Newly elected U.S. Congressman Doug Collins spoke about a variety of issues Friday with Madison County Chamber of Commerce members, including gun control, the national debt and health care reform.
The Republican representative for Georgia’s Ninth Congressional District, which includes Madison County, ate lunch with Chamber members at the Ila Restaurant, then offered an overview of his first days in Washington before fielding questions from the audience.
“As a veteran, I’m very concerned about the second amendment and I’d like to hear your stance on gun control and especially assault rifles,” said Gerry Burdette to Collins.
The Congressman said he opposes proposed federal gun regulations.
“The whole situation that has developed over the past year in which sick and twisted individuals did some sick and twisted things,” said Collins. “When you see something like that you want to help. You want to do something to feel better.
Attacking the instrumentality of a very sick individual and that’s just not the proper way to go about this.”
Collins said he doesn’t think the gun legislation proposed by Sen. Diane Feinstein will make it out of the Senate.
He said potential limitations on how many rounds could be carried in a clip seem arbitrary.
Somebody told me, “‘We don’t need a 30-round or 50-round magazine capacity.’ And I asked, ‘Well, what is the proper capacity.’”
The Congressman said that he knows people who are well-trained with rifles who could fire off three 10-round clips before someone less trained could fire a 30-round clip. He said assault rifle laws can be illogical.
“Did any of you see the hearing that showed a Remington rifle?” Collins asked the Chamber members. “And if you took a plastic handgrip, it became illegal as an assault rifle. That’s the craziness we’re dealing with.”
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They passed a health care bill people were totally against and now what do we have . They voted and waited to see . Its a scam just to prop up already to big to fail Insurance Giants . So wall street and those who benefit from it can line their pockets. e.g. all those who voted for the health care bill. While still leaving all that the bill was supposedly intended to help get insurance are left uninsured. The people spoke and clearly said no to amnesty for the illegals and now Obama wants to give them just that .Perhaps he and those who feel such a strong need to protect and hire them should move to Mexico. Just because they feel their wants should be put in front of others needs. Whats happened to this country and the people who used to love freedom and liberty. When the Government cant do its job the people have to take over and do it. We better do it soon .
Please do tell us how he showed himself to be "a dummy ". Just calling a person names doesn't explain how you find your truths to be evidence. Give us the evidence please. As for Regan being a "slick talker like Obama". On that I will disagree. Ron Reagan was an excellent speaker with a real sense of humor and a grasp on reality. Mr. Obama has to read his script. He would have to grow ten feet to reach Reagan's shoe laces .
Look to the Declaration of Independence to see why we have it and what it was designed to protect us We The People from. It would seem as if most if not all in the Federal government today don't think they have any rules to follow or that the Constitution just gets in their way . As it should!
Here is just a couple of things that were written in the Declaration that we as a people might want to start pushing for.
That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
I would ask that everybody find and read this its entirety to understand why when the Bill Of Rights were added that the very first two Amendments that were at the top of the list and why they deemed them so important to Liberty and a free citizenry.
The actions of this Government in my opinion have reached just such a point .
So how will we go about the task of altering or abolishing it if not by use of our Second Amendment Right.
What we have today is continued provocative actions by a Federal Government that could only lead us into absolute despotism and actions that could only be beneficial to tyrants or a dictators.
James Madison went to the Federal Convention of 1787 convinced
that it faced no greater challenge than finding some means of
checking "the aggressions of interested majorities on the rights of
minorities and of individuals." He left it still fearful that the new
Constitution would not effectually "secure individuals against
encroachments on their rights." in his best known contribution to
American political theory, The Federalist, No. 10, Madison again
voiced his great concern that majorities were enacting laws
"adverse to the rights of other citizens," and he went on to define the protection of the individual
"faculties" of men as "the first object of government."
The real and only solution to the Gun Violence in our Nations schools is to find the true cause.
The facts are out there and its not the firearms. Its the War On Kids.
Coupled with the many mind altering medications that are now pushed on many of them by the big pharmaceutical
companies and the School system. There is a very good documentary about this called The War On Kids. I have long said before I ever saw this documentary that I never remembered kids being all doped up on all that stuff when I was growing up. Some of the side affects include violent uncontrollable outburst of rage ,depression and the list goes on.
My God how could we allow this and say its in the best interest of our children that we proclaim we love so much. This really says volumes about who we have become. Its not good either. I think everybody should take the time to watch this documentary .
Its done very professionally by qualified professionals not conspiracy theorists.