Le texte est en anglais, mais la finalité est facile à comprendre, le voici sous sa formule originale,
No more black airguns!
If you enjoy shooting your Walther PPK/S or a Crosman C11, you better
get used to them being ALL red or ALL blue or ALL green -- or completely clear!
California State Senator Kevin de Leon thinks your black airguns are
dangerous and has proposed CA Senate Bill 798 to stop you from having
them. SB 798 states that all airguns MUST be painted brightly. No more black guns!
Some background
In December 2010, three boys were shooting their airsoft guns in a public park. It was dark, but
their pistols had orange muzzles. The police confronted them and ordered them to put down their
guns. Two boys complied but the third did not. He was shot and suffered severe injuries.
To prevent another such occurrence, Sen. de Leon had a knee-jerk reaction and wrote SB 798 to
stop EVERYONE from buying, owning or shooting black airguns.
It gets worse!
This new law also affects airsoft guns, which millions of people safely use for re-enactments,
skirmishing and maintaining firearm proficiency.
If you hate orange muzzles on your airsoft guns, what are you going to do when the ONLY airsoft
guns you can buy, carry or shoot are red, blue, green or completely clear?
California's Penal Code prohibits the sale and distribution of imitation firearms. BB devices, which
are listed as airsoft guns and BB guns, are specifically excluded from that law. HOWEVER, SB 798
adds airsoft guns and BB guns to the list of imitation firearms that are prohibited UNLESS those guns
are brightly colored.
YOU are guilty
Because you shoot a "BB device," Sen. de Leon thinks you're not a responsible person and must be
forced to have brightly colored guns for your own protection. Basically, he's saying you're guilty by
association because you shoot one of these guns!
While we sympathize with the boy who was injured in last December's incident, that does not give
Sen. de Leon the right to include every airsoft or BB gun owner as someone who needs the
government to tell them what to do.
What you can do
If California passes this bill, other states will get similar bills going. Whether you live in California or
elsewhere, show your support for airsoft and airgun owners everywhere.
You can send to Senator de Leon and your own California representatives about SB 798.
to go to our facebook page to download a letter that you can send to Senator de Leon
and your own California representatives about SB 798.
Do it today -- tomorrow may be too late!
Il faut croire que même avec un président "black" aux US, cette réaction pourrait malheureusement être très vite considérée, voire interprétée de cette façon "In USA the black is ugly and dangerous" soit "Aux USA le noir est laid et dangereux" (c'est moi aussi qui va un peu loin dans ce genre de considérations, mais va savoir ?)
Par contre il est fort à parier que les "vrais" dangereux vont très vite peindre leurs guns en rose fluo et passer ainsi pour des "anges", voilà où est le paradoxe de ce que l'on croit être bon pour nous, pour notre humanité tourmentée et pourtant si moralisatrice, bien évidemment, la simple apparence et non le fond prévaut toujours et bien souvent avant la compréhension de la situation réelle...
Un petit épilogue pour encore faire comprendre que les armes, même de loisirs, apparaissent bien dangereuses face à ce que nous en faisons réellement, pourtant simplement, nous amuser dans le cas du Field Target, mais bon...
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