Rosen's Latest Crusade is a Misfire in the Name of Safety

Well, it appears Senator Jacky Rosen is at it again, and this time dusting off a five-year-old event to stir up some more fear and hoopla to push through a bill that’ll have all the finesse of a bull in a china shop. Her latest venture? A ban on high-capacity magazines, those contraptions she deems so dreadfully dangerous.

According to Rosen, any magazine holding more than ten rounds is just a ticking time bomb waiting to go off in the hands of the wrong person.

The bill, dubbed the Keep Americans Safe Act, promises a noble-sounding buyback program for those wicked high-capacity magazines, along with the grand authority to send law enforcement after anyone caught with one and take those gadgets away, presumably with the precision of a deer hunter and the grace of a stampede.

But here’s the thing–Rosen–bless her heart, still doesn’t seem to understand the simple concept of “shall not infringe.” The Founding Fathers, those fellows who set up this nation and wrote the Constitution, might have been less charitable in their views of federal overreach than our dear Senator.

You see, they didn’t put the words “the right of the people to keep and bear Arms” for decoration. And here’s the kicker—while Rosen’s busy invoking the shadow of that sad day in Las Vegas on October 1st, 2017, what she’s missed is that most Nevadans see that whole tragedy a little differently.

Instead of a lamentable mass shooting, many folks around here think it was just another one of those federal gun-running operations gone awry. So, while Rosen tries to pull the wool over your eyes with the same old fear-mongering, most folks who’ve lived here more than a week can tell you it wasn’t the magazines that made the mess.

And until she can wrap her head around that, all this talk about “commonsense legislation” rings hollow.

It’s clear that she’s trying to take a five-year-old tragedy and use it as a cudgel to push her pet project, but it’s not fooling anyone around here. We’ve seen enough of the government’s meddling to realize that they’ve got their hand in the cookie jar, and it’s not always for our benefit.

Rosen can try all she wants, but it’ll be a cold day in Hell before she convinces Nevadans that a federal ban on magazines is the solution to what’s gone wrong in this country.