I had to talk down a very frightened elderly gentleman named Conrad yesterday. He approached me clutching an email he'd received and printed out, and he wanted me to clarify it for him.
The email resembled a printout of a Snopes page, complete with fonts and formatting. It claimed to confirm as "true" most of the misinformation we've been hearing about these bills. I've now seen this exact thing twice.
I'd like to find the person responsible and kick them in the shins. This is tremendously irresponsible.
I don't know where it came from, but I am spending an average of an hour a day of face time debunking and explaining this stuff to frightened people. It's getting old.
Please, if you hear someone talking about this, set them straight. More to the point, have them go back to whoever told them these things and tell them not to spread them around.
We know it's bunk. Conrad doesn't. Thousands of people are hearing this, and they're believing it to be true. This is a matter of crying wolf on a national scale, and it distracts us from the endeavor of addressing real threats to the 2nd Amendment as they come up.
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SB-2099 was introduced in 2000, and never reached the floor. This was the one that folks claimed would require us to declare our guns on our income taxes and submit to further taxes on them.
It has not been reintroduced since.
HR 45 is the Blair Holt bill. You should know about this one already. It is over nine months old, and has not received a single co-sponsor. It has been introduced every year since at least 2004, and has never been taken seriously.
The email resembled a printout of a Snopes page, complete with fonts and formatting. It claimed to confirm as "true" most of the misinformation we've been hearing about these bills. I've now seen this exact thing twice.
I'd like to find the person responsible and kick them in the shins. This is tremendously irresponsible.
I don't know where it came from, but I am spending an average of an hour a day of face time debunking and explaining this stuff to frightened people. It's getting old.
Please, if you hear someone talking about this, set them straight. More to the point, have them go back to whoever told them these things and tell them not to spread them around.
We know it's bunk. Conrad doesn't. Thousands of people are hearing this, and they're believing it to be true. This is a matter of crying wolf on a national scale, and it distracts us from the endeavor of addressing real threats to the 2nd Amendment as they come up.
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SB-2099 was introduced in 2000, and never reached the floor. This was the one that folks claimed would require us to declare our guns on our income taxes and submit to further taxes on them.
It has not been reintroduced since.
HR 45 is the Blair Holt bill. You should know about this one already. It is over nine months old, and has not received a single co-sponsor. It has been introduced every year since at least 2004, and has never been taken seriously.