Gun bills pass House despite antics, argument for safety at workplace

[beevul]

Gun bills pass House despite antics, argument for safety at workplace

KATIE COFFIN / CORRESPONDENT

Posted January 27, 2010 at 12:11 a.m.

INDIANAPOLIS — Donning a National Rifle Association cap and holding a toy pistol, state Rep. Vernon Smith, D-Gary, walked to the front of the Indiana House floor.

Explaining his support for the "Wild Wild West," he fired the fake pistol, saying, "Bang, bang, shoot 'em up!"

"This is indeed an NRA state," Smith said. "I pledge allegiance, not to the flag, but to the NRA."

The bill, drafted by Rep. Peggy Welch, D-Bloomington, was filed in reaction to databases created by two Indiana newspapers.

She said many of the constituents who contacted her asking for such legislation were non-gun owners who still wanted licensing information protected from public access because they did not want criminals to know that they might be safe robbing their homes.

http://www.courierpress.com/news/2010/jan/27/gun-bills-pass-house-despite-antics-argument-for/

An interesting read. This article is yet another example, that we're winning.

And perhaps some reasons why, too.

Oh, and that Peggy Welch (D), I'm sure shes just a gun worshiping nra shill. :sarcasm:

[Merchant Marine]

1. That's really immature behavior for a state senator

n/t

[TPaine7]

2. Like some DU anti-gun posters, Smith is just projecting...

Smith said he once became so angry at a man who was picking on him at a dance that if he had a gun, he might have used it.

"It shows you that when you have a gun, how many times you don't think," Smith said.

Mr. Smith is making a classic mistake. Despite his projection, his personal failings reflect on himself alone.

[proteus_lives]

3. Vernon's a dipshit.

Everyone in Indiana knows that.

[rd_kent]

4. "In my experience, the common thread in anti-gun people is rage....."

"In my experience, the common thread in anti-gun people is rage. Either anti-gun people harbor more rage than others, or they're less able to cope with it appropriately. Because they can't handle their own feelings of rage, they are forced to use defense mechanisms in an unhealthy manner. Because they wrongly perceive others as seeking to harm them, they advocate the disarmament of ordinary people who have no desire to harm anyone.”—Dr. Sarah Thompson, MD"

[beevul]

5. Wow, talk about drive-by...

Wow, talk about drive-by unrecs...

I do wonder...is it those that so often label many of us on the pro side as cowards, that are the ones hitting the "unrec" button...anonymously?


My money would be on "yes".

[virginia mountainman]

6. LOL the anti gun side is falling apart!! great post!! K&R!

NT

[SteveM]

7. The problem addressed by this legislation is retribution, punishment, registration.

When reporters/journalists wish to reveal the names of those with licenses, they don't care about their purported claim that more firearms in the hands and homes of civilians will mean more will be stolen; their real intent is to bring down some kind of retribution and harm upon those folks who have the licenses, and to create de facto registration. Such actions by "journalists" are why many people who might favor, say, opening up the NICS test to individuals, are reticent to do so because of this desire by gun-controllers to get at those having arms and create a registration with which government at some future date will have the means to confiscate.

The motivation? Probably adherence to a vulgar-passivism whereby no one is to defend themselves, leaving such to law enforcement.