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You're missing that their standard for "illegal" changes when talking about illegal guns, illegal blogs, and illegal bibles.Oldgringo wrote:I think all Mayors should be against illegal guns. What am I missing here?
Dear Senator McCain: I am contacting you today as a concerned veteran. While my service didn't put me through any of the brutal hardships that your service did, for which I thank you, I am still proud of my 20 years of USAF service. I read a very disturbing article today that made some ominous calls about current Senate procedural changes that are in the works. Specifically, it says that you are working with Senator Carl Levin to change the Senate rules in such a way as to ease the passage of new gun control bills. (I have provided the link at the bottom of this message.) As a veteran who spent a lot of time gone from home these past few years in support of this nation's missions abroad, and as a firearms owner, I take great exception to ANYTHING that interferes with my ownership of firearms. I am a law-abiding citizen. As a father of three, I empathize with the parents in Newtown who lost their children. However, I didn't commit that horrible crime and none of my firearms has ever been used to harm another human being. I, and millions of other law-abiding citizens, shouldn't be penalized for the actions of a madman. Our schools need to be secure, but it will not help to disarm our citizenry. Please, stand for the Constitution of the United States of America and renew your oath to uphold ALL of it, including the Second Amendment. Thank you. http://gunowners.org/a01042013.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
An unconstitutional executive order would receive an immediate injunction. Still a lot of honest judges out there.Hector wrote:Looking what happened with the fiscal cliff fraud, I won't be surprised if the RINOS vote for registration and other ways to infringe the Constitution. But even without Congress, there's a lot they can do with executive orders and administrative rules. Obama can restrict imports like Bush did. Obama can have the Secretary of the Treasury redefine "sporting purposes" with the stroke of a pen. They could reassign technicians and bog down the instant check to create more delays. They can audit and shut down manufacturers for paperwork errors. They could make NICS a bigger mess than the no fly list. Obama can even issue an executive order he knows is unconstitutional and it can be enforced until the Supreme Court rules against it, which can take weeks or months. And they can do all that without having to manufacture any more mass murders to create public opinion.
You might find Boehner on the golf course with his golfing buddy from the WH ?Heartland Patriot wrote:And THIS is where Speaker Boehner, if he REALLY wants to show that he has some backbone and is an actual Republican conservative vs being a RINO, can do something. He can ensure that NONE of the anti-gun, anti-self-defense, anti-2A bills gets passed and push through the 2 or 3 PRO-firearms bills even though they will never make it through the Senate or get signed into law. I wish I knew a way to speak to him and explain that, but I doubt one guy in Texas is going to make an impact on his decisions, even if I did get to speak with him.
Just like all of the other WH executive orders that have been signed and are in place?jmra wrote:An unconstitutional executive order would receive an immediate injunction. Still a lot of honest judges out there.Hector wrote:Looking what happened with the fiscal cliff fraud, I won't be surprised if the RINOS vote for registration and other ways to infringe the Constitution. But even without Congress, there's a lot they can do with executive orders and administrative rules. Obama can restrict imports like Bush did. Obama can have the Secretary of the Treasury redefine "sporting purposes" with the stroke of a pen. They could reassign technicians and bog down the instant check to create more delays. They can audit and shut down manufacturers for paperwork errors. They could make NICS a bigger mess than the no fly list. Obama can even issue an executive order he knows is unconstitutional and it can be enforced until the Supreme Court rules against it, which can take weeks or months. And they can do all that without having to manufacture any more mass murders to create public opinion.
Out of bounds! Tempting or not to say, NO ONE DESERVES to be a POW. He served our nation, did the time and a lot extra...and leave it at that!rp_photo wrote:After being played like a fool over Romney's "sure victory" for many months and being severely let down, I find it hard to be optomistic.Heartland Patriot wrote:And THIS is where Speaker Boehner, if he REALLY wants to show that he has some backbone and is an actual Republican conservative vs being a RINO, can do something. He can ensure that NONE of the anti-gun, anti-self-defense, anti-2A bills gets passed and push through the 2 or 3 PRO-firearms bills even though they will never make it through the Senate or get signed into law. I wish I knew a way to speak to him and explain that, but I doubt one guy in Texas is going to make an impact on his decisions, even if I did get to speak with him.
I also heard that McCain may be preparing to stab us in the back, and if he does it's tempting to say that he got what he deserved in Hanoi.
No, the House is Constitutionally required to initiate all financial legislation. But Congress has ignored even that. Other legislation can be started in either chamber.Jeff B. wrote:"Biden had assured him that Obama would sign legislation “by the end of January.”"
That's assuming there is legislation to be signed. To my knowledge, The House of Representatives is still required to initiate legislation and forward it on to the Senate for their vote and then it goes on to the Office of the President.
At least, the last I knew it was still like that, unless that's another part of his "new Amerika"...
Jeff B.
