SB2099 ....... RANT!

Lavan

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Now the IRS code is going to be changed to register handguns, huh? Well, why not? As of this logon, there are 6807 of us against registering guns. Let’s add 3 million NRA members. Wow! That only leaves about 260 million others who don’t give a sh*t. So why should they get to keepguns? Americans get what they deserve. Oh sure, a minority of them want their heirs to be
able to have the same freedoms they enjoyed, but there are so many, many more who aren’t
even aware of what is happening and could care less.
What else can we expect? We have hostile narcotic infested neighborhoods where the police KNOW who the kingpins are and yet those areas go unmolested and are even targeted for bottomless funding to aid the “underprivileged” denizens of that lawless no-mans-land. Yet, let a
few patriotic citizens gather on PRIVATE land to practice what is guaranteed in our national defining document and our “free press” labels them “crazies.” But America continues to buy the paper and watch the news.
America hasn’t caned the jurors that set O.J. free. They still vote for the senators that thumbed their noses at the house that impeached Clinton.
Where once we forced our enemies in war to capitulate on the deck of the battleship Missouri,
we now stop 20 feet from the despot we start a war OVER. And then, we wonder when he
becomes a problem a few years later.
To bolster mutual fund portfolios, Americans have allowed and encouraged our major
manufacturing companies to fire American workers and build the factories that produce the goods we buy in every two-bit Asian principality, kingdom, or “people’s state” that allows slave labor.
Americans shop at stores that specialize in driving independent businesses from each town they open in and justify it by the lack of understanding that the REASON their money doesn’t go as far as it used to is BECAUSE there are no more bumper factories to employ at least SOME of those druggies that exist in the aforementioned ghettos.
Americans fall for every scheme that destroys jobs. Look how many people use ATM machines now. When these first came into being, they were touted as an ADDITIONAL service from our friendly banker. What were Americans thinking these machines were REALLY there for? Are we that gullible?
Americans regard divorce as part of the 5th anniversary celebration and then wonder why kids have no direction. And if a deadbeat dad escapes his child support by using check cashing outlets to avoid a bank account, Americans think he is one smart cookie at the beer bar when he buys a round for the house.
The fathers who DO remain with their families are quite often so overworked at 2 or more jobs that they never take the kids shooting or hunting because Americans have allowed Reagan, Bush, and Clinton to pursue a global marketplace so they think they have to be more “productive” and are willing to assume misplaced “blame” for not doing better financially.
And who do Americans allow to be chosen for their NEXT presidential candidates? Two more
globalists with the only difference being that one is just MORE permissiv (complicit?) towards further weakening the nation against the enemies of what we once had.
How many Americans can say that their children ever read the paper for news? How many Americans encourage them to do so? How many others are content to be left alone while the kids fritter their reflexes away on video games?
Am I pissed? Yep. Big time!
What’s this got to do with guns? Oh, maybe nothing. What does it say about the conditions that allow our government to think Americans are so damn dumb that they don’t deserve to own guns? Well, maybe it says a bit about that.
And, yes, I realize I am preaching to the choir as I know TFL members don’t want to lose their guns. I just hope that we on this forum can change a few minds and alter any counterproductive behavior that we may slip into and maybe help turn the tide.
Unfortunately, OUR government made a law a few years ago that defined a “conspiracy” as
TWO or more people who might want to propose what REALLY needs doing.



[This message has been edited by Lavan (edited September 28, 2000).]
 
Short rant:
SB2099 has very little chance of passage (like many other way-out-there bills proposed each year). Forget about SB2099 - there are far more serious bills to worry about.
 
I almost broke down in tears when I saw that yet *another* 2099 thread had appeared in L&P. There are no less than a dozen threads on this *dead* bill. Most of those threads are closed, but a few are still open.

After reading your fine rant, Lavan, I'm going to leave this one open. It's not *really* about 2099 anyway. :)

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Thank you Blues man. I just read somewhere that the bill is indeed dead but the article said that it was only "temporarily" dead and waiting for resurrection at a more opportune time.

And thanks also for recognizing that my rant IS about more than one bill.

I almost feel like starting a new phrase. So I will:
God bless America because its government sure won't.



[This message has been edited by Lavan (edited September 28, 2000).]
 
ya know what i like about SB2099?

the rumors about it may get some gun owners to vote this year!

dZ
 
dz.... There's another indictment of this country. It doesn't matter if you vote. Your elected choice will sell you down the drain to conform to the latest POLL.
We have become a nation governed by polls rather than by voters.
 
Take heart, Lavan. Good rant though.

People ARE switching off the network news and newspapers are dying a slow, well deserved death. Divorce isn't what the numbers indicate necessarily. Yes, half of all marriages end in divorce, but its the same people over and over (my own father has been married 4 times). There's some good news out there.

We may well be at the 'point of no return' right now with freedom and national soveriegnty issues, but this may also be a time of opportunity for us. Quite frankly, I'm kind of interested to know where "we" stand: is our government still one of, by and for the people, restricted in scope by the Constitution, or have we flushed that idea for super-statism, international rule and globo-capitalism? If we know where we stand, we've got half the battle won. This nonsense of pretending to have a valid contract between the citizens and the gubmint and then putting crap like SB2099 on the legislative agenda is maddening. Let's get the answer and get the show on the road if necessary.
 
I was over to handgun control's web site and I learned from them how to write a pro-gun article like they write anti gun articles.
I borrowed a few sneaky tricks from abc news too.


Ive been using s2099 to bash Gore over the head with lately and it is a pretty good mallet.

I explain this bill to non shooters and tell them I am a gun collector for the past 15 years with 100 guns already registered with my state of residence
and ask them why I should pay Al Gore $50.oo
per gun per year times 100 guns =$5,000.oo extra out of my pockect each year to federally register
guns already registered with the state.

I ask them how this makes them more safe and if I am forced to sell 80 of my guns to strangers , do they feel safer with me , a collector of 15 years with 100 guns in my safe or with 80 guns I have been forced to sell because I could not afford Gores registration , out on the streets with strangers.

This plan forces law abiding gun collectors to sell their gun collections off and increases the number of guns on the street.

Vote for GW Bush , instead.

[This message has been edited by ernest2 (edited October 16, 2000).]
 
Boy, I'm getting tired of hearing about this Bill. Read Article 1, Section 7 of the Constitution. The Senate CANNOT originate a revenue bill. Not any. Not even to modify existing law. PERIOD! The jerk Reed who introduced this thing may be dumb, but I expect Patriots to read the constitution at least once and a while.

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true story, a Union Gen. once said "Don't worry about those Rebs. They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist..SPLAT.
 
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