Treb, if you and your son had to state that under oath before a Court, would/could you both do it?...Geo
It probably wouldn't come to that, but it could. That's why I suggested earlier in this thread that we should all be calling or e-mailing our Representatives in Congress and the Senate to remind them that we do not want any more laws that would restrict the Constitutional Rights of law abiding gun owners.
Obama's recent speech calling for Universal Background Checks also made the call to restrict sale of guns to people on the No Fly List. That sounds reasonable until you consider that perfectly innocent people end up on that list and have little or no recourse to get off. There is a Georgia Democratic Rep. named John Lewis who is on the No Fly List. Anti Gun Democrat Senator Ted Kennedy was also on the list. It took him weeks of direct appeals to the Director of Homeland Security to get his name removed.
We saw several stupid laws passed right after the Newtown shootings that made law-breakers and felons out of gun owners in New York and Connecticut. Some of us may think that this incrementalism doesn't affect us... until we make an innocent assumption or a mistake that ends up costing us dearly. Just look at the recent story of the elderly New Jersey collector who admitted to having a black powder revolver in his car during a traffic stop. The DA eventually dropped the charges, but I'm sure he ended up with some nasty legal bills. Meanwhile, gangbangers routinely get plea bargains or released on parole.
