HR45 – More feel good gun control legislation sponsored by the Democrats
It’s that time of year again. Another House Resolution designed to further erode our 2nd amendment rights is being introduced by Democratic Congressman Bobby Rush of Illinois. HR45, also called Blair Holt’s Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009, is another bill designed to make it more difficult for law-abiding citizens to obtain a firearm while doing nothing to keep firearms out of the hands of criminals.
You can read the details of the resolution here but a few of the highlights are:
- It will be “unlawful” to own a firearm without a license.
- Be required to submit a picture and thumbprint.
- Provide certification that the firearms are properly stored.
- Pass a written firearms exam which tests a persons knowledge of the safe storage of firearms in the presence of children, safe handling of firearms, risks associated with firearms, legal responsibilities of a firearm owner, and anything else the Attorney General deems fit.
- A release of any mental health records.
- Makes private sales illegal.
- Establishes a Federal Record of Sale system which records make, model, serial number, license of the transferee and name and address of the transferor.
- Provides for inspection of your home (fourth amendment violation)
- Reporting of lost or stolen firearms
- Notice of change of address
- Numerous other fun nuggets.
I find it particularly repugnant that the title of the bill refers to Blair Holt. Blair Holt was a young man who was fatally shot while trying to defend some passengers on a bus from being shot by a 16 year old gang-banger. The fact that the shooter was a 16 year old gang member who could not possibly legally own a firearm does not stop Congressman Bobby Rush from using it to add an emotional aspect to the legislation. There are certainly no logical reasons for a bill like this to be passed. Perhaps if one of the passengers on the bus had been armed with a legal firearm the whole tragedy could have been averted.
A large part of the bill has to do with licensing and registration. The Federal government is always trying to add more paperwork to legal gun ownership. I am sure there will be fees involved with all this, making it another source of revenue for the government.
Another section of the bill has to do with safety and training. While the 1,500 annual accidental deaths due to firearms are certainly tragic, giving the fact that there are 80 million firearms in the United States the statistics prove that the vast majority of gun owners already know how to safely store and use firearms. All firearms that are sold today are mandated to have gun locks included. Most people that purchase a handgun voluntarily take courses on their safe storage and operation. Passing a federally mandated firearms exam will do nothing to ensure that irresponsible gun owners will start acting responsibly any more than laws against drunk drivers will prevent some people from driving drunk.
I have heard some liberal gun control advocates argue the car ownership analogy. It goes something along the line of:
- Need a license to drive a car.
- Need a photo on file to drive a car.
- Need to pass two tests to drive a car.
- Have to get the car inspected regularly.
- Have to have the car licensed.
So why should anyone complain about similar requirements for gun ownership? The problems with this analogy are many. You don’t need a license to buy an automobile. You can own any car you choose as long as you don’t take it on a public road. You only need to register your car if you plan on driving it on a public thoroughfare. Anyone (including violent criminals) can purchase a car. A drivers license is valid in all 50 states. There is no waiting period to purchase an automobile. There is no limit on how many cars you can own or how many you can buy per month.
There is nothing in HR45 that will further prevent criminals from illegally obtaining guns. Likewise there is nothing in HR45 that will significantly reduce the number of accidental gun deaths. The only thing that HR45 will accomplish is a further erosion of the rights of citizens to legally own firearms as provided for by the Constitution. In fact, it has been shown time and again that legal ownership of firearms reduces violent crime as well as other types of crimes such as robbery, burglary, etc. Washington DC had some of the most stringent gun control laws on the books yet had one of the highest homicide rates in the United States.
I urge everyone who is concerned about the constant erosion of our civil liberties and rights to write your congressman in opposition to this resolution. Signing away your rights in order to exercise your 2nd amendment rights is not an option.
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By shaugen on January 27th, 2009 at 12:55 pm
To complete the analogy, I guess we need to make each person who purchases alcohol register that alcohol with the ATF. To purchase alcohol, you should have to have a federal “drinkers’ license”. A drivers license and a drinkers license need to be mutually exclusive. That way we can track all those drunks on the highway. Far more people are killed “accidentally” by drunk drivers each year than guns.
