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Mike Haas   wrote:
>From the SF Chronicle.
>
>Gotta love the "...[SKS rifles] are literally the Saturday night 
>specials of assault weapons..." quote by Stanley Voyles, Santa Clara 
>County prosecutor.

You gotta love it anytime people use the word "literally" to describe something
which is obviously figurative.  Especially the "literal" terms have no real
meaning at all, other than "whatever I feel like banning right now."

This is my favorite line from the article:

>    Nobody knows why response to the buyback offer is so slow, but it 
>coincides with a surge in gun purchases of as much as 30 percent in 
>California over the past year.

I guess if Bernadette Tansey can't figure out the obvious, she assumes that
no one else can either.