As I said yesterday, I think that our local corporate newspaper is pretty much a joke (and our one weekly alternative is teetering). But I have to read them because with the activism I do, I have to know what others "know" or think they know. So I read it...at least the local section, editorials, etc.

So, this guy from SCOPE (Shooter's Committee On Political Education) writes about a bill that is going through the state assembly that would ban certain rifles...over 50 caliber. He's complaining that hunter's shotguns would fall under this law and he does some creative reasoning on how this law will hurt our economy. Fine...whatever...don't care. If I'm getting shot in the City it's not going to be with a 50 caliber sniper rifle (knock on wood). But here's where dude really takes a turn that made me go hmmmm...

The Assembly is basically controlled by 12 ultra-left liberals from Manhattan and that gang of 12 has absolutely no concern for the rights of gun owners in New York. More importantly, they have little regard for the welfare of the rest of New York state outside Manhattan.

OK...this is how I know this guy has his barrel up his ass...first of all, there are NO ultra-left liberals anywhere near the state government (my state or yours). Second of all, if this were true...there were 12 ull's running the Assembly, we'd have state-wide universal health care, a living wage mandate, legalized marijuana, support gay marriages in the entire state - not just New Paltz and we'd stop Tom Galisano's bitching about windmills. Ultra liberal my ass. If you call this tool and ask him, he probably thinks the 12 are all Jewish.