San Francisco voters BAN HANDGUNS

[The Wingnut]

That?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s very well put Joseph. I would add this: I bet the Liberal/Conservative dichotomy wasn?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢t the only one operating in SF when they took that vote, has anyone analysed it in terms of gender? I?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢d be willing to bet there was a significant male/female split that cut across party lines. One aspect of the problem seems to me that us boys ?¢‚Ǩ‚Äú good guys and bad guys alike ?¢‚Ǩ‚Äú tend to fetishize guns. Women tend not to. But as wives, mothers and Nurses they do have to clean up the mess after us.

This is San Francisco we're talking about. The gender line is most definitely blurred if not totally obliterated. Throw in a popular stronger-than-ever '60s hippie / communal living / social programming mentality and you can throw any sort of traditional demographic out the window.

S.F. - with exception to Berkeley and some areas in Marin and Sonoma counties - is about as far off from representing the majority in the U.S. as you can possibly get.

 

[Vladimir Berkov]

Here's a thought...

If the majority of voters in San Fran wanted this and voted for it. Then shouldn't they decide what's good for their city and we should respect that?

If self-defense and ownership of property are rights (and I would say they are) then a majority of voters in a city can't simply vote them away. The problem is that in modern America self-defense and ownership of property are not seen as rights. If San Francisco voters had decided to ban blacks from voting, or to eliminate the right of free speech do you think you would be saying that we should respect those decisions too?

 

[shamus]

If San Francisco voters had decided to ban blacks from voting, or to eliminate the right of free speech do you think you would be saying that we should respect those decisions too?

I seem to remember something about blacks being banned from voting... Ah yes, that was until 1965 wasn't it? I think the southern states had some laws that I guess people respected up till that point.

But that's another thread.

San Fran didn't ban blacks from voting nor eliminate the right to free speech so why bring it up?

 

[MK]

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I think everyone who is interested in this matter has had a say. I am going to shut it down.