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flamin lib

(14,559 posts)
Mon Apr 20, 2015, 09:18 AM Apr 2015

GUN BILL WINS FINAL APPROVAL AFTER EMOTIONAL SPEECH

http://vtdigger.org/2015/04/17/gun-bill-wins-final-approval/

The Vermont House gave final approval to a gun bill Friday that proponents say will keep firearms out of the hands of many violent felons and from certain people with severe mental illness.

The bill makes possession of a gun a state-level misdemeanor crime for people convicted of aggravated stalking; aggravated domestic assault in the first or second degree; murder; manslaughter; assault and robbery with a dangerous weapon; unlawful restraint; kidnapping; and several other “listed crimes.”


This is the bill that was pronounced dead a month ago amid much celebration by gun rights activists. It takes a special kind of sick bastard to celebrate wife beaters getting to keep their guns and there seems to be an awful lot of them.
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GUN BILL WINS FINAL APPROVAL AFTER EMOTIONAL SPEECH (Original Post) flamin lib Apr 2015 OP
The NRA will probably sue to get this repeled Doctor_J Apr 2015 #1
So the NRA rose to the defence of violent felons and potentially dangerous folks with mental illness Fred Sanders Apr 2015 #2
 

Doctor_J

(36,392 posts)
1. The NRA will probably sue to get this repeled
Mon Apr 20, 2015, 09:25 AM
Apr 2015

but I like their gumption. The two-state solution is looking better and better.

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