Finally, A Sensible Gun Registration Plan
Vermont State Rep. Fred Maslack has read the Second Amendment to the
U.S.Constitution as well as Vermont 's own Constitution very carefully,
and his strict interpretation of these documents is popping some
eyeballs in New England and elsewhere.
Maslack recently proposed a bill to register non-gun-owners and require
them to pay a $500 fee to the state. Thus Vermont would become the first
state to require a permit for the luxury of going about unarmed and
assess a fee of $500 for the privilege of not owning a gun.
Maslack read the "militia" phrase of the Second Amendment as not only
affirming the right of the individual citizen to bear arms, but as a
clear mandate to do so. He believes that universal gun ownership was
advocated by the Framers of the Constitution as an antidote to a
"monopoly of force" by the government as well as criminals.
Vermont 's constitution states explicitly that "the people have a right
to bear arms for the defense of themselves and the State" and those
persons who "conscientiously scrupulous of bearing arms" shall be
required to "pay such equivalent." Clearly, says Maslack, Vermonters
have a constitutional obligation to arm themselves so that they are
capable of responding to "any situation that may arise".
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. "There is a legitimate government
interest in knowing who is prepared to defend the state should they be
asked to do so," Maslack says.
Vermont already boasts a high rate of gun ownership along with the least
restrictive laws of any state - it's currently the only state that
allows a citizen to carry a concealed firearm without a permit. This
combination of plenty of guns and few laws regulating them has resulted
in a crime rate that is the third lowest in the nation.
There is a lesson here!
http://www.rittercnc.com/cnc/Finally-a-sensible-gun-law-45256-.htm
COMPROMISE IS A DIRTY WORD
By: Jim R. Schwiesow
Newswithviews.com
2-4-2011
*THE CONTINUING POLITICAL CIRCUS*
This past week we were once again treated to a now sorry annual
spectacle known as the state of the union address. It was, as it most
always is, a pontifical exercise of blame, brag, bluster, and bombast.
This year, however, a new wrinkle was added to the circus. The liberal
politicians and the American media, which functions as a propaganda
ministry, seized upon the opportunity to divert the responsibility for
the mass shootings in Tucson, Arizona from the communist left where it
properly belongs to a suppositional incivility of the political foes of
the social aberrations that these political and media miscreants hold dear.
The propagandistic mania that was promoted by the Obama owned media
induced a deluded public, as these agitators knew it would, to mount a
demand for a new and cuddlesome politicization that would serve to
obfuscate and disguise the damage that has been inflicted upon society
by the mentally disordered offspring of the occultist new left, of which
the Tucson shooter was a certifiable member.
All of the media hype and fabrication helped to birth a new patty-cake
mentality that was infused into the confabulation that was presented as
a state of the union address. The media theme was that conservative
politicos should evidence a new teddybear like civility by checking
their ethics and principles at the door and then sit cheek by jowl with
political opponents of ideological beliefs that they believe in their
heart to be socially destructive and morally depraved.
One can only marvel at the complete misapprehension that prompted those
who acceded to this farcical arrangement to the point that they
abandoned their supposed sincerely held values to participate in such a
silly and juvenile exercise. But, there they sat like birds on a rail
holding hands and being confronted by charlatanism at its best and
political deportment at its worst, all in the name of civility.
The sole exhibition of wisdom and dignity of the day was that which was
evidenced by the three Supreme Court justices who refused to esteem or
respect the proceedings by lending their presence to such a comedic
blowout.
*A FAKE PRESIDENT PRESIDES*
It can be rationally argued that Obama actually profaned what used to be
a respected American political tradition by his very presence.
Here is a man that everyone knows in their innermost being to be a
socialist interloper of Kenyon birth and of a faked U.S. residency. The
nullity of his legal status as president mocks the constitutional
foundations of the nation. His oral communication consisted of a long
and wearisome string of utterances of little substance and even less in
the way of political acuity. The man is clueless and totally deficient
in regard to wisdom, discernment, and a cognizant a grasp of world
events and the culture and political disposition of foreign nations. In
short he is as a boy in a man?s job.
The juvenile like textual context of his so-called speech was a
compilation of the borrowed themes of past presidents, worn out and used
up campaign rhetoric, and an ill disguised advocacy of the ideological
doctrines of Marx and Engels that he fanatically pursues. The truly
despicable aspect of his performance was the utilization of the tragic
consequences of the Tucson shootings to further his political goals,
that he would divert the compassion for the victims of that loathsome
act to a political purpose spotlights the shallowness of his soul. In
this regard he simply embraces the seemingly most important doctrine of
the socialist left to never allow a crisis to go to waste even if it
might be morally wrong to use the occurrences thereof to advance a cause.
The determinate thought at the conclusion of the mirthful silliness of
this event was the demoralizing understanding of the collective
dim-witted depths to which this society has descended, and the bleak
awareness of the shudderingly incompetent witlessness of those who have
ascended to ruling positions of leadership in this nation.
Sadly there seems to be no end to the cognitive deficiency that is
abroad in this country in these perilous times.
*COMPROMISE ? A DIRTY WORD*
Compromise ? is defined as: ?A middle way between two extremes?
If this is a literally correct definition, and I believe that it is,
what then are we to do when the two extremes at the opposite ends of the
plane are that which is moral and that which is immoral? Is it possible
that a righteous compromise can be accomplished when such a compromise,
by the very definition of the word, must contain the elements of an
extreme that is in and of itself evil or wicked?
