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Title: Bill would require all S.D. citizens to buy a gun
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argusleader.com
URL Source: http://www.argusleader.com/article/ ... buy-gun?odyssey=mod%7Cmostview
Published: Feb 1, 2011
Author: Jonathan Ellis, Argus Leader
Post Date: 2011-02-01 01:26:30 by Ferret Mike
Keywords: None
Views: 3891
Comments: 4
Five South Dakota lawmakers have introduced legislation that would require any adult 21 or older to buy a firearm “sufficient to provide for their ordinary self-defense.” The bill, which would take effect Jan. 1, 2012, would give people six months to acquire a firearm after turning 21. The provision does not apply to people who are barred from owning a firearm. Nor does the measure specify what type of firearm. Instead, residents would pick one “suitable to their temperament, physical capacity, and preference.” The measure is known as an act “to provide for an individual mandate to adult citizens to provide for the self defense of themselves and others.” Rep. Hal Wick, R-Sioux Falls, is sponsoring the bill and knows it will be killed. But he said he is introducing it to prove a point that the federal health care reform mandate passed last year is unconstitutional. “Do I or the other cosponsors believe that the State of South Dakota can require citizens to buy firearms? Of course not. But at the same time, we do not believe the federal government can order every citizen to buy health insurance,” he said.
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#1. To: Ferret Mike, go65, lucysmom, Brian S (#0)
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So right wing kooks are for forcing people to but fire arms but forcing people to buy health insurance is communism........ The right wing is insane to the point that only they can justify these contradictions in their ideology.
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
those who shall, from time to time, arrive at the age of 18 years, or being at the age of 18 years, and under the age of 45 years (except as before excepted) shall come to reside within his bounds; and shall without delay notify such citizen of the said enrollment, by the proper non-commissioned Officer of the company, by whom such notice may be proved. That every citizen, so enrolled and notified, shall, within six months thereafter, provide himself with a good musket or firelock, a sufficient bayonet and belt, two spare flints, and a knapsack, a pouch, with a box therein, to contain not less than twenty four cartridges, suited to the bore of his musket or firelock, each cartridge to contain a proper quantity of powder and ball; or with a good rifle, knapsack, shot-pouch, and powder-horn, twenty balls suited to the bore of his rifle, and a quarter of a pound of powder; and shall appear so armed, accoutred and provided, when called out to exercise or into service, except, that when called out on company days to exercise only, he may appear without a knapsack. That the commissioned Officers shall severally be armed with a sword or hanger, and espontoon; and that from and after five years from the passing of this Act, all muskets from arming the militia as is herein required, shall be of bores sufficient for balls of the eighteenth part of a pound; and every citizen so enrolled, and providing himself with the arms, ammunition and accoutrements, required as aforesaid, shall hold the same exempted from all suits, distresses, executions or sales, for debt or for the payment of taxes. Requiring the Militia to arm themselves is nothing new. Note that there's no requirement for them to buy health insurance though.
Same principal.
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
I'm sure that the fact health insurance didn't exist at the time has nothing to do with it.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains. Thomas Jefferson
#2. To: Ferret Mike (#0)
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Militia Act of 1792
#3. To: hondo68, Ferret Mike (#2)
Requiring the Militia to arm themselves is nothing new. Note that there's no requirement for them to buy health insurance though.
#4. To: hondo68 (#2)
Requiring the Militia to arm themselves is nothing new. Note that there's no requirement for them to buy health insurance though.
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