A State of Massachusetts

[Zeno]

In the owners manual for the 10/22 Ruger rife I recently purchased there are required State warnings that must, by law, be included. The following is the warning from the Massachusetts Attorney General. For a 'warning' it includes much frothy information and a puritanical preachy tone that would put the prophet Jeremiah to shame. First-rate stuff full of half-truths, third-rate lies, misleading statements, irrational hooey, guilt flinging, and general idiocy just like the criminals that inhabit the Massachusetts State Legislature. See below:


“WARNING FROM THE MASSACHUSETTS ATTONEY GENERAL: This handgun is not equipped with a device that fully blocks use by unauthorized users. More than 200,000 firearms like this one are stolen from their owners every year in the United States. In addition, there are more than a thousand suicides each year by younger children and teenagers who get access to firearms. Hundreds more die from accidental discharge. It is likely that many more children sustain serious wounds, or inflict such wounds accidentally on others. In order to limit the chance of such misuse, it is imperative that you keep this weapon in a secure place and take other steps necessary to limit the possibility of theft or accident. Failure to take reasonable preventive steps may result in innocent lives being lost, and in some circumstances may result in your liability for these deaths.”

“IT IS UNLAWFUL TO STORE OR KEEP A FIREARM, RIFLE, SHOTGUN OR MACHINE GUN IN ANY PLACE UNLESS THAT WEAPON IS EQUIPPED WITH A TAMPER-RESISTANT SAFETY DEVICE OR IS STORED OR KEPT IN A SECURELY LOCKED CONTAINER.”


Contrast the above warning to that from the State of New Jersey:

“IT IS A CRIMINAL OFFENSE TO LEAVE A LOADED FIREARM WITHIN EASY ACCESS OF A MINOR”.

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I have no need for warnings and find the continual banal blather of posted and required warnings not just a general nuisance but also a sign that all intelligent and civil behavior that comes natural to any civilized human being is under assault by a pack of demagogic morons that wish to hound and peck me to death with unwarranted scare tactics and puerile lunacy under the guise of Do-Gooding nonsense. Such warnings are inimical to any freethinking individual.

FU*K the State of Massachusetts and just about everyone else on this vile ball of rock vomit. To quote my friend Andy Fox, feh.

Le Misanthrope

P.S. While composing the above screed, I listened to a newly purchased CD;'The Best of Charlie Parker', really some great stuff.