The big problem isn't McCain, its Boehner. McCain has ALWAYS been notoriously unreliable and willing to compromise conservative principles so that he can continue being a republican media darling inside the beltway. Frankly, it surprises me that Arizona has kept reelecting him, although I suspect that if he makes passage of an AWB possible, he'll lose his next election. Arizonans like their AR15s as much as Texans do. Although Boehner is reported to be contrite in the wake of his having caved in to the administration, and swears up and down that he'll be an honest conservative from now on, that's only because there was talk of giving him the heave ho and voting Eric Cantor into the Speaker's job.anygunanywhere wrote:There are constitutional rules about which body must originate certain types of legislation. The house must originate the budget process. Legislation like gun bans can come from either. Both have to approve each bill.Jeff B. wrote:"Biden had assured him that Obama would sign legislation “by the end of January.”"
That's assuming there is legislation to be signed. To my knowledge, The House of Representatives is still required to initiate legislation and forward it on to the Senate for their vote and then it goes on to the Office of the President.
At least, the last I knew it was still like that, unless that's another part of his "new Amerika"...
Jeff B.
The rules don't mean squat to the traitors in the government.
Anygunanywhere
Thisanygunanywhere wrote:Just like all of the other WH executive orders that have been signed and are in place?jmra wrote:An unconstitutional executive order would receive an immediate injunction. Still a lot of honest judges out there.Hector wrote:Looking what happened with the fiscal cliff fraud, I won't be surprised if the RINOS vote for registration and other ways to infringe the Constitution. But even without Congress, there's a lot they can do with executive orders and administrative rules. Obama can restrict imports like Bush did. Obama can have the Secretary of the Treasury redefine "sporting purposes" with the stroke of a pen. They could reassign technicians and bog down the instant check to create more delays. They can audit and shut down manufacturers for paperwork errors. They could make NICS a bigger mess than the no fly list. Obama can even issue an executive order he knows is unconstitutional and it can be enforced until the Supreme Court rules against it, which can take weeks or months. And they can do all that without having to manufacture any more mass murders to create public opinion.
Anygunanywhere
It seems as if the powers that be have something on almost every elected official and Media honchos, KGB come to mind? I served during the cold war and remember laughing about what Pravda was saying on the radio in Europe. Now it seems it is on the other foot. I can't believe anything anyone is saying, up is down and down is up. I read and hear how our courts and elected officials will save us and so far I have been pretty disappointed. It seems, at least to me, that the courts are quick to block any conservative measure, but nothing but crickets when rights are being destroyed. I remember everyone saying during the initial AWB that it couldn't pass but it did. The master has spoken. Obama care has passed. New taxes on the horizon. Now all media types, including here in Central Texas are pushing Gun Control, watch the news. I was watching KWTX today and the announcer stated that congress is seeking to close the gun show loophole as firearms are being sold...yata yata...Where are our allies? I do see the NRA, GOA, SAF standing tall, but what about our congress folks? Where are our Texas Congressional/Senatorial patriots? They can't get any TV or radio time? I know that those brave enough to be at the forefront are shouted down and publicly ridiculed on National TV, so it will take courage. Reminds me of the Stalinist and Nazi trials one can get on history documentaries. I do believe that this time if the so called Progressives, I prefer the wording Marxists, get this gun ban going, the US will see a whirlwind of change; none for the better. It seems that the world doesn't have enough rights to go around, Russia and China get more, we get less? If history is a teacher the next step is financial ruin, finally ending in the ditches for those who continue to complain and argue about rights.It has been observed elsewhere on the forum that we have a great many veterans of military service as members. That should surprise none of us.Heartland Patriot wrote:Thank you for the link. It does sound like some chicanery all right. So, I contacted the NRA-ILA about it and added the link to the page you provided. I also asked them for a reply. If and when I get one, I will be sure to post it here. In the meantime, all concerned should contact Senator McCain and express their displeasure on any new gun control measures.rp_photo wrote:http://gunowners.org/a01042013.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;Heartland Patriot wrote: Please share where you heard that about Senator McCain; I'd like to read it for myself.
SherwoodForest wrote:Our side must stop allowing the Brady Campaign to continue framing the discussion about what is needed to PREVENT TRAGEDIES LIKE SANDY HOOK.
I watched the Brady Campaign's spokesman chew up, and spit out Larry Pratt last night on Geraldo Rivera's anti-gun crusade.
If that performance is the best that Larry Pratt can do he needs to excuse himself from any further media appearances.
Whether it is GOA, NRA, or NAGR, or whoever the spokes person needs to be prepared to ARTICULATE a CLEAR position - not just sit there and swing at the Left's "pinatas".
Exlain to the general public that the 2nd Amendment IS ALL ABOUT MILITARY ARMS !
The 2A accurately interpreted would read something like this :
A well equiped, and supplied militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of all able bodied citizens comprising the militia to keep and bear arms suitable for service in the militia shall not be restricted, obstructed, or denied.
Signed
For what little it is worth I registered this petition on whitehouse.gov yesterday.
Whereas the Constitution of these United States secures the right of the people to keep and bear arms in defense of their home, person, property, and the state
we the undersigned petition the President of these United States to abstain from taking any executive action infringing upon the people's ability to effectively exercise this right.
Need 150 signatures to get it publicly posted.
Here's the LINK-
http://wh.gov/UHZo" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;