That idea makes as much sense as HR 45.
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By Ed Parman on January 28th, 2009 at 9:58 pm
What a load of crap. How do these simple minded jackasses get elected to national office? How is this for an “off the wall” suggestion? Ban firearms from use by all law enforcement personnel, the armed forces, all governmental bodyguards, FBI, CIA, security guards, secret service, bank guards, etc, etc, etc. With all those fewer guns, there would have to be a tremendous reduction in firearm deaths.
If congressman Rush has nothing better to do with his publically supported time, I am sure there are millions of Americans that would be most happy to tell him where to go and what to do. Wake up Rush and get your head out of your congressional butt.
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By GrandSportC3 on January 29th, 2009 at 3:02 pm
The comparison in the article between licensing a car and a weapon lacks as driving a car is a PRIVILEGE and owning a gun is a RIGHT. Shall not be infringed means:
–verb (used with object) 1. to commit a breach or infraction of; violate or transgress: to infringe a copyright; to infringe a rule.
This bill is clearly an infringement on gun ownership and therefore UNCONSTITUTIONAL!!
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By ophiuchus on January 29th, 2009 at 3:12 pm
I will NOT comply….period.
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By InfoWarrior on January 30th, 2009 at 3:29 am
Please contact your representative to say NO to this peice of crap legislation. Once the guns are removed next these criminals will be leading the sheeple into FEMA camps **read REX84** Bobby Rush is disgusting!
http://www.infowars.com
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By Steve Elber on January 30th, 2009 at 3:53 am
Not too long ago, in Newark, New Jersey, a man who was upset with another man (for reasons unknown to me), jumped into a car and ran over a group of people to get the one man that he was angry at. If we apply “Democratic” logic to this case … because the car was used as a weapon, all cars should be outlawed, and the car companies should be sued for making a product that kills.
This is OUR country. The elected officials are not supposed to tell us what to do. We are supposed to tell them. When they attack our rights, not only should they be kicked out of office, they should also be JAILED. The Second Amendment is not about personal protection (which is a side benefit), nor is it about hunting … it is about giving the people the ability to defend themselves against a government that is ignoring the will of the people. Without the Second Amendment, the entire Bill of Rights is in danger. The Constitution is in danger. If Obama goes after the Second Amendment, he should be impeached, and arrested for treason. His oath states to “preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the U.S.” … that includes the Bill of Rights (and the Second Amendment). If he breaks that oath, isn’t that treason?
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By Don on January 30th, 2009 at 4:35 pm
I keep waking up every morning and thinking maybe this is the day common sense will return to this country. Then I see something like this and realize today is not the day. The ignorance it takes to introduce a bill like this is hard to imagine. And these are the people who are suppose to be leading our country. I wonder if they ever glance at the CONSTITUTION. It would appear not…
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By Wayne Daniels on January 30th, 2009 at 7:12 pm
OUT OF MY COLD, DEAD HANDS! C. HESTON
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By V Schultheis on February 3rd, 2009 at 12:46 pm
You think this will stop the criminals? Well you are wrong, you maybe need good background checks, and what you do need is stronger laws for committing crimes, murders, especially. If the criminals see that these laws are stronger then they will think twice about committing crimes. If not them they should be fully punished. You release so many criminals into the main stream, cause our jails are full, and they committ crimes all over again, sometimes more serious crimes. If you take away our guns then you make it easier for the “bad” guys to just walk into our houses and fire away!!
What happened to all the common sense about things? No one has that any more. The crooks have more rights then the citizens. I am 100% against gun control!!!!!!!!!! Punish the bad guys!!!!!!!!!
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By brassbanjo on February 3rd, 2009 at 12:56 pm
Don’t forget!
no president, political party, government agency, or voting majority
can deprive you of your right to keep and bear arms. You were born with it,
and it can NOT be taken away – it can only be violated.
Anyone who doesn’t undertsand this doesn’t understand what a human right is.
