Time to start calling your senators.

[whiteox]

http://thehill.com/video/senate/240657-cybersecurity-bill-includes-gun-control-measure

or maybe somebody else's Senator. I doubt ours will be swayed.

[redaudi]

I love how they sneak **** like this into a bill that has nothing to do with the issue. Underhanded at best. Gotta love politicians.

[LarryP]

No sense calling our senators, they both are for it

[JeremiahMN]

Hopefully this will be good in a sense that it tanks the whole bill.

[goett047]

Its a quick way to kill a bill, thats for sure.

[aaron878]

Its a quick way to kill a bill, thats for sure.

I thought that too, but it turns out the amendment has been offered, not approved, so it hasn't been stuck on the bill yet.

[SparkyJeff]

I love how they sneak **** like this into a bill that has nothing to do with the issue. Underhanded at best. Gotta love politicians.

If I've "gotta love 'em" I'm doing it wrong.

One subject at a time sounds like a logical way for any group (including government) to make decisions.

https://secure.downsizedc.org/etp/one-subject/

I'm Jim Babka, President of DownsizeDC.org, Inc.

My team created the "One Subject at a Time Act" (OSTA) to make you more powerful. Most legislation aims to control you, but OSTA will control Congress instead. It will . . .

Stop Congressional leaders from passing unwanted laws by attaching them to popular, but unrelated, bills.
Require each bill to be about ONLY one subject, and to stand or fall entirely on its own merits.
Make it easier for your elected officials to represent you by allowing them to vote on specific proposals, instead of on groups of bills containing divergent measures.

Create a de facto "line item veto" by putting only one measure under the President's pen at any one time.
Give you expanded influence by making bad legislation more vulnerable to public opposition.

And OSTA has been introduced in Congress by Congressman Tom Marino!

....<snip>

[redaudi]

[quote="SparkyJeff"If I've "gotta love 'em" I'm doing it wrong.[/quote]

σαρκασμός. Sarkasmos, to tear flesh, gnash the teeth, speak bitterly.

Sarcasm

But if it were mandatory, I'd be doing it wrong as well.

[JKalsbeck1961]

Contact Boehner. He's the Speaker of The House. He's the guy who will get the votes needed to defeat this garbage.

Not only should this bill be trashed for Second Amendment issues, the bill itself establishes a way for the government to monitor everybody's
internet business and gives them the right to shut it down right now if they deem a credible threat exists.


http://www.speaker.gov/contact

Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man gainst his own bosom. Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an American...[T]he unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people.
---Tenche Coxe, The Pennsylvania Gazette, Feb. 20, 1788.

[NRA80]

http://www.nraila.org/legislation/feder ... e-ban.aspx