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In reply to the discussion: If you could get only one thing through this Congress, what would be your Dream Bill? [View all]jimmy the one
(2,776 posts)44. One gun per month law & gunshow loophole fixed
If you could get only one thing through this Congress, what would be your Dream Bill?
Being a guncontrol advocate, I'd say passing 'one gun per month' law combined with fixing (eliminating) the gunshow loophole where gunbuyers can buy guns without a proper background check. The nra & gun lobby have gotten away with their revisionist history on the 2ndA far too long.
But it's wishful thinking, & my 'dream bill' would be just that, a dream, pipedream. Even banning assault rifles, things which most all other countries could not fathom allowing, is a pipedream.
.. Consider 'one gun per month' law, which has been legalized in 3 or 4 states already (as well as rescinded in some), these one gun per month laws are actually '12 guns per year' laws, & even if you want to buy more than one gun per month you could get an official waiver if you're a legal guy, so if you really really really need more than 12 guns per year, gunnut, you can do it!
But no, this is considered an infringement on the alleged individual right to bear arms by the nra, even tho in 1791 when 2ndA was written only half the country personally owned even ONE single shot musket, likely in poor shape at that, where a 'one gun per month' law would've been a ridiculous concept.
So now you can own as many bushmaster ARs you want capable of 120 rounds per minute, turning colonial minutemen into millisecondsmen.
.. and I'm no stranger to guns, I was a marksman in the military (45pistol), & owned two longguns (no handguns tho, & none anymore), but see the logic behind guncontrol, having witnessed the deception & manipulation handed down the past 30 years by the gun lobby.
So my Dream Bill would be, a PipeDream Bill.
Being a guncontrol advocate, I'd say passing 'one gun per month' law combined with fixing (eliminating) the gunshow loophole where gunbuyers can buy guns without a proper background check. The nra & gun lobby have gotten away with their revisionist history on the 2ndA far too long.
But it's wishful thinking, & my 'dream bill' would be just that, a dream, pipedream. Even banning assault rifles, things which most all other countries could not fathom allowing, is a pipedream.
.. Consider 'one gun per month' law, which has been legalized in 3 or 4 states already (as well as rescinded in some), these one gun per month laws are actually '12 guns per year' laws, & even if you want to buy more than one gun per month you could get an official waiver if you're a legal guy, so if you really really really need more than 12 guns per year, gunnut, you can do it!
But no, this is considered an infringement on the alleged individual right to bear arms by the nra, even tho in 1791 when 2ndA was written only half the country personally owned even ONE single shot musket, likely in poor shape at that, where a 'one gun per month' law would've been a ridiculous concept.
So now you can own as many bushmaster ARs you want capable of 120 rounds per minute, turning colonial minutemen into millisecondsmen.
.. and I'm no stranger to guns, I was a marksman in the military (45pistol), & owned two longguns (no handguns tho, & none anymore), but see the logic behind guncontrol, having witnessed the deception & manipulation handed down the past 30 years by the gun lobby.
So my Dream Bill would be, a PipeDream Bill.
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If you could get only one thing through this Congress, what would be your Dream Bill? [View all]
hedgehog
Dec 2012
OP
Well if I could get a bill it would get the FCC back to where it use to be so it MUST BE FAIR AND
southernyankeebelle
Dec 2012
#6
My dream bill would outlaw war, unless another nation's military attacked us, and country music. nt
ZombieHorde
Dec 2012
#11
I wish! I would ban war and country music. But I would still allow our military to protect us in
ZombieHorde
Dec 2012
#17
I think the only way we'll get prison reform is if the churches and/or other groups get behind it.
hedgehog
Dec 2012
#16
Ditto. Many items to chose from but this would be my choice as well. Great minds think alike.
Filibuster Harry
Dec 2012
#42
It's amazing to me how many Democrats don't realize this is virtually the whole enchilada.
Chan790
Dec 2012
#37
The "John McCain May Never Appear Again On A Sunday Talk Show Omnibus Appropriations Bill".
11 Bravo
Dec 2012
#29