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  • PamR
  on Nov. 6, 2009 at 6:58 PM

• Aren't non-gun owners already supporting police with their taxes?

  Who the hell does Vermont think if about to invade and therefore, everybody needs to have guns and ammo at the ready! to defend them.

  It's not Vermont, it's just some idiot in the state. 

  Dumb response to a real problem and a real issue. 

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  • sweetie00
  on Nov. 6, 2009 at 7:10 PM

• "America is at that awkward stage.
  It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards."
  
  - we elect these dipshits?  I'm embarrassed.

  '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 interest in knowing who is not prepared to defend the state should they be asked to do
  so," Maslack says

  1.-this stuff is already on record, brainiac

  2. If they are ASKED, that means they aren't REQUIRED to 'defend the state' . I'm sorry, but those of you who think we are going to change govt. by violent force and violent intimidation are lacking imagination, innovation, and....brains, quite frankly. 

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  • Mergath
  on Nov. 6, 2009 at 7:20 PM

• So, by your logic, if everyone was a gun owner, the police would become unnecessary?  That would result in chaos and the complete disintegration of society.  Anyone would be able to shoot anyone they wanted and claim that the other person was committing a crime against them, and there would be no police to mediate anything.  

  Also, if this makes gun ownership mandatory:

  "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

  then I guess each person having an established religion is mandatory too, huh?  Are the atheists just out of luck?  And I guess we'll have to start having mandatory peaceable assemblies, too.

  I think this state rep needs to reread the Bill of Rights.  Perhaps he should wear his glasses this time.

  Quoting MrsRStewart:
  
  

  This makes sense!
  There is no reason why gun owners should have to pay taxes to support police protection for people not wanting to own guns.
  Let them contribute their fair share and pay their own way.

  http://www.resistnet.com/profiles/blogs/a-novel-idea-register-nongun

  
  

  
  
  

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  • stormcris
  on Nov. 6, 2009 at 7:24 PM

• If anyone could shoot anyone then no one would step out of line.  It is the same logic as everyone having nuclear weapons, when anyone can fire them on anyone no one does it because they do not want to be fired upon. I personally think this might just be a better option to the idea of banning.
  

  Quoting Mergath:
  
  

  So, by your logic, if everyone was a gun owner, the police would become unnecessary?  That would result in chaos and the complete disintegration of society.  Anyone would be able to shoot anyone they wanted and claim that the other person was committing a crime against them, and there would be no police to mediate anything.  

  Also, if this makes gun ownership mandatory:

  "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

  then I guess each person having an established religion is mandatory too, huh?  Are the atheists just out of luck?  And I guess we'll have to start having mandatory peaceable assemblies, too.

  I think this state rep needs to reread the Bill of Rights.  Perhaps he should wear his glasses this time.

  Quoting MrsRStewart:
  
  

  This makes sense!
  There is no reason why gun owners should have to pay taxes to support police protection for people not wanting to own guns.
  Let them contribute their fair share and pay their own way.

  http://www.resistnet.com/profiles/blogs/a-novel-idea-register-nongun

  
  

  
  

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  • Godgaveme4
  on Nov. 6, 2009 at 7:56 PM

• Oh my goodness this is the best idea i have heard in a long time.

  I honestly believe that the more people that are armed the more crime will go down.  I mean think about it.  Amny of the morons that commit crimes will think twice about it.  When thay walk in the bank they will might stop and think how many people in the building are going to be armed.  What is their chance of escaping without getting shot.  Right now criminals know what buildings are fair game and will give them no opposistion.  Why do you think they choose gun free zones like schools and government buildings. 

  Thanks for posting this.
  

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  • sweetie00
  on Nov. 6, 2009 at 8:02 PM

• so the only way to deter crime is with the threat of violence....??? How dumb.

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  • PamR
  on Nov. 6, 2009 at 8:03 PM

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  Oh my goodness this is the best idea i have heard in a long time.

  I honestly believe that the more people that are armed the more crime will go down.  I mean think about it.  Amny of the morons that commit crimes will think twice about it.  When thay walk in the bank they will might stop and think how many people in the building are going to be armed.  What is their chance of escaping without getting shot.  Right now criminals know what buildings are fair game and will give them no opposistion.  Why do you think they choose gun free zones like schools and government buildings. 

  If you rob a bank, you're already walking into a situation with armed guards, so I don't think that one will change.  Same with a government building.

  Should school teachers be armed?  There are already police assigned to most middle/high schools and they have weapons.  I think anyone who enters a school with a gun and starts shooting has pretty much given up their life as it is - they don't think about consequences.  But wait!  With guns at the ready, say in every desk and office, the crazies would have more access, wouldn't they?

  Registering non-gun owners would do zero to help this issue.   All it's going to do is make the idiot who thought of it feel good.

  
  

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  • conniecabe
  on Nov. 6, 2009 at 8:12 PM

• It won't pass....not enough wing nuts in Vermont.  But, you know, bat shit crazy people will do anything to get attention.  Maybe Rep. Fred Maslack will get the scrutiny he is so deserving of and get voted out of office?  Hmmmm............

  

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  • Godgaveme4
  on Nov. 6, 2009 at 8:13 PM

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  Quoting sweetie00:
  
  

  so the only way to deter crime is with the threat of violence....??? How dumb.

  What exactly do you think happens right now?  You don't think the police are going to use their guns in order to take down a criminal?

  I have heard many people say that an armed society is a polite society and i agree with them.  Puts everyone on a level playing feild.
  

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  • sweetie00
  on Nov. 6, 2009 at 8:16 PM

• Maybe we ought to think about why people do these things...to prevent more of it....but that makes my head hurt. Shooting them is much easier.

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