More Gun Confiscation

To paraphrase Shemane Nugent, you should always be wary of those who seek to make you defenseless. Apparently San Franciscans have no such concern. [HT: Keith.]

SAN FRANCISCO - Voters approved ballot measures to ban handguns in San Francisco and urge the city's public high schools and college campuses to keep out military recruiters.

The gun ban prohibits the manufacture and sale of all firearms and ammunition in the city, and makes it illegal for residents to keep handguns in their homes or businesses.

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Although law enforcement, security guards and others who require weapons for work are exempt from the measure, current handgun owners would have to surrender their firearms by April.

It's hard to put into words just how stupid people have to be to actually propose - much less pass - such laws against handguns, unconstitutionality aside.

Would these same people be willing to hang a 4'x5' banner on the side of their house advertising it as a gun-free household? Do they actually believe criminals will surrender their firearms to these state despots? Do they believe the SFPD is so agile as to respond to all emergency calls regarding burglaries and attempted rapes, robberies, and murders in a manner timely enough to ward off such incidents? You know the answers, of course.

The biggest joke is the measure called "College Not Combat," which would prevent the military from recruiting at public high schools and colleges, but which "would not ban the armed forces from seeking enlistees at city campuses, since that would put schools at risk of losing federal funding." Principles are great until they get us booted off the federal dole, you know!

First of all, we should be spending no federal money on public education anyway, save for our military academies, but most especially not on those that even seek to prevent the federal government from recruiting future leaders. The Solomon Amendment was supposed to make this official policy, but it has been challenged for years by everyone from professors of ROTC-unfriendly colleges who just can't live without their federal grants to gay-rights activists who protest the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy.

I wonder how many public schools would shoo the military away so quickly if they suddenly found themselves under terrorist attack. You know the answer to that one, too.

UPDATE (4:15): This is but one photo representing many kinds of people who just love the government-imposed impotence of law-abiding citizens. [HT: Michelle Malkin.]