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Member Section => Politics & RKBA => Topic started by: PegLeg45 on December 09, 2012, 11:20:13 AM
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It worked in Kennesaw......don't know if anything like this can build enough steam to go statewide....but who knows.
Good luck Vermont.
Vermont bill would fine citizens for NOT having a firearm
Vermont Rep. Fred Maslack is proposing that the state not only register non-gun owners but also charge them for not having a gun. Under Maslack’s proposal Vermont would become the first state to require a permit for the luxury of traipsing about unarmed and assess a fee of $500 for the privilege of not owning a gun.
This wouldn’t be the first time in America that such a law was passed. In Kennesaw, GA, gun ownership has been mandatory since 1982 with a fine of $100 being levied for violators. In contrast to the hysteria the gun control zealots were expounding at the time, crime was drastically lowered while the population skyrocketed.
Prior to enactment of the law, Kennesaw had a population of just 5,242 but a crime rate significantly higher (4,332 per 100,000) than the national average (3,899 per 100,000). The latest statistics available – for the year 2005 – show the rate at 2,027 per 100,000. Meanwhile, the population has skyrocketed to 28,189.
Maslack’s bill in Vermont, atop the $500 fine, would also require non gun owners to register with the state. Under the bill, adults who choose not to own a firearm would be required to register their name, address, Social Security number, and driver’s license number with the state.
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I mean, there is no reason why gun owners should have to pay taxes to support police protection for people who choose not to protect themselves. Why not let them contribute their fair share and pay their own way. Isn’t that reasonable? Non-gun owners require more police to protect them and this fee should go to paying for their defense.
If, as a healthy person, I have to foot the bill for the chain smoking, burger inhaling, cardio hating, Fatty McFattensteins of America, why shouldn’t someone who wants to pass the responsibility of their own protection onto the cops pay for that privilege?
Do I expect this legislation in Vermont to go anywhere? I’m not sure. When similar bills have come up before in Vermont they haven’t gotten any traction but ever since the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Obamacare who knows.
If the long lasting effect of Obamacare (besides crippling the health industry) is that mandatory gun ownership legislation sweeps the nation then I will laugh long and hard. Gotta love karma.
http://gunowners.wordpress.com/2012/12/07/vermont-bill-would-fine-citizens-for-not-having-a-firearm/
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They ain't reporting THAT one in the MSM . ;D
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The militia shall be made up of the whole of the people.......
Makes sense to me. If you won't show up for jury duty, you get fined. Same principle.
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Notice it's a Yankee pushing it ?
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Notice it's a Yankee pushing it ?
Hey Vermont is fine with me. No permit carry, dope is well, they just ignore it and save a lot money, and its the home of Ben and Jerrys. I consider them distant Southerners. Hell, they're ahead of us. ;D
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You realize that Ben and Jerry were anti gun, Gay , hard corps liberals that sold out to a corporation,
and weren't originally from the North east don't you ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_%26_Jerry%27s
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You realize that Ben and Jerry were anti gun, Gay , hard corps liberals that sold out to a corporation,
and weren't originally from the North east don't you ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_%26_Jerry%27s
Jerry isn't gay, don't know about Cohen...
Still the best ice cream you can buy in a mass market, by far! Only the local dairies have a decent product around here!
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Brought to you by Unilever .
A Dutch company. ;D
My local eatery gets theirs from that dairy in Sanford Me.
If I remember I'll add the name tomorrow, can't think of it right now.
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Probably Shaws or Shains in Sanford! Darn fine ice cream...
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Shains ! ;D
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Now that's what I call a thread drift! Tastey, but a thread drift.
Let us know where the bill goes.