Compromise is as old as humanity; compromise began as a human endeavor
to attempt to escape the penalty for the transgression of God?s laws and
to mitigate or contravene the absoluteness of God?s word. Compromise is
man?s way to lessen the seriousness of disobedience to immutable laws
and dictums, or to excuse or condone such disobedience altogether. No
good thing comes from compromise. Man?s accommodation of transgressions
by compromise is not a defense for iniquitous acts in the eyes of God.
Compromise is the devil?s invention; God who is perfect in every way
will not be conciliated by the conditions of a compromise.
Compromise was introduced into the lives of men in the Garden of Eden by
that serpent of old, Satan, and will remain with men until the Lord
Jesus Christ brings this world to an end - which He will inevitable do
- and establishes His Kingdom.
*THE FRUITS OF COMPROMISE*
Most people have come to believe that compromise is a useful tool and
that the negotiations thereof have brought about good things and useful
policies. If one examines that belief closely it soon becomes apparent
that there are no useful results that accrue to negotiated compromise on
any level. In fact most often compromise actually breeds dissention and
strife, which in turn leads to more compromise. In short compromise
feeds upon itself and eats up that which is just and right in the
process...
To live in a world of compromise is to live in a world without
absolutes, and yet we know that the entire universe as well as the lives
of men are managed, controlled, and kept within irrevocable bounds by
the absolutes established by Almighty God. We violate those bounds, via
compromise of any kind, at our peril.
Political negotiations (compromise) in regard to the step down from the
safeguarding of the sanctity of life and from the immutable right
granted by God to be defended against being murdered - as set forth in
the sixth commandment - has enabled an American medical assassination
machine that has claimed nearly double the number of lives of the
combined number of military and civilian deaths attributable to World
War II.
The killing of innocent babies has reached record heights. The lives of
twenty-four percent of all unborn babies are delivered into the hands of
the serial killers of the medical community. A baby is murdered every
twelve seconds, and it is estimated that in this country alone there
have been ninety-two million living beating hearts stilled by the bloody
hands of the legal abortionists. This conspiracy to commit murder, this
aiding and abetting of murder, this disconnect between the forbidden
pre-meditated murder of living adults and the sanctioned pre-meditated
murder of living babies has been wrought by a politically mediated
compromise between those who claim the right to murder babies and those
who know God?s absolute prohibition of murder. And there is more.
Now continuing?compromise on morality resulted in the condoning of, and
an exponential increase in, the filthy - God condemned - practice of
sodomy and promiscuous sex. For every compromise of God?s word a penalty
is exacted. Aids rapidly achieved endemic proportions, first in the
United States and then in the rest world. We were told that Aids was a
disease of monkeys that had migrated to men. The inventiveness of the
scientific community and the political apologizers who defend such
appalling and execrable behavior often find fertile ground in the
credulous minds of a spiritually deprived people. I?m not done.
*POLITICAL COMPROMISE CONTINUES TO DESTROY THE REPUBLIC *
Today as never before in our history the dishonorable who control our
social destiny via their political intrigues subject the nation to a
slow death by way of political compromise.
Compromise through ill-conceived trade agreements has destroyed domestic
industry and extinguished millions of jobs. Compromise on sound
financial practices has destroyed the housing market, seriously damaged
the economy and crippled small businesses, compromise on immigration has
demolished the social structure, bankrupted state and local governments,
critically imperiled national security and jeopardized the safety and
well-being of the people, and compromise on moral integrity has
corrupted the youth, encouraged extreme vice and given license to social
prurience.
*THE BEGINNING OF THE END *
In a recent article I wrote that from this time forward the people of
this nation will not know a day of peace, there will be no good news,
each bad day will fade into another equally bad day, and the black and
ghostly apparitions of the former will blend with the grim and ghastly
tidings of the new. The Lord has departed from a people that have
departed from Him and prostituted themselves before heathen gods, a
people who will in the coming days loathe themselves for the evils that
they have committed in all of their abominations. They will surely know
that He is the Sovereign God who will carry out His word to do evil unto
them that defy His word and deny His Lordship over all of creation.
As I write this piece the nation is seized by a 2,000 mile long arctic
blast of an unprecedented magnitude; each season delivers devastation of
Biblical proportions. Tornadoes ravage, floods inundate, conflagrations
gobble up thousands of acres of trees and foliage and lumbering
mudslides follow in the wake of these, hurricanes terrify the coasts,
and hail, ice, and snow bring cities and towns to a standstill. Truly
the day of the Lord is at hand.
One who reads these words and does not understand or relate to that
which has been written can be thought to possess one or more of the
following character deficiencies: deep perversion, callous
indifference, abysmal illiteracy, or appalling ignorance.
Believers in God?s word know that ignorance of a secular kind is
directly attributable to a lack of spiritual discernment.
Solomon gives a litany of dangers that await the man who lacks Spiritual
discernment:
?To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that
speaketh froward things; Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in
the ways of darkness; Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the
frowardness of the wicked; Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in
their paths: To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the
stranger which flattereth with her words; Which forsaketh the guide of
her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God. For her house
inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead. None that go unto her
return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life. That thou
mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the
righteous. For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect
shall remain in it. But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and
the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.? [Proverbs 2:12-22]
http://www.newswithviews.com/Schwiesow/jim175.htm
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