In an interview with Iowa’s Daily Times Herald, State Rep. Dan Muhlbauer said Iowa lawmakers should ban semiautomatic guns and “start taking them” from owners who refuse to surrender any illegal firearms through a buy-back program.
Mr. Muhlbauer went on to show his ignorance with regards to the Second Amendment and firearms in general by saying the following.
We cannot have big guns out here as far as the big guns that are out here, the semiautomatics and all of them. We can’t have those running around out here. Those are not hunting weapons.
Wow. We can’t have “big guns out here” because they’re not hunting weapons. Good grief, where do you even start with nonsense like that? But wait, it gets worse. He went on to suggest that the government confiscate weapons as well.
Even if you have them, I think we need to start taking them.
First of all, I’d like to know how Mr. Muhlbauer was elected in the first place? I don’t know a lot of folks from Iowa, but I do know a few, and this kind of crap isn’t gonna fly with them. Good people of Iowa – please fire this clown next election cycle.
To Mr. Muhlbauer and the rest of the posturing politicians, I would like to propose this compromise. If you’re so eager to confiscate firearms, then I think you should have to go door to door and perform the confiscation yourself, explaining to folks why you’re taking their guns away, and then force them to do it when they tell you where to go.
You can read more here, and listen to the audio of the interview here.
The people that invented the printing press are dead. Those times were different from now and there is no longer a legitimate reason for one to own a printing press. There’s just no purpose from my point of view.
The printing press should clearly be banned due to it’s high paper capacity, automatic reloading capabilities, high rate of production, and other naturally offensive features. With the printing press, one could perform massive acts of information, acts that my political party has determined to be sedition, or, worse, publishing words or writings that the government just generally does not approve of. There is also the chance that the printing press could have bells, whistles, or be made up from foreign made parts. All of these acts, including making your own printing press at home are clearly evil.
Oh, also, all printing presses that are presently out there should require registration and serialization. Anyone found in possession of an unregistered printing press or one with a destroyed serial number should be handed an automatic 10 year federal prison sentence and have his printing privileges evoked for life without opportunity for redress. Anyone found to be transferring printing presses without a federal license to do so should be sentenced to 20 to life without opportunity for parole.
While we’re banning printing presses, we should also ban home printing machines. These machines kill thousands of acres of trees every year and for what? So you can look at a piece of paper? Clearly, there is no logical reason why you should need to print something at the expense of trees.
And, while we’re on the printing machines, office copy machines and printers are clearly far too high of capacity for an average citizen to own. A new law should be passed making it a felony to even handle one of these without first getting the approval of your local publicly-elected and political-affiliated sheriff, followed by getting fingerprinted and sending that card, two copies of a passport photo, $200, and a 3 page form to the US Bureau of Trees, Paper, and Presses, followed by a 6 month wait, and, likely, a second 6 month wait after you make corrections to your application.
Large format printers are also too much for a common man to handle. Only unionized federal employees should be allowed to be trained on and use these machines. Their capacity for making large political banners that could send too loud of a message to people is just too risky for the public at large.
Banner printers are out of the question for private ownership. Only manufacturers and specially-vetted maintenance men with security clearance should have access to those…and only then under close observation.
This is my point of view, which is the only one that is right. Your view (yah, you) is wrong and makes you a bad person, you societal outcast misfit.
This clown has got alot of Iowans fired up!! Iowans..get to http://www.iowacarry.org/ and get signed up to help protect our Rights!!
I’ve heard back from Tom Shaw Republican Pocahontas County Tom.Shaw@legis.iowa.gov that he’s “submitted a bill draft request for a “Firearms Protection Act.” It is based on the language of a bill introduced in Wyoming. Here is the draft language (delete Wyoming/insert Iowa):
http://legisweb.state.wy.us/2013/Introduced/HB0104.pdf
Rep. Shaw says feel free to distribute that.
He deserves the rep, anybody who can help get that out there, it would be appreciated. I’m not even in his district.
Thanks for the tip.