Fire Mission HB 1366 Confiscation (Read 4248 times)

punaperson

Re: Fire Mission HB 1366 Confiscation
« Reply #20 on: April 07, 2021, 01:53:49 PM »
Hey macsak are you doing double duty censoring not only posts here on 2ahawaii but also censoring testimony over at the state legislature?

Just wondering because for the first time ever my testimony was censored and did not appear in the posted testimony.

Makes me wonder how many other people's "suggestions" to the legislature never sees the light of day because someone somewhere for some reason doesn't think it deserves to be made publicly available.

I'll let you all decide if this violates the right to political speech (it was submitted in a timely manner, 9:42 AM on April 4, 2021):

NO on HB1366

Are you really going to go along with the moronic ignoramuses who have copied and pasted such nonsensical garbage “testimony” as the profoundly stupid and blatantly wrong claim that “ghost guns” “have plastic compoennts [sic] that are not detectible [sic] at airports or other security checkpoints”? That'd be laughable if it weren't such pathetically uniformed bloviating ignorant propaganda spewed by useful idiots.

There is no evidence that the ludicrously named “ghost guns” are used in crime to any significant degree, especially relative to their percentage of the total gun inventory. Are you immune to the facts?

Why don't you fascist authoritarian statists just come right out and clearly state that your true goal is total civilian disarmament? What's the problem? The sheeple of Hawaii (aka the super majority Democrats) will no doubt agree with you. You'll get even more votes than last time. The fact that it means you are in constant violation of your oath of office to uphold both the U.S. Constitution and Hawaii state constitution is of no concern to the masses... in fact, they're in favor of it... we see that at every election.

HB1366 is just another step along the slippery slope of “incrementalism”... wherein unethical lying and/or ignorant legislators attempt to deceive by claiming they are only proposing “common sense gun safety legislation” but proceed week after week, month after month, and year after year to continually propose more extensive and draconian legislation, which when looked at as a whole, clearly has the intent of disarming the civilian population. Now why would you want to do that? I mean, really. There is no evidence that the measures proposed (including HB1366) actually decrease crime (or any other “public harm”) in any way. In fact, all it does is criminalize otherwise law-abiding citizens and disarm them creating more victims for the criminals who don't obey any such laws and acquire their firearms via illegal means.

Here is a brief article that goes into a bit more detail of what are obviously the true intentions of anyone who would propose and/or vote for any such legislation or packages of legislation aimed at violating the Second Amendment-protected right to keep and bear arms.

Anyone upholding their sworn oath of office must vote NO on HB1366.

Incrementalism and Gun Control

Jeff Deist
Mises Institute

The spectacle of anti-gun marches this past weekend, at times both sinister and maudlin, provides yet another example that “democracy” does not yield some kind of livable compromise on any given issue. Instead it creates division and distrust, fed by a media environment that encourages using children as props, promotes emotion over reason, and confuses motion with action. 

What democracy does yield beyond a doubt is the incremental but relentless expansion of state power in society, as seen throughout the 20th century in America. Incrementalism, an inescapable feature of statism, is scarcely acknowledged by gun control advocates and gun rights advocates alike. But it forms the backdrop for everything political in our unfortunately hyper-politicized society.

Surely we understand the entire 20th century in America as a triumph of sweeping progressive incrementalism. Central banking, taxes on income, retirement insurance schemes, public schools, welfare programs, housing programs, food stamps—all of these were once radically progressive ideas that over time became fully integrated into the American landscape, accepted by even the most reactionary conservatives.

Take the constitutionally-suspect income tax, made possible by ratification of the 16th Amendment in 1913. It was first sold to the public as a scheme to soak the rich, and indeed for the first few decades only about 5% of the population was even required to file an income tax return. The tax rate on incomes up to $20,000 (several hundred thousand of today’s dollars) was only 1%, and was only 7% on vast incomes above $500,000 (many millions today).

Fast forward to today, and even the lowliest minimum wage earner files a basic 1040 form. The highest marginal income tax rates approach 40%, and have been far higher in previous decades. More importantly, the Internal Revenue rules contain thousands of pages of minute regulations, creating a compliance and privacy nightmare for decidedly non-rich average Americans.

