Posted April 28, 2016 8:20 pm by Comments

By Dean Weingarten

Dean Weingarten

By Dean Weingarten

Dean Weingarten

Arizona – -(Ammoland.com)- You are winning the culture war when the other side accepts your premises. In the 1950’s, legislatures across the country succumbed to the latest trendy weapons ban. Switchblade knives. The trend went so far as to pass a federal ban on the importation and interstate sale of of switchblades, because, at the time, it was widely understood the Constitution forbade the federal government from actually regulating the sale of an item inside of state boundaries. Seven states, including Arizona, did not enact a switchblade ban.

The ban never had any facts or logic to back it up. It was entirely emotion and media driven legislation, based on fear of the “other”, in this case, street gangs armed with switchblade knives. It was a precursor to the the “assault weapon” ban, another fear and emotion based ban with no data to back it up. The icon of the switchblade ban was “Westside Story”, of the “Assault Weapons” ban “Miami Vice”. Both bans were driven by politicians making a name for themselves and a “progressive” media revelling in emotion driven nonsense. It …Read the Rest

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