[Seminole]

It would be nice if such legislation could pass. It would be better if it were not needed.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul73.html


Ron Paul in the US House of Representatives, January 9, 2003

Mr. Speaker, I rise to restore the right the founding fathers saw as the guarantee of every other right by introducing the Second Amendment Protection Act. This legislation reverses the steady erosion of the right to keep and bear arms by repealing unconstitutional laws that allow power-hungry federal bureaucrats to restrict the rights of law-abiding gun owners.

Specifically, my legislation repeals the five-day waiting period and the "instant" background check, which enables the federal government to compile a database of every gun owner in America. My legislation also repeals the misnamed ban on "semi-automatic" weapons, which bans entire class of firearms for no conceivable reason beside the desire of demagogic politicians to appear tough on crime. Finally, my bill amends the Gun Control Act of 1968 by deleting the "sporting purposes" test, which allows the Treasury Secretary to infringe on second amendment rights by classifying a firearm (handgun, rifle, shotgun) as a "destructive device" simply because the Secretary believes the gun to be "non-sporting."

Thomas Jefferson said "The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; ...that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed." Jefferson, and all of the Founders, would be horrified by the proliferation of unconstitutional legislation that prevents law-abiding Americans from exercising their right and duty to keep and bear arms. I hope my colleagues will join me in upholding the Founders' vision for a free society by cosponsoring the Second Amendment Restoration Act.

Dr. Ron Paul is a Republican member of Congress from Texas.

[MitchSchaft]

Outstanding.

[Beren]

FYI, it's H.R. 153. Once the text is available from Thomas, I plan to write my House rep and urge him to become a co-sponsor of the bill. Sure, it may have little chance, but it has NO chance unless we push it!!

[Cougar]

I've given up writing my US Rep, Sherrod Brown. He's a carpetbagging Dem who is a rabid anti. I wrote him with footnoted refenced FACTS in a two page letter and he sent back a short three paragraph note telling me that I don't understand the big picture and HE will continue to do what he feels is 'right'. I just can't get through to this guy! :banghead:

My US Senators aren't much better. DeWine and Voinovich. They're RINOs of the highest order.

Our Governor, Bob Taft, is the same. RINO! He got elected as a friend of the sportsman, but everything he's done since then has shown him to be just the opposite. Continues to threaten a veto of CCW, will not support issues either to the US BOR 2nd Amendment or our own State Constitution that guarantees the right of self protection.

Grrrr! :fire:

Now I need to go out and celebrate on this Civil Rights Day (I refuse to call it by the PC Gov't-approved name) by going to the range and shooting my qual target for the THR monthly mail-in contest. That ought to relieve a little stress!

Everybody go out and celebrate our Civil Right. You know, the one they always conveniently forget about...

A well-regulated Milita, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.

[twoblink]

Had someone tell me before "Militia" means police, that means the police has a right to be armed, and not "us"...

Saw on tv once, where a guy talked about the 2nd Amendment, and a politician said "But we still all free speech!" The politician thought right to free speech was the 2nd Amendment... Pathetic :barf:

[Quartus]

He got elected as a friend of the sportsman, but everything he's done since then has shown him to be just the opposite.


Ah, the NRA didn't happen to have endorsed him, did they?


Right on, Ron Paul. He's a perfect example of what Libertarians ought to be doing if they want to actually make a difference, instead of just making noise. R.P. is the kind of RINO I'd be glad to vote for!

[Skunkabilly]

As I like to say: "WHAT PART OF 'SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED' DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND?!?!?!"

[Harold Mayo]

I'm bored and Cougar's statement about the letter he got interested me enough to look up Sherrod Brown and I really wish I hadn't. This guy isn't a Democrat, he's a Socialist!

From his official website, with bold comments by me:

Congressman Sherrod Brown
Working for the People
of Ohio's 13th District

Since voters in Ohio’s 13th Congressional District first sent him to Congress in 1992, Sherrod Brown has positioned himself as one of Congress’ most respected voices on health care, trade policy, the environment, education and other issues important to his Northeast Ohio district.

