"A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity."

-- Sigmund Freud, "General Introduction to Psychoanalysis".

Via Les Jones, I see that San Francisco voters have passed Proposition H (the handgun ban).

I guess the fact that 42% of San Franciscans voted against it ought to renew my faith somewhat, but it scares me that 58% of that city has such contempt for the Bill of Rights, and self defense.

I haven't been able to find any demographic breakdown of the vote, so I don't know what the neighborhood vote looks like or how gay citizens might have voted.

What I'd like to know is why a city on record as opposing homophobia would want to pass laws based on hoplophobia. (Defined here.) Protecting people's lifestyles and keeping government out of people's bedrooms, are, I believe, fine goals. But intolerance of lifestyles (especially the lifestyle of protecting one's lifestyle) should have no place in San Francisco.

I hope the California courts throw this one out as they did in 1982.

UPDATE: My blogfather has provided some interesting demographics on the gun ban's direct beneficiaries.