From the desk of shut the fuck up

As you may have heard, Pennsylvania is planning on putting a four day damper on gun purchases, while they make long overdue upgrades to the state tracking system. Gun rights advocates are expectedly pissed, considering this yet another example of liberal Philadelphia pissing on the 2nd amendment. Their primary complaint is that the no-gun window will fall right around Labor Day, aka the start of hunting season. Apparently, Jim Bob likes to buy a new shotgun each year, and it's just not the same to do it a week early. It'd be like getting your birthday present a day early. No fun at all.

Get this (from Philly Inquirer this morning, by staff writer Angela Couloumbis - sorry, something's wrong w/ blogger's web linking capacity this morning):
House Majority Leader Bill DeWeese, a Western Pennsylvania Democrat who is a gun-rights advocate, put it this way: "I believe that this is a moment of administrative maladroitness on the part of the chain of command.

"I would be stupefied if there was a sinister cabal within the Rendell administration to engender mischief," he said, adding that he believed Scarnati was "just enjoying what he considers a delicious opportunity to foment the L word."

First off, I'm impressed that a gun rights nut correctly drops a maladroitness on us. But then he adds "sinister cabal" and "engender mischief"... How exactly does one "engender mischief", by fucking Bart Simpson? He simply falls off a cliff with that "foment the L word"... dude needs to put down the girl-girl porn.

Look, I agree that the timing on the gun freeze wasn't particularly smart, nor sensitive to the gun lust requirements of hunters. To which I say: so fucking what. State government and law enforcement involves massive bureaucracy, and planning something like this necessarily makes choosing a perfect timeline difficult. It's a low priority, and fucking should be.

So hunters- chill the fuck out, and either use last year's AK to gun down Bambi, or buy your 8 year old his first rifle a week early, and stow that shit until the big day. It's just that simple.