Require Citizens To Purchase Guns
argusleader.com - A bill has been introduced in the South Dakota legislature that would require all able-bodied residents to purchase a firearm, the Argus Leader reports.
The measure, which would take effect on January 1st, 2012, would give all South Dakotan adults 6 months to acquire a gun “suitable to their temperament, physical capacity, and preference.”
According to the bill’s sponsor, Republican state Rep. Hal Wick, the bill has no chance of passage. He says he introduced it to prove that last year’s federal health care law is unconstitutional.
“Do I or the other cosponsors believe that the State of South Dakota can require citizens to buy firearms? Of course not,” he said. “But at the same time, we do not believe the federal government can order every citizen to buy health insurance.”
Blog author's comments - Good move! If the Obama regime can mandate that we buy health insurance why stop there?
As the column states Rep. Hal Wick knows the bill has no chance of passing. He is doing this to show what most of us except for the Democrat Party know, the federal health care law is unconstitutional.
This comes on the heels of a ruling by Justice Roger Vinson of the U.S. District Court in Pensacola, who yesterday declared the primary mechanism whereby the health reform achieves universal insurance coverage–the individual mandate–is unconstitutional.
He ruled: “Because the individual mandate is unconstitutional and not severable, the entire Act must be declared void."
The Republicans in Congress, as a matter of strategy, must be ready for the Supreme Court to overturn Judge Vinson. That's why they must do what they can to repeal the entire Obamacare law.
Details and full story from this blog which also contains Judge Vinson's 78 page ruling.