God help us if this guy's voice is respected...read on...

Securing a position on the influential Energy and Commerce Committee in his first term, Brown became the ranking member of the Committee’s Health Subcommittee in 1997. He also serves on the Telecommunications and the Internet and Environment & Hazardous Materials Subcommittees. Brown’s other assignments include the House International Relations Committee and its East Asia and the Pacific Subcommittee.

In 1993, the respected National Journal featured the former state legislator and Ohio Secretary of State as one of 14 “up and comers” in the 103rd Congress, an honor accorded to only six of the 110 new members of Congress. Brown’s record has confirmed the publication’s prediction.

As the Health Subcommittee’s top Democrat, Brown has led efforts to ensure all Americans -- young and old -- have access to quality and affordable health care. Brown has fought attempts by HMOs to replace doctors, nurses, and patients with insurance companies as the primary health care decision makers, and played a key role in crafting the Democratic Patients Bill of Rights initiative.

Perhaps the ONLY thing that is in the least respectable about this one...

A strong advocate for Medicare and Social Security, he opposes current proposals to privatize these essential programs, and has worked to lower the cost of prescription drugs and add a prescription drug benefit to Medicare. Brown succeeded in including provisions in the 1997 Balanced Budget Act that established new patient protections for people enrolled in Medicare, such as access to specialists, elimination of gag clauses, and a timely appeals process for Medicare patients who have been denied care.

We all KNOW that privatization of something would be wrong, of course...I just wonder why private industry is so much more EFFICIENT than government-administered industry? Why don't we just turn EVERYTHING over to the government because it does things so well...?

A leader in the fight against cancer, Brown founded the Northeast Ohio Breast and Prostate Cancer Task Force to help the many women and men in northeast Ohio stricken with cancer. In a bill to strengthen breast-cancer screening, Brown won approval of a provision to require doctors to promptly report the results of patients’ mammograms.

In 2001, Brown worked with Ohio’s breast cancer advocacy organizations to ensure that the state participated in a federal program in which the federal government would pay 70 percent of treatment costs for uninsured working women diagnosed with breast or cervical cancer, while the state would pay 30 percent of the costs. The program is part of the Breast and Cervical Cancer Treatment Act of 2000, which Brown helped pass through his Health Subcommittee.

Not to be insensitive, but does this subject rate TWO WHOLE PARAGRAPHS of this guy's description?

Brown also focuses on international health relief efforts. Building a bipartisan coalition, he secured $60 million for anti-tuberculosis efforts last year. He also worked against the pharmaceutical industry’s efforts to restrict African countries’ access to life-saving drugs for HIV-AIDS.

What has he done for his constituents? Why is he spending money in other countries when it could be spent HERE?

Brown’s work on health care has earned him numerous awards from outside organizations. The National Association of Community Health Centers honored Brown for his support for health centers that care for medically under served people. He also received the “Friend of Children and Children’s Hospitals” award from the National Association of Children’s Hospitals for his work in expanding children’s access to quality health care. The Academy of Medicine of Cleveland and Northern Ohio Medical Association granted him a Special Recognition Award for his efforts to improve health-care delivery in Ohio and across the country.

In addition to these health-related achievements, Brown has fought trade agreements that threaten American jobs, undermine environmental safeguards, and eliminate workplace safety protections. He believes international trade agreements should include protections for workers in America and across the globe, including fair wages, decent working conditions, and the right to unionize. As a fierce critic of the North American Free Trade Agreement, he led the last two successful efforts to defeat “fast track” trade negotiating authority in Congress, which would have extended NAFTA to Latin America. Brown also spoke against granting China increased trade privileges until its leaders adhere to internationally accepted human rights practices.