So a century after the radical new idea of taxing income became accepted, individual income taxes now account for a majority of federal revenue. April 15th is now a permanent part of the American landscape, something unimaginable in 1913. That’s how incrementalism works.

A similar story can be told about the Social Security system. Old age pensions were needed to keep elderly widows from being thrown into the street, or so Americans were told in 1935. The Great Depression had put millions out of work, average life expectancy was less than 65, and there were dozens of workers paying into the system for every beneficiary. And until 1950, the (employee portion) Social Security withholding tax rate was only 1%.

Who could object to such a humane and viable system? A lousy 1% of one’s paycheck to prevent the specter of elderly people living in the streets?

Today, Social Security and its Medicare cousin—another incremental advance— consume 15% of employee paychecks, average life expectancy in America is 78, fewer than three workers fund each recipient, and the unfunded future shortfall in entitlements may reach $200 trillion.

This is incrementalism writ large.

As a bonus, your Social Security number is now a unique identifier that helps the IRS and other government agencies, insurance companies, landlords, bank and credit providers, rating agencies, a host of websites and social media platforms, and happy identity thieves track your every move. So much for FDR’s promise that only you and the Social Security Administration would ever know your private number.

Even social and cultural issues, which ought to evolve completely outside of politics, become matters of incremental statism. Thus the Stonewall era, marked by justified concerns over police beatings of gay men and violent enforcement of unjust sodomy laws, morphed into something quite different. Today the LGBT movement pushes America inexorably toward legal and legislative battles concerning a host of issues, from hiring laws to required gender pronouns to religious exemptions to hate speech to what marriage ceremonies clergy must perform. In other words, issues currently being fought over in Europe, the UK, and Canada soon will be fought over in the US. And they won’t be fought on cultural fronts, by well-intentioned people seeking compromise and understanding, but in the statist arenas of legislatures and courts.

Democracy is nothing more than the process of politically vanquishing minority viewpoints. We can sugarcoat it, but our American version of winner-take-all, top-down, federalize-everything governance is not somehow ennobled by voting or debate. It manifests itself in state power, not some mythical version of halfway compromises whereby neither side (or sides) gets everything it wants. And where that power cannot be wielded abruptly, for practical, political, or ideological reasons, it is wielded incrementally.

Thus every call for gun registries, background checks, mental health screening, prohibitions on certain weapons, magazines, or ammunition, etc. must be viewed through this incremental lens. The question is not whether such proposals represent today’s common sense, or whether anyone “needs” an AR-15. The question is what the laws we enact today might lead to tomorrow.

Because our well-intentioned great-grandparents didn’t mean to saddle anyone with trillions of dollars in unfunded liabilities when they let Congress pass the Social Security Act of 1935, but that’s exactly what they did.   

So when gun control advocates insist they simply want commonsense measures imposed, or that “nobody wants to take your guns,” the answer for many Americans is clear: we don’t believe you.

macsak

Re: Fire Mission HB 1366 Confiscation
« Reply #21 on: April 07, 2021, 04:57:06 PM »
Hey macsak are you doing double duty censoring not only posts here on 2ahawaii but also censoring testimony over at the state legislature?

Just wondering because for the first time ever my testimony was censored and did not appear in the posted testimony.

Makes me wonder how many other people's "suggestions" to the legislature never sees the light of day because someone somewhere for some reason doesn't think it deserves to be made publicly available.

I'll let you all decide if this violates the right to political speech (it was submitted in a timely manner, 9:42 AM on April 4, 2021):

NO on HB1366

Are you really going to go along with the moronic ignoramuses who have copied and pasted such nonsensical garbage “testimony” as the profoundly stupid and blatantly wrong claim that “ghost guns” “have plastic compoennts [sic] that are not detectible [sic] at airports or other security checkpoints”? That'd be laughable if it weren't such pathetically uniformed bloviating ignorant propaganda spewed by useful idiots.

There is no evidence that the ludicrously named “ghost guns” are used in crime to any significant degree, especially relative to their percentage of the total gun inventory. Are you immune to the facts?

