Posted on 01/19/2013 2:57:55 PM PST by smoothsailing
Massachusetts State Rep. David P. Linsky and Barack Obama
Massachusetts State Representative David Linsky has filed a new bill that would force gun owners to undergo mental health background checks, pay an additional 25% tax on all forms of ammunition, and require firearms categorized as “assault weapons” to be stored outside of their homes at government approved sites.
Natick Patch reported, via Black Listed News:
“This bill is a comprehensive effort to reduce all types of gun violence – murders, intentional shootings, accidental shootings and suicides. There is not one solution to reducing gun violence – we can’t eliminate it – but there are a lot of common-sense steps that we can take to significantly reduce the everyday tragedy of gun violence and deaths,” said Linsky…
…“I have spoken with hundreds of people over the past few weeks in developing this legislation – victims, police officers, criminologists, physicians, and yes – gun owners and sportsmen,” stated Linsky. “There are a lot of good ideas out there. We should all have one goal – reducing gun violence and trying to keep more tragedies from happening.”
Provisions in the bill include:
- Having one standard of the issuance of all gun licenses, giving local police chiefs the ability to evaluate all aspects of an application for a gun license.
- Requires proof of liability insurance for possession of a firearm, rifle or shotgun.
- Requires that all large capacity weapons and grandfathered assault weapons must be stored at gun clubs or target ranges.
- Requires live shooting as part of the curriculum for a basic firearms safety course; this is not a current requirement.
- Requires all applicants for gun licenses and FID cards to sign a waiver of mental health records for review to be destroyed after decision.
- Imposes 25% sales tax on ammunition, firearms, shotguns, and rifles; dedicates funds towards firearms licensing, police training, mental health services, and victim’s services.
- Brings Massachusetts into compliance with the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS).
- Limits gun buyers to one firearm purchase per month.
That way if someone breaks in your house, all you have to do is run down to the local gun storage facility to get your guns.
It makes perfect sense.
Every able citizen should educate and prepare themselves to defend and protect themselves, their family, and our nation against whatever dangers might arise in the future.
What kind of gun will you use to force me to store my gun in your facility?
Absolutely chilling.
I heard a radio interview once with Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the brilliant intellectual and Christian who was imprisoned himself in the Soviet gulag system. He wrote several books about his horrific experiences, the most famous was The Gulag Archipelago.
One of the most amazing (and frightening) things he said was that the West was making the same mistake the Soviet Union had made - it had forgotten God, and thereby unleashed on itself untold Evil.
He remarked that under the Soviet system, you were defenseless against being charged with any "Thoughtcrime" that the authorities wanted to charge you with.
He said that if you admitted a faith in God, that in of and by itself was mocked and then charged against you as "insanity." To believe in an unseen, almighty, all knowing God was insane. You were mad. The psychiatrists and torturers would argue this to you, ridicule you, surround you, and wear down your very will and being.
In American today, we are not as far off from this nightmare as think. I predict that very soon, the "Thoughtcrime" of disagreeing with homosexuality will itself be punished. Outlandish? Not in the least. All it would take would be a high profile crime against homosexuals, and we would see the same type of hysteria as we have seen with the media and political rant against citizens and firearms.
I also think that Christians and Jews in America are in for terrible persecution in the future. The "mental health" industry can declare them "unstable" and a "threat" in the same breath. People think it can't happen here, but they are wrong.
General Thomas Gage could not be reached for comment.
General Thomas Gage could not be reached for comment.
Ha HA Ha its really April 1st right.
Actually, I believe it was done a third time, too. Did you ever read about Quantrill’s raid on Lawrence, KS? You know how he was able to ride through a Kansas town like Exlax through a goose before burning the town to the ground? The local progressive pacifists of the day, that is the town fathers, insisted that all personal firearms be locked up in the town armory.
Guess where the firearms were when the outlaw band made Lawrence into a smoking pile of cinders? You guessed it, still locked up!
If every DemoCrat city in the country makes its subjects lock their guns in a central armory, it’s fine with me. Mexican drug cartels got to eat, same as buzzards.
Molon Labe!
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