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Quill
Pens, Guns, Ink and Bullets
by Ray Haynes [politician]
6/12/06 |
When
the Founding Fathers took the initiative to permanently inscribe
our natural rights on paper, one can imagine it being done
so with a quill pen. The first copies enshrined our liberties
in the Constitution as the Bill of Rights to include the freedom
of religion, freedom of the press and the right to keep and
bear arms and were printed with a manual printing press.
This freedom
of speech includes our right to express ourselves with every
available medium. At no point have we considered that the freedom
of speech is limited to expressing oneself with hand presses
and quill pens. We freely debate on the internet, television,
telephones and other forms of communication.
Contributor
Ray Haynes
Mr.
Haynes is an Assembly member representing Riverside
and Temecula. He serves on the Appropriations and
Budget Committees. [go to Assembly Member Haynes website
at California Assembly][go to Haynes index] |
So why is it that our Second Amendment is not treated the same
as the First? The majority party in California, and their anti-civil
rights allies, views our natural right to self defense to be
limited to the musket and the flintlock.
Since I have been in office, the majority party has found cause
to attack small guns, cheap guns, expensive guns, big guns, guns
with too many accessories, guns by brand name, ugly guns, and
pretty guns. We have a strange testing requirement to purchase
a gun reminiscent of poll taxes and literacy tests that were
designed to keep oppressed people from voting. We have limited
the number of guns someone can purchase in a month. Can you imagine
being told how many times you are allowed to attend church in
a month?
As you can imagine, this has little impact on true crime or
any of the other bogus arguments used to suppress your rights.
The majority party claims to believe in several of your rights,
and has seen fit to make themselves the arbiters of which ones
you are allowed to exercise, how often, and with as many hoops
to jump through as possible.
This session in the Legislature, we have defeated bills that
would have required anti-gun rhetoric on material distributed
with new firearms, a bill that would have required guns and ammunition
to have microscopic serial numbers imprinted in them, as if inspired
by a late night of watching TV shows like CSI, and a bill that
would have banned dogs from chasing rabbits! These bills are
sold as crime fighting tools. After a half century of these types
of laws, we are no safer. In truth, the criminal element is safer
every time we disarm the law abiding population.
Not able to totally ban firearms, the majority party has found
a new vehicle to disarm you, banning ammunition.
AB 2714 (Torrico) passed the Assembly last week, and is now
in the Senate. This bill will require that all transactions in
ammunition require the consumer to meet with the retailer face
to face and present ID. With tens of millions of shooters in
America, untold millions of rounds of ammunition are sold directly
to the public through catalog and internet sales. Hard to find,
bulk items, specialty items, discounted rates and convenience
are all to be had for the consumer by purchasing on-line. AB
2714 seeks to regulate interstate commerce, ammunition, gun rights,
and the internet in one fell swoop by a rabid and illogical anti-gun
owner agenda.
To get the
bill out of the lower house, the author promised to amend it
later.
He promised that he wouldn’t seek to
ban purchasing ammo anymore. He would instead amend the bill
to require you to present identification to the UPS delivery
truck that is bringing you your product. I suppose if law enforcement
won’t support your unnecessary legislation, you can just
deputize the entire UPS and FedEx fleets to do your dirty work.
The goal is to make it so uncomfortable to be a gun owner that
your kids won’t even bother. The outcome of this bill remains
to be seen, but I know that when one right is stolen away the
others will follow.
If this oppressive behavior continues, I just may have to send
out my weekly opinion pieces on parchment, handwritten with a
quill pen. CRO
Mr.
Haynes is a California Assemblyman repesenting Riverside
and Temecula and frequent contributor to CaliforniaRepublic.org.
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