Rep. Peter King, RINO-NY, is proposing a law to ban the carrying of guns within 1000 feet of a government official.
A law that any nutbag who wants to kill a government official will totally ignore.
Mark my words: This law, if passed, will only ever be enforced against otherwise innocent people, lawfully carrying weapons, who did not realize some government flunkey was going to be passing by a quarter mile away. It will be like the no-tolerance rules that get kids kicked out of school for bringing a paring knife in their lunch box to peel their apple.
If Majority Leader Boehner wants to show us what the new House of Representatives is made of, he'll axe this stupid idea before it goes any farther.
I have to say, though...I've read H. Beam Piper's Lone Star Planet. One of the Solar League Ambassadors states in his Final Message:
Here politics is an exciting and exacting game, in which only the true representative of all the people can survive.
Maybe the real solution is for congresscritters to start packin', instead of making the rest of us stand down.
UPDATE: Good for Boehner.
Some idiot congresscritter (but I repeat myself) wanted to propose to "make it a Federal crime" to use inflammatory speech or to utter threatening language in the general direction of an elected official.
Not realizing that, in making the proposal, he himself has committed a Federal crime -- to whit, engaging in a conspiracy to deny the free exercise of constitutionally-protected civil rights. Under color of law. Oh, and if a death results, it's a CAPITAL case.
No sense of irony whatsover.
M
All that Rep. King's law would do is turn Joe Zamudio from a hero to a criminal. He's one of the people who held the shooter down until authorities arrived. He's also a concealed carry permit holder, and was carrying his gun. Also he had the good sense to leave his gun in his gun concealed because the shooter had already stopped shooting before he was there.
I'm glad he was there with his gun. Because under not so different circumstances he might have needed to use it. Being glad he didn't have to use it doesn't mean I don't think he should have had it with him.
Further kudos to Speaker Boehner for reiterating his decision to continue using commercial flights even after the tragic shooting in Arizona.
Amen!