Tiger Board Logo

Donor's Den General Leaderboards TNET coins™ POTD Hall of Fame Map FAQ
search
GIVE AN AWARD
Use your TNET coins™ to grant this post a special award!
W
50
Big Brain
90
Love it!
100
Cheers
100
Helpful
100
Made Me Smile
100
Great Idea!
150
Mind Blown
150
Caring
200
Flammable
200
Hear ye, hear ye
200
Bravo
250
Nom Nom Nom
250
Take My Coins
500
Ooo, Shiny!
700
Treasured Post!
1000
YOUR BALANCE
Gun control debate a moot point?
storage This topic has been archived - replies are not allowed.
Archives - General Boards Archive
add New Topic
Replies: 3
| visibility 203

Gun control debate a moot point?


Jan 15, 2013, 7:52 AM

Did Harry Reid really slip this into Obamacare?

http://www.humanevents.com/2013/01/12/obamacare-provision-forbids-democrats-from-restricting-guns-and-ammo/

Don't blast the source, just answer the question. This seems to be one of many places reporting this.

flag link military_tech thumb_downthumb_up


It doesn't seem to prevent gun control, only limits


Jan 15, 2013, 7:57 AM

the data collection capabilities of 'lawful' ownership. If said ownership were to be come 'unlawful' then the provision would be moot.

Still, it is quite a grotesque display of special interest that we have so successfully driven out of the new age of politics.

badge-donor-05yr.jpg flag link military_tech thumb_downthumb_up

good point on becoming "unlawful"


Jan 15, 2013, 8:20 AM

it seems that the data collection and sharing is part of what they want to do administratively to reel some of this in.

the article in the other post about the 19 executive orders says this:

The executive actions could include giving the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention authority to conduct national research on guns, more aggressive enforcement of existing gun laws and pushing for wider sharing of existing gun databases among federal and state agencies, members of Congress in the meeting said.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/01/biden-guns-executive-actions-86187.html#ixzz2I39olODB

flag link military_tech thumb_downthumb_up


Keeps the lid on efforts by CDC to study gun safety.


Jan 15, 2013, 8:22 AM

So goes the paranoia of the gun lobby.

http://news.yahoo.com/scientists-urge-end-limits-gun-safety-research-194015136.html

badge-donor-10yr.jpgbadge-ringofhonor-snuffys.jpg flag link military_tech thumb_downthumb_up

...I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent.


Replies: 3
| visibility 203
📰 E-Mail News Alerts

TigerBoard POTD

Hill Watch...112 days!!! (16 weeks!)

by O.J.

Archives - General Boards Archive
add New Topic