Posted on 06/05/2016 5:54:09 AM PDT by marktwain
When next someone proposes a gun registry, it should be countered with the idea of a “common sense” government employee registry.
Similar in concept to the sex offender registry, it should be easy for someone to go online to discover if government employees, employed by which government agencies, live in their neighborhood.
Only a very few government police and intelligence employees should be exempt from being registered.
The parallels between such registries are amusing. For instance, should government employees be allowed to live within 1,000 feet of schools, churches, liquor stores, or adult clubs?
Should government employees be required to undergo background checks, and banned from government employment if they are discovered to be “mental defectives”, the label used to deny veterans guns?
Should it be left up to their Sheriff to decide if they “may work” for the federal government? And even if they are approved for work, to make them wait 60-90 days for their “license” to work?
Of course, any government employee involved in a domestic dispute should automatically lose their job.
“Well new friend my tractor and I are in North East Ohio.
Top speed for my tractor is about 10 miles an hour.
I think I could be in Florida by fall.
Why do you ask.
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That’s why I have an 18 foot car hauler. But my guess is it’s too small for a tractor like that. Sigh. I live on acreage about a dusty, pot-holed mile from pavement. I really need my own tractor.
My family hails from Medina, Ohio. My mother was a Hallock. She is currently 99. She actually saw Wilbur and Orville Wright perform at the Ohio state fair and rode a horse to school.
“No wonder nobody likes Quebec, they doggedly stick by a ridiculous government program that even the rest of socialist Canada doesn’t want.”
They are a “societe distincte” after all
“The important thing is to show people you are doing something (about guns),” he said. “The American way is that guns represent liberty and rights — do we want this? I don’t. So am I ready to spend that money? Yes.”
the reason the left here in Canada is worried about “becoming like America” on guns is because fewer and fewer people believe the PC infested police, courts and politicians are able or willing to protect them.
She must have been from a wealthy family to allow a child to take a horse to school
I have driven through Medina County to visit my brother in Holmes County. A beautiful county, but I think all of Ohio is beautiful. I can’t imagine leaving it for Florida.
Now leaving Ohio for Arizona is another matter. If I could just convince my wife.
“She must have been from a wealthy family to allow a child to take a horse to school “
This would be the late twenties and I think everybody had a horse. They had a farm outside the town and an apartment over the music store, which they owned. My grandfather, when business was slow, would take a Victrola and a bunch of records for a ride, stage a breakdown near a likely prospect and ask them to hold onto the Victrola and the records until he could come back for them. He ended up selling about 90% of them.
They did end up fairly wealthy as they went into the 30’s debt free with multiple income streams. None of the things they did in the 30’s for income could be done today as each type of job now requires a license (tax) and multiple insurances before you can even solicit for business.
The boys rode their horses to school with saddle guns. If they shot something on the way home they ate meat. If not, no meat. Many of the kids lived in holes in the ground as people dug the basements first and moved into them, then built the house. Today, that wouldn’t be possible. It might even be child abuse. How times have changed.
Ohio is among the most beautiful places on Earth. But Hell moves in around late fall and stays until spring.
We get a lot of Canadian tourist her and I’ve met more than a few. All I can say is that they are odd.
That is the key word “A” horse.
For most people in the twenties a horse was a working animal not transportation for a child. Children had feet for that.
If you could let a child ride a horse to school that meant that you had enough money that you could afford to have a valuable asset like a horse be idle for most of the day.
No one in my family had that kind of money in the 1920s. My mother’s family had a farm and horses were for work and not for riding. My father’s father delivered ice early on and horses pulled his wagon (later he had a welding shop and no horse).
“When next someone proposes a gun registry, it should be countered with the idea of a “common sense” government employee registry.”
Yes. Awesome!
Replete with salary, benefits, retirement info.
You raise some interesting points. The family was relatively wealthy. My grandfather designed and built the first chemical fire trucks sold commercially in the United
States. He and his bride delivered one to Maine as their honeymoon.
http://www.cleveland.com/medina/index.ssf/2014/06/medina_fire_museum_plans_open.html
He was put out of business by World War I as the trucks used about 700 pounds of brass.
The entire family was always starting some business or other. From his list of accomplishments it appears my grandfather never slept.
Mom is arriving here next week for a visit. I will ask about the horses and wealth. They probably didn’t want for anything, but my mother said her dad pinched a nickel so hard the buffalo squealed.
Did your mother get to visit the museum?
“Sounds like your grandfather was a great man.
Did your mother get to visit the museum?
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Thank you. My impression is that he just worked very hard and all the time.
My mother doesn’t travel well these days and never saw the museum. Frankly, though, she has no interest in the past and is focused on the future. She says she remembers the past entirely too well.
T shirts rule!
I Will take a Look,
Thank you!
“Replete with salary, benefits, retirement info.”
And more importantly, home addresses.
There is a reason Sportutegirl is married to Pickup Truck Guy. Sometimes he lets me drive his truck.
It’s an even more important - and ominous - symbol of government intent.
In her recent “interview” with George StuffanOliveUpHisAss, she extolled the virtues of having the states decide their individual approaches to enacting “reasonable” restrictions on the 2nd Amendment.
So which is it: National confiscation or States’ rights?
As usual, she has no beliefs other than personal enrichment, and hires nobody to even read her past brain oozings.
Bare arms? Use sunscreen.
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