In the last few days, the news has revealed the true nature of the debate on gun control issues. consider this: first, Congresswoman Diana DeGette, Colorado Democrat, who is in the leadership position of House Democrats and who is sponsoring one piece of gun legislation explained why limiting magazines to only those holding ten or less bullets made sense. DeGette that her law would get rid of all of the larger magazines. After all, she told them, once those bullets were fired, the magazine would be used up. In other words, DeGette did not understand that magazines can be reused; you just load more bullets into the magazine. So DeGette is proposing a bill to regulate guns even though she has no idea at all what she is talking about. Second, we have president Obama who told a crowd in California that the Newtown massacre was carried out with fully automatic weapons. Obama is just wrong. In Newtown, the shooter used semi-automatic weapons. There is a big difference between automatic weapons and semi-automatic weapons. Obama, however, does not seem to know that difference, but he is strongly for banning them. That means Obama is pushing a bill which will have an effect that he does not understand.
Look, I am not expressing an opinion here about whether it makes sense to further regulate gun ownership in America. All I am saying is that those who are given the responsibility to make the laws ought to at least take the time to learn about the subject of proposed laws. We ought not have know-nothings deciding the laws which will affect hundreds of millions of Americans. The American people deserve more. We have already seen what happens when a law gets rushed through without anyone really understanding what is in it. Just look at the series of problems that have arisen with Obamacare. No one in Congress actually took the time to consider the real impact of many of the Obamacare provisions. They were all too busy spouting talking points. National healthcare, or the Obamacare variant of it, was too much like a religious goal for the Democrats and too little like a statute that was going to affect the lives of every man, woman and child in the USA. It is not too much to demand that Congress take the time to understand the issues, the proposed law and the consequences of approval BEFORE it acts.
Look, I am not expressing an opinion here about whether it makes sense to further regulate gun ownership in America. All I am saying is that those who are given the responsibility to make the laws ought to at least take the time to learn about the subject of proposed laws. We ought not have know-nothings deciding the laws which will affect hundreds of millions of Americans. The American people deserve more. We have already seen what happens when a law gets rushed through without anyone really understanding what is in it. Just look at the series of problems that have arisen with Obamacare. No one in Congress actually took the time to consider the real impact of many of the Obamacare provisions. They were all too busy spouting talking points. National healthcare, or the Obamacare variant of it, was too much like a religious goal for the Democrats and too little like a statute that was going to affect the lives of every man, woman and child in the USA. It is not too much to demand that Congress take the time to understand the issues, the proposed law and the consequences of approval BEFORE it acts.
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