Brassbanjo
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By RW Donn on February 9th, 2009 at 7:02 pm
I have a friend who is a retired driver’s license examiner (California DMV). He pointed out to me that it is a privilege to drive a car, thus the reason for getting a driver’s license. However, you have a right to walk down the street, which is why there is no walking license required.
THAT is your gun analogy. Owning a firearm is like having the right to walk down the street. As long as you’re not bothering or irritating anyone, then you just keep walking. Just like you just keep owning the gun. Both are yours, the right to walk and the right to own the gun. Anyone who has purchased a firearm in the last decade has already jumped through the Federal hoops for buying a gun, in addition to the 10 day waiting period. We’re done, here.
Oh, and for those of you who are NRA members and voted for Obama–you’ve gotten what you deserved. For those of you who are firearms owners and voted for Obama–YOU’VE gotten what you deserve. Unfortunately, you’ve dropped your “deserved disease” on the rest of us and the nation. So, WHO are you going to vote for in the 2010 elections of 1/3 of the Senate and the entire House of Representatives? Not more liberal democrats who get F scores from the NRA, I hope.
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By Are you kidding? on February 10th, 2009 at 4:54 pm
I am completely pro Bill of Rights…all of it…and against gun control. Unfortunately this puts me on the same side as a number of rabid, retarded rednecks. RTF Bill. It does not say anything about home inspections, it mentions inspections of “any place in which firearms or firearm products are manufactured, stored, or held, for distribution in commerce, and inspect those areas where the products are so manufactured, stored, or held.” Note: for distribution in commerce. I’ll say it again, I am against this legislation! But I am also against people making things up to get a reaction; which only serves to alienate people who would otherwise be on your side. In other words, think Dragnet…just the facts ma’am.
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By Are you kidding? on February 10th, 2009 at 4:58 pm
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By mtefft on February 10th, 2009 at 6:30 pm
Are you kidding? I have always wondered what rock people like you crawl out from under. It seems you are unable to make a point without resorting to name calling. That is a mark of an intellectual midget. Your opinions lose any merit they might have when you behave like an 8 year old. Try growing up before you try to make a point about something.
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By Ring Huggins on February 11th, 2009 at 10:01 pm
Hello Campers,
More anti-gun folks need to read some quotes by Thomas Jefferson. I just had a visit with a lady from Austraila whom is a “shooter”. They took the guns from citizens and the bad guys kept theirs. Crime is up in that great nation.
Gun restrictions are about control of the citizens. You and I campers.
The lady is in a gun club and in order to keep her rifles and shotguns had to shoot four times a year and do a ton of paperwork. We do not need or want that in the USA.
Comparing car ownership to gun ownership is a diversionary tactic.
Write or call your congresspersons. Get on them big time.
How come we have not seen anything about this bill on the TV or radio news?
Some of my friends say HR45 will never pass. Yeah, they said that about the Brady Bill too!
Jefferson said stuff about governments fearing armed citizens…well they sure as hell should.
Ring Huggins
Head Instigator
Terlingua Liberation Front
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By Kenneth Locke on February 11th, 2009 at 11:27 pm
I am a Federal Firearms License holder,and dealer.While I don’t agree with all regulations, the ability to register/background check through NICS needs to be mandated for sales amonst private citizens.ATF will not !allow! the criminal check,and re-registering of the firearm through their system for private citizen to citizen sales.The actual history isn’t even revealed to dealers anyway.We get a go/nogo/hold response.PROBLEM 1)citizen sales to person who may be a convict accidently,or intentionaly not caring due to ATF’S REFUSAL to run the criminal check,and the excuss that it’s not needed legally anyway.PROBLEM 2)A law-abiding person purchasing the arm who wants it registered in his name can’t register it(retarted).Most folks pawn the gun and go get it back the next day.Their req.to register it now.If you sell a gun to another citizen and it is used in a murder 10 yrs. from now who does the serial number come back to?!!!!?THE SELLER!!! Keep hand written receipt/records.
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By Jeff Casner on February 12th, 2009 at 9:19 pm
If they try to take my right to own a firearm. I will give them the ammo.
