Repeal the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (says Mike Barkley, Congressional Candidate)

GroundReport.com ^ | April 17, 2011 | Mike Barkley

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Repeal the Right to Keep and Bear Arms

by Mjbarkl April 17, 2011

Over the months since the Tucson massacre, not much has happened in Washington to address the problem, which is Too many guns, Too easy access. Inaction is understandable. They're all afraid of the big bad NRA and the gun netherworld behind it. There is another reason: following Justice Scalia's Supreme Court opinion in the Heller case, extended to all other jurisdictions under the McDonald opinion, all gun control is now in doubt. There is only one way to solve this problem and that is to take it head on: Repeal the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. I propose Amendment Resolution and Legislation as follows:

Phase 1 - The Resolution, Format is from H.J.RES. 438, 102nd Congress::

JOINT RESOLUTION

Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States repealing the right to keep and bear arms.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which shall be valid for all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States at any time after the date of its submission for ratification: 'Article--

1. Any right to keep and bear arms, whether under the Second Amendment to this Constitution, or under some pre-existing doctrine of natural law or common law or otherwise, or under Constitution or laws of any State, is repealed.

2. The privilege to keep and bear arms throughout the United States shall be under such Regulations as the Congress shall make.'

Phase 2 - A Tax; Following adoption of the constitutional amendment, a bill to tax:

1. There is imposed an annual tax on each and every firearm in any household as follows: a. first firearm, $10 b. second firearm, $20 c. third firearm, $30 d. fourth through ninth firearms, $100 each e. firearms in excess of the ninth, $1,000 each. 2. This tax is assessed and payable on each April 15 for firearms held by a household at the end of the preceding year, to be paid with a schedule listing firearm type, manufacturer and serial number, the schedule submitted along with the tax return of such member of the household as the members of the household may choose, with other members attaching a copy of that schedule to their tax returns as well indicating by which member the tax will be paid. Where firearms are owned by a partnership, if there is only one general partner the arms shall be included with the schedule of that general partner; where there is more than one general partner, the partners shall choose which partner will report the firearms. Where firearms are owned by a corporation, the corporation shall report and pay tax as if it were a household. Where fiscal years do not coincide with calendar years, reporting shall be as of the end of the previous fiscal year. Where firearms are owned by a legitimate museum, the museum shall report the ownership annually as if it were a household, but shall be exempt from the tax except for the penalties in section 4 below. Sham transfers, that is, transfers to a legitimate museum or to an entity with a different fiscal year, and then back again, shall be reported and taxed as if there had been no transfer. Sham exports, that is, export followed by reimportation shall be reported by and taxed to the exporter as if there had been no export. If a firearm has no serial number, the owner shall apply to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives for the assignment of one, and upon receipt of the assigned serial number shall indelibly engrave that number at a suitable location upon the firearm.

3. This tax may be avoided by selling the firearm to a licensed gun dealer or by turning the firearm over to an official firearm collection location or by export before December 31 of the prior year. Once a month such collection locations shall turn collected firearms over to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives for destruction, except that the Bureau may withhold from destruction such firearms as are of historical interest for later donation to an appropriate museum.

4. Any firearm lost or stolen will incur a $1,000 penalty in the reporting year it was lost or stolen. For any such lost or stolen firearm that is subsequently recovered by the owner that $1,000 penalty shall be rescinded and refunded, except if the firearm has been used in the commission of a crime chargeable as a felony an additional $1,000 penalty will be imposed.

5. For each firearm sold by a licensed firearm dealer that is subsequently used in the commission of a crime chargeable as a felony a $1,000 penalty will be imposed against that dealer for each such year in which that firearm was used in such a crime.

6. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Internal Revenue Service shall jointly promulgate regulations for administering this Act.

Join me. Run for Congress. Fix this.

Best wishes,

--Mike Barkley, Candidate for Congress, http://www.mjbarkl.com/run.htm

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

[Darksheare]

Jefferson, he mentioned the need for everyone to be armed.
Heinlein touched on it.

[Darksheare]

Yeah they are, lead stable mucker.
Compost pit stir master.
I’m certain Mark would fit right in working at a landfill.

