Confederate Sharpshooter

While trying to think of a short subject to write about while under the weather, I came up with this happy thought:

The anti-freedom crowd is hell bent on gun control in any form right now, Bill Clinton musing about how it's time for the AWB to return, Eric Holder being confirmed as AG, etc. The Socialist agenda has the fairness doctrine high on the list of things to do as well, but strangely doesn't want to start with NBC, CBS, CNN or any of the other left leaning outlets. Gee, imagine that. Of course they want to start with talk radio and the Internet blogs- silence the opposition, it's called.

Here's a though for fighting back. Every time they try to introduce a bill like that, the loyal opposition needs to add an amendment targeting the real problems. Starting with this insane notion that you can catch criminals with serial numbered ammunition and firing pins that print numbers into shell casings. OK, if they want to try that, let's try it with a real problem: alcohol abuse. We all know the problems associated with alcohol abuse- broken families, being out of work, traffic fatalities, murders, rapes, all caused by people who have a problem with alcohol. Well, if it works (and it doesn't) for firearms, why not apply the technology to the booze industry? I can see it now- Photo ID's for purchasing alcohol, 3 day waiting periods, 'proof of need' before purchase, and of course total accountability in the form of tracking every drop of booze from manufacture to consumption by careful record keeping and cans that can only be opened by special devices that imprint the owners name on the can. These would be registered and numbered by the government, of course, and it would allow for the easy solving of crimes such as littering, drunk driving, and of course those deadly 'assault bottles' crime.

Won't work? Why, it would work just as well as any of the dimwitted gun control schemes being pushed through right now. (http://www.grnc.org/ has some updates on gun control schemes hidden in the porkulus package.) And even those who don't care much about having real God-given rights taken away by a runaway government will sit up and take notice when that government starts to interfere with the chance for them to get drunk. Besides, the last time prohibition was tried in my home state in reference to alcohol, a lot of poor farmers got mighty rich, and we invented NASCAR and made Junior Johnson a hero. Not a bad side benefit, that.

Same thing with the assault on free speech (Fairness Doctrine) Best case would be to have it applied to the mainstream press in equal measure, I'd love to see Katie and Matt and Chris- especially Chris- forced to share air time with Rush and Sean. But we know that won't happen, the courts are even more liberal than congress. So we need to poison any bills with things just as silly as what the socialist agenda has planned.

Yeah, it's silly and it won't work. But then, that's what the other side is doing, and sometimes you have to fight fire with fire.