Lance Gooden latest email reply

[powerboatr]

Friends,

The school shooting in Uvalde is an unimaginable tragedy, and my heart continues to break for the families who lost a child, a mother, or a loved one. There are twenty-one families in Texas that are forever shattered, and I will do everything in my power to ensure a tragedy like this never happens again. We must secure our children’s schools, address the mental health crisis gripping our nation, and restore respect for the sanctity of human life.

However, the bills considered by the House of Representatives today would have accomplished none of those things. Instead, liberals in Congress used an unimaginable tragedy to push a series of empty and blatantly unconstitutional proposals that attack Americans’ Second Amendment rights and fail to address the root causes of gun violence. The bills passed by the House today were nothing short of a foot in the door to nationwide gun grabs, unconstitutional age restrictions, and European-style gun control. I could not and will not support that. While there is a laundry list of reasons I voted no on these bills today, I wanted to explain to you the most egregious provisions and why I voted against them.
1. Mandating Firearms be Stored and Locked at Home
The Supreme Court has already ruled Americans have a right to defend themselves in their own homes. A federal mandate on how their self-defense weapon is stored that limits their ability to protect themselves would clearly violate that right. While firearm safety in the home is vitally important, especially to parents of young children, if an intruder enters your home, the time it takes to unlock your firearm box and load your gun could be the difference between life and death. Americans have a right to determine the safest way to store their guns at home. This provision would have done nothing to prevent the shooting in Uvalde and instead only risks more lives, especially in rural communities where law enforcement response times are longer.
2. Prohibiting Third-Party Gun Purchases or Loans
Federal law already prohibits the transfer or third-party sale of a firearm to someone prohibited from possessing one. The extreme prohibition in this bill on third-party gun purchases goes much further and would severely limit an individual’s ability to purchase a firearm as a gift or loan a gun to a friend. In other words, it would criminalize purchasing a gun for a friend who is experiencing domestic violence and may need a firearm for self-defense. This would put well-intentioned Americans at risk of criminal prosecution, and even prison, for trying to protect their sister or friend in an abusive relationship or for loaning a friend a gun while hunting.
3. Confiscating Americans’ Firearms without Due Process
The bill would create new “red flag” laws that trample on Americans’ Second Amendment rights by allowing family or household members to alert law enforcement or petition a court requesting an individual’s firearm be confiscated without due process. While this may seem commonsense if an individual is a risk to their family or their household, the way the bill establishes this procedure is extreme and ripe for abuse. It would allow any individual who has cohabitated with another in the past year to file the petition, meaning a disgruntled ex-spouse or former roommate could submit endless petitions to harass an individual or deprive them of the means to defend themselves. In the United States, you are innocent until proven guilty, and your Constitutional rights cannot be denied without due process and equal protection under the law.
4. Raising the Age Limit on Gun Purchases to 21
The bill considered today would prohibit the sale of certain firearms to individuals under the age of 21, with very limited exceptions. If you can fight for your country or join your local police force at age 18, then the government should not prevent you from buying a firearm to protect yourself and your loved ones. More importantly, the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has already ruled this type of prohibition is unconstitutional.
5. Banning “High Capacity” Firearms
Perhaps the most far-reaching provision in the bill is a limit on firearm magazine capacity of ten rounds, which would apply to an overwhelming majority of magazines sold with rifles and handguns. Most weapons today can accommodate fifteen to thirty rounds of ammunition, and studies have shown limiting access to these weapons would have no impact on reducing violent crime. This provision is nothing more than an attempt to limit the number of guns available on the market.
These provisions would only burden law-abiding Americans and restrict their right to bear arms while also failing to prevent violent crime from occurring. This is not a serious attempt to find solutions. We must work to understand and prevent what drives individuals to commit such evil acts of violence. We must strengthen our nation’s mental healthcare system. We must emphasize and work to restore the core nuclear family and traditional family values. These actions would prevent future crime, but gun control will not. In the meantime, and most importantly, we must secure our schools.

I support protecting our children and our communities, but I will not support policies that infringe on the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding Americans. That’s why I voted no on the liberal gun grab today.

Sincerely,




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[crazy2medic]

What If you Already own a BUNCH of Standard capacity magazines?

[carlson1]

What If you Already own a BUNCH of Standard capacity magazines?

You will go to bed one night and then wake up the next morning a felon or you will be a sheep. Every attempt they make at “sensible gun laws” ends up with “something” they take away. People then say, “well we don’t use that or I can do without…”. We need to somehow educate that the 2A has NOTHING to do with hunting and what exactly the word Infringe really means.

A perfect example is bump stocks. I did not have one and didn’t want one. I didn’t even see the need for one, but that is not the point. The point is our 2A is not to be infringed. I take that to mean that my God given right that the forefathers said they agreed to by printing the 2A on paper is to be LEFT ALONE.

[mayor]

What If you Already own a BUNCH of Standard capacity magazines?

You will go to bed one night and then wake up the next morning a felon or you will be a sheep. Every attempt they make at “sensible gun laws” ends up with “something” they take away. People then say, “well we don’t use that or I can do without…”. We need to somehow educate that the 2A has NOTHING to do with hunting and what exactly the word Infringe really means.

A perfect example is bump stocks. I did not have one and didn’t want one. I didn’t even see the need for one, but that is not the point. The point is our 2A is not to be infringed. I take that to mean that my God given right that the forefathers said they agreed to by printing the 2A on paper is to be LEFT ALONE.

The age old leftist argument: " Should you be able to own a nuclear weapon?"

[carlson1]

What If you Already own a BUNCH of Standard capacity magazines?

You will go to bed one night and then wake up the next morning a felon or you will be a sheep. Every attempt they make at “sensible gun laws” ends up with “something” they take away. People then say, “well we don’t use that or I can do without…”. We need to somehow educate that the 2A has NOTHING to do with hunting and what exactly the word Infringe really means.

