5 things to know about Oregon's gun-control bill

mailtribune.com ^ | 3/28/2015 | Jonathan J. Cooper

[rktman]

The Senate Judiciary Committee is holding a public hearing on the measure 8 a.m. Wednesday at the state Capitol in Salem. Members of the public are invited to testify, but there's no guarantee that everyone will get a chance.

Oregonians also can also email or call their senator. Contact information for all 30 senators is on the Legislature's website,www.oregonlegislature.gov .

[rktman]

Link in excerpt on how to weigh in. I understand that, for the most part, Oregonians are pro 2nd and lots of people are firearm owners and enthusiasts but that doesn't carry much with the asshats in the legislature. After all, they'll let you know what's best for you.

[rickomatic]

Link in excerpt on how to weigh in. I understand that, for the most part, Oregonians are pro 2nd and lots of people are firearm owners and enthusiasts but that doesn't carry much with the asshats in the legislature. After all, they'll let you know what's best for you.

Oregonians face the same problem we do here in Washington State, as do several other states. Idiot liberal causes are driven by people in Portland and Seattle, where most of the population is centered. Not satisfied with soiling their own beds, they try to ruin it for everyone else. Hang on Oregon, it's gonna be a bumpy ride.

[TurboZamboni]

The closer you get to the tallest buildings, the less common sense you’ll find and the more bed-wetting moochers.

[BlueNgold]

True wisdom...

[rktman]

Roger that. It’s gonna get bumpy here in NV for the 2016 ballot. Nannie bloomers and the momunists got enough IPOS/SPOS/LPOS/UPOS signatures to have an I-594 type initiative placed on it. And with their playbook, they’ll get the same groups to support the initiative.

[Twotone]

The gun bills are just the tip of the iceberg in what the leftists are doing. Here are some others...

- Increases minimum wage to $15 – HB 2009 Increases minimum age in graduated steps to $15 per hour by 2018.
- 7 days of sick leave for each employee - HB 2005 Requires all employers to implement paid sick time for employees, including part-time employees.
- Equal pay mandates - HB 2006 Makes practice of paying employees of opposite sex who hold equivalent jobs at different wage rates unlawful employment practice. How fair would that be in a small office where one had been employed for several years and the other was a new hire?
- Flexible scheduling – HB 2010 Authorizes employee of certain employers to request flexible, predictable or stable work schedule. Shouldn’t an employer get to decide when he/she needs the employee?
- Recognition of marital status - HB 2646 Makes failure of employer to grant employee unpaid parental leave to attend certain school-related activities (such as school sports events) unlawful employment practice.
- HB 2685 Prohibits discrimination in employment on basis of familial status of employee.
- Binding arbitration for collective bargaining - HB 2544 Requires issue subject to collective bargaining during term of collective bargaining agreement that is not resolved through negotiation or mediation to be resolved through binding arbitration.

I almost hope they accomplish all of their goals & so p*ss people off that they get tossed in the next election. But you’d have to have an aware & intelligent voter base for that to happen.

[ThunderSleeps]

5 things? I only need to know one thing: it is labeled as a “gun control” bill. That tells me everything I need to know about it. I haven’t read nor heard of one single “gun control” bill yet that I like. None of them make any sense, they are all obviously flawed. None of them make anyone one bit safer. None of them address the fundamental fact that criminals break laws, passing more laws won’t stop criminals. None of them admit that they are an infringement on law abiding citizens and part of a slippery slope of ever more onerous and ineffective legislation.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

This is the beauty of federalism. If OR wants to vote for destructive leftist policies, who cares?

[Ouderkirk]

Huh?

Slippery slope?

There is no slippery slope. The bottom line is that they want to outlaw firearms, period. This is not a slippery slope. It’s a sheer cliff.

They believe that only the government and the police should have guns. This is an incremental step to that end.

[Republican1795.]

Just knowing they have a gun control bill is frankly one thing too much.

[logi_cal869]

"My goal is to keep individuals who shouldn't have access to guns from having easy access to guns," said Sen. Floyd Prozanski, a Eugene Democrat who is sponsoring the bill.

Listen, Floyd...it's already against the law to transfer firearms to a felon. What is another 'law' going to do to make people safer save for the obvious: Making it more difficult for the law-abiding to trade in firearms and, in essence, create a 'registry' of firearms owners (not going into the Nazi analogy...that should be obvious). Nor am I going into the so-called 'slippery slope' of the terminology "individuals who shouldn't nave access to guns".

The net result here is simple logic based on Floyd's argument: That "...keep individuals who shouldn't have access to guns from having easy access to guns... can be equated to the felon that simple breaks into a home to steal weapons. What's easier and safer than a witness-free/expense-free transaction that puts the weapon in their possession?

It goes without saying that the next logical step in that argument is that gun owners are the next obstacle to eliminating "easy access to guns". Eh...enough of the rhetorical. Rant over.

NOW the Nazi analogy comes into play.

"Heil Prozanski"

It's Ok: Don't get up too quick, Floyd...your head might break Bloomberg's jaw.../s

[nwrep]

Employers will have no choice but to hire in Asia instead!

[Impy]

1)It’s unconstitutional
2)It’s unconstitutional
3)It’s unconstitutional
4)It’s unconstitutional
5)It’s unconstitutional