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By Kyle on February 15th, 2009 at 11:14 am
I carry a gun because it’s too hard to shove a cop into my waste band! Perhaps they can pass legislation on hiring smaller, skinner cops!
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By George Adams on February 16th, 2009 at 7:07 pm
Any one seen the history behind the sponsor of this bill?
It was on the Glenn Beck show tonight,2-16-09.
He was the founder of a gang back in his youth,Having grown up in Illinois,
I thought it was already illegal to have a firearm in Chicago,guess the bad guys have not heard about that yet…I am glad I left the state 20 years ago..
You need to vote these idiots out including the mayor of Chicago..
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By N. Burns on February 17th, 2009 at 6:46 pm
This makes no sense, they are so worried about people being shot or killed from a long distance. If someone were determaned to do such a horrable thing and without a firearm, they could use a bow, a steak knife, ballbat, etc. I guess I will just have to rip through my steak with my teeth, and never teach my son to play baseball. The prisoners do not have guns in jail and the guards do, but, somehow, other inmates end up getting stabbed with a filed down toothbrush. Watch out for rotting teeth. Guess I won’t be able to eat my steak now.
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By Keith on February 17th, 2009 at 11:36 pm
Great post. Wrote a similar post on my own blog re: Illinois HB0687. It’s just as idiotic.
Keiths last blog post..They Hate Guns
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By Tim Chris on February 18th, 2009 at 1:20 pm
This is another lame attempt at Gun Control. All over the wrong reason,not that there is a good reason. They want to license gun owners(just another TAX) and that will stop the killings and shootings.
that is pretty weak minded. the problem is illegal drugs, illegal drugs are the heart of the problem. Make drugs legal, license drug users, tax the drugs,
this also takes away the turf or sales areas of the drug gangs. they will not be making money on drug sales can not afford to live like kings, so the young people of the neighborhoods will not look up to them any more and maybe see that they have to get an education to get ahead in life. Every day people drink themself to death and nothing is said about it. if someone wants to kill themselves with drugs so be it. License drug users not gun owners. Some people might see this as curl, but sometimes the truth is curl. Licensing drug users would help keep our courts and jails less occupied. another big saving for the Law abiding Tax payers of this country. Legalize Drugs and Tax the crap out of them.
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By joe on February 18th, 2009 at 7:16 pm
i think we need to remind our employee’s in Washington that we are their boss’s not the other way around. maybe we should look into saving us all some money in this time of need and look into some employee cutbacks and some permanent layoffs of our own. then we can start down that long hard road of putting thing right in this great country of ours just an idea
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By jacqueline decker on February 24th, 2009 at 5:43 pm
As a citizen of the united states of america i feel the gun laws in Massachuettes are insane. We the people have a right to own a gun, to protect our selfs against others who want to harm us. I also feel if someone breaks into my home i have the right to shoot them, and I will not go to jail. We in Massachuettes have to have laws like Florida has. The hell with the crimanals rights.
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By Sam on March 1st, 2009 at 3:33 pm
All this will do is boost illegal gun selling trading or what have you. Its common sense, do we really think that criminals are going to comply. I can tell you thats a big NO. If you dont like guns thats fine, We as the gun owner community could’nt care less. But don’t ever try and take our guns.
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By Andre Sanford on March 2nd, 2009 at 9:53 pm
I’m suprised it took this long since the DEMONcrats took over. Stock up on ammo, as they will try to restict that too! I’m not complying. Good Luck enforcing crap like this. Gun control is hitting the target!
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By LES on March 3rd, 2009 at 12:04 am
we need to do 1 of 2 things. ether we need to have a bunch of states get together and ceed from the union. or we need to declair revoulition and overthrow the current goverment. And yes it is possible over half the population of this country are gun owners. thats one big fighting force. and they wont be able to stand aganst us for long. but WE ALL HAVE TO STAND TOGETHER!!! IF WE DONT WERE HAD. furthermore they can have my gun when they PRY IT OUT OF MY COLD DEAD FINGERS! and they better ready to DIE to accomplish that. people like to forget the last 4 words of the 2 AMENDMENT. and those 4 words are SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED! and we need to remind them and everybody elese of that. the 2 amendment was put into the constitution just in case the goverment started ignoring the rest of it. and they have done a pretty good job of ignoring it. the bad thing is WE ALL LET THEM! and now they think they can do whatever they want when they want. and do it with impunity. and it has to STOP. this is the last chance we have to make a stand and WE NEED TO ACT ON IT AND DO IT NOW!!!!
