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Bill: Civilian Pacifist Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: United Socialist Front
Status[?]: passed
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: April 2133
Description[?]:
| How is it that we allow civilians to carry lethal weaponry when police may not? This grave legal paradox must be regulated as soon as possible. Hunting lodges and firing ranges may hold guns so as to provide leisurely activities, though the citizenry may not carry them or keep them at home. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Ownership of guns by private individuals.
Old value:: Adult individuals may own guns under strict license conditions.
Current: Adult individuals may own guns under strict license conditions.
Proposed: Adult individuals may not own firearms unless professionally required.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 04:13:17, October 27, 2005 CET | From |  Aldurian Libertarian Socialist Party | To | Debating the Civilian Pacifist Act |
| Message | Citizen cannot carry guns, they can only own them (and use them while hunting or at the firing range). |
| Date | 06:13:43, October 27, 2005 CET | From | United Socialist Front | To | Debating the Civilian Pacifist Act |
| Message | That is not Indicated in our law. Though if you like, i may add a clause that indicates that hunting lodges and firing ranges may hold guns, though the citizenry may not carry them or keep them at home, which is in fact what this bill essentially wishes to end. |
| Date | 15:35:20, October 27, 2005 CET | From | Aldurian Libertarian Socialist Party | To | Debating the Civilian Pacifist Act |
| Message | I would agree with the amended bill. |
| Date | 02:40:52, October 28, 2005 CET | From | New Aldurian Conservative Party | To | Debating the Civilian Pacifist Act |
| Message | We disagree with this bill, plain and simple. If only criminals are going to have access to guns, then we set ourselves up for big trouble. Criminals already have guns, so disarming citizens puts law-abiding people at risk while reducing the risk involved in anybody attacking another citizen. If we disarm our people, they will be more at the mercy of the criminal element than any of us particularly wish, we believe. |
| Date | 17:00:19, October 29, 2005 CET | From | Aldurian Communist Party | To | Debating the Civilian Pacifist Act |
| Message | There is no evidence that having more guns make a nation safer. Crime is already very low in this nation, and that allowing people to buy guns freely is quite out of the question. We are not making it illegal for people to own firearms, all the law is doing is requiring people to have licenses to own firearms. Why is that bad? |
| Date | 17:01:40, October 29, 2005 CET | From | Aldurian Communist Party | To | Debating the Civilian Pacifist Act |
| Message | Woops, wrong law. But we still believe in this law. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 401 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 0 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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