KUCINICH DRAFTS LEGISLATION TO BAN THE PURCHASE, SALE, TRANSFER OR POSSESSION OF HANDGUNS BY CIVILIANS
April 21st, 2007Well, that didn’t take long.
Via: kucinich.house.gov:
Kucinich is currently drafting legislation that would ban the purchase, sale, transfer, or possession of handguns by civilians. A gun buy-back provision will be included in the bill.
“America is being engulfed in violence every day. Let’s show them we have the wisdom and the courage to come from our hearts to meet this challenge,†Kucinich said.
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What a joke, does he really think this thing has an even 1% chance of passing? Not with all those good ‘ole boys down South and in the Heartland of the USA.. try prying a gun out of their hands and watch what’ll happen
Dammit. I wanted to like this guy too. Oh well…
– Mike Lorenz
Interesting the knee-jerk reaction to any handgun legislation.
Does anyone really think that owning a handgun will prevent the US from continuing down the slippery slope to fascism?
How would this work? When the government comes to get your gun, we’ll all shoot them?
What do we do in the interim, to deal with 33,000 deaths per year at the point of a gun?
Hayduke
The knee-jerk response is interesting indeed.
I think that the term “knee jerk response” refers to the involuntary jerk of the leg when hit in a particular spot.
I think the reason you get this type of response to the suggestion that our government disarm it’s citizens is that there is something so revolting and distressing to many Americans about the thought of being disarmed by any government that it provokes a nearly involuntary response.
As far as whether or not I think handgun ownership will prevent America’s slide into fascism…sadly enough, no I don’t.
As to “How would this work?” I cannot imagine a scenario where the citizens of my state and its neighbors would peaceably turn over their handguns. I honestly do not think that they could be forced. I am afraid that it would be the straw that broke the camel’s back.
As to what to do in the interim with the 33,000 deaths you quote, I have to fall back on the old “guns don’t kill people” line. The dangerous thing is a person with the will to take a life.
I don’t want you to take this as an attack Hayduke. Tone is hard to express in text, but please take me at my word.
I just want to express that I am positive that a large part of our population will not be peacebly disarmed of their handguns because they will see this as merely a precursor to a total civilian firearms ban. In the eyes of many of us, it is the second ammendmant that insures the rest, strength being the virtue that makes all other virtues possible.
Michael,
You obviously have a lot to learn. Please take some time to educate yourself on this issue:
Gun Control and Genocide:
http://www.jpfo.org/genocide.htm
What Really Happened:
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/archives/cat_right_to_bear_arms.html
Switzerland:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Caroline-Migros-p1000507.jpg
http://www.theblessingsofliberty.com/articles/article11.html
Limousine liberals never seem to be concerned with the slaughter caused by the medical establishment. I find that even more interesting than their concern for gun victims. Where are the calls to ban doctors, who clearly kill more people than guns?
http://www.ourcivilisation.com/medicine/usamed/deaths.htm
Damn, and I was giving him props for pushing to impeach Cheney. 🙁
Anyone want to bet that this bill has a section requiring all gun owners in the U.S. to turn in their guns on the steps of the capitol building on a single day? I didn’t think so.
I wish I could agree with you Tito, but I think Americans will line up to turn in their guns like good little boys and girls. The people who have been the loudest about the 2nd Amendment will be first in line if the orders come from someone like Dubya.
We’ll probably hear from lots of them on the TV “news” about what a good idea turning their guns in really is, and how relieved they are to have finally discharged the awesome burden of gun ownership. Some will cherish the $20 or so per gun they get from the government more than an income tax refund.
Confiscation was already tried in the supposedly gun-loving South, during Katrina, and everyone gave up their guns with nary a whimper.
Now, there may be a few who are too lazy to take their guns down to the “reclamation center” and get their $20, but not to worry, their neighbors will turn them in to the proper authorities, and they’ll have plenty of time to consider the cost of this sloth as they stare at the walls of their prison cells.
I hope we never find out, Hermesten.
I hope so too. However, the likely outcome of an attempted confiscation is not entirely unprecedented. Besides the Katrina confiscation we have the Australian gun ban. I don’t know how many people in Australia actually turned in their guns, but I don’t recall hearing about any significant resistance. Are Americans really all that different from Aussies?
Perhaps it’s an illusion, but something seems to have changed dramatically in this country, even just since I was born some 50 years ago. Maybe it’s something in the water, but today’s Americans seem to be docile, obedient, and passive conformists.
Take these incidents like Columbine and VaTech. Fifty years ago you could have ordered cops to hide outside behind armored vehicles and trees and wait for the gunmen to finish their slaughter and kill themselves, but would all of them have obeyed?
I don’t know New Orleans or Australia. I do know the place I live and I’m certain that it wouldn’t happen. Where I live its still America.