There is much talk in Washington about trying again to pass
gun legislation. Senators Joe Manchin and Pat Toomy are prepared to “rewrite”
the legislation that failed. My advice to them is to rewrite the bill and make
it a lot tougher, such as include the provision for a national registry of gun
owners. This may seem to be counter intuitive but it is not; make it less
extensive so more senators will vote for it. The American people are upset that
their bill did not pass. I as an
American am upset that it didn’t pass but I was also upset that it was “milk
toast” legislation. These two senators wrote the bill to please the
minority of a minority: a radical sub-group of NRA members that no one can
please short of complete capitulation. The majority of Americans are ready to stand
up and tell this punk group of radicals and the Senators they own to go to hell.
It is our country not theirs to do with as they please.
Public opinion polls have shown time after time and in state
after state, gun registration is what the American people want. Like cake, most
people want to have the privilege of owning a gun and shooting them too but
everyone has a “right” to know who they are. You have the constitutional right
of freedom of assembly, but I have a right to know if you are a member of the KKK
or a neo Nazi, or a communist, or a survivalist. I may not have the right to
know that you are having marital problems and threatened your spouse with a
weapon, but law enforcement does have that right. I do not have the right to
know if your psychiatrist says you cannot be trusted with a gun but the
government should have that right. As a voter, I trust the government to do
what I can’t—that is how we have chosen to organize our society.
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