Conservatives like to talk about the Constitution...

...when what they REALLY mean is their distorted understanding of a blend of constitution and Bible.

Hey, new gun laws!

All of them bad for those of us who want more gun control.

From Think Progress...

The First Federal Gun Laws To Pass Since Newtown Are All NRA Approved:

    Six gun provisions were passed as riders attached to the resolution funding the government through September on Thursday. While all six had been federal law since 2004, each was approved by Congress on a year-to-year basis only. Now, four of the provisions are permanent. According to National Public Radio's Tamara Keith, the NRA "is the driving force behind these provisions." Here they are:

        1) Limit enforcement tools against crooked dealers. One rider would prevent Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) agents from shutting down gun stores due to "due to a lack of business activity," arguably a sign of criminal sales.

        2) Shield gun dealers who "lose" their guns. This legislation precludes any federal law that requires gun retailers to count their guns and submit the results as a mechanism of determining whether any weapons have been lost or stolen.

        3) Interfere with ATF gun trace reports. The ATF is now mandated to include, in any reports concerning its tracing of guns back to crime, that trace data "cannot be used to draw broad conclusions about firearms-related crime." Academic work on guns has used trace data to firmly establish that several firearm regulations effectively prevent the spread of guns to criminal.

        4) Expand the class of protected guns. According to Roll Call's John Gramlich, the fourth permanent law would "place a broad definition of antique guns and ammunition that may be imported into the United States."

Just trying to understand the law...

If you're going to make the Bible the law of the land, make ALL of it the law!

Permissive Congress

Did You Know - Signing Statements Become Law

President Bush lives in his own little world. He no longer prays to God - for him, that's like talking to himnself.

Federal agencies ignored 30 percent of the laws Bush objected to in signing statements last year, according to a report released today by the Government Accountability Office. In 2006, President Bush issued signing statements for 11 out of the 12 appropriations bills passed by Congress, claiming a right to bypass a total of 160 provisions in them.

In a sample set of 19 provisions, the GAO found that “10 provisions were executed as written, 6 were not, and 3 were not triggered and so there was no agency action to examine.”

From Think Progress.

Silly Laws

Some laws seem to get passed just for the sake of arresting people. The laws against marijuana seem to be just that type. Must be we've got Congress people with friends who build prisons.