Double Talk

From War on Guns comes this piece on an EU push to enforce even more gun laws. Here's the part that caught my eye-

While the EU cannot intervene in a sovereign countries' own gun laws, Ms McCarthy's committee on the internal market is hoping to push through a new directive - replacing Directive 477 which was passed in 1991 - which would set a series of basic standards which all EU member states would have to abide by.

In other words, they can't interfere in individual country's gun laws but they're going to go ahead and interfere in sovereign nation's internal laws anyway. How's that for government double-talk?

The directive would include background checks would have to be carried out before people can purchase guns, new measures would be brought in to ensure guns are registered and can be traced back to their owners; new controls on convertible weapons and control of internet trade in firearms.

Background checks on law-abiding citizens purchasing guns in gun stores, registration of legally purchased firearms, banning imitation guns and stricter controls over trade- all measures which will have absolutely zero effect on illegally smuggled firearms sold on the black market.

Genius, eh?