It occurs to me, that despite all these cries and demands for the banning, registration and licensing of firearms, as well as the insistence by many that they be locked away so they may do no harm to the innocent, the left is missing something.
We are no longer ALLOWED to demand the isolation of people carrying infectious diseases.
for most of human history if you were packing a dangerous infectious disease your ass was persona non grata in any public place. many nations (including the US) had laws requiring people with infectious diseases be quarantined for the safety of the uninfected public.
Before you could enter our nation you had to undergo a medical screening and be certified as not packing some nifty new plague that will result in an epidemic. even when some trendy new disease rears it's head (aids, sars, ebola, avian flu, swine flu, etc...) the media starts a campaign of panic, declares that this is the end of days, and begins explaining how dire the situation is, but they turn like rabid animals on any who suggest quarantining the infected.
For fuck's sake San Francisco is in the middle of a decade long outbreak of Tuberculosis! infected bums are free to roam the streets panhandling, coughing on passers by, and spreading their diseased sputum on every surface imaginable. even when diagnosed with TB they medical establishment is not permitted to quarantine them, they give them antibiotics and send them on their way, that they might cough up a few million tubercles on unsuspecting pedestrians, coffeeshop patrons,, and liquor store clerks. how does this make sense? how is this reasonable? they are INFECTIOUS. two weeks under quarantine in a TB ward with amoxicillin delivered by medical professionals and they are clean. no longer infectious and no longer at risk of dying from a secondary infection. we USED to do that, and it nearly wiped TB out, now it's back on the move thanks to the left's selective outrage regarding "rights". it was NOT unconstitutional to confine infectious disease carriers until they were no longer infectious, but now it's a violation of some civil right that cannot be found anywhere in the constitution or it's amendments. In Fact we lock up crazy people (danger to self and others) every fucking day, but anyone infected with TB, aids, and dozens of other infectious diseases are treated like some bizarre minority group, reqiring special protections and myriad laws to prevent "discrimination". Being "Discriminating" about plague carriers in no vice in my opinion.
meanwhile the simple existence of my firearms (which are explicitly protected, thank you very much) is deemed a public safety hazard and they must be eliminated immediately.
One of you liberals explain to me how this works:
TB carrier, Typhus carrier, Ebola carrier, Aids carrier, Sars carrier, Swine Flu carrier etc = protected class of people who must not be discriminated against by anyone for any reason. they are special snowflakes with the right to share their plague with the rest of the population.
Gun Owner = Dangerous lunatic who is certain to harm somebody sooner or later with his MURDERGUNS, even if it is merely the emotional trauma of somebody knowing theres guns out there, and fearing they might be harmed somehow in some imagined future.
Run that down for me, cuz i really wanna know.
lol.