[Darksheare]

Er, Mike Bark, mark bark, whatever...
He’s hired now to clean out the dairy cow stalls down the road from me.
I’m sure he’ll do a fine job.
Really, he’s shoveling bovine crap like a pro right now.
];-)

[Outlaw Woman]

Hey Mike...it's not going to happen. My suggestion would be for you to Move to a country such as Russia, Iran, etc. anywhere but here. You are the type of man (eunich) that would stand by and allow your woman to be brutalized, thinking the whole time "God, I hope they don't hurt me". You disgust me. You are a vile piece of filth that hates this magnificent Nation and the blessings it has bestowed on you. You are a limp wristed, weak-kneed, pu*sy and it is you that has caused alot of women to be single. You disgust me and many others. You are a vile piece of Sh*t and you along with the others of your ilk have just about demolished our beloved Country. You do not deserve to live.........in the United States. GET OUT scum. I'm only one woman but I bet I could kick your ass. You are yellow...as in p*ss...or pus. When the civil war breaks out, may you be on the front line with...well with your big mouth. Good luck with that limp wrist.

[OB1kNOb]

Question: How do you propose the government go about confiscating all arms from the citizenry should your plan to repeal the right to bear arms (hypothetically) becomes reality?

[Bikkuri]

Well, I have to give him credit.. it wasn’t a hit and run.. and he does want to see our reactions.. He didn’t spew vile (like even the plants/obots do here)..

Hope they weren’t too ‘violent’ for him to use in his campaign ;)

and sorry about the size of the pic I posted.. I should have scaled it down to about 70-80% :p

Bikk

[Bikkuri]

Is that a Min-14? Was the best rifle I ever owned ;)

Bikk

(Wanted to get an M-14, but left the country before I ever purchased one :/)

[Outlaw Woman]

M1A Scout .308

[Joe Brower]

I think he wants to provoke irrational responses to his equally irrational and shamefully un-American statements.

Posterity will, in time, indeed "forget that he was ever our countryman"...

[SmithL]

First off, I want the Right to Keep and Bear Arms repealed, of which the Second Amendment is only one leg of that 3-legged right.

Repeal the right to bear arms, and the other rights become irrelevant. YOU are part of the reason our founding fathers insisted on the right to bear arms.

[dynachrome]

“by turning the firearm over to an official firearm collection location”

I’ll be returning the cartridges first.

[Bikkuri]

Sweet looking gun, from what we can see...
I never owned a .308, but I know it’s a good snipe ;)

I dunno if I will ever be able to fire another gun (rifle or handgun) in my life.. but I sure do miss my own.. I went to the range every week.. (before I left for the military, all I had to do was go to my backyard (Texas).. all 200 acres, almost every day ;))

Take care and stay safe... and protect Freedom!

Bikk

[dynachrome]

Barko Looks like an agent provocateur to me.

[Redcloak]

Yep... It’s always nice to see screaming, wild-eyed, liberal lunatics admitting that the Constitution actually means something.

[OldSmaj]

From out of what odorous hole did you crawl from?

You, sir, are a damned fool.

1. We are shooting too many people in this country..

Who, we? Do you have a frog in your pocket, sir, perhaps from that odorous hole aforementioned?

I, that's me, myself, have not shot anyone that did not need shooting and every one of my many acquaintances would say the same.

Totally stupid comment.

But typical of a liberal gun-grabbing democrat.

2. There are too many guns, too easy access.

Then join me and others that advocate enforcing the existing laws.

I cannot continue. You are just too damned stupid and so very representative of the dumb ass liberals that inhabit the DU, that you have to be a joke.

Take your stupidity elsewhere, you idiot.

[Viking2002]

'Barko Looks like an agent provocateur to me.'

No, he's a barking moonbat - Jim, please do that thing you do and proactively flush this turd:

mjbarkl

Since Apr 21, 2011

Candidate for Democratic Nomination for Congress

Abolish the 2nd Amendment, my hillbilly ass!

"But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: for men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away, for his name is Obama."

[Travis McGee]

Good luck! But millions of Americans who DO understand the 2amd will be willing to shoot you first. You DO understand that, correct?

We are not historically ignorant. We know where your philosophy leads. And we will not go like sheep to the slaughter.

We understand very well where govt control of firearms inevitably leads.

And we have a LOT of guns, and we know how to use them.

[DryFly]

It is not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom — for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.

From The Declaration of Arbroath, 1320

[Outlaw Woman]

I love my .308. It’s accurate and it has ‘knock-down’ power. There are so many types of guns available now but this is made by Springfield Armory and it is a ‘classic’. It’s almost ‘too big’ for me but I will never (if possible) give it up because the firepower is ‘awesome’.

I do have to ask you Bikk, what do you mean by: “I dunno if I will ever be able to fire another gun (rifle or handgun) in my life..”? What is preventing you now? (if you don’t mind sharing)