State sen. passes crap law, company leaves, pol says "Not our fault!!"

Politicians have an infinite capacity to both fail to see logical results of the crap they pass, and to be able to deflect any blame for those consequences--even if this requires swearing that the Earth is flat.

Example:  Two months ago the legislature of Connecticut passed a law outlawing the sale of semi-automatic rifles in that state.  (For those unfamiliar with guns a semi-automatic fires one shot each time the trigger is pulled.)

After that bill passed, a Connecticut company that makes semi-automatic rifles said That's it, we're leaving.  Of course this made zero difference to the lawmakers.  After all, the company only had 42 employees, so no big deal, right?

Well yesterday the company announced they'd found a more receptive climate in South Carolina and would be moving forthwith.  Which prompted statements from two CT pols.

Democrat senator Richard Blumenthal said...aw, who cares?  The guy's a corrupt idiot, and quoting anything he said would be a waste of both your time and mine.

Second quote is from state senator Beth Bye, who championed the new gun-ban law.  She said the new law did not prevent the company from manufacturing their products in CT, but merely banned the company from selling its products there.

She said, “[Company] can still manufacture and sell its weapons in the United States, they just cannot be purchased in Connecticut.  There is nothing in our new state law which prevents them from manufacturing and selling weapons.  So the decision to move is entirely theirs."

You have to have some acquaintance with that weird language known as "politico-gobblespeak" to fully appreciate what Beth was really trying to say there: 

"The loss of 42 productive, taxpaying jobs has absolutely nothing to do with that that bill I pushed into law.  The fault is entirely with the arrogant owner, who was absolutely free to keep his workers' company in our gun-fearing, gun-hating, gun-demonizing state.  After all, my new law didn't outlaw *making* his sinister, kid-killing product here (though I would encourage all other states to ban the purchase of such guns in their states too).  In fact I cannot imagine why he would want to leave such a business-friendly state as ours!

Of course she couldn't literally say those words because then everyone would recognize the hypocrisy.

The absolute giveaway for the "arrogance" factor was the part where she said the company could still sell its weapons in the rest of the U.S.  Damn, that's mighty generous of her--seeing as how she's a state senator and has no impact on the federal picture.  But one has no doubt at all that if she could, she'd ban all such guns outright.

Sure wish one of these pols would have the courage of their convictions and post a big ol' sign in their yard saying "We hate guns and have NONE in this home!" 

I'd love to see how well that worked, even in low-crime Connecticut.