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I will say that there was one thing that surprised me in the anti-gunner’s collective statement of outrage: not one of them said anything about blue-states like California responding in kind to the red-state laws that supposedly led to the cold feet on the part of companies like Visa and Mastercard. Maybe they don’t want to tip their hands, but those efforts are almost certainly coming. Gavin Newsom loves to pick culture war fights, and if he’s going after Walgreens over abortion then it probably won’t be long before he demands credit card companies either implement these MCCs or face the wrath of lawmakers in Sacramento.
Here we are just a few months later and sure enough, some of the California legislature’s most vociferous anti-gunners are doing just that. AB 1587 was approved by the Assembly on a 76-0 vote, and is now moving through the Senate. On Thursday the Senate Banking and Financial Institutions Committee gave it’s preliminary approval, and AB 1587 is scheduled to be heard in Senate Judiciary next Tuesday along with AB 1089, another anti-gun measures that adds three-dimensional printers and CNC milling machines to the definition of firearm-related products; requiring “anybody who uses a three-dimensional printer or CNC milling machine to manufacture a firearm to be a state-licensed manufacturer” while prohibiting “the sale, purchase, possession, or receipt of a three-dimensional printer that has the sole or primary function of manufacturing firearms”.
Ahead of next week’s hearing AB 1587’s primary Senate sponsor is already trying to make the case that the legislation will be able to prevent mass shootings and gun trafficking.
Unsurprisingly, Min’s argument doesn’t stand up to the slightest bit of scrutiny. First, the merchant category codes wouldn’t identify specific transactions, only dollar amounts and the date and location of purchases. How are credit card companies supposed to determine if a particular transaction is “suspicious” enough to warrant reporting? These MCCs are supposed to help identify financial crimes like fraud, not serve as some sort of Minority Report-style pre-crime surveillance system, and even some credit card company execs have pointed out that the codes will be of no use in identifying potential killers.
Heck, as the Firearms Policy Coalition pointed out to Min, even the legislative analysis of AB 1587 directly contradicts his assertions.
California already collects more information on gun and ammo buyers than what would be gathered through the use of merchant category codes for firearm retailers, with “universal” background checks run on all purchases of both guns and ammunition. AB 1587 is a culture war tit-for-tat response to laws in Florida, Mississippi, and other states that would fine companies that adopt and utilize the codes. Just as those states provide financial penalties for adopting the codes, AB 1587 would empower California Attorney General Rob Bonta to fine both those companies that don’t start make those codes available for retailers as well as retailers themselves if they don’t start using the codes by March, 2025.
This is yet another blatant attack on gun owners, firearm retailers, and our Second Amendment rights, and I have no doubt that the Senate Judiciary Committee will give it the green light. The bigger questions are how much pushback the legislation will receive from the credit card companies themselves, and who will be the first to sue over the requirement once Gavin Newsom signs the bill into law.
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And in Bagdad by the Sea …
In today’s edition of You Get What You Vote For, we have bat-wielding teens attacking moms and nannies in a wealthy section of Democrat-run San Franciso. In this case, it’s happening in an area known as “stroller alley” because of all the young mothers who live there.
“Stroller Alley,” so idyllic, so dangerous…
The attacks appear to have been orchestrated by a single group of adolescents and occurred primarily in Noe Valley and North of the Panhandle beginning Monday, Thomas Harvey, captain of the San Francisco Police Department’s Mission District police station, said at a town hall meeting Thursday evening, according to Supervisor Rafael Mandelman, who was also present.
The assailants allegedly pushed and punched their victims in assaults that police suspect were carried out using a stolen car, Harvey said. Police recovered and towed the car, the captain said.
“Two women were reportedly assaulted in the neighborhood last week,” continues a Fox News report, “by a youth who allegedly hit one of the women with a baseball bat and the other one in the face.”
Pregnant women have also been attacked. There has been one arrest of a juvenile, but this is a Democrat-run city, so he has probably been released already with an Obama Phone, a rubber, and a book called Gay Sex Is For Everyone.
So, the wealthy Democrat-run San Franciscans who almost certainly vote Democrat are no longer immune from their voting habits. Generally, in the past, wealthy Democrats could pretend their votes were compassionate as the horrors of their policies played out in poorer, minority neighborhoods. Let’s see how tough these left-wing white ladies get on crime now!
Now we get to the best part. Democrat officials are blaming this crime wave on … the COVID.
Rafael Mandelman, who sits on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, has “attributed the crime among children in the city in part to the upending they experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic[.]”
“I think, what happened with kids not being in school, I think there may be something going on with that, that we’re going to be experiencing for a while,” he explained. “Those couple of years [when] school was erratic or nonexistent,” he added, “where everyone was under stress, parents and caregivers were under stress. That was probably impacting vulnerable communities more anyway. Sociologically.”
This gives the wealthy moms of Democrat-run San Francisco two choices: they can blame the soft-on-crime Democrats for this crime wave in their backyard, or they can blame the close-the-schools Democrats. I’m pretty sure those Democrats are one and the same.
I don’t like to read about people getting hurt, and some of these women were physically attacked. Things shouldn’t have to get that ugly and brutal before voters wake up. But will they wake up? I doubt it. If these people have to own the Trumptards straight into a dystopia, they will.
The official statistics say robberies are up 12 percent in San Francisco this year. Still, it is likely higher than that because citizens are aware that the police can’t do anything. Why waste your time reporting the crime? Add to this the fact that downtown San Francisco is emptying of businesses, and Democrat Dystopia is close at hand in the City by the Bay.
And what will stop these teenage thugs from continuing to assault young moms and nannies? These punks know there will be no punishment for their actions. They also know that moms holding their phones are easy prey. Women are physically weaker than men. Better still, these women are distracted by their phones and easy to sneak up on.
As I said, I don’t want to see anyone get hurt, but these people voted for this crime wave. People should get what they vote for. Hey, this is America. People should get what they want.
Thankfully, we don’t all have to live like that. No, sir, we surely do not.
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Ah, Chicago
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Congrats to one very Lucky SOB !!!!
