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Seemingly, in an attempt to force a House vote on unspecified gun control measures, members of the State House Black Caucus walked out today, according to news announcements. They apparently have threatened to stay out until the House votes on gun control.

While their tactics are obstructionist, not to mention childish, in the writers opinion, what might these people do given the following results. The House does have floor votes on proposals lacking the benefit of committee hearings/discussion, possibly thereby creating constitutional problems for the legislation, and votes NO on the proposals. What might members of The Black Caucus then do, possibly quit the legislature? Would that be to much to hope for?

Passing over that aspect of the thing, what of the following. Not all gun violence so qualifies, but a significant amount thereof, correct me if I'm wrong, amounts to BLACK ON BLACK VIOLENCE. Last time I looked, it was against the law to go about shooting or shooting at people one might be "annoyed" with. Just as is the case with some Whites, some Blacks are, to put it simply, criminals or inclined to criminal action for some reason. Criminals, by the way, are people who do not obey the law, existing law that is. So re the "expressed desires" of members of The Black Caucus, are the rest of the people, by they blacks, whites or whatever expected to believe that the enactment of an additional law or two, proposals that on their faces have serious constitutional problems, will cause CRIMINALS to become law abiding? One wonders.
 
So allan, what you are saying is, if I get this straight is that the law is the law for everyone in this country and that a criminal regardless of skin color, social status, Ford or Chevy owner etc... is, well a criminal and isn't going to obey the law anyway?
What a thought.

"Allen for president"
Seriously though, it is just that simple. Enforce the laws we now have and equal justice for all.
 
what might these people do given the following results.
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They'll keep pushing the issue. Unless someone can tell me that there's a rule somewhere that our state legislature can only vote once per issue, you're gonna see this forever.

We've created a culture where people unwilling to handle problems within their own communities, cities or states simply ask the government to do it - and handle it the government does, ineffectively, and often at the cost of needless expenditure and loss of freedoms.

These people depend on a sense of victimization to justify their beliefs - It's either misfortune or laziness that puts a man in a bad position, and nobody wants to be told they're lazy!

So yes, in the eyes of some people, a criminal may be less a criminal because of his social status, income, heck even his color. Unless we change that, and reinforce individual responsibility for actions that come from individual freedoms, all we're doing is taking aspirin for a brain tumor.
 
If there is still a quorum left it would seem to be a good time to pass useful legislation.
 
Zedheadmc:

Something to that effect, though not exactly phrased the way you phrased it.

Pax Jordana:

In his piece appearing in today's Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Leonard Pitts Jr. of the Miami Herald ([email protected]) writing on the killing of Sean Taylor noted respecting the killing of blacks, that 92 % of the time, the killers were other blacks, whereas respecting the killing of whites, about 82% of the killers were white.

Seems like the question of why the difference (10%) would be interesting to think on. I myself have no real answer to offer except, an I canniot prove this, that possibly some blacks are, for reasons unknown to me, more inclined to violence than are some whites.
 
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