1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, honor a fallen brother with a 21 gun salute on Forward Operating Base Brassfield-Mora--posted in "Military & Defense" -- There are 4 to 8 million of these war weapons now in U.S. homes, according to one of its industry spokesmen.
Where did this come from?
It seems we are being blind-sided by a 21 States onslaught of laws
designed to protect assault weapons, not the children and others who are being
killed by them. In the latest round of
this reactive lawmaking, we have the “Michigan Firearms Freedom Act.” The most recent mass killings in Newtown,
Conn. have provoked a revulsion against military-style weapons in the public’s
hands. Even though there’s still no
federal weapons control law to vote on in the U.S. Congress, the gun lobby
is already mobilized. This Michigan law,
which has just passed out of committee for a vote on the floor, will prohibit
any federal controls on guns and assault weapons “manufactured” [including
factory assembled] in our state. “Yet since 2009, legislators in at least 21states have introduced their own version of the Firearms Freedom Act…” As mass killings march on, the gun
industry is all about legislative blowback.
ALEC - One of many legislation creators
Who’s responsible for the initiation and writing of this
bevy of cloned laws? State Senator Phil
Pavlov is the primary sponsor named in this Michigan bill. Where did he get this bill? As a fellow Catholic, and supporter right to
life, it wouldn’t seem he’d spearhead the cause of protecting assault weapons {the U.S. Bishops since 2004 have declared they should be banned}. I hope to find a proper way to ask him.And because this seems to be a mounting problem--laws written by think tanks [ALEC experience in New Hampshire mirrors ours] for mass production & distribution on many issues--we need to suggest a new law, state and national, as a remedy—the Transparency in Legislation Act.
he U.S. Congress has the Congressional Research Service
which does some study of issues & legislation, but on a limited inside need-to-know
or request-of-information basis. State
legislatures don’t have any consistent system for such investigation, while
batches of laws are being pressed through by powerful interests. Many times, not even the lawmakers themselves
know the details of the impact these laws will have—and the public is being
left totally in the dark. Maybe our members of Congress and Statehouse should
wear jumpsuits emblazoned with names of their sponsors, as NASCAR race drivers
do.
This system of corporations and institutes getting together
to write our laws through proxy legislators has got to change, or democracy is
dead. Our standard must be, “Then you will know the truth, and the
truth will set you free.” Jn 8:32 Knowing
the truth, in its completeness, is what gives Christians, and all Americans, the
ability to choose life and real active freedom.
Pilate's question, "What is truth?"
Answer
Illumination by Kathy Brahney
Click on any blue above for links, and references below --
More on American Legislative Exchange Council, better known as ALEC—One
of the sources of pre-written state laws, on a national scale.
http://www.salon.com/2012/04/17/alec_we_will_stop_being_gun_nuts_now/
http://www.salon.com/2012/04/17/alec_we_will_stop_being_gun_nuts_now/
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