- Vermont State Rep. Fred Maslack has read the Second Amendment
to the U.S. Constitution as well as Vermont's own Constitution very carefully,
and his strict interpretion of these documents is popping some eyeballs
in New England and elsewhere.
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- Maslack recently proposed a bill to register non-gunowners
and require them to pay a $500 fee to the state. Thus Vermont would become
the first state to require a permit for the luxury of going about unarmed
and assess a fee of $500 for the previlige of not owning a gun.
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- Maslack read the "militia" phrase of the Second
Amendment as not only affirming the right of the individual citizen to
bear arms, but as a clear mandate to do so. He believes that universal
gun ownership was advocated by the Framers of the Constitution as an antidote
to a "monopoly of force" by the government as well as criminals.
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- Vermont's constitution states explicitly that "the
people have a right to bear arms for the defence of themselves and the
State" and those perssons who "conscientiously scrupulous of
bearing arms" shall be required to "pay such equivalent."
Clearly, says Maslack, Vermonters have a constitutional obligation to arm
themselves so that they are capable of responding to "any situation
that may arise".
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- Under the bill, adults who choose not to own a firearm
would be required to register their name, address, Social Security Number,
and driver's license number with the state. "There is a legitimate
government intrest in knowning who is prepared to defend the state should
they be asked to do so," Maslack says.
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- Vermont already boasts a high rate of gun ownership along
with the least restrictive laws of any state - it's currently the only
state that allows a citizen to carry a concealed firearm without a permit.
This combination of plenty of guns and few laws regulating them has resulted
in a crime rate that is the third lowest in the nation.
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- From qmsmith 1-5-00
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- This is the best idea I have seen or heard of in recent
years.
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- Though I have been an anti-gun activist for some time
because of the south Dallas location where I live and the many drive by
shooting in our neighborhood, this makes more sense than any other gun
proposition I have heard in the last twenty years. I once heard of a town
in Georgia that required every citizen to own and carry a weapon and there
was no crime for over half a decade. Why can't the rest of the world be
aware of the true results gun-toting private citizens can achieve.
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- Though here in Texas where I reside, we have gun concealment
laws for those registered, the common criminal knows that only a small
percentage of people have them (those who can pass the vigorous requirements
to do so) and have no fear of robbing or attacking anyone, with or without
a gun.
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- In a recent visit to Memphis, Tennessee it was noted
in the Memphis Commercial Appeal that crime against Mississippians in
Memphis had declined some fifty percent due to the fact that several robbers
were shot dead by gun-toting Mississipians visiting the city.
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- This should be a clear indication that the ban on guns
and gun control is only an attempt by the NWO to suppress the people who
would be much safer if the local government simply required all citizens
to be armed.
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- Just another brick in the wall............. A non-gun
owner in South Dallas
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