Mandates for guns, but not health insurance...

[one_voice]

South Dakota lawmakers want individual mandate — for guns

Lawmakers in South Dakota have proposed a bill that would require all adults to own guns, a measure intended as a protest against the individual mandate for health insurance included in President Barack Obama’s health reform law.

Adults over the age of 21 would have to buy a gun “sufficient to provide for their ordinary self-defense” and “suitable to their temperament, physical capacity and preference.”


The legislators who are sponsoring the bill know it won’t get far but said it’s a way to hammer home what they see as the unconstitutionality of a provision requiring everyone to purchase health insurance.

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A federal judge in Florida ruled the health care law unconstitutional on Monday, a decision the Justice Department plans to appeal. So far, two federal judges have upheld the law and two have struck it down as unconstitutional.

The South Dakota lawmakers aren’t the only foes of the individual insurance mandate who have proposed a gun-ownership mandate to scare off supporters of the health care requirement.

Conservative commentator Ann Coulter said Monday night that if the health care mandate is ultimately declared constitutional, “then Republicans should turn around and mandate all citizens be forced to purchase a gun and a Bible.”



http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0211/48577.html

[Proud Liberal Dem]

1. So not only are they pushing a dumb idea that's not going to go anywhere

they're wasting time and taxpayers dollars to do it. :eyes: Where are the jobs???? :shrug:

[cynatnite]

2. Because it's cheaper to kill people than it is to save their lives. n/t