Rice-a-roni "The San Francisco Treat" is actually made in Chicago?
Are there no bounds to the disillusionments we face?
Ten years ago, Chicago newspaper columnist Joan Beck wrote
approvingly of the Clinton Assault Weapon Ban, then noted in
the next paragraph that of 2,400 homicides in the preceding
three years, only three had been committed with assault
weapons. One of eight hundred. She defended the AWB as
a symbolic gesture in the face of the NRA. Clinton and Gore
credit backlash against the AWB with Democrats losing the
House, the Senate and White House to the Republicans.
[Not all republicans are pro run rights and not all Democrats
are pro gun control but that is another issue.]
Chris Daly and what appears to be an active minority of
residents but a majority of voters have promoted and passed
another empty symbolic gesture form of legislation. Someone
remarked years ago: "It does the dignity of the law no good
to pass unenforceable statutes."
Gun control is a noisy clash of symbols.
"There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government
has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't
enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be
a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking
laws...." --Ayn Rand
Chris Daly has given thousands of San Franciscans the choice of
surrendering their personal security or becoming outlaws.
"In every effort to rise above human nature we invariably sink
beneath it. Your reformist demi-gods are just devils turned inside
out." -- Edgar Allan Poe