Posted on 04/13/2013 10:32:11 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA
Gun Control, Compromised
The Public Safety and Second Amendment Rights Protection Act of 2013, as proposed by Republican senators Pat Toomey and Mark Kirk and Democrats Joe Manchin and Charles Schumer, deals partly in symbolism. It “reaffirms,” for instance, an existing ban on government firearms registries, and establishes Washington’s umpteenth blue-ribbon panel — the National Commission on Mass Violence — to “study the availability and nature of firearms, including the means of acquiring firearms, issues relating to mental health, and all positive and negative impacts of the availability and nature of firearms on incidents of mass violence.”
It also does some substantive tinkering around the edges of the existing federal gun-control regime. In various ways it pokes and prods the states to provide more criminal records to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, or NICS, and to better capture serious mental illness in those records. But the most significant expansion of federal gun-control powers in the bill is also the least likely to work. We remain fans of Toomey, but on the issue of expanded background checks he is in the wrong.
Preventing criminals and those with dangerous mental illness from obtaining guns is a worthy goal of law. But such a law should stand a credible chance of success, and demonstrate that it will not unduly burden lawful citizens in the exercise of their constitutional rights. The Toomey/Manchin bill does neither.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
We were Toomeyed.
...issues relating to mental health...
Feinstein: All Vets Are Mentally Ill And Government Should Prevent Them From Owning Firearms
I suppose we should be happy that the constitution has only been compromised.
remember what they did to Benito?
Another useless NR article. We are being sold out by the R party.
“We were Toomeyed.”
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Haha. Stolen.
Yep. That's his legacy.
What a surprise. Normally they're such stalwarts in defense of our liberty.
I know I’m not the smartest guy in the world, but I’m pretty confident I can carry on a conversation with most. So, after reading this article, I’m perplexed at exactly what this bill will do. Maybe, someone on here can enlighten me. It seems like its a whole lot of nothing. Which I guess is the norm for the crap coming out of DC for the last 15 or so years.
; )
All liberals are OBVIOUSLY mentally ill. They shouldn’t be allowed to own a sling shot.
Needs to be torpedoed
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