Perhaps naively, I always think of "progressive" causes as birds of a feather flocking together. Provided, of course, that it is still politically correct to flock.
In any event, I was surprised to see one favorite progressive group--environmentalists-- undermining the cause of another progressive grup, the anti-gun folks. Yet, according to My Fox Tampa Bay, the website of a local Fox News channel, that's exactly what happened in Sarasota, Florida:
Every few months for 30 years, a police boat would be sent 14 miles out into the Gulf of Mexico. Aboard, a deadly cargo, scores of guns taken from criminals, guns headed to Davey Jones' Locker.
"Just what you need for street use." said an officer as he tossed an assault rifle into the Gulf.
Next comes a box of pistols, one by one, over they go.
Sarasota Police, proud they'd made their city safer, released the video to FOX 13.
"We thought it was a great story," said spokesman Jay Frank. "We've taken 200 guns off the street, we thought that was the story. Low and behold we found out that people weren't concerned that much about that, but they were concerned about polluting the gulf."
"They" are Betsy Roberts of the Sierra Club, and other local environmentalists, who raised the roof about the gun tossing.
"We just don't know enough," Roberts said. "How long did we use DDT before we knew it wasn't a good thing to do?".
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Roberts and the environmentalists declared victory,
"I'm delighted they will no longer be dumping weapons into the Gulf of Mexico. I think it shows that it is not a land fill," she said.
I understand (tongue firmly planted in cheek) that the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence is thinking about challenging the Sierra Club to a rumble.
On a serious note, this story should remind us that everything has a trade off-- progressive idealism notwithstanding. I am reminded, for example, of the Post I did on July 15, 2006, pointing out the extreme damage that massive illegal immigration is doing to the environment on our Southern border (see "CATEGORIES", "IMMIGRATION" on the right-hand side of this page). I am also reminded of the Posts on this Blog that have pointed out that we can massively cut "global warming" greenhouse gasses--if we want to throw the economy into depression (Category of 'GLOBAL WARMING" Posts).
Rational environmental regulation requires, and always will, tough decisions about trade offs. Thank God Al Gore and John Edwards, who live in huge mansions with massive carbon footprints and who fly around in private planes spewing large amounts of carbon-related pollution, have had the good sense to buy carbon offsets-- even if, at least in Al Gore's case, the offsets are through his own company. Where would the environment be without such self-sacrificing leaders who live just like the rest of us do?
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