Posted on 10/11/2007 5:20:46 PM PDT by Vets_Husband_and_Wife
Is this the bill (whatever the title may be)that the NRA pushed or let through?
How can this be Constitutional?!?!
BTTT!
It couldn’t be. Not the way this article is written.
You can thank the NRA for helping to push this abomination through.
NRA = Not Really Americans.
The NRA is behind this piece of crap.
Shal not be infringed is too tough for these fools to understand.
Dammit!
More here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1901053/posts
I can’t find anything that says it has passed the Senate, but I don’t doubt it.
It has passed the house by voice vote, so no record of the traitors.
Evidently NRA supports it and claims it will not do what GOA says. More analysis here: http://republicanmichigander.blogspot.com/2007/06/gun-bill-passes-house-hr2640.html
Here is Thomas on the bill: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:h.r.02640:
Links are a few days old, so the Thomas links may not work today.
Here’s another: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h110-2640
BTT! bookmark for later
I am beyond disgusted.
TANKS AuntB...
If a “PTSD” tag will prevent ownership of a gun then all
rape/crime victims/?/etc. will not be able to own a gun...
Not just Vets...
I’ll be on the phone tomorrow...:0/
I’m a veteran....
This is terrible.....
I’ll call my TN US Congressman Zach Wamp in the morning...
Ping
Well I guess this bill would rule out the continued armed deployment of any soldier who has been subject to "traumatic stress" - i.e., battle. At one battle limit per soldier, the Army is gonna need an awful lot of recruits if it has to actually fight a war.I'm curious as to the position of John McCain (R,Hanoi Hilton) on this issue . . .
...would place any veteran who has ever been diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) on the federal gun ban list.
There is something that bothers me about this beyond what was in the article.
All cases of PTSD do not present themselves in the Hollywood manner. We're not all raging nutcase killers. All PTSD cases have not been declared a danger to themselves or others. Will all diagnosed as having PTSD be lumped together? How about the thousands of non-veterans who have been diagnosed after a disaster?
“They” understand it alright. It is the people who supposedly defend the 2nd Amendment who don’t get it. If you give in to demands to have ANY restriction on the right to bear arms, then you essentially give up that fundamental right.
With the anti-military sentiment here in the Twin Cities, would not surprise me if some bureaucrat made a blanket judgement covering all veterans.
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