This Won’t End Well For SOMEone

A Massachusetts town is requiring an essay from concealed-carry applicants explaining why they should have a gun.

OK, how about: “In case some officious bureaucrat gets a notion that he has a right to ask me why I should have a gun.”

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  1. But wouldn’t importing Australia’s pussification would constitute “cultural appropriation”?

    https://www.loc.gov/law/help/firearms-control/australia.php

    In 1996, following the Port Arthur massacre, the federal government and the states and territories agreed to a uniform approach to firearms regulation, including a ban on certain semiautomatic and self-loading rifles and shotguns, standard licensing and permit criteria, storage requirements and inspections, and greater restrictions on the sale of firearms and ammunition. Firearms license applicants would be required to take a safety course and show a “genuine reason” for owning a firearm, which could not include self-defense.

    1996 National Firearms Agreement and Buyback Program

    The resolutions agreed to at the APMC meeting on May 10, 1996, provided for the establishment of a uniform approach to firearms regulation that would include:

    •ensuring that “personal protection” would not be regarded as a “genuine reason” for owning, possessing, or using a firearm under the laws of the states and territories

    “Outback: Where the police will take you.”

  2. My essay: “Because I want one, and even bothering to tell you that much is a stretch but I’m feeling uncharacteristically whimsical on the subject and, at least for today, am in the mood to suffer fools gladly. Issue my license without delay, feel free to choke on the fee, or you will see me in court. Just FYI, the polite version of my lawyer’s nickname is ‘Junkyard Bleeping Bleep Money Bleephole Banks’, but we no longer refer to this as his ‘Indian name’ for PC reasons.”

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