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Logical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-18-11 08:55 PM
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All states need to do this!!! Prevent local communities from overriding state gun laws! Yup!
Edited on Mon Apr-18-11 08:56 PM by Logical
Indiana communities no longer may be permitted to regulate guns, ammunition or firearm accessories within their borders.

The Indiana House voted 77-21 for Senate Bill 292 on Monday, pre-empting all local ordinances that relate to guns and taking away the right of local governments to enact any gun-related provision different from state law.

State Rep. Mike Speedy, R-Indianapolis, the sponsor, said Indiana needs one set of gun laws because otherwise law-abiding gun owners could get tripped up unnecessarily by a local rule they may not even know about.

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http://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/lake/gary/article_44bcf154-8d2a-59bd-94d2-ecfac810f692.html
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PavePusher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-18-11 10:45 PM
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1. Some people want to take a page from Ayn Rand.
http://www.famguardian1.org/Subjects/Taxes/JohnGalt/Excerpt2.htm


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"You seem to be pleased about it."

"Don't I have good reason to be?"

"But, after all, I did break one of your laws."

"Well, what do you think they're for?"

Dr. Ferris did not notice the sudden look on Rearden's face, the look of a man hit by the first vision of that which he had sought to see. Dr. Ferris was past the stage of seeing; he was intent upon delivering the last blows to an animal caught in a trap.

"Did you really think that we want those laws to be observed?" said Dr. Ferris. "We want them broken. You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against - then you'll know that this is not the age for beautiful gestures. We're after power and we mean it. You fellows were pikers, but we know the real trick, and you'd better get wise to it. There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted - and you create a nation of law-breakers - and then you cash in on guilt. Now, that's the system, Mr. Rearden, that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with."

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