Why don't you fascist authoritarian statists just come right out and clearly state that your true goal is total civilian disarmament? What's the problem? The sheeple of Hawaii (aka the super majority Democrats) will no doubt agree with you. You'll get even more votes than last time. The fact that it means you are in constant violation of your oath of office to uphold both the U.S. Constitution and Hawaii state constitution is of no concern to the masses... in fact, they're in favor of it... we see that at every election.

HB1366 is just another step along the slippery slope of “incrementalism”... wherein unethical lying and/or ignorant legislators attempt to deceive by claiming they are only proposing “common sense gun safety legislation” but proceed week after week, month after month, and year after year to continually propose more extensive and draconian legislation, which when looked at as a whole, clearly has the intent of disarming the civilian population. Now why would you want to do that? I mean, really. There is no evidence that the measures proposed (including HB1366) actually decrease crime (or any other “public harm”) in any way. In fact, all it does is criminalize otherwise law-abiding citizens and disarm them creating more victims for the criminals who don't obey any such laws and acquire their firearms via illegal means.

Here is a brief article that goes into a bit more detail of what are obviously the true intentions of anyone who would propose and/or vote for any such legislation or packages of legislation aimed at violating the Second Amendment-protected right to keep and bear arms.

Anyone upholding their sworn oath of office must vote NO on HB1366.

Incrementalism and Gun Control

Jeff Deist
Mises Institute

The spectacle of anti-gun marches this past weekend, at times both sinister and maudlin, provides yet another example that “democracy” does not yield some kind of livable compromise on any given issue. Instead it creates division and distrust, fed by a media environment that encourages using children as props, promotes emotion over reason, and confuses motion with action. 

What democracy does yield beyond a doubt is the incremental but relentless expansion of state power in society, as seen throughout the 20th century in America. Incrementalism, an inescapable feature of statism, is scarcely acknowledged by gun control advocates and gun rights advocates alike. But it forms the backdrop for everything political in our unfortunately hyper-politicized society.

Surely we understand the entire 20th century in America as a triumph of sweeping progressive incrementalism. Central banking, taxes on income, retirement insurance schemes, public schools, welfare programs, housing programs, food stamps—all of these were once radically progressive ideas that over time became fully integrated into the American landscape, accepted by even the most reactionary conservatives.

Take the constitutionally-suspect income tax, made possible by ratification of the 16th Amendment in 1913. It was first sold to the public as a scheme to soak the rich, and indeed for the first few decades only about 5% of the population was even required to file an income tax return. The tax rate on incomes up to $20,000 (several hundred thousand of today’s dollars) was only 1%, and was only 7% on vast incomes above $500,000 (many millions today).

Fast forward to today, and even the lowliest minimum wage earner files a basic 1040 form. The highest marginal income tax rates approach 40%, and have been far higher in previous decades. More importantly, the Internal Revenue rules contain thousands of pages of minute regulations, creating a compliance and privacy nightmare for decidedly non-rich average Americans.

So a century after the radical new idea of taxing income became accepted, individual income taxes now account for a majority of federal revenue. April 15th is now a permanent part of the American landscape, something unimaginable in 1913. That’s how incrementalism works.

A similar story can be told about the Social Security system. Old age pensions were needed to keep elderly widows from being thrown into the street, or so Americans were told in 1935. The Great Depression had put millions out of work, average life expectancy was less than 65, and there were dozens of workers paying into the system for every beneficiary. And until 1950, the (employee portion) Social Security withholding tax rate was only 1%.

Who could object to such a humane and viable system? A lousy 1% of one’s paycheck to prevent the specter of elderly people living in the streets?

Today, Social Security and its Medicare cousin—another incremental advance— consume 15% of employee paychecks, average life expectancy in America is 78, fewer than three workers fund each recipient, and the unfunded future shortfall in entitlements may reach $200 trillion.

This is incrementalism writ large.

As a bonus, your Social Security number is now a unique identifier that helps the IRS and other government agencies, insurance companies, landlords, bank and credit providers, rating agencies, a host of websites and social media platforms, and happy identity thieves track your every move. So much for FDR’s promise that only you and the Social Security Administration would ever know your private number.

