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House: Out Of Our Cold, Dead Hands

Posted by DFO

March 24, 2009 3:34 p.m. • 45 comments

Rep. Pete Nielsen, R-Mountain Home, today persuaded the House to vote 61-9 in favor of his legislation, HB 229, to declare that during a state of “extreme emergency” including martial law, invasion or insurrection, “No government authority will have the right to come and pick up our arms and ammunition.” Rep. Grant Burgoyne, D-Boise, spoke against the bill, saying no one ever expects to see an invasion or a declaration by the governor of martial law, but no one expected to see planes crashing into the World Trade Center either/Betsy Russell, Eye On Boise. More here.

Question: Do you lose sleep over the prospect that someone will declare martial law in Idaho and come for your guns and ammo?

45 comments on this post so far. Add yours!

JamesBond on March 24 at 3:44 p.m.
Yes, I do lose sleep over it, but not just any old government-taking-my-guns-and-ammo away scenario. The one that keeps replaying itself in my dreams is the one where Obama has Hillary leads a squad of pot-smoking hippies who show up at my door in the early evening, smelling like granola and wheat grass, laughing and playing their hippy music from their VW Van, and telling ME to give them MY guns and ammo. Then, when I go beat them up, they laugh hysterically and start kicking me and throwing flowers at me until I am buried in flowers. They won’t stop until I scream out “peace, love, and understanding, man!!!!” Then, it ends, and I find myself in the Van, with Hillary and Hugo Chavez, who are smoking from an Opium Pipe. They welcome me to the fold, and from there it all grows fuzzy.
hmoffsuite on March 24 at 3:51 p.m.
JB. I defer to you on this one. You took the words right out of my mouth. Great post. :~)
toadman on March 24 at 4:07 p.m.
“Do you lose sleep over the prospect that someone will declare martial law in Idaho and come for your guns and ammo?”

I lose sleep wondering why they HAVEN’T DONE EXACTLY THAT yet.

;-)

Honestly, since I’m not a gun owner, if someone came to get our guns, it wouldn’t really change my world much.

Gawd, I’m a smart ass today…

;-)
Cabbage Boy on March 24 at 4:22 p.m.
Toad, just so you know, those who own guns will defend your right to not own one.
Joker on March 24 at 4:26 p.m.
I lose sleep over waking up and living in the Confederated States of Idiocy led by President Harwood.
GaryIngram on March 24 at 4:28 p.m.
Bond, were you at Farragut in ‘71?
jt on March 24 at 4:32 p.m.
Oh yes! Absolutely! - about as much as I lay awake worried that federal, state and local agencies might be buying flags Made in China. We need a law! oh, wait…
Fishwife on March 24 at 5:27 p.m.
Another stupid, worthless, pandering law. There are more crackpots in the Idaho legislature than I thought.
JamesBond on March 24 at 5:45 p.m.
You know I was, Gary. I was like 3 or something. My dad actually took me to it, and my mom was there, horrified, and kept us above it in some trees with our cat, Moses. We had a cat named Moses. :-)

Look, I’m the first one to admit that hippies suck because hippies do drugs and drugs suck!
Escapee on March 24 at 7:00 p.m.
Isn’t there already something in the Constitution about the right to “keep and bear arms”? So this politician is just trying to sound all Big and Important. Just another self-serving politician who needs to spout off about something every now and then so he can convince himself (and his constituents) that he’s actually Doing Something.
Stickman on March 24 at 8:01 p.m.
Cabbage Boy: Those that have guns will never protect the ones that don’t. Thanks Toad, I like the smart ass in you.
Stickman on March 24 at 8:03 p.m.
If I had guns and ammo, I would surely hope they came and got them. We are such a violent society, maybe someday we will get a clue.
Nick_Adams on March 24 at 8:49 p.m.
I have a lot of guns and a lot of ammo. I’ve never worried about anyone coming to get them. I live in an area of a quarter-milion people. Let ‘em go door-to-door. I figure they’ll get to me about 5 years after they start. By that time, it’ll be over.

Sweet Jesus! Guns, death certificates for fetuses, soveriegnty, etc. A black guy becomes President and Idaho’s legislature freaks out. Nice.
Fishwife on March 25 at 8:43 a.m.
Add Rep. Pete Nielsen to the Idaho legislative crackpot list. Others in the top 5: Harwood, Nonini, Jorgensen, Hart.
DFO on March 25 at 8:49 a.m.
Fishwife; you’ve been here long enough. You need an avatar.
Fishwife on March 25 at 9:10 a.m.
DFO, How do I do the avatar thing?
DFO on March 25 at 9:22 a.m.
Fishwife; get a photo that you like and go back to your SR profile for easy instructions. That, or send me a photo that you’d like to use as an avatar. Or simply tell me the type of photo that you’d like to use — and I’ll find something that fits for you.
Cabbage Boy on March 25 at 9:22 a.m.
Fishy,
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Save one of the images to your hard drive. then update your profile and upload said image.
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Fishwife on March 25 at 9:33 a.m.
Thanks C Boy. Here it is: Test new avatar.
Cabbage Boy on March 25 at 9:42 a.m.
Looks good.
moscow_minidoka on March 25 at 9:48 a.m.
I am very concerned that no one in the Idaho Legislature has yet to introduce a bill that says that I have a right to freedom of speech.
Fishwife on March 25 at 9:56 a.m.
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Agnes was a bad-tempered, foul-mouthed FISHWIFE, who abused and cursed the locals whenever they refused to buy her wares. In fact, she was so disliked that she was accused of witchcraft, and managed to attract the largest number of charges in Scottish history (legend has it that this was the only thing she ever attracted).

She was worryitt (strangled and burned) in 1641, on the Castlehill, but it is claimed that she can still be heard, venting her wrath on passers-by in the ancient market sites of the Old
Town…

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