Locke and Load

San Francisco

What better example to illustrate how closely respect for our military and the concept of personal responsibility are related than San Francisco. San Francisco is a cesspool, and this is a disgrace:

San Francisco voters this week passed what could become the nation's strictest gun ban when they outlawed not only the sale of guns in the city, but required almost everyone who is not a cop, security guard or member of the military to surrender their handguns to police by April 1.

Where is the ACLU? Those vaunted protectors of civil liberties? I guess some amendments just count more than others.

And this is the proper response:

...some gun owners say they'll either have to store their weapons somewhere else, or accept that they'll be criminals.

Except I say fuck finding somewhere else to store them.

And the second part of the San Francisco story, the move to discourage military recruiting, is dwarfed in the media by comments made by Bill O'Reilly. Though I am not an O'Reilly fan, he is exactly right in what he said.

First, "college not combat" (is that not a perfect leftist bullshit bumper-sticker name for a proposition?)

Proposition I, also known as the "College Not Combat" initiative, does not ban the military from recruiting soldiers on campus — that would require schools to forfeit federal funds — but it does encourage school officials to offer students alternatives to the perks that come with military service, like scholarships and job training.

According to CollegeNotCombat.org, a "yes" vote for Proposition I implies the voter would "want it to be city policy to oppose military recruiters' access to public schools and to consider funding scholarships for education and training that could provide an alternative to military service."

I cannot, as I sit here, believe this is happening. Forget where. How is it that at a time of war, a few years after the second-worst attack ever on American soil, with soldiers in the field, a major American city is doing this? At times like this, I fear that although common-sense people are still fighting the political skirmishes, we've really already lost the war.

So O'Reilly says:

"...If al-Qaida comes in here and blows you up, we're not going to do anything about it. We're going to say, look, every other place in America is off limits to you, except San Francisco. You want to blow up the Coit Tower? Go ahead."

Why is this out of line? You are not willing to send your sons and daughters to fight for the country, yet you want to be able to dial 911 for federal assistance whenever you need it? I'll go a step further: I say the Federal Government should suspend all payments of federal money to the city of San Francisco immediately.

Leave the leftists of San Francisco to fend for themselves, without even the most basic means of self-defense. Good luck in Utopia.

posted by The Man @ 10:47 AM