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By annie on March 4th, 2009 at 3:50 pm
Something my dad said a long time ago. “Any politician who would take your guns is only one step away from taking everything else you have too.” Thank you pop for teaching me why I am free. Too bad everyone didn’t have my dad.
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By TJHeibel on March 10th, 2009 at 5:25 pm
When you come to get my gun,bring your lunch as it is going to be a long day.
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By FrankUSMC on March 16th, 2009 at 7:39 pm
If they want to take my gun they better pack a lunch and bring a battalion
and plenty of body bags
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By GovTrack on March 17th, 2009 at 7:50 am
Write a collaborative letter to congress against H.R. 45
Tell Congress why H.R. 45 stinks (Blair Holt’s Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009)! GovTrack.us, the nonpartisan legislative tracking website, launched a first-of-its-kind experiment last week to see if Americans can come together to write a collaborative letter to Congress. Using the MixedInk.com tool, citizens can write, re-mix, and rate the best letter opposing H.R. 45. In late April, GovTrack will take the top-rated letter and deliver it in person to appropriate congressmen.
The bill: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-45
The letter: http://mixedink.com/GovTrackUs/111Hr45Against
A large problem facing Congress is their inability to keep up with constituent communication, as the rise of electronic communications to Congress has far outpaced the increases in their office budgets. One of the many ways to address this problem is to have constituents come together on a single letter, an aggregated communication. Petitions were the aggregated letter of the past. In the future, we will see the letter actually being written collaboratively, and this is what GovTrack’s experiment is about.
More information on the experiment can be found here:
http://www.govtrack.us/blog/2009/03/16/mixedink-experiment-a-collaborative-letter-to-congress-on-hr-45/
GovTrack.us is an independent, nonpartisan, noncommercial website whose aim is to use technology to make innovations in civic life.
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By Don Norman on March 23rd, 2009 at 3:50 pm
I’m only one of millions who has fought for the freedom of our country and this is a shame. What I and millions of other veterans have fought for, congressman who have nothing better to do try to take that freedom from us. Your welcome congressman for letting us veterans fight an die for your freedom so you can sit around and think how you can take our freedom away. Come on!
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By Puck W. on April 1st, 2009 at 10:40 am
this is the legislature that our public elected? what a F#%@ING joke! as a prior service member i would rather denounce my citizenship than to have my rights as a citizen taken away by a dictator. and not to mention the invasion of privacy to regulate what i do for a living and as a hobby. the political views of this office and his advisors are pathetic. as a citizen of this country i am proud to have served and would do so agian given the need arise. however this legislation is taking the rights that men and women like myself have faught to preserve. I DO NOT AGREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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By Cravczec on April 14th, 2009 at 4:21 pm
This is where I draw the line. You try to get into my home to catalog or confiscate my firearms and there will be a firefight.
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By Robert Brazell on April 22nd, 2009 at 9:37 pm
In 1937 a man made a speech said “This is the first civilized nation in history to have 100% firearms registration” that was A. Hitler. To hell with the HR45 bill and any government that wants to violate The Constitution of the United States. I was military and took an oath to defend this country and our constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic.
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By Robert Brazell on April 22nd, 2009 at 9:49 pm
The second amendment was created with the implication that should the government become a tyranny that it is the responsibility of the people to take up arms in defense of our way of life
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By Jim on May 2nd, 2009 at 6:51 pm
Even though I did not vote for President Obama I was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt and hoped that he would be successful. Have stood by and watched our country being ravaged by greedy corporate leaders and deceitful politicians, both Democrat & Republican alike. No more, this piece of legislation is a travesty and is a clear violation of the constitutional right to bear arms. President Obama needs to weigh in and tell these ideologues to stand down. I will be writing my Congressional Represenatives and Senators urging them to kill this before it goes any further and urge all upstanding citizens of this country to do the same.
