget that.
Fred Thompson Summarizes The VP Debate: I Know Joe Biden--That Was Joe Biden
OS still believes the GOP completely dropped the ball by not nominating Fred Thompson for President in 2008. The fact that the man contributed much to saving the Republic from the Nixon White House in the early 1970's, and Tennessee from Ray Blanton in the late 1970's shows that we suffer from a case of short memory. So many remember him only as an actor, an accidental career, literally. Fred's really a crack small-town Tennessee Southern lawyer who took his talents to a big stage, and his contributions to this country are significant.
His main failing is his self-effacing personality--he doesn't live for the adrenaline rush of the crowd. He's more interested in making certain he's pithily expressed what needs saying, which brings us to today's essay from Fred:
OS urges his army of listeners to read it all, and offers up this particulary pithy paragraph as a foretaste of Fred's verbal skills.
I met Joe Biden almost 20 years ago and served in the Senate with him for eight. In private conversation among equals he can be candid, introspective and thoughtful. But when he puts on his political hat he has no inner voice that tells him, “Joe, you’re going on too long. Joe you’re being a bully. You’re being discourteous to your colleagues. Joe, that makes no sense. It’s obviously not true. Don’t say that.” He either has no idea how he comes across to normal people or he doesn’t care. I’ve never figured it out. However he parlayed a handful of votes in Iowa into the Vice Presidency. I gotta give him that.
There's much more where that came from.
Enjoy!
His main failing is his self-effacing personality--he doesn't live for the adrenaline rush of the crowd. He's more interested in making certain he's pithily expressed what needs saying, which brings us to today's essay from Fred:
OS urges his army of listeners to read it all, and offers up this particulary pithy paragraph as a foretaste of Fred's verbal skills.
I met Joe Biden almost 20 years ago and served in the Senate with him for eight. In private conversation among equals he can be candid, introspective and thoughtful. But when he puts on his political hat he has no inner voice that tells him, “Joe, you’re going on too long. Joe you’re being a bully. You’re being discourteous to your colleagues. Joe, that makes no sense. It’s obviously not true. Don’t say that.” He either has no idea how he comes across to normal people or he doesn’t care. I’ve never figured it out. However he parlayed a handful of votes in Iowa into the Vice Presidency. I gotta give him that.
There's much more where that came from.
Enjoy!
Thursday, October 11, 2012
'Never Mind...': This Week's Jobless Claims Report Was An Inaccurate Anomaly After All, Because...
California failed to report several trainloads of jobless claims in time to be included in the report.
If something appears too good to be true, it is because it is...too good to be true.
If something looks, walks and quacks like a duck...it's a duck!
If a BLS report smells like last week's Limburger cheese left in a hot car....
To quote the late great Gilda Radner: 'Never mind...'
BTW, OS managed to watch the House hearings yesterday on the Bengahzi debacle, and actually heard the PersonInCharge of embassy security worldwide (a dumpy-looking lady of not-sparkling intellect) claim that they had sufficient resources in place to defend the ambassador and the compound, to which an incredulous panel of Reps kept asking, 'So, tell me--why did our people get killed?'
The dumpy-looking lady had actually watched the attack real-time on State Department screens, which must have been agonizing. She was asked if she had any opinion at the time, or even later, whether this event was an organized assault or just a demonstration of angry Muslims pissed about some obscure YouTube video. She stated she had none then, or now. It was an amazing performance, to say the least.
The two people who had been pleading with the dumpy-looking lady for months to beef up security lest a tragedy occur detailed how they had been repeatedly ignored and denied the resources needed.
They were sitting beside the the dumpy-looking lady. She kept telling the Reps that she had done her job, that she and her superiors (whose names she reluctantly gave up) hadn't been given notice that a potential problem was brewing. When asked if she had ever been to Libya, the answer was 'No'.
It was dark, dark theatre.
Only it wasn't theatre, it was reality. Our reality.
If something appears too good to be true, it is because it is...too good to be true.
If something looks, walks and quacks like a duck...it's a duck!
If a BLS report smells like last week's Limburger cheese left in a hot car....
To quote the late great Gilda Radner: 'Never mind...'
BTW, OS managed to watch the House hearings yesterday on the Bengahzi debacle, and actually heard the PersonInCharge of embassy security worldwide (a dumpy-looking lady of not-sparkling intellect) claim that they had sufficient resources in place to defend the ambassador and the compound, to which an incredulous panel of Reps kept asking, 'So, tell me--why did our people get killed?'
The dumpy-looking lady had actually watched the attack real-time on State Department screens, which must have been agonizing. She was asked if she had any opinion at the time, or even later, whether this event was an organized assault or just a demonstration of angry Muslims pissed about some obscure YouTube video. She stated she had none then, or now. It was an amazing performance, to say the least.
The two people who had been pleading with the dumpy-looking lady for months to beef up security lest a tragedy occur detailed how they had been repeatedly ignored and denied the resources needed.
They were sitting beside the the dumpy-looking lady. She kept telling the Reps that she had done her job, that she and her superiors (whose names she reluctantly gave up) hadn't been given notice that a potential problem was brewing. When asked if she had ever been to Libya, the answer was 'No'.
It was dark, dark theatre.
Only it wasn't theatre, it was reality. Our reality.
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
You Just Can't Make This Stuff Up: The 'Violence Tax' Proposal In Chicago
Honestly, no matter how diligently comedy writers slave at their craft, the politicians trump them by just walking around and blabbering.
Chicago's murder rate is skyrocketing. Now, this could not possibly be attributed to the fact that Mayor Rahm(bo) Emanuel, former Obama Chief of Staff is not remotely up to the job of actually running anything, only in manipulating the system to get himself and his kind elected.
Governance, what's that?
It has to be SomeoneElse's fault, preferably George Bush, but blaming Bush for this particular tragic mess won't even pass the laugh test amongst the most rabid Chicago Democrats.
Sooooo.....if we can't stop the craziness, let's......make money from it! That's the ticket! We'll just tax the bejeezuz out of every gun and round of ammo sold in Cook County!! That'll solve the problem, by golly!
Right?
Huh?
What do you mean, people will just drive to St. Charles or Geneva or Wisconsin to purchase guns and ammo? They wouldn't dare!
What's that you say? The gang-bangers who shoot up entire neighborhoods aren't interested in obeying gun laws? You mean to say they're criminals, not victims of a racist society? You don't think the tax will matter to them, but that it might discourage the law-abiding from defending themselves?
Nooooo....no chance of that.....
Chicago's murder rate is skyrocketing. Now, this could not possibly be attributed to the fact that Mayor Rahm(bo) Emanuel, former Obama Chief of Staff is not remotely up to the job of actually running anything, only in manipulating the system to get himself and his kind elected.
Governance, what's that?
It has to be SomeoneElse's fault, preferably George Bush, but blaming Bush for this particular tragic mess won't even pass the laugh test amongst the most rabid Chicago Democrats.
Sooooo.....if we can't stop the craziness, let's......make money from it! That's the ticket! We'll just tax the bejeezuz out of every gun and round of ammo sold in Cook County!! That'll solve the problem, by golly!
Right?
Huh?
What do you mean, people will just drive to St. Charles or Geneva or Wisconsin to purchase guns and ammo? They wouldn't dare!
What's that you say? The gang-bangers who shoot up entire neighborhoods aren't interested in obeying gun laws? You mean to say they're criminals, not victims of a racist society? You don't think the tax will matter to them, but that it might discourage the law-abiding from defending themselves?
Nooooo....no chance of that.....
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