Rep. Peter King said Tuesday he plans to introduce a new gun safety bill in Congress in the wake of the mass shooting in Arizona that killed six people and wounded 14 others, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz.
King said his bill would make it illegal to knowingly carry a gun within a thousand feet of "certain high-profile" government officials.
Another move to regulate firearms, with an eye toward the banning of them.
I have lived through the Kennedy presidential assassination, and the aftermath that removed the ability for the average citizen to order a firearm via mailorder. How many hundreds, or thousands, or tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands, or perhaps millions of firearms had been ordered prior to that legislative nonsense that were never used for nefarious ends?
Then the senator Kennedy assassination and the attempts on Ford and Reagan. More legislative folderol.
Back in the days when behavior modification via legislation was not as overt, and when there was respect for rights, the assassinations of Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley did not result in firearm bans and regulations.
I take note that it is the more liberal among the legislators that are clamoring for more firearm regulations. These are the same people that have brought us food bans, the spectre of mandatory purchases of health insurance, and all of the rights usurptions via the use of Orders For Protection, and on and on.
How I wish that our state and federal legislative bodies could be rolled back to true servants of the people, and not another protected class — soon to be a "highly" protected class, all 1,000 feet of it.
