South Carolina Lawmakers Want to Debate Secession

[RandySF]

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina debated seceding from the Union more than 150 years ago, a decision that ultimately led to the Civil War. Now, the topic has come up again, amid a national debate over firearms and gun rights.

A trio of state House Republicans on Thursday quietly introduced a bill that would allow lawmakers to debate seceding from the U.S. “if the federal government confiscates legally purchased firearms in this State.”

The measure sponsored by Reps. Mike Pitts, Jonathon Hill and Ashley Trantham has no real chance this session. The deadline for bills to move from one chamber to the other is April 10.


https://apnews.com/fe96e0e8a68c4e0881179391e78a999c

[eppur_se_muova]

1. I vote we let them go, then build a wall. nt

[Aristus]

2. Boy howdy, do those fuck-heads love the word 'confiscation'.

It's how one distinguishes a gun-opponent from a gun-fetishist. Other than, you know, the guns.

[J_William_Ryan]

3. Rightwing ignorance and stupidity knows no bounds.

[atreides1]

4. The last time

It didn't work out so well!!!

[Orsino]

5. Beats working, I guess. n/t

[NightWatcher]

6. Delusions of persecution and grandeur. Poor widdle gun nuts.

[Iliyah]

7. Well the Civil War began in 1861 when the Confederates

attacked Fort Sumter in South Carolina. I guess the apple truly doesn't fall far from the tree.

[dameatball]

8. Okay. The sooner you surrender, the sooner you get a statue.

[SoCalNative]

9. Because the whole secession thing

worked out so well for them the first time that they tried it.

[jpak]

10. Good - we'll pull out all those federal military $$$ and you kan fry to deeth in teh sun!

[GulfCoast66]

11. Do all these poor red state idiots realize

That without the Federal Government they would literally be 3rd world nations?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

12. Let em go. They'll starve.

[Corgigal]

13. Wasting tax payers money.

Wonder if taxpayers/voters can sue them for the waste of their payment to their salary by wasting time doing stupid crap like that. Let them personally pay for it, include rent and utilities on the payback schedule.

Or, bill the NRA because I can't imagine this bill serves the people's interest.