Nevada Takes Aim at Your Guns and Data

Maybe Your Sunday Supper, Too

Those good and noble lawmakers of the Nevada Legislature– the tireless architects of modern confusion–have taken up an old crusade in a fresh way.

Senate Bill 156, a curious concoction of bureaucracy and benevolence, proposes the creation of an “Office for the Prevention of Gun Violence.” Yup, in the Office of the Attorney General–as if the place didn’t already choked with enough ant-second amendment paper and platitudes.

One can almost hear the scratching of pens, the shuffling of polished shoes, and the rustling of grand intentions.

According to their holy writ, this new fiefdom would dedicate itself to “increasing public awareness” of federal and state gun laws. It means leaflets, posters, probably a few catchy jingles, and a website with more tabs than a moonshine ledger.

And let’s not forget — they’ll be hobnobbing with professors and researchers, those learned folks who couldn’t hit a barn door with a banjo if the thing was braying at them.

Now, I’m no stranger to reform. I’ve seen temperance societies collapse into whiskey barrels and education committees that couldn’t teach a mule. But this smacks of something else — a bureaucratic bonfire built not to warm the public but to roast its liberties. The notion of the state reaching into homes with a clipboard—is enough to make a man lock up his whiskey for fear of regulation.

And let us speak plainly–what begins as prevention soon turns to persecution, prohibition, then prosecution. If you dress it in silk and let it preach long enough, tyranny will always find a way to call itself a public service.

So let Nevada beware. When a government starts counting your bullets and collecting your thoughts in the name of safety, it ain’t long before it starts measuring your spine —to see if there’s any steel in it.

Let us hope the good folk of Nevada still know a skunk when they smell one — even if it’s wearing a state-issued badge and quoting statistics.