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flamin lib

(14,559 posts)
Mon Apr 20, 2015, 09:18 AM Apr 2015

GUN BILL WINS FINAL APPROVAL AFTER EMOTIONAL SPEECH

http://vtdigger.org/2015/04/17/gun-bill-wins-final-approval/

The Vermont House gave final approval to a gun bill Friday that proponents say will keep firearms out of the hands of many violent felons and from certain people with severe mental illness.

The bill makes possession of a gun a state-level misdemeanor crime for people convicted of aggravated stalking; aggravated domestic assault in the first or second degree; murder; manslaughter; assault and robbery with a dangerous weapon; unlawful restraint; kidnapping; and several other “listed crimes.”


This is the bill that was pronounced dead a month ago amid much celebration by gun rights activists. It takes a special kind of sick bastard to celebrate wife beaters getting to keep their guns and there seems to be an awful lot of them.
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GUN BILL WINS FINAL APPROVAL AFTER EMOTIONAL SPEECH (Original Post) flamin lib Apr 2015 OP
The NRA will probably sue to get this repeled Doctor_J Apr 2015 #1
So the NRA rose to the defence of violent felons and potentially dangerous folks with mental illness Fred Sanders Apr 2015 #2
 

Doctor_J

(36,392 posts)
1. The NRA will probably sue to get this repeled
Mon Apr 20, 2015, 09:25 AM
Apr 2015

but I like their gumption. The two-state solution is looking better and better.

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
2. So the NRA rose to the defence of violent felons and potentially dangerous folks with mental illness
Mon Apr 20, 2015, 10:02 AM
Apr 2015

Evil. Pure evil.

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