A perfect example is bump stocks. I did not have one and didn’t want one. I didn’t even see the need for one, but that is not the point. The point is our 2A is not to be infringed. I take that to mean that my God given right that the forefathers said they agreed to by printing the 2A on paper is to be LEFT ALONE.

The age old leftist argument: " Should you be able to own a nuclear weapon?"

My simple answer is, “yes.”

[eyedoc]

What If you Already own a BUNCH of Standard capacity magazines?

You will go to bed one night and then wake up the next morning a felon or you will be a sheep. Every attempt they make at “sensible gun laws” ends up with “something” they take away. People then say, “well we don’t use that or I can do without…”. We need to somehow educate that the 2A has NOTHING to do with hunting and what exactly the word Infringe really means.

A perfect example is bump stocks. I did not have one and didn’t want one. I didn’t even see the need for one, but that is not the point. The point is our 2A is not to be infringed. I take that to mean that my God given right that the forefathers said they agreed to by printing the 2A on paper is to be LEFT ALONE.

The age old leftist argument: " Should you be able to own a nuclear weapon?"

every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an American.
Tenche Coxe

[srothstein]

What If you Already own a BUNCH of Standard capacity magazines?

You will go to bed one night and then wake up the next morning a felon or you will be a sheep. Every attempt they make at “sensible gun laws” ends up with “something” they take away. People then say, “well we don’t use that or I can do without…”. We need to somehow educate that the 2A has NOTHING to do with hunting and what exactly the word Infringe really means.

A perfect example is bump stocks. I did not have one and didn’t want one. I didn’t even see the need for one, but that is not the point. The point is our 2A is not to be infringed. I take that to mean that my God given right that the forefathers said they agreed to by printing the 2A on paper is to be LEFT ALONE.

The age old leftist argument: " Should you be able to own a nuclear weapon?"

My simple answer is, “yes.”

My answer points out the ridiculousness of the question. I simply ask Why not, if you can afford it."

[carlson1]

What If you Already own a BUNCH of Standard capacity magazines?

You will go to bed one night and then wake up the next morning a felon or you will be a sheep. Every attempt they make at “sensible gun laws” ends up with “something” they take away. People then say, “well we don’t use that or I can do without…”. We need to somehow educate that the 2A has NOTHING to do with hunting and what exactly the word Infringe really means.

A perfect example is bump stocks. I did not have one and didn’t want one. I didn’t even see the need for one, but that is not the point. The point is our 2A is not to be infringed. I take that to mean that my God given right that the forefathers said they agreed to by printing the 2A on paper is to be LEFT ALONE.

The age old leftist argument: " Should you be able to own a nuclear weapon?"

My simple answer is, “yes.”

My answer points out the ridiculousness of the question. I simply ask Why not, if you can afford it."

Yes sir your answer is much better than mine and now I have stolen yours.

[Grayling813]

I take that to mean that my God given right that the forefathers said they agreed to by printing the 2A on paper is to be LEFT ALONE.

The problem is that the great majority of the people in Washington give lip service to God while not actually believing in any god other than government power.

[carlson1]

I take that to mean that my God given right that the forefathers said they agreed to by printing the 2A on paper is to be LEFT ALONE.

The problem is that the great majority of the people in Washington give lip service to God while not actually believing in any god other than government power.

I also agree the Church is the key. If God’s churches would repent and get right then our families would get right and then our Country would get right. I just read last night that the majority of the “mass shooting” there is an absence of a Daddy in the homes. I could almost bet that the kids that join these violent street gangs have the absence of a Daddy in the home too. II Chronicled 7:14 is the answer, but I am just a C- student with an ideal.

[Grayling813]

I take that to mean that my God given right that the forefathers said they agreed to by printing the 2A on paper is to be LEFT ALONE.

The problem is that the great majority of the people in Washington give lip service to God while not actually believing in any god other than government power.

I also agree the Church is the key. If God’s churches would repent and get right then our families would get right and then our Country would get right. I just read last night that the majority of the “mass shooting” there is an absence of a Daddy in the homes. I could almost bet that the kids that join these violent street gangs have the absence of a Daddy in the home too. II Chronicles 7:14 is the answer, but I am just a C- student with an ideal.

Amen Brother Carl,

[The Annoyed Man]

What If you Already own a BUNCH of Standard capacity magazines?

Nothing. Nothing will happen. I’m not going to pay one iota of attention to a magazine ban. If there’s something between 10 million and 20 million ARs in private hands, there’s got to be at least 100 million 30-round magazines in the country…if not more. They’ve bitten off more than they can chew here, and I have serious doubts that the senate will pass it. But even if they do, how can they enforce it? They’ll HAVE to grandfather in magazines already in private hands……if it passes.

I genuinely don’t care what they do anymore. I can’t get any angrier at them than I already am. The Dems are going to commie, no matter what we say; and the weak sisters in the GOP are going to go along to get along, no matter what we say. None of it is going to substantially change how I live my life.

[srothstein]

I genuinely don’t care what they do anymore. I can’t get any angrier at them than I already am. The Dems are going to commie, no matter what we say; and the weak sisters in the GOP are going to go along to get along, no matter what we say. None of it is going to substantially change how I live my life.

I agree 100%. I will do what I want obeying my moral code only. I am going to try to live within the system ONLY so far as it does not interfere in my life and plans/desires.

[chasfm11]

“Did you really think we want those laws observed?" said Dr. Ferris. "We want them to be broken. You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against... We're after power and we mean 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 or objectively interpreted – and you create a nation of law-breakers – and then you cash in on guilt. Now that's the system, Mr. Reardon, that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with.”

Ayn Rand "Atlas Shrugged"