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Bill: Disarmament of civilans
Details
Submitted by[?]: Socialanarchist Party
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: July 2382
Description[?]:
| To reduce lethal violence within the country it is essential to reduce the amount of personal firearms. This will make it harder to actually commit a murder when committed to the task and near impossible when making a rush decision. It will also reduce the general fear level as you do not have to expect every stranger to be able to end your life in the blink of an eye. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Ownership of guns by private individuals.
Old value:: Individuals are allowed to own firearms as long as they do not have a history of dangerous mental illness or a violent criminality.
Current: Adult individuals are allowed to own and purchase guns freely.
Proposed: Adult individuals may not own firearms unless professionally required.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The weapons used by police forces.
Old value:: Police officers carry standard firearms.
Current: Police officers may only carry non-lethal weapons apart from specially trained firearms units.
Proposed: Police officers may only carry non-lethal weapons apart from specially trained firearms units.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Weapons allowed to private citizens.
Old value:: Citizens may own any type of weapon. They may be carried anywhere except as determined by the property owner.
Current: Only certain types of weapons may be owned by the general public, and there are further restrictions on places where they may be carried.
Proposed: Only certain types of weapons may be owned by the general public, but these may be carried anywhere except as determined by the property owner.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 10:58:16, March 30, 2007 CET | From | Militant Libertarian Front | To | Debating the Disarmament of civilans |
| Message | Absolutely not. Personal possewssion of arms is essential for the citizentry to protect itself from totalitarian government. Also crime rates will increase with the disarming of the law-abiding because the only persons with arms will be ctriminals - those who do not obey firearms laws |
| Date | 11:42:46, March 30, 2007 CET | From | Socialanarchist Party | To | Debating the Disarmament of civilans |
| Message | The abundance of firearms causes more fear than security. Fear has always been better suited to control an unwilling mass than force. Even for criminals it will become very hard and, in most cases, stupid to own firearms. If you are wanted you try to avoid any crime that might get you investigated. |
| Date | 11:50:08, March 30, 2007 CET | From | Federal Social Democratic Party | To | Debating the Disarmament of civilans |
| Message | WE agree with 2 and 3, but not with 1, so n. |
| Date | 06:52:25, March 31, 2007 CET | From |  Moderate Libertarian Party (NoCoalition) | To | Debating the Disarmament of civilans |
| Message | Here we go: take away private ownership of guns in the name of "collective safety." What's next? Quartering soldiers against a home owner's will? Taking private property and turning it over to government cushy developers? Yep, our new "progressive" government marches forward. And the rest of us follow like lemmings off a cliff. |
| Date | 14:34:59, March 31, 2007 CET | From | Federal Social Democratic Party | To | Debating the Disarmament of civilans |
| Message | And the progressive government vote mostly no, so, why you complaining now?? |
| Date | 07:26:39, April 01, 2007 CET | From | Moderate Libertarian Party (NoCoalition) | To | Debating the Disarmament of civilans |
| Message | The MLP isn't complaining about the FSDP's stance on this particular issue; we are actually impressed considering your stance on other citizen rights infringing legislation. The Communists, after all, introduced this needless measure. However, the "progressive government" is typically allianced with the CP, who actually cooked-up and introduced this measure. When you align yourself with oppressive political parties it starts to rub-off on you. Remember that FSDP. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 102 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 498 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Information about the population of each country can be found on the Population Information thread: http://forum.particracy.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=8663 |
| Random quote: "Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat." - Don Reagan |