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By Bob on May 2nd, 2009 at 7:20 pm
The elected officials and “Elites” have proven that they want all encompassing power over the people. Taking our guns away is just the first step in destroying the freedoms that millions of people who have served in this country’s military (including myself), and especially the 2 million people throughout this great country’s history who paid with their lives so that we can enjoy these freedoms. The politicians and judges are circumventing the Constitution for their own interests. They should all be thrown in jail. I am tired of the lies coming from our politicians. We, the people need to band together and throw these politicians out and go back to what the Constitution says.
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By joe ruggirello on May 27th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
Constitution says.The second amendment was created with the people by the people.
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By John w.Carpenter, London, KY on June 6th, 2009 at 8:23 am
I am an 82 year old veteran. Very rarely do I regret not having children. But now is one of those times. Because as I see it, children born today will live to see the wonderful America that I grew up in, GONE.
On gun control, i like what a dear friend of mine said, a machinist, “They may come and get mine but i’ll have another one made before they get out of sight”.
I Love the comment made by Ann Coulter in her column of 2/25/2009. “But as long as the nation is obsessed with the historic milestones, (like the first black president), [inserted from the introduction to her comment], is no one going to remark on what a great country it is where a mentally retarded woman can become Speaker of The House?
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By Jeremy Elliot on June 28th, 2009 at 6:55 am
Do you think that right to protect yourself with weapons is a human right, or just an American one? It’s like the idea; “we should have nuclear weapons, so that other countries don’t try to kill us”. If you think that’s a good idea, then are you surprised that the government of Iran also thinks it is a good idea? If I was running a country in the middle east, I would be quite concerned that a world super-power might want to invade us for oil, on the pretext of hidden weapons or a “war on Terror”.
Why are you all so scared of being attacked that you freak out at the idea of not having a gun with you? I would hate to live in such a United State of Fear.
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By Michael Tefft on June 28th, 2009 at 9:49 pm
Jeremy
Why are you such an asshole?. Is everyone where you live as dumb as you?
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By IdunBenHad on July 6th, 2009 at 9:17 am
A lot of you have made comments about what happened when gun control became the law of countries like: Germany, Libya, Cuba, etc.
Anyone look at Mexico? I have long said that many of the problems of Mexico can be traced to the inability of its’ citizens to own firearms.
Don’t even think of taking a firearm or even a bullet into Mexico. You will be so far back in jail, they’ll be pumping air and sunlight to you.
Mexico keeps crying about the illegal firearms coming from the U.S. into the drug dealers/cartels hands, yet the ordinary citizen in Mexico can do nothing about it. They have to depend on a corrupt government leader to “enlighten their lives”, as he does by encouraging illegal immigration into this country.
Want to know one of the reasons for illegal immigration from Mexico into the U.S.? GUN CONTROL.
When a government fears it’s citizens, gun control is one of the first steps in attempting to alleviate that fear.
It does no good to “cuss” the politicians and certainly threats mean nothing to them. What does mean something is your vote. Now your only problem is to find someone to represent you that is not an intellectually handicapped. Most anyone who wants to be or is a politician in this country falls into that category.
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By G Wood on July 18th, 2009 at 1:30 pm
I’m reading a book right now about Russia during WWII. Sounds like where we are heading. Permit for this, permit for that. No rights, only obligations and regulations. How many laws does the government have to saddle law abiding citizens with before we are behaving well enough for them. Criminal minds are going to think like criminal minds no matter how many laws there are. Good honest hard working citizens are going to naturally treat their fellow citizens with at least some degree of respect whether there is a law requiring it or not. Congress needs to quit legislating for the sake of their own existence, and leave us alone. The 10 commandments were good enough for God, why aren’t they good enough for us? Maddof wasn’t convicted of stealing, but that is what he did, and that is what was wrong with what he did. It took a lawmaker and a lawyer to come up with a more complicated name for it. Same as with all other laws.
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By curtis41 on July 19th, 2009 at 11:29 am
This legislation violates unreasonable search and seizure. Licenses are not required to exercise a natural, individual civil right as written in the 2nd amendment and reinforced in the order and ruling of D.C. v Heller. If so, then Bobby Rush, of Thuggville should have his mouth pre-registered for 1st amendment free speech. Moreover, his proposal should be confiscated, after an unannounced home search, in violation of the same law that he disrespects, the 4th amendment. His proposal is blatant, back door gun-grabbing legislation to disarm law abiding Americans, and should be viewed exactly as that. Among criminals, terrorists and those who would attempt to frustrate or abolish 2nd amendment guarantees, it clearly is the anti-gunner with clinical gun angst who pose the far greater danger. In fact, it approaches the tyranny of the government over the governed so feared by framers of the U.S. Constitution. This type of legislation is exactly the most prevalent driving force for the “surge” in gun and ammunition sales, and not just an increase in crime, as the gun-grabbers would have us believe. This bill should never see the light of day.
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By lyle on September 12th, 2009 at 1:30 pm
The HR45 bill is just one more step to creating a total control gov. where people are powerless against the state. have you read the “PATRIOT ACT”?
the government doesn’t even need a gun control bill to take away your guns or your rights. all they have to do is declare you a national threat or terrorist and you as a citizen of the USA lose every, and i mean EVERY right and liberty that the CONSTITUTION provides and guarantees. look it up and check it out if you don’t believe me.
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By Ricky Oxford on September 13th, 2009 at 9:34 pm
Freedom isn’t Free. I have served 21 years in the Navy, I have been responsible for the weapons placed on Aircraft to defend my country, and you want me to pay to protect my home and the right to carry a weapon.
That is like saying you want to charge me for protecting my country. (Sounds like someone is not thinking this out.)
There are a lot of good people that have fought and died for that freedom.
The constitution was created to keep us free. It starts by saying “We the People! of the United States of America. In order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, Ensure domestic tranquility and provide for the common defense.” I understand that there has been a lot of senseless violence committed by those who force their way on other. I can not support a partyor any other group of people that will not permit me to protect my home, family, or right of worship. Sounds to me like it is a time for change of leadership. Especially if it means that only the Law breakers have the weapons, and you take them away from those that provide common defense. I think we should consider impeachment of every elected official that would kill the Constitution of United States.
When was the last time you heard or said the pledge of Allegiance?
Do you even remember the words?
Ask everyone you meet to recite the words.
How many can do it?
How many do it with pride in their country?
And what next Freedom of Speech???
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By Darrin Eaton on October 20th, 2009 at 11:54 am
The car analogy is totally bunk. Driving a car is not in the Bill of RIGHTS. As my parents frequently reminded me, driving a car is a PRIVILEGE, not a RIGHT.
This legislation is another step down a slippery slope that we must avoid. California has headed down this road with the California “Safe Handgun” Roster and AB962 it will soon be illegal to watch a movie with handguns in it.
Heller vs. DC was a good start at clarifying the second amendment and MacDonald vs. Chicago will add the 14th amendment reinforcement to the 2nd Amendment. As long as we hold our government to the task of protecting and enforcing the constitution, we should be OK. In order for this to happen, we need to hold their feet to the fire and make sure that Congress does not pass legislation that would weaken and conflict the core of our constitution.
Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
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By comeandtakeit on December 12th, 2009 at 10:06 pm
I am so sick and tired of these Washington D.C. elitist’s crap. I don’t understand why the honest law abiding citizens of this great republic are not more organized in standing up against crap such as this, as are those who are trying to force these types of things upon us. Represenative Bobby Rush could get into a car wreck and you would not see me crying for his sorry ass. THOSE THAT POUND THEIR GUNS INTO PLOWSHARES, WILL PLOW FOR THOSE THAT DO NOT. (Thomas Jefferson)
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