Common Sense
John Lott's opinion column from the Hartford Courant in which he takes on the following:

Today at state Senate hearings in Connecticut, Democratic gubernatorial candidate and Senate Majority Leader George Jepsen is scheduled to push legislation requiring the Department of Public Safety to annually determine what firearms are suitable for hunting or self-defense and then essentially ban the rest.

Fair enough. Would you like for your Department of Public Safety also decide for the types of automobiles we may drive (no Corvettes or Vipers--they exist only to break the speed limit law and suck up precious natural resources), the food we may eat (no fat--fat kills, you know. And don't let us catch you feeding your children stuff with fat in it either!), the activities we do for recreation (sorry, rock climbing, swimming, hang gliding, private aviation, etc, are all dangerous and subject to criminal misuse), and the types of magazines and books we read (Officer--arrest that man! He has a copy of Guns and Ammo!).

Yes, it sound pretty stupid. But stupidity has never been an impediment to public office or the implementation of law.
posted by Terry at 1:02:00 PM