Republican David Storobin appears to have scored an upset win over Democrat Lew Fidler in yesterday special election in SD-27. This is particularly amusing as there is a roughly a 3-1 Democrat enrollment advantage in the district. Even more entertaining is the e-mail I receiving from a person in the district saying Fidler’s lackeys did a mailing against Storobin saying that the Tea Party people were opposed to “common sense gun control.”
Like David Weprin, Fidler is a typical Democrat machine candidate who never had serious opposition before and tried coasting on little more than the heavy enrollment advantage. That, along with his gun control pitch, looks to have failed.
I enjoy reading stories like this. Oh yes and news flash: There is no actual such thing as “common sense gun control” That’s what is defined as an oxymoron. Just like like Jumbo Shrimp
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Good one, Bill. A phrase like “common-sense gun control” is headrd by most people and absorbed without question. If it is said slowly,
“common…sense….gun…..control” may prompt a question in the listener’s mind, like “OK, what does that mean?”
There is no answer to such a question. This phrase is nothing but CODE, created by the same crew that dreamed up the term “assault weapon” to describe firearms we all own. They don’t bother to let folks know that automatic weapons have been illegal in the USA since 1939, a hangover from the days of Prohibition, and that few of us even get the chance to fire one of these. That’s because they want people to think that a semi-auto—which means one trigger pull, one round—is the same thing. Deception in the term itself. Shorthand code. Each and every public figure who uses these phrases should be pointedly challenged; they will wind up embarrassed. Better yet, out of office.