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.
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.