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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (697887)	2/9/2013 1:08:22 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574260

Uh. Its the Rs who don't want to spend more than 9% of the budget. Try again. If the Democrats really wanted to spend a higher percentage of the budget on infrastructure, they'd get the money from other programs first before raising taxes. That would be extraordinarily foolhardy at the present time..........as it has been since 2008. The economic recovery while real is still somewhat fragile. Many people are hanging by a shoe string. Cutting them off at this time would be a huge mistake. Something that rich Rs like yourself do not want to hear.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (697887)	2/11/2013 9:57:48 PM
From: longnshort	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1574260

MUST WATCH – An ominous warning from Canada: Gun registration WILL lead to gun confiscation [yt]_52pMg8qQcc#![/yt]

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (697887)	2/17/2013 11:59:04 AM
From: longnshort	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1574260

Washington State Proposed Gun Law Calls on Sheriff to Inspect Homes of Assault-Weapon OwnersPosted by Jim Hoft on Sunday, February 17, 2013, 9:09 AM A new gun law calls on sheriffs to search the home of assault weapon owners. A proposed Washington State gun law will call on the county sheriff to inspect the homes of assault-weapon owners. Seattle Times reported, via Free Republic: One of the major gun-control efforts in Olympia this session calls for the sheriff to inspect the homes of assault-weapon owners. The bill’s backers say that was a mistake. Forget police drones flying over your house. How about police coming inside, once a year, to have a look around? As Orwellian as that sounds, it isn’t hypothetical. The notion of police home inspections was introduced in a bill last week in Olympia. That it’s part of one of the major gun-control efforts pains me. It seemed in recent weeks lawmakers might be headed toward some common-sense regulation of gun sales. But then last week they went too far. By mistake, they claim. But still too far. “They always say, we’ll never go house to house to take your guns away. But then you see this, and you have to wonder.” That’s no gun-rights absolutist talking, but Lance Palmer, a Seattle trial lawyer and self-described liberal who brought the troubling Senate Bill 5737 to my attention. It’s the long-awaited assault-weapons ban, introduced last week by three Seattle Democrats. Responding to the Newtown school massacre, the bill would ban the sale of semi-automatic weapons that use detachable ammunition magazines. Clips that contain more than 10 rounds would be illegal. But then, with respect to the thousands of weapons like that already owned by Washington residents, the bill says this: “In order to continue to possess an assault weapon that was legally possessed on the effective date of this section, the person possessing shall … safely and securely store the assault weapon. The sheriff of the county may, no more than once per year, conduct an inspection to ensure compliance with this subsection.”