Anyone who is against free trade and wants to overregulate industry at the same time is obviously not thinking...oops, he IS thinking...about getting VOTES! Not about actually doing anything constructive but thinking about maintaining his plush politician job. Let's see...help out the companies who provide the employment by giving them incentives or, at least, not coming down too hard on them and look like he isn't sucking up to his constituents OR side with the workers and bitch right with them about how bad "the man" is screwing them! Listen up, boys, SHERROD is "the man"

As a long-standing member of the U.S. House and Senate Great Lakes Task Force, Brown has worked to preserve the economic and environmental vitality of Lake Erie and all the Great Lakes. He has led the charge to halt attempts by private companies to buy and sell Great Lakes water. In 2000, the Ohio Public Interest Research Group (Ohio PIRG) gave Brown a 90 percent rating for his voting record on environmental issues in the 106th Congress. He also received a 93 percent score in the 106th Congress from the non-partisan League of Conservation Voters.

Veterans in Ohio and across the country count on Brown’s strong support for increased federal resources for veterans services, including health care, job training, and education. He led the successful effort to open the first National Veterans’ Cemetery in northeast Ohio.

Brown was elected to Congress after 16 years of public service in Ohio. Beginning in 1974, when until recently he was the youngest member of the Ohio legislature, Brown served four terms in the State House of Representatives. In 1982, he was elected to his first of two terms as the Ohio Secretary of State.

As Secretary of State, Brown implemented programs to make Ohio’s polling places more accessible to elderly and disabled voters, and led efforts to reform campaign finance laws. He was instrumental in developing the Golden Buckeye Card, used by senior citizens to obtain discounts from participating businesses. Brown also designed a statewide voter registration program that The Washington Post hailed as the best in America and later became the model for voter registration efforts throughout the country.

An Eagle Scout in the Boy Scouts of America, Brown graduated from Yale University in 1974 with a degree in Russian Studies and later earned Masters Degrees in Education and Public Administration from Ohio State University. He taught political science and government at Ohio State, and served as a faculty associate at the university’s renowned Mershon Center, through which he conducted teacher training in Poland in 1992.

Good job on the Eagle Scout thing...bad job on the young hippy learning Russian stuff because he admired socialism so much...bad job on this guy actually teaching anyone anything...bad job on going to Poland to learn how to be one of the "haves" instead of "have-nots" in a socialist society...

[foghornl]

After the Ohio CCW reform debacle, every time Gov. Booby Daft's name is mentioned, my blood pressure goes up at least 30 points. My next vote for Gov Booby will be for his retirement from political office.

I don't get replies from Voinovich or DeWine, either. At least my Rep, Steve LaTourette does answer my letters. I don't always agree with him, but I do get feedback.

[Harold Mayo]

Gotta continue the rant...

Stuff like this makes me sick. How does someone who is likely an intelligent individual come to these conclusions when evidence to the contrary exists?

I'm naive, I know, but I always thought politicians were supposed to get into office to HELP people...

Everything this guy (and others, but he's a convenient example) seems to stand for is WRONG. On the surface, it looks like he's for the people and all, yeah, but in the LONG RUN nothing that he stands for will work.

It reminds me of seeing an interview with one of the Baldwin brothers (forget which one, but it really doesn't matter) a few weeks ago. When he was asked why he and his brothers supported liberal causes to such an extreme degree, he answered, "It's just common sense."

:banghead:

[Cougar]

Harold,

Now you understand why I have given up writing to this POS (Brown). He just won't :cuss:ing listen to the undisputed facts. :fire:

If you keep banging your head like that :banghead: head-banging smiley, you're gonna be as bald as me! :p

[Harold Mayo]

If you keep banging your head like that head-banging smiley, you're gonna be as bald as me!

Well on my way, brother!

[TheOtherOne]

FYI, it's H.R. 153. Once the text is available from Thomas, I plan to write my House rep and urge him to become a co-sponsor of the bill. Sure, it may have little chance, but it has NO chance unless we push it!

I'm going to do the same. I finally figured out who my rep is! :) Now I know who was doing all that advertising on TV a few months ago! :D

Anyways, what's an appropriate way to word a letter like that to urge him to cosponsor another representatives bill?

[Quartus]

This guy isn't a Democrat, he's a Socialist!

:confused:

You have some reason to believe there's a difference? :uhoh:




I finally figured out who my rep is!

And we sometimes wonder why the creeps don't listen to us! :what: