The Next Assault On The Second Amendment

Monday, February 02, 2009

The Next Assault On The Second Amendment

Don't say you weren't warned.

Ex-Black Panther turned Congressman Bobby Rush from Illinois' first Congressional District in Chicago has a idea. He claims he wants to repeat Chicago's success in dealing with gun crime in the rest of the United States by proposing a bill for the opening salvo of a federal gun ban.

HR 45, which Rush recently introduced, is a blatant violation of the Second Amendment.

What it would do is make it almost impossible to obtain hand guns...just like in Chicago, by far the most violent and crime ridden big city in America.

Illinois has one of the most restrictive set of gun laws in the country. AndChicago's gun laws are even more restrictive. Chicago's laws requires "that all firearms be registered with the local police department but won't allow handguns to be registered, which has the effect of outlawing them in the city's jurisdiction.That de facto ban has been in place since 1982.

How has that worked? Not very well, since criminals always seem disinclined to care about the laws and simply buy whatever they want on the black market.

Chicago has experienced a rise in murders while stats for other large cities like Los Angeles have been decreasing. In 2008, 510 murders were recorded, a rise of nearly 15% from the previous year.

And now with HR 45, Rush is planning to extend Chicago's 'success' to the rest of the country.

Here's what it does:

The measure calls for all handgun owners to submit to the federal government an application that shall include, among many other things: a photo; an address; a thumbprint; a completed, written firearm safety test; private mental health records; and a fee. And those are only some of the requirements to be licensed!

The bill would further require the attorney general to establish a database of every handgun sale, transfer, and owner's address in America. Moreover, the bill would make it illegal to own or possess a "qualifying firearm" -- defined as "any handgun; or any semiautomatic firearm that can accept any detachable ammunition feeding device…" [emphasis added] without one of the proposed licenses.

Additionally, the bill would make it illegal to transfer ownership of a "qualifying firearm" to anyone who is not a licensed gun dealer or collector (with very few exceptions), and would require "qualifying firearm" owners to report all transfers to the attorney general's database. It would also be illegal for a licensed gun owner to fail to record a gun loss or theft within 72 hours, or fail to report a change of address within 60 days. Further, if a minor obtains a firearm and injures someone with it, the owner of the firearm may face a multiple-year jail sentence.

If they get away with this, look for even more restrictions on your 2nd amendment right to bear arms...especially if President Barack Hussein Obama and his Democrat sidekicks get a few Supreme Court or other federal bench vacancies to fill.

Remember, tyrants love unarmed peasants.

And don't forget to write,call and e-mail your representatives about this.

Hat tip Doug Ross

A Protest From Oz....

A dinkum Aussie trying to find his way out of the swamp of bureaucracy:

Dear Mr. Minister,

I'm in the process of renewing my passport, and still cannot believe this. How is it that Radio Shack has my address and telephone number and knows that I bought a t.v. cable from them back in 1997, and yet the Federal Government is still asking me where I was born and on what date.

For crying out loud - do you guys do this by hand? My birth date you have on my social insurance card, is on all the income tax forms I've filed for the past 30 years, my health insurance card, my driver's license, on the last eight bloody passports I've had, on all those stupid customs declaration forms I've had to fill out before being allowed off the planes over the last 30 years, and all those insufferable census forms that are done at election times.

Would somebody please take note, once and for all, that my mother's name is Susan, my father's name is Lloyd and I'd be absolutely astounded if that ever changed between now and when I die!

I apologize, Mr. Minister. I'm really pissed off this morning. Between you an' me, I've had enough! You send the application to my house, then you ask me for my address. What is going on? You have a gang of Neanderthals workin' there?!

Look at my damn picture. Do I look like Bin Laden? I don't want to dig up Yasser Arafat, for crying out loud. I just want to go and park my butt on a sandy beach. And would someone please tell me, why would you give a *bleep* whether I plan on visiting a farm in the next 15 days?! If I ever got the urge to do something weird to a chicken or a goat, believe you me, I'd sure as hell not want to tell anyone!

Well, I have to go now, 'cause I have to go to the other end of the city and get another copy of my birth certificate, to the tune of $60! Would it be so complicated to have all the services in the same spot to assist in the issuance of a new passport the same day?? Nooooo, that'd be too easy and maybe make sense.

You'd rather have us running all over the place like chickens with our heads cut off, then find some *bleep* to confirm that it's really me on the stupid picture - you know, the one where we're not allowed to smile?!

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