Even social and cultural issues, which ought to evolve completely outside of politics, become matters of incremental statism. Thus the Stonewall era, marked by justified concerns over police beatings of gay men and violent enforcement of unjust sodomy laws, morphed into something quite different. Today the LGBT movement pushes America inexorably toward legal and legislative battles concerning a host of issues, from hiring laws to required gender pronouns to religious exemptions to hate speech to what marriage ceremonies clergy must perform. In other words, issues currently being fought over in Europe, the UK, and Canada soon will be fought over in the US. And they won’t be fought on cultural fronts, by well-intentioned people seeking compromise and understanding, but in the statist arenas of legislatures and courts.

Democracy is nothing more than the process of politically vanquishing minority viewpoints. We can sugarcoat it, but our American version of winner-take-all, top-down, federalize-everything governance is not somehow ennobled by voting or debate. It manifests itself in state power, not some mythical version of halfway compromises whereby neither side (or sides) gets everything it wants. And where that power cannot be wielded abruptly, for practical, political, or ideological reasons, it is wielded incrementally.

Thus every call for gun registries, background checks, mental health screening, prohibitions on certain weapons, magazines, or ammunition, etc. must be viewed through this incremental lens. The question is not whether such proposals represent today’s common sense, or whether anyone “needs” an AR-15. The question is what the laws we enact today might lead to tomorrow.

Because our well-intentioned great-grandparents didn’t mean to saddle anyone with trillions of dollars in unfunded liabilities when they let Congress pass the Social Security Act of 1935, but that’s exactly what they did.   

So when gun control advocates insist they simply want commonsense measures imposed, or that “nobody wants to take your guns,” the answer for many Americans is clear: we don’t believe you.

changemyoil66

Re: Fire Mission HB 1366 Confiscation
« Reply #22 on: April 09, 2021, 01:16:36 PM »
Hearing on 4/13.  Send email to your senator to vote nay and reasons why.

Read the anti 2a testimonies on the capitol website and send rebuttals.

rpoL98

Re: Fire Mission HB 1366 Confiscation
« Reply #23 on: April 09, 2021, 01:50:35 PM »
Hearing on 4/13.  Send email to your senator to vote nay and reasons why.

Read the anti 2a testimonies on the capitol website and send rebuttals.

hvybarrels

Re: Fire Mission HB 1366 Confiscation
« Reply #24 on: April 09, 2021, 10:08:03 PM »
https://www.civilbeat.org/2021/04/bans-on-high-capacity-magazines-for-guns-fail-at-legislature/#comments

Looks like the mag bill was dropped but they are still pushing HB1366. The old strategy of making us feel like we won even when we lost is getting used again this session.

The language in SDI has shifted a bit so it does not look like confiscation of weapons that have already been registered but it is difficult to tell. Need a policy wonk to determine it. Anyone?
https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2021/bills/HB1366_HD1_.HTM

What is bothersome is the "collection of parts" phrase because all of us who have spare parts would be at risk of harassment.
“Wars happen when the government tells you who the enemy is. Revolutions happen when you figure it out for yourselves.”

robtmc

Re: Fire Mission HB 1366 Confiscation
« Reply #25 on: April 10, 2021, 09:35:20 AM »
How will it be defined what the parts were for?

A lot of us have a collection of spares and parts we decided not to use.

punaperson

Re: Fire Mission HB 1366 Confiscation
« Reply #26 on: April 10, 2021, 11:08:08 AM »
The language in SDI has shifted a bit so it does not look like confiscation of weapons that have already been registered but it is difficult to tell. Need a policy wonk to determine it. Anyone?
https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2021/bills/HB1366_HD1_.HTM

What is bothersome is the "collection of parts" phrase because all of us who have spare parts would be at risk of harassment.
How will it be defined what the parts were for?

A lot of us have a collection of spares and parts we decided not to use.
Haha. If the commies get their way, we know how it'll be defined and what the consequences will be for ordinary law-abiding citizens. Kneel slaves!