Posted on 04/18/2016 11:03:16 AM PDT by C19fan
The administration of Gov. Ralph DLG Torres defended the CNMI’s new gun control laws on Friday as a law that could be “a role model” for other U.S. states and jurisdictions facing seemingly uncontrolled and continued gun violence.
The administration was responding to queries regarding its position on recent reports that the a legal challenge to the new law, Public law 19-42, was likely, particularly over a provision that asseses a $1,000 excise tax on pistols.
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yes, its amazing just how dead our constitutional liberties are in this once-exceptional great nation
Guam passed a “Shall Issue” carry bill over a year ago.
Guam is relatively conservative, compared to the CNMI.
I believe in constant dollars it was about the equivalent of $4,000.
Tea Party, with bullets.
You’re more right than I was. One CPI inflation calculator says $3,554.21
The Constitution now says whatever the hell five out of nine Supreme Court Justices want it to say.
I read the comments. They say the Governor is a Republican! Is that true?
http://www.atr.org/1000-gun-tax-pushed-role-model-states
With the current SCOTUS, nothing is off the table.
Why not make it $1B? When does $1K make it not infringing?
“As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: You liberate a city by destroying it. Words are used to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.”
—Gore Vidal, Imperial America, 2004
apparently so....?
this is Wiki:
“The CNMI Republican Party is a political party in the Northern Mariana Islands. In the 2001 gubernatorial election Juan Babauta of the Republican Party won with 42.8% of the vote. At the legislative elections of November 1, 2003 the party won 7 out of 18 seats in the House of Representatives.
At the gubernatorial elections of November 6, 2005, Governor Juan Babauta was defeated, receiving 26% of the vote and third place. In the 2005 legislative elections held concurrently, the Republicans took 7 of 18 seats in the House of Representatives and 3 of 9 seats in the Senate. In the November 3, 2007 Commonwealth Legislature elections, the party took 12 of 20 seats in the House of Representatives, giving them a strong majority.
The Northern Mariana Islands Republican Party is associated with the United States Republican Party though no Northern Mariana Islands politicians have achieved high-ranking positions in the mainland United States. The Republican Party in the Northern Mariana Islands is much stronger than the Democratic Party, but the Conservative Covenant Party, which only exists in the Northern Mariana Islands, has become the main competitor for the Republican Party on the islands and defeated the Republican Party in the last elections by taking the governorship.
However, in 2013, the governor, Eloy S. Inos, switched party affiliation from the Covenant Party to the Republican Party, thus making the governorship controlled by the Republican Party.”
one more I like...
“Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.”
—Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1951
describes the current election very accurately, imho
Give Torres a shot ! He deserves it!/S
Not one penny for tribute, Sir!
Hey Torres !
In your liberal posterior with a rusty meathook !!!
The guv’nah looks like Chaz Bono.
>yes, its amazing just how dead our constitutional liberties are in this once-exceptional great nation
Dead? No. Tramped, suppressed, violated, usurped...yes. At least until We the People decide to retake that which was ours by Right.
Course, Freedom and Liberty scare the bajeezus out of most people. So much easier for Uncle Sam to make everything ‘easier’.
Put him in jail for breach of the Constitution.
How can a criminal like that have his walking around freedom, much less occupy government office?
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