San Francisco Supervisor Carol Ruth Silver on guns

[FastFinger]

Her views were disputed quickly by San Francisco officials, including Public Defender Jeff Brown, who said Silver's ideas could provoke "a domestic arms race."

Let's not forget that the arms race helped keep communism and totalitarianism at bay, prvented outright attacks on our country, and eventually lead to the fall of the USSR.

Furthermore reviewing crime reports indicates that we are in a domestic arms race already, and the bad guys - who don't abide by any rules - are winning.

[Hunt]

I'm moved here recently from New York City and find the gun laws here rather liberal compared to those in New York City which were put in place under Republican administrations. For gun lovers there are places a lot worse than California [Chicago also comes to mind.] Being pro-gun in a densely populated city is actually not politically expedient. Also, I a Democrat and proud to be one [although Republicans allowed me to make out like a bandit when I worked on Wall Street, so I love them too as well as you suckers who allowed Bush to transfer middle income wealth to us Wall Streeters]. But as a Democrat, I am very much against the anti-gun nuts in this country. Hell, got to protect all my wealth.

at least you are honest in admiting you had full knowledge you were ripping off middle America, too bad our legal system doesn't provide justice for such crimes. Proud Democrat is just a feather in the cap.

[Hunt]

Let's not forget that the arms race helped keep communism and totalitarianism at bay, prvented outright attacks on our country, and eventually lead to the fall of the USSR.

Furthermore reviewing crime reports indicates that we are in a domestic arms race already, and the bad guys - who don't abide by any rules - are winning.

place a private bounty on terrorists and narco traffickers and see how fast the problem goes away.

[marshaul]

A friend of mine is SFPD SWAT. I keep asking him if they've moved over to airsoft for their primary weapons yet.

His normal response is, "Surprisingly not yet."

Anti-gunners are statists. Statists like armed police. Joke misses the mark.

I, on the other hand, would be happy to arm the SFPD with airsoft while encouraging the citizenry to arm themselves meaningfully.

[marshaul]

Try finding a gun store in SF now!

There is one.

[gunn]

place a private bounty on terrorists and narco traffickers and see how fast the problem goes away.

This bounty has been around for YEARS and hasn't exactly worked out. It's up to $27M if you want to go poking around the mountains in Pakistan.

http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/fugitives/laden.htm

$5.2M for this grandpa

http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/terrorists/teralumari.htm

here's a whole shopping list if you have lots of frequent flier miles and the bills are piling up...

http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/terrorists/fugitives.htm

[Hunt]

This bounty has been around for YEARS and hasn't exactly worked out. It's up to $27M if you want to go poking around the mountains in Pakistan.

http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/fugitives/laden.htm

$5.2M for this grandpa

http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/terrorists/teralumari.htm

here's a whole shopping list if you have lots of frequent flier miles and the bills are piling up...
http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/terrorists/fugitives.htm

interesting, one would expect better results.

[nitrofc]

I'm moved here recently from New York City and find the gun laws here rather liberal compared to those in New York City which were put in place under Republican administrations. For gun lovers there are places a lot worse than California [Chicago also comes to mind.] Being pro-gun in a densely populated city is actually not politically expedient. Also, I a Democrat and proud to be one [although Republicans allowed me to make out like a bandit when I worked on Wall Street, so I love them too as well as you suckers who allowed Bush to transfer middle income wealth to us Wall Streeters]. But as a Democrat, I am very much against the anti-gun nuts in this country. Hell, got to protect all my wealth.

"although Republicans allowed me to make out like a bandit when I worked on Wall Street, so I love them too as well as you suckers who allowed Bush to transfer middle income wealth to us Wall Streeters".

So as a "Proud Democrat" did you short the U.S. Stock Market after Bush became President and the events of 911 unfolded....or did go you long knowing your elected officials like Barney Frank and Dodd would push the leverage of Fannie and Freddie to 100:1, later helping to create the largest failure in the Banking system since the Great Depression?

Let me guess.......then you went "all in" and Long last March, 2009 and now credit the current Administration for their awesome success with the TARP program by quietly purchasing shares of Firms like Goldman, BAC, Wells, and.....last but not least........JPMorgan behind the U.S. tax payers back?

Do tell!

[1911_sfca]

Carol is a great lady. I stood shoulder to shoulder with her (actually in her garage!), Tom, and others assembling "No on Prop H" signs when we were fighting the SF Gun Ban. Unfortunately our campaign wasn't successful but I believe we vastly lowered the margin of victory for Prop H, and luckily it was overturned. Anyhow, Carol was and is a staunch supporter of the right to self defense.

[1911_sfca]

Try finding a gun store in SF now!

Only one left -- High Bridge Arms.