Times Union reporter Jay Jochnowitz says we’re all liars. In today’s op-ed, “A legacy to honor as your own“:
“If you haven’t read the Declaration of Independence lately, or ever, give it a read today. It is an inspiring piece of work that will send a chill down your spine. It’s at once genuinely humble and openly proud. It knows the graveness of its message and the consequences of its defiance. From the outset, it seizes the high road — holding out the self-evident truths of equality and the unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness — and never strays from it. It explains and justifies, yet makes no apology. It doesn’t merely call King George III a tyrant, it submits facts “to a candid world” — more than three dozen grievances in all … Do we do it justice when, as we saw in the fight over a proposed New York law to require microstamping of shell casings in semiautomatic weapons, supposed defenders of the Second Amendment assert that the law would effectively bar the sale of such guns in the state if the technology wasn’t ready? The law, in fact, would do no such thing, but the “big lie” prevailed…”
Jay Jochnowitz… What a surprise a person with a name like Jay Jochnowitz would be against private gun ownership and an ardent advocate of laws requiring the tagging of ammunition on a state by state basis… So lets see is it cheap to “tag” ammunition? Can it be removed once tagged? Will it create additional cost to New York ammunition purchases? Will ammunition manufacturers refuse essentially making ammunition extremely scarce in New York, of course we will exempt the police and military. So Jay Jochnowitz is the true lier as he, being of reasonable intelligence (assumed) must understand that intelligent people will purchase ammunition from other sources and that this law will only serve to restrict the use firearms by the lawful citizens of New York. In order to enforce such a provision one would have to make non-tagged ammunition illegal to posses in New York, otherwise one could buy ammunition from out of state or other sources and claim that they had purchased the ammunition before the law. Well, I guess everyone who has kept ammunition bought a long time ago will have to turn it it in or endure the cost to stamp it it some way. Great idea jay, another attempt to covertly curtail the rights of the people. Fortunately the courts are beginning to see through your tired and convoluted schemes. I know what you are Jay Jochnowitz and the people of the United States and the world for that matter are finding out too thanks to new media and the Internet; which is or will be a future object of restrictions from your kind.