Gun laws, like most other laws,
are for the little people
by John Hayward 20 Oct 2013
Emily Miller, "it" girl
of the Second Amendment (and author of a lively book about her adventures in
exercising her gun rights) brings us another example of inequality under the
law, as the D.C. police hand over a pile of confiscated gun parts to a
gun-control group for use in a silly demonstration. (They had blacksmiths beating the guns into
plowshares outside the National Cathedral.)
As Emily writes at the Washington
Times, not only is it awfully convenient for the authorities to provide activists
with props for their demonstration, it's a blatant violation of the
hyper-restrictive gun laws in our nation's capital:
It is illegal in the District to
possess a firearm that is not registered. When asked about the event, Police
Chief Cathy Lanier’s spokesman said that, “These are not firearms. They are
scrap parts only, and they are inoperable.
”That’s actually legally
irrelevant. According to the District firearms laws written after the Supreme
Court’s Heller decision in 2008, even a non-functioning firearm must be
registered and can result in criminal liability.
The chairman of the Fraternal Order of Police for D.C.,
Kris Baumann, disagrees with the department participating in this event. “We are supposed to be the police and, as
such, the laws must be applied to everyone without bias,” the head of the 3,600
member union told me Friday. “The minute we become politicized in how we
enforce the law, we become compromised and we lose public trust. This is not
rocket science, and yet there appears to be no learning curve on this issue.”
Emily goes on to mention previous
incidents in which NBC News personality David Gregory, and Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), were allowed to violate D.C. gun
laws with impunity, because they're on the "right" side of the war
against the Second Amendment.
This is just one aspect of the
increasingly obvious hierarchy of law in the United States. The ruling class exempts itself from laws it
finds inconvenient, or simply ignores them, especially when fidelity to the law
(i.e. bringing charges against grandstanding big-shot media figures or
politicians) would provide a useful demonstration of the law's idiocy.
The rest of us are rats in a maze
of shifting walls and booby traps, liable to run afoul of the government's
immense enforcement army at the most unlikely moments. But the ruling class and its favored
constituents are exempt from everything that thwarts their political agenda or
costs them money. The very notion of
applying the law as written to the aristocracy is considered laughable.
I've written at length about how
creating a vast body of law is just the first stage of tyrannical government;
the stratosphere of power is breached when the ruling class can issue waivers
and dispensations to itself and its ideological allies. Our degenerate system could be annihilated
overnight by merely asserting the principle of equality under the law - no
exemptions, no waivers, no special breaks or "progressive"
rates. Politicians would fall all over
themselves to repeal most of the Leviathan
State if they actually
had to live with its rules, and savor the full measure of their unintended
consequences.
Fraternal Order of Police
Kenneth
Canterbury is the president for the Fraternal
Order of Police, and a member of the Homeland
Security Advisory Council.
Note: Lee H. Hamilton is
a member of the Homeland Security
Advisory Council, and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Teresa Heinz
Kerry is an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), and married to John F. Kerry.
John
F. Kerry is married to Teresa Heinz
Kerry, and is the secretary at the U.S.
Department of State for the Barack
Obama administration.
NRA-ILA (John F. Kerry)
Secretary of State Kerry to sign
Arms Trade Treaty
Cyrus F.
Freidheim Jr. is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Kathleen
Brown is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, Jerry Brown’s
sister, was the treasurer for the California state government, and an attorney for O'Melveny & Myers LLP.
Jerry
Brown is Kathleen Brown’s
brother, and the California state government governor.
NRA-ILA (Jerry Brown)
California: Gun control bill in Gov. Jerry Brown's hands
Thomas E. Donilon was a partner at O'Melveny & Myers LLP, the White
House deputy national security adviser for the Barack Obama administration, a trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg
(think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Richard
C. Blum is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank),
and married to Senator Dianne Feinstein.
NRA-ILA (Dianne Feinstein)
Senator Dianne Feinstein says
she'll reintroduce semi-auto ban legislation
Dianne
Feinstein is married to Richard C.
Blum, a U.S. Senate senator, and
a member of the Alfalfa Club.
Michael R.
Bloomberg is a member of the Alfalfa
Club, the New York (NY) mayor, a co-chair for the Mayors Against Illegal Guns, was a benefactor for the Harlem Children's Zone, and a donor for
the Robin Hood Foundation.
NRA-ILA (Mayors Against Illegal Guns)
The Truth About "Mayors
Against Illegal Guns"
George
Soros was a benefactor for the Harlem
Children's Zone, and is the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Harlem Children's Zone, the Robin
Hood Foundation, and the Brookings Institution (think tank).
NRA-ILA (George Soros)
George Soros: Anti-Gunner Who
Would Remake America
Lee
H. Hamilton is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council.
Kenneth
Canterbury is a member of the Homeland
Security Advisory Council, and the president for the Fraternal Order of Police.
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