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Bill: RC - Public Protection Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Republican Coalition
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: December 2629
Description[?]:
| This bill is built on a need for the public to be safe. Safe from themselves as well as others. Sometimes petty selfish "rights" must be circumvented for the good of all the nation. |
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 may not own firearms unless professionally required.
Proposed: Adult individuals may own guns under strict license conditions.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Government policy towards smoking.
Old value:: Smoking is legal outdoors and in private homes and clubs, but illegal indoors in places of employment, with the exception of places that primarily serve liquor.
Current: Smoking is legal outdoors and in private homes and clubs, but illegal indoors in places of employment, with the exception of places that primarily serve liquor.
Proposed: Smoking is prohibited.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Sale of tobacco products.
Old value:: There are certain restrictions on the sale of tobacco and only adults may purchase tobacco.
Current: There are no regulations on the sale of tobacco.
Proposed: The sale of tobacco products is prohibited.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 14:25:02, August 29, 2008 CET | From |  Traditional Conservative's Party | To | Debating the RC - Public Protection Bill |
| Message | We cannot vote for this. |
| Date | 01:45:34, August 30, 2008 CET | From | Republican Coalition | To | Debating the RC - Public Protection Bill |
| Message | Explain? |
| Date | 02:07:47, August 30, 2008 CET | From | Wiedervereinigten Nationalisten | To | Debating the RC - Public Protection Bill |
| Message | “We would support Article 1 in a separate bill, but we reject the latter two Articles as unnecessary intervention in the economy, stifling of the free market, and infringement of personal rights.” -Johannes Pieter Styen Chairman of the HNP DM for Graaffsberg South |
| Date | 09:18:42, August 30, 2008 CET | From | Republican Coalition | To | Debating the RC - Public Protection Bill |
| Message | Again, we point out the latter two are present not to prevent personal rights, or to circumvent the free market, only to protect those individuals addicted from themselves and from harming others through their addiction. Such addictive drungs should never be free for the use of the public, forcing them in a spiral to their deaths. |
| Date | 09:37:48, August 30, 2008 CET | From | HÅÅkai | To | Debating the RC - Public Protection Bill |
| Message | There is a problem with prohibiting smoking, as it is both very difficult for addicted persons to abandon their drug, and it limits the freedom of people to harm themselves. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes | Total Seats: 0 | ||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 650 | ||||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Head to the "Language assistance" thread to receive and offer help with translations: http://forum.particracy.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=6368 |
| Random quote: "No one today can afford to be innocent, or indulge himself in ignorance of contemporary governments, politics and social orders. The national polities of the modern world maintain their existence by deliberately fostered craving and fear: monstrous protection rackets. The 'free world' has become economically dependent on a fantastic system of stimulation of greed which cannot be fulfilled, sexual desire which cannot be satiated and hatred which has no outlet except against oneself, the persons one is supposed to love, or the revolutionary aspirations of pitiful, poverty-stricken marginal societies like Cuba or Vietnam. The conditions of the Cold War have turned all modern societies - communist included - into vicious distorters of man's true potential." - Gary Snyder |