While I was writing the last post:
NRA: …The 2nd Amendment says that the right to bear arms will not be infringed upon. Can’t say one book a month, and due to the same constitutional rights you can’t say I gun a month. ….
Rep. Arroyo: How many people are killed with books each year?
NRA: (Now he is yelling) That is not the issue. Guns are not the problem. All these laws do is restrict the rights of law abiding citizens and violent criminals ignore these laws anyway… they are still able to get guns… the problem is the Chicago public schools system that only has a 47% graduation rate.
Rep. Arroyo: You are not answering the question…How many kids do books kill each year…
NRA: Well, Mein Kampf killed about 6 million people.
Godwin’s Law was invoked and as Rich reports the Bill passed in Committee 7-3.
BTW, I’m rather agnostic on almost all of the gun legislation before the General Assembly, I’m just always amazed at the stupidity.
So, would he have been better off citing the Little Red Book? Or maybe the Bible or the Koran?
Maybe he’d have been better off comparing the 2nd Amendment to the right of free association, considering how often hanging out with the wrong people in the wrong place during the wrong hour of night gets kids killed in Chicago.