Posted on 01/06/2013 7:25:52 AM PST by Red in Blue PA
Serious question. How can a convicted felon, who cannot even walk into a gun store to purchase a gun, be allowed to WRITE gun legislation? There is something seriously wrong with this country when this is allowed. This rule needs to be changed. This pisses me off more than I can say. We need to make it clear to those in power that not only is an AWB out of the question, but that things like this need to change. Common sense would dictate that if you cannot buy a gun you cannot have a part in writing gun laws!
H.R.34 Latest Title: To provide for the implementation of a system of licensing for purchasers of certain firearms and for a record of sale system for those firearms, and for other purposes.
(Excerpt) Read more at thomas.loc.gov ...
No politician should be rewriting gun laws that are already enshrined in the constitution.
As far as felons are concerned, if they’re too dangerous to own a gun they shouldn’t be walking free. In other words, I don’t have any issues with felons owning guns if they’re safe enough to be free.
The same way tax cheats get to write tax laws.
We need to redefine who is a prohibited person. People who commit violent or serious crimes against other citizens should top the list. I don’t worry about the guy who ran afoul of EPA regulations and ended up with a felony or the embezeler. I worry about rapists, strong arm robbers, murderers and the like.
After redefining prohibited persons, we punish them more harshly for being in posession.
Maybe a better question should be, how can a convicted felon be a congressman? We have moved beyond stupid in this country, I’m afraid.
The right to bear arms is for when tax cheats write tax laws and felons write gun laws while illegal presidents act like kings and congress is looting the treasury.
Its all over but the justice, that always comes in the end.
May I suggest a change in your post that might help you sell your argument?
You don’t name the felon or his crime or his postion in the law writing process. Not even in the link is this part of your argument given.
As a “serious question” your post is an epic fail
Bobby Rush. There is a link to his bill in the OP.
Good point.
What does it say for ALL of us, when a convicted felon can’t (supposedly) vote or own a weapon BUT can be an elected official making policies and laws regarding the things it is illegal for him to partake in?
Hey - it makes perfect sense for a Dim felon who can’t own a gun to write the laws - if he can’t have one, why should we have them? At least that’s my theory about why he would be concocting the law; make it so he and his bretheren have less to worry about when they come for you.....Bad boys, bad boys, whatcha gonna do - whatcha ya gonna do when they come for you?
To make the argument you pose, you have to name the guy and his offense and his position. I still don’t know who the hell Bobby Rush is or what he did.
Don’t make your audience wait for information or have to search it out on their own.
This article is about Bobby Rush, the dipstick who got up on the House floor and pulled up a hoodie over his head in violation of House Rules.
Rush is also a former member of the Black Panthers and is probably is still a member . He was once convicted of illegal possession of firearms which lost him his own right to own firearms, This former Panther and criminal has proposed a bill to require licensing of all handguns and semiautomatic firearms (H.R. 45). Although he managed to receive an honorable discharge from the Armed Forces, his service record includes an incident of Absent Without Leave (AWOL). Bobby Rush is therefore just another common criminal and jailbird who resents the fact that law-abiding people can own the means with which to protect themselves from terroristic violence.
Takes a lot of Chutzpah to believe he is qualified to vote on my owning a firearm.Bobby Rush is a Democratic Member of Congress who represents the First District of Illinois, which includes roughly half of Chicago’s South Side and the national headquarters of the Nation of Islam led by the racial demagogue Louis Farrakhan. Nearly two-thirds of the residents of this district are African-American .Killings are rampant there, in spite of restrictive gun laws.
How did this man get elected to Congress?
The answer is written above. 2/3rds.of the residents of his district are African-Americans.
Why do voters elect a convicted felon?
Gun owners know who Bobby Rush did and his past. If you don’t, then click on the link I posted, and Google his name.
by Dan Riehl 30 Mar 2012 Former Black Panther Rep. Bobby Rush (D-IL) made quite a fuss when he donned a "hoodie" during a speech in the U.S. House of Representatives until he was escorted out. At the time, former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) "applauded his courage" for doing so. 
From left: Bobby Rush, Black Panther, in 1969; William Ayers the fugitive in 1970; Bernardine Dohrn's mug shot in 1969
Congress Fires First Shot : H.R. 45 Filed on First Day
WAR ON YOU:
Representative Bobby Rush (D-IL) filed a comprehensive anti-gun wish-list bill in the 111th Congress on its first day in session. No sooner were the new members of Congress sworn in than Mr. Rush, a former Black Panther leader, file his bill which he calls the “Blair Holt’s Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009”. The bill has no cosponsors and was automatically referred to the House Judiciary Committee.
If passed, this bill would require that anyone wishing to purchase, own, or possess a “qualifying firearm” - that’s any handgun, and any long gun capable of accepting a detachable magazine - would have to be licensed by the state or the federal government in a licensing program managed by the Attorney General. To get a license you would have to prove you’re you, provide a passport-style photo, a thumbprint, and take a written exam which includes questions about firearms safety, safe storage, the risks of firearms ownership, and anything else the Attorney General deems appropriate. All transfers would be required to go through a licensed dealer with the exception of occasional gifts or bequests between parents, children (18 or over), and grandparents, or loans of not more than 30 days between “persons who are personally known to one another.” (It actually says that. I’m not making this up.) And all transfers would have to be recorded in a “Transfer Record” established and maintained by the Attorney General.
The bill also makes it a crime for a dealer to have shoddy records or fail to appropriately cooperate with any inspectors. It makes failure to report the loss or theft of a firearm within 72 hours a felony punishable by up to 2 years in prison. Failure to keep a firearm locked up in such a way as to keep it inaccessible to anyone under 18 becomes a federal felony too....
http://waronyou.com/forums/index.php?topic=5654.0;wap2
The Long Run
In 2000, a Streetwise Veteran Schooled a Bold Young Obama
By JANNY SCOTT
Published: September 9, 2007
Correction Appended
The rise of Barack Obama includes one glaring episode of political miscalculation. Even friends told Mr. Obama it was a bad idea when he decided in 1999 to challenge an incumbent congressman and former Black Panther, Bobby L. Rush, whose stronghold on the South Side of Chicago was overwhelmingly black, Democratic and working class.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/09/us/politics/09obama.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
Thread on Felon Bobby Rush four years ago:
Convicted Felon Bobby Rush Proposes Sweeping Gun Control
IsraPundit ^ | 3/23/09 | Bill Levinson
Posted on Monday, March 23, 2009 12:10:12 PM by Winged Hussar
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2212748/posts
Another Chicago politician recently followed the tradition set by Bobby Rush:
Anti-Second Amendment Democrat Arrested With Gun at Chicago’s O’Hare
Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
December 6, 2012
http://www.infowars.com/anti-second-amendment-democrat-arrested-with-gun-at-chicagos-ohare/print/
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