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Bill: Freedom Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Libertarian Party of Darnussia
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: September 2944
Description[?]:
| It's just not the governments job to do this. If a gun dealer wants to make sure the people he sells his guns to are not mentally insane or have a violent criminal background, then so be it, but it's not the governments business. |
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: Individuals are not permitted to own firearms under any circumstances.
Proposed: Adult individuals are allowed to own and purchase guns freely.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 04:43:52, May 26, 2010 CET | From | Rerum Novarum Party | To | Debating the Freedom Act |
| Message | It is the government's obligation to protect the inhabitants of the nation. Selling weapons to lunatics is not a step in the right direction. |
| Date | 12:27:27, May 26, 2010 CET | From | Communist Party of Darnussia | To | Debating the Freedom Act |
| Message | The CPD aggrees with Rerum Novarum. |
| Date | 17:56:37, May 26, 2010 CET | From | Libertarian Party of Darnussia | To | Debating the Freedom Act |
| Message | Well I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree, because I do not think it is the government's obligation to protect the inhabitants of the nation whatsoever. I think it is the government's obligation to protect the freedom of the inhabitants of the nation. |
| Date | 23:08:45, May 26, 2010 CET | From | Rerum Novarum Party | To | Debating the Freedom Act |
| Message | Freedom does dead men no favor. |
| Date | 23:25:32, May 26, 2010 CET | From | Libertarian Party of Darnussia | To | Debating the Freedom Act |
| Message | Nope, but it gives living men the ability to defend their own lives. |
| Date | 23:29:33, May 26, 2010 CET | From | Paleofederalist Party | To | Debating the Freedom Act |
| Message | They already have that. |
| Date | 23:42:44, May 26, 2010 CET | From | Rerum Novarum Party | To | Debating the Freedom Act |
| Message | This bill only adds to the number that living men will have to defend themselves from. |
| Date | 03:54:08, May 27, 2010 CET | From | Libertarian Party of Darnussia | To | Debating the Freedom Act |
| Message | Not really. How do you know if someone who has a criminal background is going to commit another crime when they buy a gun. For all you know he might use it to defend his neighbor from being murdered. |
| Date | 03:58:34, May 27, 2010 CET | From | Libertarian Party of Darnussia | To | Debating the Freedom Act |
| Message | How do you even know what a mentally unstable person will do with a gun? Of course there is always the possibility they could use to commint a crime as a result of their insanity, but there is also a chance they could use for the same reason that any law-abiding citizen would use it. But if they aren't allowed to purchase guns, you completely remove their ability to do the latter. |
| Date | 05:20:03, May 27, 2010 CET | From | Rerum Novarum Party | To | Debating the Freedom Act |
| Message | However, when it comes to a wager; repeat offenders and people without moral culpability for their actions, are best protected by others who have shown no disposition towards being mentally unstable or subterfuge of the law. |
| Date | 03:15:52, May 28, 2010 CET | From | Libertarian Party of Darnussia | To | Debating the Freedom Act |
| Message | When it comes to a wager; repeat offenders intending to commit crimes with guns aren't likely to follow gun laws. The same can really go for a mentally isane person. Mentally insane doesn't mean unintelligent. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 90 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 115 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 10 |
| Random fact: It is not allowed to call more than 5 elections in 5 game years in a nation. The default sanction for a player persisting in the early election tactic will be a seat reset. |
| Random quote: "Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less a distinct principle than a natural consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to the most pressing wants of the country." - Maximilien Robespierre |