Anthony Canales is the President of the
San Fernando Valley NRA Member’s Council.
He works as a Quality Control Manager in Glendale, California. He is married with one son.
The opinions expressed in 'News Briefs' belong solely to the author
and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National
Rifle Association of America or the NRA Members' Councils of California.
The Liberal Elite would apparently rather spend time trying to track
ammunition usage from target shooters ( and watch sales tax revenue go
elsewhere), than release their chokehold on businesses great and small that
could hire people and keep the economy going. Apparently the evidence of
their malfeasance can be found next to freeways and in abandoned houses all
over...:
More Mulch For The Tree of Liberty?:
Ian Urbina of the New York writes about recent trends of increasing teenage
homelessness which appear to be related to the current economic downturn and
joblessness.
This is the same joblessness that the White House apparently feels that we
will have to "accept" for a while to come.
While Urbina seems to confuse such concepts as "missing person" versus
"fugitive", the issue of children living on the street is represented here
as related to the same kind of economic hardships as one sees in the
beginning scenes of "Seabiscuit". (These scenes were where the Toby Maguire
portrayal of the "Red" Pollard character includes his being turned over by
his parents to apprentice in the horse race industry as a teenager due to
the economics of the Depression.).
Given
how important small businesses and the entrepreneurial classes are to job
creation, it is almost axiomatic that the recent confiscatory tax policies
and draconian regulations of all types foisted on us by Government Gone Wild
will exacerbate unemployment and destitution throughout the state. How this
will allegedly help children, including the current crop of unemployed teens
and destitute runaways, remains hard to imagine.
This in turn should lead one to condemn these kinds of economic "deals" in
the halls of government that could either be called the post-modern
equivalent of the Sack of Rome in 1527, or straight out of a science fiction
novel. (How else could one explain this "House Harkonnen" methodology the
Liberal Elites use as their approach to tax gathering and responsiveness to
the ordinary taxpayer?).
Case in point: As firearms activists well know, sellers of handgun
ammunition great or small will have to comply with yet more useless and
expensive regulations due to AB 962. These same regulations will, at the
same time, drive valuable customers to substitute sources of supply just as
surely as Obama is eying Eisenhower's patronage record of East Coast water
hazards and sand traps. Add to that specific burden the avalanche of other
revenue-killing, and economy strangling, nostrums and one comes to the
conclusion that the whole pack of jackasses in Sacramento has to go (After
all, better them than us...).
Still, one can only wonder if the Karen Bass's, the Darrell Steinberg's, and
even the Arnold Schwarzenegger's can do anything more that mouth platitudes
at a situation largely of their own making, and their own myopia. But it is
clear that the voter had better act soon to pull the learner's permits and
the credit cards issued in good faith to the inhabitants of Sacramento's
"Cloud Cuckoo Land". Otherwise, we all will be compost.
It seems that the Dopes of the Ruling Elite believe that mitigation of
anxiety is a legitimate reason to "legalize" marijuana, to the point that
pro-government sycophants are counting the revenues before the chickens can
be even put in an amorous state of mind (much less begin the process of
meiotic procreation).
But given how firearms and ammunition, at the very least, relieve this
poster from the anxiety and depression brought on by the threat of criminal
activity and tyrannical government, shouldn't we at least start using the
terms and methods of the "Legalize Dope" crowd to stop at least the
criminalization of the implements of the Second Amendment?
Revealing Quote Of The Week:
"...'At one point I told
him, ' Just stop it,' said state Senate President Richard J. Codey, a
Democrat who preceded Corzine as governor and remains popular. ' I said to
him, It's hard to get up on a stage before 1,000 people, do a PowerPoint
presentation on how their tolls should go up 800 percent, and be
persuasive.' ..."
- Quote from New Jersey State Senator
Richard J. Codey,
as noted in an article by Karl Vick of the Washington
Post, October 26, 2009, on a comment he claims to have