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Congress to decide whether Super Congress could impose gun control
www.gunowners.org ^ | 08/01/11 | Gun Owners of America

Posted on 08/01/2011 12:39:30 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX

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To: Envisioning

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21 posted on 08/01/2011 12:54:01 PM PDT by waterhill (Little 'r' republican: taker of the Founder's 'Red Pill'...www.mikechurch.com)
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To: 50cal Smokepole

“We’re going from worse to revolution. Hate to say it, but it seems the writing is on the wall.”

If you are a citizen of the Republic, then no law that this “Super Congress” passes applies to you. The best revolution is just to quit producing for these jerks and let them bleed someone else for a change.


22 posted on 08/01/2011 12:56:32 PM PDT by Big_Harry (Ecc10:2 "A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left")
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To: Pining_4_TX
Here's a hint for those pinheads in Washington:
"the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed".

Merely discussing limiting MY access to firearms constitutes infringement.

Take Back AMERICA!
FUBO GTFO 2012 !

23 posted on 08/01/2011 12:56:50 PM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (Psalm 109:8 Let his days be few and let another take his office. - Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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To: MNJohnnie

“If 7 or more Members of that Committee approve a bill by November 23rd, it is guaranteed a straight up-or-down vote in the House and Senate by December 23rd. No amendments and no Senate filibuster are allowed of this bill. It’s take-it-or-leave-it to everyone.”

This, from your link, seems to match the excerpt above. I see nothing limiting what the 6 Dim / 6 RINO committee can send to Congress that cannot be halted in the way things were 2008 - 2010.


24 posted on 08/01/2011 12:57:18 PM PDT by Ingtar (Together we go broke (from a Pookie18 post))
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To: MNJohnnie
Who will stop them? You?

I'll bet my house this super congress will be filled with the safest seats in Congress, which will let Congress ram home anything the majority of citizens find unpalatable.

The Lesser Congress will bitch and moan for political theater, all while grabbing the deficit-spending goodies.

25 posted on 08/01/2011 12:57:48 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass
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To: Bruinator
The whole idea is manifestly UNCONSTITUTIONAL.

Took a bunch of Democrats with totalitaritarian leanings to come up with something like that. We need their names.

26 posted on 08/01/2011 12:57:59 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Bruinator
The whole idea is manifestly UNCONSTITUTIONAL.

Took a bunch of Democrats with totalitaritarian leanings to come up with something like that. We need their names.

27 posted on 08/01/2011 12:58:07 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Cheerio

http://keithhennessey.com/2011/08/01/bca-summary/

Don’t trust, verify. This thread is the usual “Let’s seize on the issue du jour to raise fund for our PAC” nonsense.


28 posted on 08/01/2011 12:58:33 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (Giving politicians more tax money is like giving addicts free drugs to cure their addiction)
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To: waterhill
Really? (sigh)


29 posted on 08/01/2011 12:59:07 PM PDT by Envisioning ( Call me a racist................, one more time......................)
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To: Pining_4_TX

Congress can Constitutionally do no such thing. However, the effort might cause them to discover what a “Super Militia” looks like.


30 posted on 08/01/2011 12:59:41 PM PDT by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: Pining_4_TX
We are about to be ruled by a Politburo

Don't be ridiculous.

Why would any of the 6 Repubs on the committee vote for this?

Runaway sensationalism is alive and well today.

31 posted on 08/01/2011 1:02:43 PM PDT by what's up
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To: Pining_4_TX

What’s this about the Supreme Court?
[/semi-sarc]


32 posted on 08/01/2011 1:03:18 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: Cheerio

I don’t see how you’re leaping from a budgetary commission to unstoppable gun control.

It’s like leaping from the UN to a cream soda.


33 posted on 08/01/2011 1:05:24 PM PDT by ctdonath2 ($1 meals: http://abuckaplate.blogspot.com/)
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To: Pining_4_TX
While the whole “super congress” Idea is stupid and their are a lot of good reasons to oppose it. This article drifts into the realm of the absurd. No the six members of the “super congress” won't be able to pass UN treaties, that will still take a 2/3 vote in the senate as required by the constitution. The way I read the legislation, the “super congress” can only propose spending cuts and tax increase. I seriously doubt they could or would propose massive gun control (heck, the dems wouldn't even when they controlled the house by a huge margin) and even if they did, it would have to be approved by a majority in the House and Senate (and somehow, I'm guessing, virtually all of the Republicans and even some democrats aren't in any hurry to throw their jobs away.) Also it's my understanding that this “super congress” dies at the end of the current congress (2012) and would have to be renewed by the next one, because future congress can't be bound by the actions of a past congresses.
34 posted on 08/01/2011 1:07:01 PM PDT by apillar
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To: what's up

I hope you are right. However, you have more faith in the Republicans than I do. This committee is unconstitutional at any rate. Not that the Constitution has much meaning to our elected officials any more.


35 posted on 08/01/2011 1:07:33 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX ( The state is the great fiction by which everybody seeks to live at the expense of everybody else. ~)
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To: apillar

I thought GOA was a reliable source of information. If this so far out of the realm of possibility, then I apologize for posting it. Lesson learned.

Thanks for your comment.


36 posted on 08/01/2011 1:12:48 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX ( The state is the great fiction by which everybody seeks to live at the expense of everybody else. ~)
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To: Pining_4_TX
It's not unconstitutional.

Committees are set up all the time.

Congress still has to vote ultimately.

37 posted on 08/01/2011 1:16:03 PM PDT by what's up
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To: Big_Harry

You want a “John Galt” bloodless revolution. Sorry, but when (not if!) it comes, Civil War II is going to be vicious and blood will run in the streets. Patriots need to be prepared.


38 posted on 08/01/2011 1:17:24 PM PDT by Astronaut
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To: Pining_4_TX
I hope you are right. However, you have more faith in the Republicans than I do. This committee is unconstitutional at any rate. Not that the Constitution has much meaning to our elected officials any more.

How so? Anything it decides will still have to pass the full House and Senate by majority vote, which satisfies the Constitution. There is nothing in the Constitution requiring filibusters or any other specific procedures; Congress has the power to make its own rules (Art. II, sec. 5, cl. 2), so it can amend those rules to provide that certain bills must get an up-or-down vote.

39 posted on 08/01/2011 1:17:40 PM PDT by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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To: Pining_4_TX
I find it a bit amusing that some people think the congress is going to be shaking and quaking in there boots, mere slaves to the dictates of the “SUPER CONGRESS”. Even if every bit of fearmongering mentioned came to pass and the “SUPER CONGRESS” comes down with a list of gun control, eliminating the constitution an declaring Obama emperor for life and selling all firstborn into slavery. The House and Senate still have to vote on it, and I don't see a whole lot of Republicans voting for that scenario.
40 posted on 08/01/2011 1:17:43 PM PDT by apillar
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