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But we really have to actually read these damn bills before we go off on what they're going to do, or not do!
The Fix-NICS/CCW for all
Did you know it requires doctors to report you to the NICS system and provides financial incentive to falsify reports?
Did you know that it mandates accountants to report their clients to NICS?
Did you know that
I have now read the bill and all of that is a surprise to me. Those things aren't in there.
There are financial inducements to The States to get off their foot-dragging rears and submit fully and completely their records of who's not supposed to own a firearm. It's the only tool the Feds have to get The States to do anything. It's part and parcel of The Federal Leviathan and is in so many laws it's beyond the scope of this rant. It's extra stuff to have The States do what they were supposed to be doing already.
There's a freak out about parking tickets. Yes, Virginia, if you don't pay your parking tickets you become a fugitive from justice. This bill does not create that, or change that. If becoming a prohibited person from your state reporting your fugitive status to The Feds concerns you... maybe you should have paid the fines?
There's a lot of all or nothing absolutism going on too. Did you know that you almost always get nothing when you take this position?
We could have taken this position for FOPA... The anti-gun side certainly hoped we would with Hughes' little gift. Most of what came out of FOPA has been for the good, like clearly defining who is actually a prohibited person!
This bill contains no language changing that status quo. If you were prohibited before, you're still prohibited now. If you weren't prohibited before, you're not prohibited now. Manipulations of the regulations putting people who don't belong in one category or another of prohibited person will occur (and already have) regardless of this bill. That is a different fight. Don't fight that fight with this bill, it's not germane.
Paranoia's a meaningless concept these days. The bill may not contain specific language for all these things, but does it contain language that could be twisted by the Feds to do them anyway? Never forget that the law is whatever the worst cop in your jurisdiction says it is, you may beat the rap but you can't beat the ride. And you'll NEVER get your time and money back.
ReplyDeleteGranted, but I'm not going to be a shut in being terrified of my shadow outside my door either.
DeleteI say this as someone who's actually taken the ride, beat the rap and lost the time and money!
Being paralyzed with fear gets us nothing.
This bill's language, if twisted, will twist apart other laws and create more problems for liberals than us should they make those twists. This language also seems to be surviving the courts untwisted in other areas, so we can have a reasonable expectation that it will work as it seems to.